Making it Easier to Declare Martial Law in America
20 February 2007 04:31 PM | On
Liberty
The New York Times has a good editorial: Making Martial Law Easier
An excerpt:
Read the whole thing.
I cannot tell you how dangerous this sort of sneaky erosion of our democratic protections and also of Federalism is. It needs to be repealed and Congress needs to stop voting for every anti-democratic provision that gets tacked onto a defense budget bill. That is bad governance and frankly moral cowardice.
An excerpt:
A disturbing recent phenomenon in Washington is that laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night. So it was with a provision quietly tucked into the enormous defense budget bill at the Bush administration’s behest that makes it easier for a president to override local control of law enforcement and declare martial law.
Read the whole thing.
I cannot tell you how dangerous this sort of sneaky erosion of our democratic protections and also of Federalism is. It needs to be repealed and Congress needs to stop voting for every anti-democratic provision that gets tacked onto a defense budget bill. That is bad governance and frankly moral cowardice.
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