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Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
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Written by Frank Morales ??
Thursday, 26 October 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."
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