The military isn working against shit, the motherfucking state is run by the same psychopaths all the other states from time immemorial have been run by, they will just use this as a pretext to shove the long cock of the law up into our collective asses a little further, and most of these useless fucks will go along with it while waving the flag, because muH patriotism.

Buying and distributing are two very different things.

We can see their buying activities.

When their distribution plan is actually revealed - or when they actually start to distribute what they have purchased - then and only then can we say that what has happened was GOOD.

The problem is that the government has a long history of manipulating situations in ways that are less than good. I agreed that in the long term it would not be possible to suppress the production/distribution of HOC. However in the short term other motivations for their action are still entirely plausible. Off the top of my head - the buying up stocks and holding on to them in order to manipulate the short term price is something that, no doubt would make the pharmaceutical companies and their lobbyists)quite happy - ( Of course our government has ever done anything like that! ).

By way of example, one needs only to be reminded that the supply of surplus eastern bloc 7.62mm x 39mm ammunition was cheap and seemingly unlimited - until the government had started to aggressively purchase, from the commercial market, as much of the available stock as possible.

As rounds of this type do not fit commonly available US weaponry one might ask, "What possible legitimate motivation could they have been entertaining???". Because of its checkered history, especially in the face of a crisis - no one can anticipate whether the government acts are for or against the citizens - such judgments are best left to posterity.