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Originally Posted by Canadian Army
I see the Milgov using a force very similar the United States Constabulary (1946-52); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Constabulary; only instead of using soldiers; it would use the various Local, State and Federal Law Enforcement Personnel, including US Army and State Guard MPs. |
That's pretty much what i was talking about... the local and state police would still be doing the same pre-war jobs of public policing D.P. camps and surviving communities. the only difference between CivGov and MilGov for local and state law enforcement would be the personal protection details for CivGov 'Officials' and 'Overseers' at various work camps and farms.
I really like the work done about the "People's REpublic of Boulder" on the Twilight 2000 wiki... THat's the kind of New America that is being dealt with in my campaign. CivGov has the Big Government is right and has all the answers, while MilGov is more along the lines of everything is screwed up... we need to set up a new census, and arrange for new elections as soon as possible to elect a civilian government. While MilGov doen't show video of the shootout on the floor of congress, it's pretty much an open secret.
And that the Joint Chiefs of Staff's primary missions are:
1.) Protect and Defend the United States Consitition against all enemies foreign and Domestic. 2.) To uphold our oaths on protecting our nation by expelling foreign invaders. 3.) ensuring the safety of America citizens so that a new census can be carried out so that new represenatives can be elected to both houses of congress... and the election of a new president.
In my campaign the Thanksgiving Day Massacare (well, my game it happened on 4 July 2007 and was called the Independene Day Massacre) didn't kill the presidnet... but it did cause a spilt between the Executive Branch and the Legislative Branch. The Speaker of the House and other majority leaders in both houses of Congress started all kinds of shinanigans. Longtime members of Congress got fed up with it, and actually 'defected' to the MilGov camp which is composed of the majority of the suriving members of the Executive Branch (the unelected burecrats in some Departments swore their loyality for Congress).
CivGov does not like the fact that MilGov is holding a cenus that is composed of asking three simple questions. "1. The number of people in your family/Household. 2. Please list the names of each member of your family/household with their age/birthdate, place of birth and SSN (if you have one). 3. please list the Occupations and professional skills of everyone in your family/household."
no questions on race, gender, sexual orientation or pollitical affliation. and when asked about question three, they are told that it's optional... but would really help the country know if there are any doctors, nuclear engineers or the like in the area that can help their community rebuild faster.
I have been working on a series of mini-articles of some of the ways my campaign is different from T2k (basially the chagnes in the world from 1989 up to the start of the Sino-Soviet War in August 2000 and the Euro-Soviet War starting in October 2003. and nuclear exchanges starting in July 2005.
In fact the US Constabulary would be dealing with helping provide law enforcement for the Civilian Communities, and roving Military Judicial detachments (composed of a military judge of the rank of MAJ and two Adovcates of the rank of CPT) that are mobile courts of law and justice.
I had thought about something happeing during the Martial Law being delared.... something that Cyberpunk players would recognize very quickly, the "Uniform Code of Civilian Justice" that would be alot like the UCMJ.