John's emergancy center ward is going to be filled with Children
suffering from taser burns. He and his Fiend buddies can't wait to slap
the police on the backs. You don't have to go to a Hollywood movie this
Halloween about women being forced to cut off limbs with saws, or kill
each other with hammers to escape a metal room, we have torture, coming
Martial Law and Detention Camps, thanks to Capitalism. We have to fight
this shit! --Skeptic (This article is worse than sneaking up on you and
shouting Boo!)

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
by Frank Morales
Saturday Oct 28th, 2006 7:19 PM
http://www.uruknet.info?p=27769
Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
Frank Morales

October 26, 2006

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision
which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually
encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so
by
revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the
President's
ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection
Act (10

U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act
(18
U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military
involvement
in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush
is
seeking to undo those prohibitions.

Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of
2007"
(H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief on October
17th,

2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to
declare a
"public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America and take
control
of state-based National Guard units without the consent of the
governor or
local authorities, in order to "suppress public disorder."

President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the very same day
that he

signed the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a
sense, the

two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention
abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home,
preparing to

order the military onto the streets of America. Remember, the term for

putting an area under military law enforcement control is precise; the
term

is "martial law."

Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the
Pentagon
another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is entitled,
"Use

of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major
public emergencies; interference with State and Federal law" states
that
"the President may 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, the President
determines
that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the
constituted
authorities of the State or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or
"fail"

in) maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in any State, any

insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."

For the current President, "enforcement of the laws to restore public
order" means to commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the
objections of

local governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off
to
another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them
loose

against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters, possibly, or those who
object
to forced vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror
event.

The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups and detention of

protesters, so called "illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and
other
"undesirables" for detention in facilities already contracted for and
under

construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the cover of a
trumped-up
"immigration emergency" and the frenzied militarization of the
southern
border, detention camps are being constructed right under our noses,
camps
designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the
Bush

administration.

An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue of the slick,

insider "Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
International"
reported that "global engineering and technical services powerhouse
KBR
[Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that its Government
and
Infrastructure division was awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity (IDIQ) contract to support U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency." "With a
maximum

total value of $385 million over a five year term," the report notes,
"the
contract is to be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," "for
establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to
augment
existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO) - in the event of
an
emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid
development of new programs." The report points out that "KBR is the
engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton." (3) So, in
addition to authorizing another $532.8 billion for the Pentagon,
including
a $70-billion "supplemental provision" which covers the cost of the
ongoing, mad military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other
places, the

new law, signed by the president in a private White House ceremony,
further

collapses the historic divide between the police and the military: a
tell-tale sign of a rapidly consolidating police state in America, all

accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial pretensions of global
domination,

sold to an "emergency managed" and seemingly willfully gullible public
as a

"global war on terrorism."

Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the Posse Comitatus
Act
(PCA) is an ominous assault on American democratic tradition and
jurisprudence. The 1878 Act, which reads, "Whoever, except in cases
and
under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of

Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse
comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this
title
or imprisoned not more than two years, or both," is the only U.S.
criminal
statute that outlaws military operations directed against the American

people under the cover of 'law enforcement.' As such, it has been the
best
protection we've had against the power-hungry intentions of an
unscrupulous

and reckless executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce
its
will.

Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse comitatus,
along
with American democracy, a near fatal blow. Consequently, it will take
an
aroused citizenry to undo the damage wrought by this horrendous act,
part
and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of abuses and outrages
perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.

Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this act, there has
been
no outcry in the American media, and little reaction from our elected
officials in Congress. On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy

(D-Vermont) noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained a
"widely

opposed provision to allow the President more control over the
National
Guard [adopting] changes to the Insurrection Act, which will make it
easier

for this or any future President to use the military to restore
domestic
order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's governors."

Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly do not need to
make it
easier for Presidents to declare martial law. 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."

A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered into the
Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations about certain
provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill
Conference
Report," the language of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding

posse comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement in law
enforcement, thereby making it easier for the President to declare
martial
law." This had been "slipped in," Leahy said, "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."

In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from Vermont noted
that
"the implications of changing the (Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous".

"There is good reason," he 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."

Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of
weeks
ago that this outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could
have
gotten to this point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection Act
have
survived the Conference because the Pentagon and the White House want
it."

The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection Act,
accomplished
in the dead of night, which gives Bush the legal authority to declare
martial law, is now an accomplished fact.

The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct role in
martial law operations. Title XIV of the new law, entitled, "Homeland
Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions," authorizes "the
Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer
Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department of Defense
(DOD)
processes for identifying and deploying relevant DOD technology to
federal,

State, and local first responders."

In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of the newest in
so-called "crowd control" technology and other weaponry designed to
suppress dissent from the Pentagon to local militarized police units.
The
new law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology transfer"
agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of

agreement achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)

It has become clear in recent months that a critical mass of the
American
people have seen through the lies of the Bush administration; with the

president's polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war
Iraq,
and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term
elections,
the Bush administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly
worrying

that President Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect,
declare
himself dictator.

Source:

(1) http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html and http://
leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/092906b.html See also, Congressional
Research

Service Report for Congress, "The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster
Assistance: Legal Issues," by Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney,

August 14, 2006

(2) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122

(3) Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International,
"Recent
Contract Awards", Summer 2006, Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter
Dale
Scott, "Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps," New

American Media, January 31, 2006.

(4) "Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed Weapons Detection",
National Institute of Justice Journal, No 229, August, 1995, pp.42-43.

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Comment from "Mad" Miles:

In the early eighties under the first years of the Reagan regime,
similar
information to the above was widely circulated among Leftists.
Detention
camps for dissidents did not come to pass. This is not to say that they

couldn't have, nor that they might under Bush II, but it is good to
have
historical perspective on these matters. My point is that these laws
and
plans have always been on the books. What prevents them from being
implemented IMHO is a strong enough movement to oppose them so that the

forces of order don't see them worth the chaos that would likely
transpire.
This is scary stuff, but it isn't new.

May the spirit of Brad Wells and his many fellow martyrs imbue us with
the
strength to resist, organize, prevail and create the world humanity has

always desired. Or at least to keep trying in the face of it all.

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