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Wikipedia describes Martial Law as a military action in place of law enforcement.
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See also: Suspension clause

The martial law concept in the U.S. is closely tied with the right of habeas corpus, which is in essence the right to a hearing on lawful imprisonment, or more broadly, the supervision of law enforcement by the judiciary. The ability to suspend habeas corpus is often equated with martial law. Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution states, “The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion, the public Safety may require it.”

In United States law, martial law is limited by several court decisions that were handed down between the American Civil War and World War II. In 1878, Congress passed the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids military involvement in domestic law enforcement without congressional approval. The Military Commissions Act of 2006 possibly rescinds these limits by suspending habeas corpus, but the law is not clear on whether it applies to U.S. Citizens. Since, USNORTHCOM [6] has increased its direct involvement with civilian administration.”

Essentially, civil liberties would be curtailed. Censorship could be imposed on the news media.

And, folks, I hate to tell you this . . . but we are on the very brink of collapse.

Great Depression II . . . brought to you by those members of the big business community who placed greed above all else, and the government officials who accepted bribes from them.

I wish I were just being cynical. But I’m not.

I’m just glad I don’t live there!

I’ve got to tell you folks, that every time I go into a store and find EVERYTHING is made in China, I think about those greedy, low-life CEOs that sent our jobs overseas and sold out our people so they could go from rich to obscenely rich. We have allowed banks and retail chains to charge as much as 29 percent interest on credit cards, and we have allowed adjustable rate mortgages that caused people’s house payments to triple in just a few short years. We have allowed oil speculators and oil companies to gouge the public without mercy for the last five years, and thereby allowed the standard of living to be depressed for millions of families. We have allowed our legislators to take bribes from the health insurance companies, so that we could not have universal health care like Canada and Europe. We listened to our President tell us how bad socialism was, until the fat cats got into trouble, and then socialism was as American as apple pie. Anyway, people, we are nearly bankrupt now, and the first time China turns us down for a loan (guess who’s been financing the war in Iraq? That’s right–China!), we will have to start printing worthless money so we can continue to make payments out of the public treasury.

Do any of you remember the hyper-inflation in Germany’s Weimar Republic? The inflation then was so bad that you needed a bigger box for the money you would spend at the grocer’s than the box needed for carrying home the groceries. People would see a 100,000 Deutschmark note on the ground, and just walk by . . . because the money was that worthless. WE ARE HEADED THE SAME WAY AS THE WEIMAR REPUBLIC.

The sad thing is, we did this to ourselves, or rather, we allowed the rich and powerful to do it to us. Our elected representatives didn’t do their jobs, because they were more interested in lining their pockets with bribes than looking out for the interests of the little people.

It’s going to get really bad, folks, and unless we have an FDR in Obama, we’re going down the tubes for good.

America started going down the drain when the industrial revolution occurred. Start by changing that, and you’ve solved the problem.

as for the martial law I had to google it i’m not sure i’d want the military taking over our laws

I’ve reported that reply. It’s best not to quote it so that the moderators don’t have to remove your replies as well.

i know but you didn’t tell me you reported it :P

Would agree with Verum on IR . . . it wrecked our social structure. The “Unabomber,” Prof. Kaczynski, was right about that. The extended family was doomed by the flight to cramped, tenement apartments in the cities, and families’ “support networks” collapsed.

Because of the IR, we are now more “alone” than we have ever been.

I disagree with you on those ideas. I think we are more networked and globalized then ever before, and I think it could not have come at a worse time in worse ways.

I DO agree with you on those points, and was referring to the individual family in the sense of being “alone.” The aunts, uncles, grandparents and cousins who could lend a hand often live far away.

I have come to the conclusion that “globalization,” as it is currently configured, is just not working for us. Our workers cannot compete with slave labor, or laborers making 19 cents a day in factories with no safety standards.

For proof, just walk into Wal-Mart. The ratio of stuff made in China to goods made in the USA is about 100 to one. We’ve sold our soul to China . . . and our grandkids will still be paying off our debts to China long after our bodies are dust.

I was thinking more along the lines of sectarianism. I think it’s no question that there are a number of issues - not excluding the economy - that are dividing not only people in the United States, but people in the world. I would go so far as to state that the level of division is as high as it was shortly before the American Civil War.

Yes, we have very sharp divisions now between the classes . . . between the haves and have nots.

It has occurred to me that when it gets to be as bad–or worse–as in the Great Depression, people of this day and time will react quite differently. Instead of pulling together like people did in the 1930s, there won’t be the same spirit of sharing and caring. Hell, we don’t even know who our next door neighbors are in most cases!

I see riots, burning cities, looting, and a general breakdown in law and order. I think a lot of CEOs are going to move to Europe. There’s going to be a lot of angry people out there.

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke 1729-1797

“We must obey GOD rather than men.” Acts 5:29

A god would do nothing to help this nation. It is foolishness to turn to one, existent or nonexistent, for worldly salvation.

God does not make it a habit to help people who do not help themselves. I cannot recall a single miracle in the Bible in which witnesses were not asked to perform some task, such as rolling away the stone from Lazarus’ tomb.

We’ve got a lot of things to fix in this country. Class divisions are sharper than ever. People are literally dying because they don’t have access to health care. Families are being thrown into the street. Until we start thinking of ourselves as a nation, rather than just so many competing humans lumped together, I don’t think all the prayers in the world will avail us anything.