The Raw Story is reporting a story from The Progressive that the FBI has allegedly briefed their business partners of the possibility of martial law.

“One business owner in the United States tells me that InfraGard members are being advised on how to prepare for a martial law situation—and what their role might be,” writes Matthew Rothschild in the Feb. 7 report, quoting an anonymous whistleblower on the program. “‘Then they said when—not if—martial law is declared, it was our responsibility to protect our portion of the infrastructure, and if we had to use deadly force to protect it, we couldn’t be prosecuted,’ he says.”

Rothschild’s report details InfraGard, a program set up between the FBI and a number of businesses engaged in maintaining elements of “critical national infrastructure,” such as agriculture, banking and finance, the chemical industry, defense, energy, food, information and telecommunications, law enforcement, public health, and transportation. The program’s 23,000-plus members provide information to the FBI and in turn receive privileged information from the FBI on threats to infrastructure.

On the one hand, such preparedness has been around for many years, however, the fact that it is now being “leaked” leads one to believe that the government is trying to placate the people by allowing them to get used to the idea of martial law because there are terrorists everywhere.  On the other hand, there are enough people in the USA with guns and other homemade weapons that full martial law across the entire country is going to be very, very difficult to achieve.