The United States is under Martial Law... wait... WHAT???

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1. • cGt2099

   Anyone else catch this? Is this for real? What does this mean for us?????

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   1. • katharinec

      @cGt2099 I don't think it can be legit.. you can't have martial law without telling the populace... it wouldn't work. I think it was an angry offhand comment that probably means something more in context. The House Republicans are pretty pissed off. But I think martial law isn't something we'd find about through the back and forth of social media... that's the sort of thing that gets blasted in the emergency broadcast system.

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   2. • webaddict

      @katharinec Katharine you're trying to say that you expect the U.S. Government to announce to you through the Emergency Broadcast System that they are taking control of the country with guns, military and lock downs due to an all out financial collapse in America? I'm guessing that would cause an extreme amount of panic and more problems. Just my take on it, they'll be doing this quietly (at first) if it's going to happen.

      Another video announcing the Martial Law on Oct. 1st 2008
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6DRz1I7c6I

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   3. • katharinec

      @webaddict yah.... i'm going to (with all due respect :-)) put this one in the category of internet rumor conspiracy theory of the no the sky isn't actually falling kind...

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2. • webaddict

   Maybe this is the start of the plan that will eventually use all of those FEMA camps.

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3. • webaddict

   Pre-election Militarization of the North American Homeland. US Combat Troops in Iraq repatriated to "help with civil unrest"

   http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/09/army_homeland_090708w/
   http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0809/S00352.htm

   The Army Times reports that the 3rd Infantry’s 1st Brigade Combat Team is returning from Iraq to defend the Homeland, as "an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks." The BCT unit has been attached to US Army North, the Army's component of US Northern Command (USNORTHCOM). (See Gina Cavallaro, Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1, Army Times, September 8, 2008).

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4. • webaddict

   Okay found this on what martial law means in Congress....

   Congressional martial law is different than the martial law you guys are thinking of…

   What is “ Congressional Martial Law”?

   The House leadership is using a parliamentary gambit to evade a longstanding House rule that is supposed to ensure that this kind of obfuscation does not occur. That House rule (Rule XIII(6)(a)) provides that a resolution (called a rule) reported by the Rules Committee cannot be considered by the House on the same legislative day that the rule is reported (except by a two-thirds vote of the House). This is supposed to ensure that Members of the House and the public have at least one day to examine and analyze what is in the legislation to be considered before they have to debate and vote on it.

   To maneuver around this House rule and rush the revised reconciliation bill and defense appropriation bill to a vote before they have been fully examined, the Rules Committee reported a rule (H.Res. 632) on the legislative day of Saturday, December 17, that would waive the application of Rule XIII(6)(a). Instead, it would allow the Rules Committee to wait until the last minute — and not to report the rules governing consideration of the reconciliation and defense appropriations conference reports, or to release the conference reports themselves, until immediately before debate and votes on the rules and the legislation commences. This despite the fact that the budget legislation is expected to be hundreds of pages long.

   This extraordinary procedure is known as a “martial law” rule because it suspends the normal procedures and safeguards and allows the House Leadership to operate in a more authoritarian fashion. It enables the Leadership to seek to ram a bill or conference report through before the Members have the opportunity to fully understand what they are voting on.

   Legislation that has far-reaching implications for millions of Americans deserves to be considered under a more democratic process. Waiting until the last minute to reveal what is in these two bills, and then “spinning” or potentially mischaracterizing changes to the reconciliation bill without Members of the House or the public having an opportunity to obtain a more objective review of what the legislation does, would be unfair to Members of the House. It also would be unfair to the millions of Americans whose lives could be altered by this legislation. It would represent a step toward reducing the degree of transparency and democracy in how this country is governed and how decisions are made.

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5. • bizdevlead

   The current leaders of the U.S. have "nerve"

   So the nation has been paying almost a trillion bucks for an unnecessary war and when they are about to go out of office they figure they might as well "go out in style" and take $700 billion from a purse they have already insulated their pockets with. WOW! PRICELESS!!

   I am young, I bet when I am old this "admin" will be looked back at as the greatest group of corporate crooks that ever walked the face of the earth.

   The past 8 years have been a living NIGHTMARE and the worst case of bull I have ever had to witness.

   Will these guys ever face consequences or are we that "under control"?

   I typically keep quiet but this is a bit too much!!

   THE BAIL OUT IS GOING TO SCREW THE U.S. OVER

   100% guaranteed

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6. • thejimgaudet

   I just don't believe it.

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8. • dan360man

   Definitely missed this one.

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