Posted on 01/14/2012 6:33:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Barry sez. "Magazine? Huh?"
"Okay--give me Vanity Fair."
Martial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis—(usually) only temporary—when the civilian government or civilian authorities fail to function effectively (e.g., maintain order and security, and provide essential services), when there are extensive riots and protests, or when the disobedience of the law becomes widespread. In most cases, military forces are deployed to quiet the crowds, to secure government buildings and key or sensitive locations, and to maintain order.
Generally, military personnel replace civil authorities (this won't happen here. Obama will continue to assume all authority) and perform some or all of their functions. In full-scale martial law, the highest-ranking military officer would take over, or be installed, as the military governor or as head of the government, thus removing all power from the previous executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.
Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public. Such incidents may occur after a coup d'état (Thailand 2006); when threatened by popular protest (China, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989); to suppress political opposition (Poland in 1981); to stabilize insurrections or perceived insurrections (Canada, The October Crisis of 1970). Martial law may be declared in cases of major natural disasters, however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a "state of emergency".
I can see something like this happening. The commie/muslin/homosexual machine will do everything and everything to keep him in office. The republican nominee cannot win a close election. He HAS to win by several percentage points or we will have a war in America. They simply are not going to give up this chance of a life time in taking all total control.
Naw. Ulsterman would have colorful details on Daley's B.O. and how Bill and Bernadine like to have threesomes with their grad students...
So it’s going to get ugly.
It’s going to get ugly because the Democrats, the media, and Barack Obama did not heed the lesson that the 2010 elections should have taught them.
Obama’s strategy is to be seen as “fighting” for the “little guy”, the “unfortunate”. This will only serve to maintain his base and alienate everyone else. It is not in an American’s nature to consider himself a “little guy” or “unfortunate”, even among those who could rightly make that claim.
The media doesn’t realize they no longer have the power to persuade. This was demonstrably proven in 2010 when they shilled for every Dem running and were shellacked.
Obama’s the only one in the room who doesn’t realize his speeches have lost the power they once had. Everyone around him is afraid to tell him to shut up. They just leave, like Daley.
So Obama’s going to attempt to convince us what he’s done has been good for us, as he promises more of the same. Won’t work.
The country’s in a foul, foul mood. The lines have been clearly drawn. The private sector is Obama’s declared enemy, and it is still numerically superior to those who have been bought and paid for. 2010 proved this, and this is what the lefties are missing.
They will give Obama the hook in 2012.
Well said, wayover.
And I pray you are right. The class warfare propaganda and the attempt to systematically derail the private sector,,,ie the engine of economic prosperity, must be defeated...
Valerie Jarrett, Moochelle and David Plouffe script the leftist attack plan coming out of the WH. Bam watches ESPN in the oval in his sweats and Birkenstocks, bouncing his leg over the side of his chair and chewing gum. What a disgusting affront and disrespect be brings to the office of POTUS.
Think HW, W and Reagan who never graced the office without wearing a suit and tie. Think of the class that Nancy Reagan and Laura Bush modeled as first ladies.
Contrast that with Moochie in shorts leaning over the railing in South Dakota with her big butt displayed for all the world to gag on.
Because spell check does not pick it up and because only you, and I, and my late english teacher know how to use, and how not to use, our friend the apostrophe.
Yep -too many of the "better Red than dead" folks ended up in politics. Now it's "pefer Red to Free" folks ensconced in the D.C. cesspool.
They've been practicing all year in Wisconsin.
There will be resurgence of racism in America and it will be the fault of Obama and the Democrats.
Yes, and to speak of it openly will get your post deleted at the very least. There's a certain irony attendant to the quote in my tagline as it applies to FR and what it has become.
That is the American attitude the Democrats and their allies in the media and education are attempting quash. When the majority of Americans are dependant on government for maintaining their living standard then the American dream will be to obtain a government sinecure.
We are sunk with a nice guy Romney who continues to say Barry is a nice guy just in over his head. We are doomed unless someone brings out Valerie Jarret’s background as well as BO’s and hammers in what it will be like if they win a second term. Yes, we need to scare people to death and not be afraid to do it. Mitt won’t do it, especially with BO lovin McCain at his side. Newt is the only one with the guts to call out the OBama’s as the radicals that they are.
“We are sunk with a nice guy Romney who continues to say Barry is a nice guy just in over his head. “
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RINO Romney isn’t a nice guy. Look at what he did to Newt in Iowa through henchmen.
The problem is that Romney can’t attack Obama’s policies because they’re also Romney’s policies. Perhaps the only distinction between the two is that Obama truly does hate the United States and seeks to change it into a European sh*thole because of it. Romney heads down the same path in the spirit of crony capitalism rather than anti-American views.
Gad, I've read all of Farrand, witnessing by Madison's hand Hamilton's behavior all through the Convention.
Did you read that article or not? It quotes extensively from Federalist 75.
Sheesh.
When you finish you will find yourself as I did admiring Hamilton more and Jefferson less.
The latter was too mercurial for his own good, but did an enormous work for this nation, especially the Louisiana purchase. Nor did the Federalists before him deal with the cost of paying off the Barbary Pirates. He was absolutely right about bankers and corporations, whose machinations today through their tax-exempt "charitable" foundations is the nexus of the regulatory monster that is killing the republic today, just as it was before the Revolution, sirrah.
Exactly, Romney is going to be another McCain, refuses to besmirsch his opponent. I don’t think I can handle another Republican campaign where Obama throws his “digs” and uses his middle finger when talking about a Republican candidate. Newt won’t be saying “my friends”. He would be willing to bring up the dirt on Obama’s background. Unlike the weasel McCain. Newt hasn’t been neuted...he still has a great set of balls.
"dandiegirl" is on to something in her recognition that the Republican candidate for 2012 must not naively describe his opponent, even at this early date, as being simply a nice guy who is in over his head.
The battle for the ideas of liberty over those of redistribution, resulting in slavery of individuals to deficit, debt, taxation, and rule by a political elite is too important to describe their main 2012 advocate so lightly.
"[With the decline of society] begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia [war of all against all], which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken it for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:40
Had America's Founders treated King George's commitment and resolve simply as the actions of an uninformed "guy," there would have been no Declaration of Independence--a statement which clearly outlined the "reasons" for their opposition to him and his policies.
They did not treat him as just a "nice guy" who didn't understand that large, intrusive, controlling and coercive government destroys the unalienable rights individuals possess by edict of their Creator. They stated their cause clearly, and they laid out for the world to see his spending, taxing, and planning philosophy which enslaved people.
Jefferson, the great intellectual and talented writer of the day, was able to articulate their ideas and "encapsulate" those "abstract ideas" (Lincoln) in our document of freedom where they remain, as Lincoln further described, a "stumbling-block to the very harbingers [initiators of threatening change] of reappearing tyranny and oppression."
Where is the candidate able to perform that task on the behalf of liberty from now till November?
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