WW2 Pearl Harbor Martial Law Provided Order, Saved Lives

The mainstream media remains behind riot-like demonstrations as the instrument of choice for fomenting social change.  Can we forget their role in the so-called Arab Spring, perhaps imagining a hip democracy fueled by liberal news shows and enabled by handheld i-Whatevers. 

     Then on to the Ukraine, encouraging violent demonstrations again to overthrow the elected government because it hoped to align closer with Russia.  Conversely, would the US want an aggressive Communist Mexico on its southern border?  Do we remember Trotsky in Mexico?  

     But if violent protests like that now happening in Ferguson, Missouri, are being escalated by television news coverage, then such validations will mean that race riots will dominate America’s future, not so?  Contrary opinion is racist, by definition.  But are all underdogs really always innocent?

     Do we want lots of innocents killed as in Gaza? No.   Or might a temporary martial law provide a secure order that people crave?  When Pearl Harbor was attacked in 1941, native Hawaiian John Garcia described a martial law imposed by the US that seemed effective: 

    Martial law has been set in.  Everyone had to work twelve hours, six to six.  No one on the streets after 6:00 P.M. No one on the streets before 6:00 A.M. The military took over the islands completely.  If you failed to go to work, the police would be at your door and you were arrested.  You had to do something, filling sandbags, anything.  No one was excused.  If you failed to be there or were goofing off, you went to jail.  All civil liberties were suspended.

      The police and military, of course, are seen as enemies, rather than as protectors, only by the most politically jaded.