I think its about time the President to declare MARTIAL LAW in this country

because of the EXPLOSION!! that is forming in this country against the Government and the racists and threats against Obama

...how about the other 300 million of us that would be abused and confined due to Martial law? Martial Law would bring far more problems than it would solve (Personally, I do not think that it would solve anything).

I sort of understand your fear, but I think that you are over reacting.

That kind of thing comes back to bite..

:argh:

Perhaps with more CAPS and lot more !!!! your post could rise to the greatest page.

Mondays, got to love 'em.

I've got yer marital law right here, bub. It's actually pretty clever, if you ask me. :)

Or Chester.

(perhaps "martial" law . . . )

Congratulations! :thumbsup:

Then they could run around saying that they were right, that Obama is trying to destroy the country, yadda, yadda, yadda. Great way to start another Civil War, though.:spank:

:eyes:

Yeah... that's the tickedt.

Or I'll put a jihad on YOU

Don't go inciting me to kill you.

Muhammed Jihad!

May as well be one.

Confiscate all freeper wealth and start single payer from there.

:shrug:

Declare a complete crackdown on 300+million people just because some assholes are bitching in the streets and some Internet chatter???

Geez....over react much???


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Trust me, you really don't want to go there.

Change always engenders fierce opposition. In one degree or another.

Consider that for some time now the far-right hate-hosts have been all over the public airwaves and we still captured both chambers of the Congress and the White House.

The president can help create a climate via dialogue and smart politics that can circumvent the impact the crazies have. The march on Sept. 12th has already fizzled into thin air. Michael Savage's services are no longer needed by KNEW radio.

We can always sharpen our game and play the populist card when and where needed.

A strong local Democratic party in a red state is the most under-rated strategy there is.

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In the simplest sense, martial law means that for an unspecified duration, the military takes control. Since the racism we are seeing is not limited to a certain geographic area, that would mean we would ALL be under military rule for a temporary period. This is usually reserved for times when civil authority has broken down completely, or if there was a war on our soil.

Not for thought crimes in a free society, where even the most vile ideas can be expressed and debated and railed against. I don't see that civil authority has broken down at all. Declaring martial law before the fact is called a military dictatorship. I am just not into that.

I am as unsettled as you about the current state of affairs, but all of this anti-government, racist sentiment isn't something new. It was there under the surface for quite some time now. The racism was far worse during the 60s, when actual black people were actually being lynched, and for a long time, no one did a thing about it. Black citizens were treated like cattle, segregated from using a white person's water faucet, toilet seat, dining area, hotel bed, same entrance door, man, the list was unbelievable. I was born into that world, and it shocked me even as a kid - I asked why, and got no answers. That time would have been a great one to declare martial law, say in the South, but since the evil was institutionalized, the evil was permitted to exist.

We aren't there, nor is it my belief that we will get even close to that again. Oh, there may well be deaths and tragedies, but however it progresses, the USA is not going back to that era, and the freaks who think that is going to happen can just keep spinning around in frustration. Because of the makeup of the US population at this point in time, the racists are in extreme danger of what they fear, ie, extinction. Back in their heyday, the system was set up to help maintain racism, with a majority of white able to dictate the terms of enslavement to the minority of blacks.

Today? They will only get so far, and they will be stopped. And it won't take martial law by the military to do that. It will take serious effort, unpleasant acts, and constant vigilance on the part of the rest of us to prevail. If we can't do that, we don't deserve to prevail.

ETA: if you are talking about localized instances of martial law, I agree it may happen at some point in the future, depending on how complete a breakdown of society occurs. But we aren't close yet, imho.

martial law is a last ditch efforet to maintain a semblence of order, we are far from having to declare anything like that.

There is no insurrection on the horizon...we should be trying to reign in things like the "Patriot Act", not calling for further intrusion on Liberty.

declare martial law.

long time.

If you disagree, just say so, or avoid the thread.

:rofl:

A bit over-zealous, granted, but who here hasn't wanted to bonk one of those creeps in the noggin at least once or twice, eh? We wouldn't ever do it, but it feels good to say it. It's venting.

If a wood chuck would chuck wood?

seen here. And boy, is that saying something.

that Cheney built for us! :rofl:

:o

:rofl:

aaaah, (wiping tears from eyes) i needed that.

They never have