Clergy to be used to quell dissent...
Program trains leaders to convince people to obey emergency orders.
It might work with people who's life is the local church and who are over 70.
Whenever a churchman gets too involved with politics, other than the politics of morality, people get suspicious.
In 61 years I've never heard the clergy say anything worth listening to outside their field, and half of what they do say is intolerant blather.
...and said the clergy team's mission was to express the sentiment: "Let's cooperate and get this thing over with and then we'll settle the differences once the crisis is over."
Sandy Davis, director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, said there are several advantages, but primarily, "these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation."
So government orders to abandon homes, turn over guns, leave livestock behind, or whatever would come to the minds of various officials during an "emergency," would be easier for people to accept, the report indicated.
This will not generate an army of rovebots, but it will split congregations right down the middle. Middle America may be the biggest group of churchgoers, but they are also the biggest group of .gov-sceptics, and individualists.I think the response of most people would be..."sod off, churchy."
Around here in the deep-blue Peninsula most of the clergymen's intolerant blather is Leftwing nuttery and semi-nuancecd protest singing. The Left has many of the churches here in its thrall, we'll all be sitting around campfires singing Kum-bah-jah.