"Martial Law" is Treason, Question Rep. Brad Sherman
by Ralph Lopez
Tue Oct 07, 2008 at 12:00:21 PM PST
Yes, that is a U.S. congressman in this Youtube video, and yes, he is referring to treason, which is what martial law is in the United States. We don't do martial law. The Constitution provides only for the suspension of habeas corpus in times of war, by a vote in the legislature, and nothing else. The post-Civil War Posse Comitatus Act bars the use of regular military, as opposed to national guard, in the "Homeland" to quell civil disturbance. This is precisely why the Founders didn't want "standing armies." They knew that the first thing on the minds of tyrants is to turn them against their own people.
That congressman, Brad Sherman is saying a few members were even told that "there would be Martial Law in America if we voted "No"" on the bailout.
Glenn Greenwald reports the Third Army Brigade is putting a unit of regular army troops seasoned in Iraq, in the "Homeland" for the first time since Posse Comitatus, to "help with civil unrest and crowd control." Why isn't Rep. Sherman getting sat down before a committee, under oath, and asked "Just WHO approached whom and talked about martial law, congressman? What exactly did they say, and what did they mean by it?" In other countries this is called a coup,..
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