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Here is the full article so kindle donated by the good people at S.W.A.T Magazine, written by STEWART RHODES;
The term martial law is increasingly being thrown around.
Last fall Congress was told, behind the scenes, if it did not pass the bailout for the banksters on Wall Street, there would be chaos in the streets that might lead to martial law.
Then the mayor of the town of Schenectady, New York publicly considered calling on the state governor to impose martial law so the National Guard could temporarily replace a supposedly corrupt police department.
The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania chapter of the NAACP called for martial law so the National Guard could stop gun violence among local gang bangers. The chapter president stated, The Guard is for natural disasters. I dont know any more of a natural disaster than of our young people being killed.
I can picture Sarah Brady smacking her forehead and saying to herself, Gee, why didnt I think of that? Who cares if the Supreme Courts Heller decision ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individuals right to keep and bear arms? Just declare martial law and you can scrap the Second Amendment altogether, along with all those other pesky amendments in the Bill of Rights that get in the way of making us safe!
Im just waiting for Al Gore to call on Obama to declare martial law to stop global warming.
As we head toward a very real possibility of economic collapse, we hear increased chatter among media talking heads, two-bit politicians, and supposed legal scholars about how martial law may be necessary. They should be careful what they wish for, because they just may get itgood and hard.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt the younger.
Get this straight: there is nothing in the Constitution that grants the President power to declare martial law. Not one word. Go look. The term martial law is nowhere to be found in the text of the Constitution, and for damn good reason.
The bleating sheeple calling for martial law dont even know what martial law is.
Martial law is absolute rule by the military, which replaces the civil government. Under martial law, the will of the military commander in the field is law. Martial law is what we impose on a conquered enemy population in wartime, as was done to defeated Germany and Japan at the end of World War II. Martial law is what we imposed on Iraq after the toppling of Saddam. Nowhere in our Constitutional design is our military allowed to rule over the American people as if they were a conquered enemy population.
The closest thing to martial law in our Constitution is suspension of habeas corpus, with Article 1, Section 9 stating, 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.
Habeas suspension must be declared by Congress, and may be used only during an actual invasion or insurrection. And habeas suspension allows only for detention without indictment, for whatever time period Congress specifies by statute. During the Civil War, for example, the habeas statute passed by Congress allowed for detention without indictment for only 20 days, after which the government had to indict or release.
Habeas suspension does not allow the President to use military trial on civilians or to establish executive tribunals and then execute those convicted. Detention during habeas suspension is not the same thing as martial law.
Martial law is really the absence of law, since there would be no need for Congress to do anything except sit on its hands. And under martial law, the very will and mere word of Obama, as Commander in Chief, would be law, and if you violated his law of the moment, whatever he decided should be law as he sat at breakfast.
He could have you and your entire family black bagged, interned, tried by a hand-picked secret tribunal and executed (or simply shot on sight), all without any written law, without indictment, and without a jury trial. Your only possible appeal would be to him. With all the powers of supreme legislator, supreme judge, and supreme executioner in the same hands, he would be an absolute dictator.
One of the causes of revolution listed in our Declaration of Independence was the attempt to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power, and it was the attempt to disarm the people during martial law under General Gage that finally sparked the shooting war. The Founders did not intend that whoever happened to be elected President could scrap the Constitution and rule as a military dictator during some crisis. Ours is a government of laws, not men.
As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 47, The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Our Constitution is designed to divide and limit power, and the President is not above it. Like everyone else in public service, he is sworn to defend the Constitution, and when he breaks his oath and attempts to assume all the powers of a tyrant, it is our right, it is our duty, to resist that attempt. (For more information, go to www.oathkeepers.org/oath/martial-law.)
Obamas right-hand man, Rahm Emanuel, once said, Never let a crisis go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things. Imagine what big things he and his ilk would have planned for your life, liberty, and property under martial law. The gun confiscation gleefully imposed during Hurricane Katrinaas if a bit of bad weather scrapped the Second Amendmentshould be your first clue. Imagine how much worse it would get under nationwide martial law. Take a look at the sad history of Germany under the Nazis and Russia, China, and Cambodia under the communists and you will get your answer.
If the President declares martial law under the pretext of some crisis, you should take that as a declaration of war on you, your kids, and your rights, because once it starts, it wont stop until our Republic is scrapped forever. Do not accept it.
And if you are in the military or police, do not go along with martial law and do not enforce it. Your oath is to defend the Constitution, and that Constitution does not permit its own destruction at the hands of a willful politician.
If the empty suits in D.C. try it, stand down and tell them to saddle up and go out to enforce their martial law themselves. Then sit back, pop open a cold one and enjoy the show. We the people will take care of the rest. </i>
My sincere thanks to,
Rich Lucibella
Publisher
SWAT Magazine
5011 N. Ocean Blvd
Suite 5
Ocean Ridge, FL 33435
The term martial law is increasingly being thrown around.
Last fall Congress was told, behind the scenes, if it did not pass the bailout for the banksters on Wall Street, there would be chaos in the streets that might lead to martial law.
Then the mayor of the town of Schenectady, New York publicly considered calling on the state governor to impose martial law so the National Guard could temporarily replace a supposedly corrupt police department.
The Harrisburg, Pennsylvania chapter of the NAACP called for martial law so the National Guard could stop gun violence among local gang bangers. The chapter president stated, The Guard is for natural disasters. I dont know any more of a natural disaster than of our young people being killed.
I can picture Sarah Brady smacking her forehead and saying to herself, Gee, why didnt I think of that? Who cares if the Supreme Courts Heller decision ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individuals right to keep and bear arms? Just declare martial law and you can scrap the Second Amendment altogether, along with all those other pesky amendments in the Bill of Rights that get in the way of making us safe!
Im just waiting for Al Gore to call on Obama to declare martial law to stop global warming.
As we head toward a very real possibility of economic collapse, we hear increased chatter among media talking heads, two-bit politicians, and supposed legal scholars about how martial law may be necessary. They should be careful what they wish for, because they just may get itgood and hard.
Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. William Pitt the younger.
Get this straight: there is nothing in the Constitution that grants the President power to declare martial law. Not one word. Go look. The term martial law is nowhere to be found in the text of the Constitution, and for damn good reason.
The bleating sheeple calling for martial law dont even know what martial law is.
Martial law is absolute rule by the military, which replaces the civil government. Under martial law, the will of the military commander in the field is law. Martial law is what we impose on a conquered enemy population in wartime, as was done to defeated Germany and Japan at the end of World War II. Martial law is what we imposed on Iraq after the toppling of Saddam. Nowhere in our Constitutional design is our military allowed to rule over the American people as if they were a conquered enemy population.
The closest thing to martial law in our Constitution is suspension of habeas corpus, with Article 1, Section 9 stating, 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.
Habeas suspension must be declared by Congress, and may be used only during an actual invasion or insurrection. And habeas suspension allows only for detention without indictment, for whatever time period Congress specifies by statute. During the Civil War, for example, the habeas statute passed by Congress allowed for detention without indictment for only 20 days, after which the government had to indict or release.
Habeas suspension does not allow the President to use military trial on civilians or to establish executive tribunals and then execute those convicted. Detention during habeas suspension is not the same thing as martial law.
Martial law is really the absence of law, since there would be no need for Congress to do anything except sit on its hands. And under martial law, the very will and mere word of Obama, as Commander in Chief, would be law, and if you violated his law of the moment, whatever he decided should be law as he sat at breakfast.
He could have you and your entire family black bagged, interned, tried by a hand-picked secret tribunal and executed (or simply shot on sight), all without any written law, without indictment, and without a jury trial. Your only possible appeal would be to him. With all the powers of supreme legislator, supreme judge, and supreme executioner in the same hands, he would be an absolute dictator.
One of the causes of revolution listed in our Declaration of Independence was the attempt to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power, and it was the attempt to disarm the people during martial law under General Gage that finally sparked the shooting war. The Founders did not intend that whoever happened to be elected President could scrap the Constitution and rule as a military dictator during some crisis. Ours is a government of laws, not men.
As James Madison put it in Federalist No. 47, The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Our Constitution is designed to divide and limit power, and the President is not above it. Like everyone else in public service, he is sworn to defend the Constitution, and when he breaks his oath and attempts to assume all the powers of a tyrant, it is our right, it is our duty, to resist that attempt. (For more information, go to www.oathkeepers.org/oath/martial-law.)
Obamas right-hand man, Rahm Emanuel, once said, Never let a crisis go to waste. They are opportunities to do big things. Imagine what big things he and his ilk would have planned for your life, liberty, and property under martial law. The gun confiscation gleefully imposed during Hurricane Katrinaas if a bit of bad weather scrapped the Second Amendmentshould be your first clue. Imagine how much worse it would get under nationwide martial law. Take a look at the sad history of Germany under the Nazis and Russia, China, and Cambodia under the communists and you will get your answer.
If the President declares martial law under the pretext of some crisis, you should take that as a declaration of war on you, your kids, and your rights, because once it starts, it wont stop until our Republic is scrapped forever. Do not accept it.
And if you are in the military or police, do not go along with martial law and do not enforce it. Your oath is to defend the Constitution, and that Constitution does not permit its own destruction at the hands of a willful politician.
If the empty suits in D.C. try it, stand down and tell them to saddle up and go out to enforce their martial law themselves. Then sit back, pop open a cold one and enjoy the show. We the people will take care of the rest. </i>
My sincere thanks to,
Rich Lucibella
Publisher
SWAT Magazine
5011 N. Ocean Blvd
Suite 5
Ocean Ridge, FL 33435
