[GJM] Making Martial Law Easier

[E. Crockett]

--- marguerite hampton <ecopilgrim at aabol.com> wrote:

> 
> Dear Co-learner's,
> 
> While I very much dislike sending these types of
> messages, which I consider
> to be "reactive",
> I do very much believe that we must be constantly on
> vigil and take action
> as "we-the-people"
> organize to foment action at the "grass-roots" level
> to preserve the peace
> and prevent as much chaos as possible. Particularly
> as we go deeper into
> economic collapse as the housing market falls, and
> the ripple-out effect is
> felt around the world with job losses dramatically
> on the rise.   I  am
> already receiving articles of major lay-offs in the
> auto industry, and
> running into more and more local people out of work
> and on the streets -- 
> all at the same time food and energy prices are
> escalating. 
> 
> With the number of foreclosures predicted, due to
> the manner in which
> mortgage loans were made in the past 15 years, and
> the number of homeless
> predicted to be anywhere from 60 to 120 million (in
> addition to the already
> homeless) it is inevitable that we will see an
> increase in lawlessness as
> desperate people attempt to obtain food, water and
> medical care, as well as
> shelter. If left to the government to "keep order"
> the result may well be
> martial law and internment in concentration camps. 
> 
> One of the major components in a crisis of this
> magnitude is "post-traumatic
> stress disorder" as millions of people suffer from
> the shock of losing their
> homes and the security their environment provided
> them.  This will be many
> times more difficult than was Hurricane Katrina,
> as it will be magnified by the millions all across
> the country.  And the
> ripple out effect will be felt internationally.  
> 
> However, if "we-the-people" organize effectively to
> handle the stress factor
> ourselves in our own communities, we can mitigate
> the circumstances and
> deflect much of the damage.
> 
> So, let's put our heads together and come up with a
> plan to do this.  Then
> we can think about how to put the plan into effect
> both nationally and
> internationally -- perhaps linking it to the
> already-in-process
> relocalization effort. This could be a major step
> toward securing world
> peace and freedom -- learning how to maximize our
> personal power person by
> person and community by community.  
> 
> The first thing I would like to suggest is
> organizing Post-traumatic Stress
> Disorder Centers in 
> each community to handle this dis-ease, and building
> from that point outward
> logistically.  
> 
> And, critically important is setting up alternative
> education centers in
> each community,
> 
> while linking everything via the Internet, but
> having an alternative plan
> set up in case of Internet 
> 
> failure.  
> 
> So, what say ye? 
> 
> marguerite 
> 
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>
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/opinion/19mon3.html
> 
>   
> February 19, 2007 
> EDITORIAL 
> Making Martial Law Easier 
>   
> A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that
> laws that strike to the
> heart of American democracy have been passed in the
> dead of night. So it was
> with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous
> defense budget bill at the
> Bush administration¹s behest that makes it easier
> for a president to
> override local control of law enforcement and
> declare martial law. 
>   
> The provision, signed into law in October, weakens
> two obscure but important
> bulwarks of liberty. One is the doctrine that bars
> military forces,
> including a federalized National Guard, from
> engaging in law enforcement.
> Called posse comitatus, it was enshrined in law
> after the Civil War to
> preserve the line between civil government and the
> military. The other is
> the Insurrection Act of 1807, which provides the
> major exemptions to posse
> comitatus. It essentially limits a president¹s use
> of the military in law
> enforcement to putting down lawlessness,
> insurrection and rebellion, where a
> state is violating federal law or depriving people
> of constitutional rights.
> 
>   
> The newly enacted provisions upset this careful
> balance. They shift the
> focus from making sure that federal laws are
> enforced to restoring public
> order. Beyond cases of actual insurrection, the
> president may now use
> military troops as a domestic police force in
> response to a natural disaster
>  a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any
> ³other condition.² 
>   
> Changes of this magnitude should be made only after
> a thorough public airing
>  But these new presidential powers were slipped into
> the law without
> hearings or public debate. The president made no
> mention of the changes when
> he signed the measure, and neither the White House
> nor Congress consulted in
> advance with the nation¹s governors. 
>   
> There is a bipartisan bill, introduced by Senators
> Patrick Leahy, Democrat
> of Vermont, and Christopher Bond, Republican of
> Missouri, and backed
> unanimously by the nation¹s governors, that would
> repeal the stealthy
> revisions. Congress should pass it. If changes of
> this kind are proposed in
> the future, they must get a full and open debate. 
>   
> Copyright 2007 The New York Times Company 
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