I have to wonder what the police and FBI and such would actually do if there were a land invasion of the US mainland. Would they spend most of their time away from the front rounding up innocent people and locking them away like in the first two world wars? Or, during an actual invasion, would they instead empty out the prisons and give every inmate a gun and tell them to march to the front with a bayonet pointed at their backs?
Damn it, you're probably right. And I bet the way the government would spin this slave army policy would be to present it as a sensible centrist compromise that's not as bad as bringing back the draft.
I have to wonder what the police and FBI and such would actually do if there were a land invasion of the US mainland. Would they spend most of their time away from the front rounding up innocent people and locking them away like in the first two world wars? Or, during an actual invasion, would they instead empty out the prisons and give every inmate a gun and tell them to march to the front with a bayonet pointed at their backs?
Why not both?
Round up everyone 'unpatriotic', and force them to fight for their country to have the charges dropped. Refuse (or defect) and be executed
Damn it, you're probably right. And I bet the way the government would spin this slave army policy would be to present it as a sensible centrist compromise that's not as bad as bringing back the draft.
:so-true: just like Snake Plissken
Isn't that basically what Russia is doing? Conscripting all the young male prison inmates?