🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 07:45:25 GMT, "Kurtz" <the horror@HG.com> wrote:

>Think about the implications of this: Nat'l Guard in Iraq, NorthCom HERE.
>http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4790112#4790272
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>This is EXTREMELY important - we must understand NorthCom, one of the
>official missions of which is to administer martial law when it is declared.
>And it can be declared by the President for "civil unrest."
>
>By the way, this is why I believe one of the goals of the policies of the
>Administration in this disaster was to CREATE enough "civil unrest" in
>protest for their blatantly racist, murderous policies that it could be
>hyped and fabricated into an excuse for widespread martial law - for our own
>"protection." The more "lootersT" and scary, endlessly shown TV clips of
>angry faces, preferably dark faces, and the more likely enough people would
>be frightened to accept this step.
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>http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_18...
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>The Bush Administration's "Enabling Act"
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>January 24, 2005 Issue
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>{Italicized in the original} In early December, without a word of public
>notice, the Justice Department placed on its website a lengthy September 25,
>2001 memorandum entitled "The President's Constitutional Authority to
>Conduct Military Operations Against Terrorists and Nations Supporting Them."
>That document sets out, on behalf of the Bush administration, a plainly
>totalitarian view of presidential power.
>
>(snip)
>
>Reviewing the specific text of the Constitution, the Yoo memo makes the
>interesting discovery that "these provisions vest full control of the
>military forces of the United States in the President." In fact, Congress,
>not the president, is authorized "To raise and support armies . To provide
>and maintain a navy . provide for calling forth the militia...." It is
>Congress, not the president, that is given the power "To make rules for the
>government and regulation of the land and naval forces...." Those elements
>of the militia that are "employed in the service of the United States" are
>to be trained "according to the discipline prescribed by Congress."
>
>The Yoo memo's treatment of congressional power to declare war is similarly
>dishonest. "During the period leading up to the Constitution's ratification,
>the power to initiate hostilities and to control the escalation of conflict
>had long been understood to rest in the hands of the executive branch,"
>claims the document. This is true only in the sense that the King of Great
>Britain - that government's chief executive - claimed and exercised that
>power.
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>Call, fax, EMail, or write your representatives TODAY! Tommorrow may be too
>late!
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