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Border Reiver:
Yes, because all the examples we've ever seen of military dictatorships leads us to understand that they are the best means of keeping people content, encouraging industrial development/economic growth, etc. :roll:
Military dictatorships are good at one thing - generating the rebellion against them. The only way that the fleet has managed not to shake itself apart before is that the rule of law and the pre-existing governmental norms were being followed (military subordination to the civilian government, etc)
Chesire Cat:
This is a closed society on the brink of destruction hounded by an enemy of considerable means.
The regular rules shouldnt apply.
Border Reiver:
Why?
What would make Adama more able to determine the proper distribution of food, clothing, etc. resources to the non-military portion of the fleet? What makes him better able to decide on how the young people should be educated?
Those sort of decisions demand an actual civilian government - The Pegasus episodes showed what could have happened if the military took precedence over all - the actual destruction of the race, as the military took what they needed for their immediate needs and then abandoned the civilians. While thye might not abandon the fleet, I'm not so certain that you'd get any kind of actual assistance from the civilians who are being used essentially as serfs of the military. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't want to live in that sort of a society and I occasionally wear a silly green suit.
Chesire Cat:
Im going to paraphrase myself and say "The government should operate as administers only" and all decisions that affect the safety of the fleet should made by the Military.
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Border Reiver on 28 Jan 2009, 10:17 ---Why?
What would make Adama more able to determine the proper distribution of food, clothing, etc. resources to the non-military portion of the fleet? What makes him better able to decide on how the young people should be educated?
Those sort of decisions demand an actual civilian government - The Pegasus episodes showed what could have happened if the military took precedence over all - the actual destruction of the race, as the military took what they needed for their immediate needs and then abandoned the civilians. While thye might not abandon the fleet, I'm not so certain that you'd get any kind of actual assistance from the civilians who are being used essentially as serfs of the military. I'm fairly certain I wouldn't want to live in that sort of a society and I occasionally wear a silly green suit.
--- End quote ---
Like hell the civilian government is necessary for that. Adama has never been kept in check by the civilian government. Zarek is very right in one regard: Adama and Roslin have been in bed together since the destruction of the colonies (and quite literally so now). If Admiral Cain had been commander of Galactica, she would've executed any civilian government the moment it made a motion against her and abandoned the fleet at the first sign of mutiny. Adama was kept in check by his own morality and the compassion of Lee, not anything the Quorum ever did.
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