Just keep thinking that ... this won't hurt a bit

Regarding the Federal preparedness for a new pandemic of Avian flu, The Washington Post editors wrote today:

It was disturbing to hear the president ruminate on the use of
military troops for mass quarantines. That comment -- conjuring images of
soldiers shooting as sick people try to cross a cordon sanitaire -- could have
been a scare tactic.

In fact, there is no legal, let alone ethical, means of
enforcing mass quarantine in this country....

For those of us that fly (well try to) near DC, we know better. The rule of law and democratic principles have been usurped by a simple sentiment: where there's a will, there's a way.