“Obama will get to declare martial law, and postphone the 2012 elections.”
Please . . . . lay off the caffeine.
Yes, but lets just think about the ten signs. America must not go whacko, which is my point.If we do as a nation we lose.There is nothing caffeinated about it. Read the current US Code Title 10 anti insurrection laws.
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The Insurrection Act is old-fashioned and blunt, starting with its title. “At least we ought
to rename that; that’s a minimum,” implored Senate Armed Services Chairman John
Warner, R-Va., the one legislator to press consistently, and fruitlessly, for changes to
these laws. But the text itself stands out amid more-modern and more-modest sections of
the U.S. Code like a Viking warrior at a tea dance. Title 10, Section 331, of the
Insurrection Act simply permits the president to send federal troops to the aid of a state
government. Section 332, a little stronger, allows the president to send troops even
without the state’s invitation. Section 333 specifically authorizes federal intervention if
state authorities “fail or refuse” to protect the rights of any citizens group. These clauses,
Dycus said, “provide the president with all the authority he could ever want to use
military forces for law enforcement, quarantines, and so on.”
The only limit is a single sentence at the end — Title 10, Section 334 — that requires the
president first, before he uses the military, to publicly order any insurgents to disperse.
This one formality is critical, Dycus insists. Without this proclamation clause, the
president could delegate to some unelected official the Insurrection Act’s authority to
declare an emergency and to enforce the law with troops. Similarly, without the narrowly
tailored Posse Comitatus Act in place, any U.S. marshal could call in the troops even
when there was no emergency at all.
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§ 333. Interference with State and Federal law
The President, by using the militia or the armed forces, or both, or by any other means, shall take such measures as he considers necessary to suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy, if it—
(1) so hinders the execution of the laws of that State, and of the United States within the State, that any part or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law, and the constituted authorities of that State are unable, fail, or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give that protection; or
(2) opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws.
In any situation covered by clause (1), the State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the laws secured by the Constitution.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/10/usc_sup_01_10_10_A_20_I_30_15.html
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Arizona would be the first to get hit by Obama.