Do you think they would "Sacrifice" some of its people to protect a Weapon?
I think they would...
Im from the UK, and i dont trust the UK government at ALL!!
But the USA is far more Sneaky and corrupt.
They wouldn't do that in the UK although they are corrupted on some level they are afraid of the government unlike people in the USA.
Its more of should we kill a town to save the world.
Lets collectively murder Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Will Smith and Chris Farley.
You never know, considering our government. I'm not saying everybody out there is nuts, but this country sure is full of many.
shareWe're afraid of our government? That's the funniest thing I've read for a long time. At least we don't have a government that taps every email and phone conversation, and we don't have thousands of trigger-happy cops running around tasering people just because they can.
And, more importantly, we don't have a government that deliberately plays on fear to achieve morally revolting ends. Mainly because we've been there, done that, we're not scared by it. Unlike you lot.
Um, isn't that what's going on now?
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shareFunny reading this post now in 2012!!!!!
You are not afraid of your government? well you should be.
Why? Cops are now trigger-happy everywhere in the USA..
And more importantly: seriously? you think your government doesn't 'deliberately plays on fear to achieve morally revolting ends'? What a joke?
That is exactly what they are doing with the 'War against Terrorism'. Using YOUR FEAR (and every other american) of another 9/11 to justify their morally revolting actions (declaring war to countries that never even menaced any act of terrorism).
Read more, get more informed about Foreign affairs and stop thinking like a white trash!
Even though mistakenly, you were doing quite well until you started with the white trash bit, cabron.
For your information, I am not american and don't live in that outhouse. Take that back to your america-dependent country and stick it.
ROTFLMAO at your response!!!
shareHahahahahahahahahaahahahaha- well that cheered me up :) 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
shareIn fairness, its the MEDIA that are under fire for phone tapping right now, NOT the government...
Of course, thats not to say the govt WON'T tap our phones (or indeed currently are not doing so), but right now, it's just the media that are facing an enquiry.
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You also don't have a nation armed and ready to defend themselves at a moment's notice, lol. You're so far under your government's thumb you're pretty much underground. All nations have their problems, and I definitely think the U.S. Would bomb a small remote village to keep a 1oo% deadly virus from spreading. I think any government would do it "for the greater good", but the U.S. would be the one to step up and play bad guy once again while everyone else hems and haws and pretends it's so morally awful but secretly glad they won't die themselves. Taking the fall so other nations won't have "dirty hands" is just what the U.S. does. At least this time it wouldn't be for oil.
Where exactly have you been and what exactly have you done? No country on the history of humankind has been as rich and as corrupt as the U.S. in the same way the U.S. is. England and surrounding countries can't compare. You don't even live in the U.S., you really think you know anything about it except what you see on television?
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Kinda doubtful, the US bioweapons program was for all intents and purposes ended by President Nixon in the 70s (not because he was a nice guy, but because he thought the funds would be better spent on nukes).
Bioweapons are more of a Russian specialty (more funds went to that than nukes, in fact, and the research kept up well after the fall of the USSR). Actually, they (as in the Soviet government, and Boris Yeltsin who was a governor at the time) did cover up an accidental outbreak of anthrax (if I recall correctly) that infected part of a town. There were also isolated deaths of researchers - let me tell you, you do not want to contract tuleremia! Read Kanatjan Alibekov's book (he was high in the ranks on that project, and defected in the 1990s) about this stuff.
It's more a question of could they rather then would they. completely sealing off even a small town before somebody left would by nearly impossible once people start to flee. and the would flee long before the Army showed up.
yea tho I walk thru the valley of Death, I fear no evil for the Shadows are on station over me.
You're probably right.
I don't doubt there's a contingency plan somewhere (as Carlin said, there's probably a plan somewhere to invade Easter Island), but I do doubt the ability of enough levels of the US government to have their *beep* together enough to be able to pull it off. It's just not going to happen, even without stalling and infighting.
The conspiracy is unconvincing; it's so over the top you just have to laugh. Sutherland is soooo anxious to blow up the town, even when he knows there's a cure. It's ludicrous.
Also, Freeman's last minute act of courage makes you wonder, why didn't he take action in the first place?
I could see this happening through miscommunication and panic.
We report, you decide; but we decide what to report.
actually i DO think that the US would bomb your a$$es so quickly that you wouldn't even have time to notice it.
although with someone like Bush Jr. as president the "response" could take several days or weeks...because common:
- Mr president a deadly disease is spreading killing everyone !!
- erm...so that's...erm...bad right?
- this is a major situation !! American people is dying !!
- erm..right...we should do something...i dunno.
well you get the point.
His good sense won out in the end, that's why. But he had to do it in an indirect way if you notice.
shareIs that why they are buying the land around their bioweapon testing facility with intention of expanding it?
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Applied Science? All science is applied. Eventually.
A. I don't think that the U.S. government has the patent on sneakiness or corruption.
B. London is one of the most heavily surveilled cities on the planet; New York is actually taking their cues from them.
C. For the Federal government to deploy troops within a state requires the permission of the governor.
Everything could change over night, never say never.
You could wake up one morning to find all of your civil liberties gone with the wind.
We will see within a couple of weeks if the flu keeps spreading.
Once you are in IMDB, forever it will dominate your destiny
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Never say never.
..."We all have it coming kid"...
If the swine flu does become a massive outbreak, then our fate will be in the hands of the government and military and that is just sad.
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I've taken my own early steps as far as the swine flu is concerned. The most important, I will not die of swine flu. Even if I catch the flu, i've already requested that my friends make sure the obit says I went down in a hail of gunfire or I died trying to save a busload of orphans. I would never admit to dying of the flu lol
..."We all have it coming kid"...
USA traded information on their thermonuclear weapons to to the UK in order to gain technology for VX gas.
shareUm yes protecting a country of 300 million from a deadly airborne virus and the cost of a small town and a few thousand people they would and every other country would do the same thing, the needs of the many out weight the needs of the few
If it's gods intent to kill or harm me I will stick a .45 in his face to
I think this question is somewhat out of context. USAMRIID, the facility featured in the film is a real life branch of the United States Army Materiel Command and part of USAMRIID's job description from the creation of the facility was to develop not only countermeasures to biological weapons, but to research and develop this class of weapons for the US. By Presidential order this practice was banned some 30+ years ago and now they specialize in defense against biological weapons and research into vaccines and other forms of treatment. - I know this because at one time it was my dream to work there.
Realistically the government would not bomb a town to prevent the spread of a communicable disease - even if it was a Biosafety level four pathogen. However, what they will absolutely do is what is the current practice around the world. They would isolate everyone infected until either everyone died, or an effective treatment is found. It could come down to individuals being shot if they try to evade or escape quarantine but that is a far cry a bomb being dropped :/
Having a super deadly virus in your arsenal doesn't really make sense. It's not like you can drop it on an enemy country and hope it kills everyone and then suddenly dies off. Sure, if you have the anti-serum you can protect your troops from infection, but everyone else is screwed. Lets not forget that the virus can mutate...This kind of thing works in movies, but I don't think it makes a lot of sense in the real world. I mean think about it, what is the advantage of having a weapon like Motaba? You can't ever release it without tons of collateral damage and the threat of it spreading across the world. It's not like you could get the E-1101 to 5+ billion people within the time-fame you would need to.
shareIt's funny to read these years old posts, because the government in the US is doing an absolutely ineffective job of isolating people. Coronavirus is spreading in the community, testing is totally inadequate, the numbers of infected are days behind the likely spread thanks to only testing acutely sick people.
My guess is that any outbreak severe enough to warrant bombing the population to stop the outbreak is going so widespread that bombing it wouldn't accomplish anything.
Once an outbreak gets that bad (both the disease, and evidence of large scale community transmission) the only thing that will work is isolation and containment.
That being said, I can see armed roadblocks, troops shooting at cars trying to run the roadblock. In some worst case situation maybe you get air strikes to take out bridges or something to restrict traffic. But bombing a town only works if you've isolated the town.