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MARTIAL LAW MADE EASY
OMINOUS LEGISLATION PASSES CONGRESS WITH LITTLE
PROTEST
By James P. Tucker Jr.
Alittle-noted provision of the recently passed
Defense Authorization Act allows President Bush
to send in the military to police any trouble
spot in this country regardless of the wishes of
state governors.
On Oct. 17, President Bush signed the John
Warner National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2007.
The act grants the military the authority to
seek from Congress $462.8 billion. In addition,
Senate and House conferees added another $70
billion in supplemental defense spending
bringing the overall total of the act to an
unprecedented $532.8 billion. The supplemental
funding provides billions of dollars to help
“reset” Army and Marine Corps equipment, which
is wearing out faster than planned because of
the war in Afghanistan and the occupation of
Iraq.
A highly controversial and little-known aspect
of the act “contains a widely opposed provision
to allow the president more control over the
National Guard [by adopting] changes to the
Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for
this or any future president to use the military
to restore order without the consent of the
nation’s governors,” Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Ver.)
said.
Americans “certainly do not need to make it
easier for presidents to declare martial law,”
Leahy said. “Invoking the Insurrection Act and
using the military for law enforcement
activities goes against some of the central
tenets of our democracy. One can easily envision
governors and mayors in charge of an emergency
having to constantly look over their shoulders
while someone who has never visited their
communities gives the orders.”
The act “subverts solid, long-standing Posse
Comitatus statutes that limit the military’s
involvement in law enforcement, thereby making
it easier for the president to declare martial
law,” Leahy said. This had been “slipped in as a
rider with little study” while “other
congressional committees with jurisdiction over
these matters had no chance to comment, let
alone hold hearings on these proposals.”
There is good reason, Leahy said, “for the
constructive friction in existing law when it
comes to martial law declarations. Using the
military for law enforcement goes against one of
the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail
our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the
states, when we make it easier for the president
to declare martial law and trample on local and
state sovereignty.”
The law allows the president to “employ the
armed forces, including the National Guard in
federal service, to restore public order and
enforce the laws of the United States when, as a
result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other
serious public health emergency, terrorist
attack or incident, or other condition in any
state or possession of the United States, that
the president determines that domestic violence
has occurred to such an extent that the
constituted authorities of the state or
possession are incapable of maintaining public
order to suppress in any state, any
insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful
combination or conspiracy.”
“Or other condition” is a critical line in the
new law, skeptics say. The president can send
the National Guard into any community for
any—even frivolous—reasons, they argue.
The Founders, as expressed in the written
history of the times—published speeches and
letters—were anxious to never have a national
police force for fear it would be used to
centralize power at the federal level and weaken
the role of states. The president can now,
effectively, deploy a national police force to
any location in the country on a whim.
The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act reads: “Whoever,
except in cases and under circumstances
expressly authorized by the Constitution or act
of Congress, willfully uses any part” of the
military “as a posse comitatus or otherwise to
execute the laws shall be fined under this title
or imprisoned for not more than two years or
both.”
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Re: MARTIAL LAW MADE EASY
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THEY ARE THE TERRORISTS.
All Acts of Terrorism have been staged from WTC
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and they just keep using the same old script!
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See Also:
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See also:
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THE HIGH CABALS AGENDAS:PART5
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