The Martial Law Plan
War Plans Drafted To Counter Terror Attacks in U.S.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080700843_pf.html
"The U.S. military has devised its first-ever (yeah, right. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn - Vox) war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States..."
"According to military lawyers here, the dispatch of ground troops would most likely be justified on the basis of the president's authority under Article 2 of the Constitution to serve as commander in chief and protect the nation. The Posse Comitatus Act exempts actions authorized by the Constitution."
Now THIS is scary! By this logic, the president can install himself as dictator-for-life or suspend the Constitution in favor of martial law under constitutionally-granted authority to serve as commander in chief and protect the nation.
"Military Lawyers". Somehow that seems like an oxymoron to me (I know it's a stretch, but just a bit of mental gymnastics). - Vox
Remember what General Tommy Franks said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/07/AR2005080700843_pf.html
"The U.S. military has devised its first-ever (yeah, right. If you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you in Brooklyn - Vox) war plans for guarding against and responding to terrorist attacks in the United States..."
"According to military lawyers here, the dispatch of ground troops would most likely be justified on the basis of the president's authority under Article 2 of the Constitution to serve as commander in chief and protect the nation. The Posse Comitatus Act exempts actions authorized by the Constitution."
Now THIS is scary! By this logic, the president can install himself as dictator-for-life or suspend the Constitution in favor of martial law under constitutionally-granted authority to serve as commander in chief and protect the nation.
"Military Lawyers". Somehow that seems like an oxymoron to me (I know it's a stretch, but just a bit of mental gymnastics). - Vox
Remember what General Tommy Franks said.
posted by VoxInfo at 1:16 PM
3 Comments:
"Now THIS is scary! By this logic, the president can install himself as dictator-for-life"
See? What did I tell you?
These are indeed scary times as we allow ourselves to be hoodwinked by our own lack of knowledge and concern for our rights as United States citizens...when will we stand up and pull back the veil of ignorance we have covered ourselves under? How "unpatriotic, servile, and morally treasonable" we are complacently choosing to be in our own ignorance...What would Teddy think?
Let's ask him:
"The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the Nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely necessary that there should be full liberty to tell the truth about his acts, and this means that it is exactly necessary to blame him when he does wrong as to praise him when he does right. Any other attitude in an American citizen is both base and servile. To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
"Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star", 149
May 7, 1918
Roosevelt was a good man. Today we have an unscruplous man in office, a president who is driven not by principle but rather by aggressive pragmatism. I think that this reflects one aspect of the value-system we as Americans have evolved over time. George W. Bush is, above all, our own creation -- horrified though we might be at the sight of what is, after all, the logical conclusion to our own ill-examined set of priorities. But in the end, he just might be to our benefit; we live on the precipice of desperate times, and desperate times call for desperate measures. A moral president might not make the cut.
Something to think about.
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