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Three to four thousand soldiers have been deployed in the US as of October 1. The stated mission is the same form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq…that would be to subdue “unruly individuals,” and the management of a national emergency. An Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.

George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, which makes it legal for military to patrol the US. He has also legally established that in the “War on Terror,” the U.S. is at war around the entire world. This means that the whole world is a battlefield…so the U.S. is also a battlefield.

There have also been recent changes to the 1807 Insurrection Act that give far more extensive powers in the event of a loosely defined “insurrection” or other “conditions” the president has the power to identify. The Constitution also allows the suspension of habeas corpus in the event of an “insurrection.”. Habeas corpus prevents us from being seized by the state and held without trial. –

U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman of California told Congress that individual members of the House were threatened with martial law within a week if they did not pass the bailout bill.

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