[lbo-talk] martial law in US

[Michael Perelman]

That's a relief.  We can always depend on Congress.  They sure tore 
that Patriot act apart.

On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:00:06PM -0700, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> > can the military plan martial law without first getting
> > Congressional support?
> 
> Of course.  They have plans for lots of things.  Write the plan, train
> the plan, run the plan.  They can't execute this one (legally) without
> Congressional approval, but my point was that Congress has gone to sleep
> and said "yes" to strange things before ...
> 
> http://www.mnftiu.cc/mnftiu.cc/images/war.040.gif
> 
> Of course, it's all to make you feel safer.  You do feel safer, don't
> you?
> 
> /jordan
> 
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Michael Perelman
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