Given the way peoples rights are trampled on today, I wonder what
Martial Law will look like?


--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> "An editorial in the New York Times yesterday pointed out, for those of 
> us who didn't realize it, that the Bush administration had inserted two 
> provisions into last October's defense budget bill that would make it 
> easier to declare martial law in the US. Senators Leahy and Bond have 
> introduced a bill to repeal these changes, and it is important that 
> voters keep track of this bill and hold their Congresspeople to account 
> on it. Along with several other measures the Bush adminstration has 
> proposed, the introduction of these changes amounts, not to an
attack on 
> the Congress and the balance of power, but to a particular and
concerted 
> attack on the citizens of the nation. Bush is laying the legal 
> groundwork to repeal even the appearance of democracy. Any senator who 
> does not vote in favor of the Leahy/Bond repeal of these provisions 
> should promptly be recalled by his or her constituents."
> 
> More here:
>
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-smiley/what-would-you-do-if-bush_b_41674.html
> 
> Of course the Vedic chanters and bun hoppers will keep this all from 
> happening, right?
>


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