I don't think it's fear mongering to try and assess what is clearly a very serious collapse of the economic system. A year ago, people thought I was a 'fear monger' when I suggested they pull their money out of the stock market and put it in a money market. I did and it saved me a serious amount of my retirement fund, without which I could be in serious trouble. By the same token, I took some money out of my bank to be on the safe side.
It is certainly hard to predict where the next shoe will drop, but one of the possibilities is certainly martial law. I had thought that McCain might steal the election, in which case, there might be rioting in urban areas. But with Palin whipping up anti-Obama sentiment and people in her audiences calling out for his head, one wonders what these folks (angry rural uneducated white folks with guns) might do. The PTB probably have several alternative plans, one possible one is to incite the right wing to revolt as an excuse for martial law.
http://news.aol.com/article/mccain-b...07841?cid=3272
A sense of grievance spilling into rage has gripped some GOP events this week as McCain supporters see his presidential campaign lag against Obama. Some in the audience are making it personal, against the Democrat. Shouts of "traitor," "terrorist," "treason," "liar," and even "off with his head" have rung from the crowd at McCain and Sarah Palin rallies, and gone unchallenged by them.