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Bush
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In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into
law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President
to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising
the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the
President's ability to deploy troops within the United
States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has
historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18
U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on
military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With
one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo
those prohibitions.
Public Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization
Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the
commander in chief on October 17th, 2006, in a private
Oval Office ceremony, allows the President to declare
a "public emergency" and station troops anywhere in
America and take control of state-based National Guard
units without the consent of the governor or local authorities,
in order to "suppress public disorder."
President Bush seized this unprecedented power on the
very same day that he signed the equally odious Military
Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the two laws complement
one another. One allows for torture and detention abroad,
while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home,
preparing to order the military onto the streets of
America. Remember, the term for putting an area under
military law enforcement control is precise; the term
is "martial law."
Section 1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which
grants the Pentagon another $500-plus-billion for its
ill-advised adventures, is entitled, "Use of the Armed
Forces in Major Public Emergencies." Section 333, "Major
public emergencies; interference with State and Federal
law" states that "the President may employ the armed
forces, including the National Guard in Federal service,
to restore public order and enforce the laws of the
United States when, as a result of a natural disaster,
epidemic, or other serious public health emergency,
terrorist attack or incident, or other condition in
any State or possession of the United States, the President
determines that domestic violence has occurred to such
an extent that the constituted authorities of the State
or possession are incapable of ("refuse" or "fail" in)
maintaining public order, "in order to suppress, in
any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful
combination, or conspiracy."
For the current President, "enforcement of the laws
to restore public order" means to commandeer guardsmen
from any state, over the objections of local governmental,
military and local police entities; ship them off to
another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode;
and set them loose against "disorderly" citizenry -
protesters, possibly, or those who object to forced
vaccinations and quarantines in the event of a bio-terror
event.
The law also facilitates militarized police round-ups
and detention of protesters, so called "illegal aliens,"
"potential terrorists" and other "undesirables" for
detention in facilities already contracted for and under
construction by Halliburton. That's right. Under the
cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and the
frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention
camps are being constructed right under our noses, camps
designed for anyone who resists the foreign and domestic
agenda of the Bush administration.
An article on "recent contract awards" in a recent issue
of the slick, insider "Journal of Counterterrorism &
Homeland Security International" reported that "global
engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR [Kellog,
Brown & Root] announced in January 2006 that its
Government and Infrastructure division was awarded an
Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract
to support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) facilities in the event of an emergency." "With
a maximum total value of $385 million over a five year
term," the report notes, "the contract is to be executed
by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers," "for establishing
temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment
existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO)
- in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants
into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of
new programs." The report points out that "KBR is the
engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton."
(3) So, in addition to authorizing another $532.8 billion
for the Pentagon, including a $70-billion "supplemental
provision" which covers the cost of the ongoing, mad
military maneuvers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places,
the new law, signed by the president in a private White
House ceremony, further collapses the historic divide
between the police and the military: a tell-tale sign
of a rapidly consolidating police state in America,
all accomplished amidst ongoing U.S. imperial pretensions
of global domination, sold to an "emergency managed"
and seemingly willfully gullible public as a "global
war on terrorism."
Make no mistake about it: the de-facto repeal of the
Posse Comitatus Act (PCA) is an ominous assault on American
democratic tradition and jurisprudence. The 1878 Act,
which reads, "Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances
expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress,
willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as
a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall
be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than
two years, or both," is the only U.S. criminal statute
that outlaws military operations directed against the
American people under the cover of 'law enforcement.'
As such, it has been the best protection we've had against
the power-hungry intentions of an unscrupulous and reckless
executive, an executive intent on using force to enforce
its will.
Unfortunately, this past week, the president dealt posse
comitatus, along with American democracy, a near fatal
blow. Consequently, it will take an aroused citizenry
to undo the damage wrought by this horrendous act, part
and parcel, as we have seen, of a long train of abuses
and outrages perpetrated by this authoritarian administration.
Despite the unprecedented and shocking nature of this
act, there has been no outcry in the American media,
and little reaction from our elected officials in Congress.
On September 19th, a lone Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
noted that 2007's Defense Authorization Act contained
a "widely opposed provision to allow the President more
control over the National Guard [adopting] changes to
the Insurrection Act, which will make it easier for
this or any future President to use the military to
restore domestic order WITHOUT the consent of the nation's
governors."
Senator Leahy went on to stress that, "we certainly
do not need to make it easier for Presidents to declare
martial law. Invoking the Insurrection Act and using
the military for law enforcement activities goes against
some of the central tenets of our democracy. One can
easily envision governors and mayors in charge of an
emergency having to constantly look over their shoulders
while someone who has never visited their communities
gives the orders."
A few weeks later, on the 29th of September, Leahy entered
into the Congressional Record that he had "grave reservations
about certain provisions of the fiscal Year 2007 Defense
Authorization Bill Conference Report," the language
of which, he said, "subverts solid, longstanding posse
comitatus statutes that limit the military's involvement
in law enforcement, thereby making it easier for the
President to declare martial law." This had been "slipped
in," Leahy said, "as a rider with little study," while
"other congressional committees with jurisdiction over
these matters had no chance to comment, let alone hold
hearings on, these proposals."
In a telling bit of understatement, the Senator from
Vermont noted that "the implications of changing the
(Posse Comitatus) Act are enormous". "There is good
reason," he said, "for the constructive friction in
existing law when it comes to martial law declarations.
Using the military for law enforcement goes against
one of the founding tenets of our democracy. We fail
our Constitution, neglecting the rights of the States,
when we make it easier for the President to declare
martial law and trample on local and state sovereignty."
Senator Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word
a couple of weeks ago that this outcome was likely,
I have wondered how Congress could have gotten to this
point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection Act
have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and
the White House want it."
The historic and ominous re-writing of the Insurrection
Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives
Bush the legal authority to declare martial law, is
now an accomplished fact.
The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more
direct role in martial law operations. Title XIV of
the new law, entitled, "Homeland Defense Technology
Transfer Legislative Provisions," authorizes "the Secretary
of Defense to create a Homeland Defense Technology Transfer
Consortium to improve the effectiveness of the Department
of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and deploying
relevant DOD technology to federal, State, and local
first responders."
In other words, the law facilitates the "transfer" of
the newest in so-called "crowd control" technology and
other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the
Pentagon to local militarized police units. The new
law builds on and further codifies earlier "technology
transfer" agreements, specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice
Department memorandum of agreement achieved back during
the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)
It has become clear in recent months that a critical
mass of the American people have seen through the lies
of the Bush administration; with the president's polls
at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq,
and the Democrats likely to take back the Congress in
mid-term elections, the Bush administration is on the
ropes. And so it is particularly worrying that President
Bush has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare
himself dictator.
Source:
(1) http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html
and http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/092906b.html
See also, Congressional Research Service Report for
Congress, "The Use of Federal Troops for Disaster Assistance:
Legal Issues," by Jennifer K. Elsea, Legislative Attorney,
August 14, 2006
(2) http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill+h109-5122
(3) Journal of Counterterrorism & Homeland Security
International, "Recent Contract Awards", Summer 2006,
Vol.12, No.2, pg.8; See also, Peter Dale Scott, "Homeland
Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps," New
American Media, January 31, 2006.
(4) "Technology Transfer from defense: Concealed Weapons
Detection", National Institute of Justice Journal, No
229, August, 1995, pp.42-43.
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