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Will Martial Law Prevent US elections?
Will Marshall Law Prevent US elections in November?
(Sunday, 22 June 2008) By Rachael Bliss
Will we even see an election this fall in the USA?
Conversely, will we be forced to endure more time under the influence of the Bush Administration, during which time new judges will be possibly appointed to federal judgeships, including the Supreme Court itself?
Nah, will never happen, we say. But don't be so sure about the so-called "impossibility."
Have you ever heard of Marshall Law, whereby because of an emergency, the current president gets new powers, one being the ability to delay elections, such as the General Election scheduled for the first Tuesday in November of 2008.
What kind of emergency could happen that would put the US into a situation calling for the proclamation of Marshall Law?
Think Iran. Think Hamas. Think President George W. Bush. Think about all three, and you have the makings of Marshall Law being imposed before November of this year in the USA.
The scenario: This has alr\eady happened, according to PBS's Nightly Business News, this being the shipment from Iran to Hamas of long range missiles so the latter can defend itself against Israeli incursions. However, Israel and the USA see it in another way. This is serious stuff, a very real threat to our ally Israel from a terrorist nation. Now the Palestinians have more violent weapons than the suicide bomber or rock throwing from angry youth.
So we people of peace now wait. What will happen next? We know that Bush has been waiting for an opportunity to attack Iran. Will this shipment of arms to Hamas be the straw to break the camel's back, so to speak, for a shakey peace between the US and Iran? (And how in the devil were the weapons even brought into the Palestinian area, since almost all of Gaza is a prison with Israel surrounding it with armed guards and plenty of American-made weapons?)
Is there proof that this shipment of arms really happened? Could the entire event have been a set-up by the CIA or corporate contractors so our country and Israel would have an excuse to go in and attack Iran?
From this possible attack, which would be approved by a threatened Congress whose members will want to impress voters back home that they are concerned about protecting their constituents from a nuclear attack from Iran, which could be immanent.
Meanwhile Iran wouldn't take an attack from the USA laying down. They will mount a strong counter offensive, and bring in other Middle Eastern countries who don't like the USA or Israel any more than they do.
This will be when Bush will have no other choice, per our corporate media, than to declare Marshall Law in the USA, including the suspension of the November elections.....only until we reach a place in our fight against new terrorists where it will be safe to change leadership at the top.
So the American people, once more co-opted by fear, will fall in line behind their esteemed and fearless leader in another flight jacket. Their leader will unselfishly agree to continue to serve his country as president, as will he vice president Richard Cheney.
And neither Barack Obama or John McCain will be elected in November of 2008. They will continue as US Senators. Life will go on in the US. We will shop, pay ever escalating hikes in gas and oil prices, along with food prices. CO2 levels will continue to rise and the economy continue to dip. Civil rights will be almost non-existent. And our prisons and holding cells full of suspected terrorists will bulge with prisoners who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, or who said the wrong thing to the wrong people.
From the bottom of who I am, I hope the scenario described above never happens. But it is up to us NOW to be vigilant so the same thing that happened in Iraq doesn't happen in Iran.
This is the time for alternative media, for social activists, for raging grannies who care about the freedom and well-being of future generations, to all join together and let our leadership know that "We aren't going to take this" anymore.
Are you ready to join us in those efforts? It will be too late to turn things around one the bombs against Iran start falling and Marshall Law is declared into our country. Action is required now while we can act.
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It would be just like His Sorryness to do such and be planning it even now. Talk about an uproar in America!
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Alarmist much?
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Isn't it "martial" law?
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The article just came through on my news watch, son. I sent it for discussion. Okay, or is that a sin, too?
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The article is alarmist.
You posted it.
Never said anything about sin
You wanted discussion, I gave my opinion, its alarmist. Okay, or is that a sin too?
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It's also possible, alarmist or not.
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It's also possible, alarmist or not.
True.
So is utter nuclear destruction because Bush accidently pushes the button thinking it is the call button for room service. Just about equally likely.
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Whatever. And yes, it is Martial law... the article was sent as I received it.
INTERESTING FACTS
* Martial law is defined as: military rule or authority imposed on a civilian population when the civil authorities cannot maintain law and order, as in a time of war or during an emergency.
* Hitler turned Germany into a Nazi dictatorship through executive orders.
* Executive Order 10995: All communications media are to be seized by the Federal Government. Radio, TV, newspapers, CB, Ham, telephones, and the internet will be under federal control. Hence, the First Amendment will be suspended indefinitely.
* Executive Order 10997: All electrical power, fuels, and all minerals well be seized by the federal government.
* Executive Order 10998: All food resources, farms and farm equipment will be seized by the government. You will not be allowed to hoard food since this is regulated.
* Executive Order 10999: All modes of transportation will go into government control. Any vehicle can be seized.
* Executive Order 11000: All civilians can be used for work under federal supervision.
* Executive Order 11490: Establishes presidential control over all US citizens, businesses, and churches in time of "emergency."
* Executive Order 12919: Directs various Cabinet officials to be constantly ready to take over virtually all aspects of the US economy during a State of National Emergency at the direction of the president.
* Executive Order 13010: Directs FEMA to take control over all government agencies in time of emergency. FEMA is under control of executive branch of the government.
* Executive Order 12656: "ASSIGNMENT OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS RESPONSIBILITIES", "A national emergency is any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States. Policy for national security emergency preparedness shall be established by the President." This order includes federal takeover of all local law enforcement agencies, wage and price controls, prohibits you from moving assets in or out of the United States, creates a draft, controls all travel in and out of the United States, and much more.
* Martial law can be declared due to natural disasters, Y2k Crisis, Stock Market crash, no electricity, riots, biological attack, .... anything leading to the breakdown of law and order.
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Bush Paves the Way for Martial Law: 2007 National Defense Authorization Act overturns Posse Comitatus Act
http://www.rwor.org/a/083/martial-en.html
"Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader--a dictator--willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures,' which few know how, or are willing, to employ." -- Michael Ledeen, White House advisor and fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, "Machiavelli on Modern Leadership: Why Machiavelli's Iron Rules Are As Timely and Important Today As Five Centuries Ago"
"Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government." -- NewsMax, November 21, 2003
In October 2006, Bush signed into law the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Quietly slipped into the law at the last minute, at the request of the Bush administration, were sections changing important legal principles, dating back 200 years, which limit the U.S. government's ability to use the military to intervene in domestic affairs. These changes would allow Bush, whenever he thinks it necessary, to institute martial law--under which the military takes direct control over civilian administration.
Sec. 1042 of the Act, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies," effectively overturns what is known as posse comitatus. The Posse Comitatus Act is a law, passed in 1878, that prohibits the use of the regular military within the U.S. borders. The original passage of the Posse Comitatus Act was a very reactionary move that sealed the betrayal of Black people after the Civil War and brought the period of Reconstruction to an end. It decreed that federal troops could no longer be used inside the former Confederate states to enforce the new legal rights of Black people. Black people were turned over to the armed police and Klansmen serving the southern plantation owners, and the long period of Jim Crow began.
During the 20th century, posse comitatus objectively started to play a new role within the bourgeois democratic framework: as a legal barrier to the direct influence of the powerful military establishment and the armed forces over domestic U.S. society. It served to some degree as an obstacle against military coups and presidents seizing military control over the country. (However, National Guard troops have been legally available to the ruling class for use inside the U.S., and there have been other loopholes to the prohibition of the use of armed forces domestically, as in the mobilization of Marine troops during the 1992 L.A. Rebellion.)
So the changes to posse comitatus signed into law by Bush are extremely significant and ominous. Bush has modified the main exemptions to posse comitatus that up to now have been primarily defined by the Insurrection Act of 1807. Previously the president could call out the army in the United States only in cases of insurrection or conditions where "rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State or Territory by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings." Under the new law the president can use the military in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or "other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order."
The new law requires the President to notify Congress "as soon as practicable after the determination and every 14 days thereafter during the duration of the exercise of the authority." However Bush, as he has often done during his presidency, modified this requirement in his signing statement, which declared, "The executive branch shall construe such provisions in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional authority to withhold information the disclosure of which could impair foreign relations, the national security, the deliberative processes of the Executive." In other words, Bush claims that he does not even need to inform Congress that martial law has been declared!
Changing Role of Military Within the U.S.
This major change in the criteria under which martial law can be declared is a continuation of a process, begun after 9/11, to dismantle legal barriers to unrestrained executive, presidential powers.
In 2002, the government created the new Northern Command. This is the first time since the Civil War that the U.S. military has been given an operational command inside the continental United States.
In 2005, the Washington Post reported that Northcom had developed battle plans for martial law in the U.S. One secret document, CONPLAN 2005, envisions 15 different scenarios where these plans could go into effect.
The U.S. has also used natural disasters like Katrina to push for an increased role for the military. According to the Washington Post, Bush advisor Karl Rove told the governor of Louisiana that she should explore legal options to impose martial law "or as close as we can get."
Spying by the military against U.S. persons, also supposedly prohibited, has greatly expanded in recent years. Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA) was created in 2002 supposedly to evaluate threats against Department of Defense installations. However, a secret 400-page document obtained by MSNBC revealed that CIFA had spied on more than 1500 "suspicious incidents" during a ten-month period, including a meeting of Quakers to plan a protest of military recruiting at local high schools and an anti-war protest in Los Angeles.
James Risen has exposed in the New York Times and in his book State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration that the National Security Agency, which is under the Department of Defense, has been used in a massive campaign of illegal spying of U.S. citizens, including tapping phone calls and monitoring bank and financial records and the internet. (See Revolution #35, "Spies, Lies, Thugs and Torture.")
In 2006, the Military Commissions Act was passed which, in addition to legalizing torture, allows the president and military courts to declare anyone an enemy combatant without basic civil rights like habeas corpus.
Plans for massive detention centers are already being prepared. Pacific News Service reported that in early 2006, Kellogg Brown and Root (KBR) received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to build detention and processing facilities to be used "in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S. or to support the rapid development of new programs."
Would They Really Go That Far?
The Bush Regime's preparations for martial law are part of an extreme agenda. This is a regime that is setting out to create a world empire that is unchallenged and unchallengeable and has embarked on an endless war to bring this about. Along with this, they aim to restructure social relations in the U.S., doing away with many of the social and economic institutions that have characterized U.S. society since World War 2. Because of this extreme agenda, the Bush regime takes very seriously the possibility of jolts and ruptures and resistance and are preparing very extreme measures to deal with this.
On February 27, 1933, a fire broke out in the Reichstag (government) building in Germany. The next day Hitler and his Minister of the Interior Hermann Goering drafted the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties and gave the central government total power. The decree was signed into law within days. After that point, opposition to Hitler became MUCH more difficult.
In the U.S. today, extreme measures much like the Reichstag Fire Decree are already being put into place--making it even more urgent that a determined struggle be waged to drive out the Bush regime and reverse this dangerous trajectory.
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