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You are talking exactly like a dictator. Freedom is not something you give to people and take away when needed. A switch to take freedom away shouldn't exist and whoever press it is attacking freedom themself.
Almost every country is a police state rooted in murder and violence ruled by corrupted politicians.
So, you can't accept the idea that in very specific circumstances it can be a good thing for cops to tell you to do something without having to reach for a court order? Like an emergency evacuation order that needs to be secret during that very same hour for whatever good reason or the checkpointing of people in a region where you know that a major prison break just happened?
Not talking about the random pig just thinking "hmm, I'm the boss now" out of nowhere; I'm talking about someone like the head of the police forces giving an order indiscriminately that is limited to a temporal scope.
Even things like "masks are mandatory" can be seen as a "muh freedoms" violation.
If you take things to such extremes, can we have the freedom not to have such freedom? Apparently is what the entire world wants except for a few thousand internet folks
Nothing that belongs to the public needs to be secret. You are describing kidnapping people.
You are the one taking things to extremes trying to compare martial law with wearing masks and making stupid analogies.
I obviously do not support this application of martial law. I pointed at a mask mandate because it fits your dictatorship vision.
I also didn't say a thing about kidnapping. Telling people to "get off a plane" without a justification is not kidnapping. If you say "get off this plane, we think it has a bomb on it" things wouldn't fly any better with people freaking over and having panic attacks. You can do the explaining once people are out of the plane.