Did martial law rumors stampede Congress to vote yes?

Welcome to the USS of A, where threats run our political system.

“We have acted boldly to prevent the crisis on Wall Street from becoming a crisis in communities across our country,” President Bush said before quickly signing the bill into law.” http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,432282,00.html

Apparently Bush confuses the word “boldly” with the word “recklessly”.

Jerri Lynn Ward { 10.03.08 at 10:18 pm } I only recently started looking at infowars and Alex Jones. My observation about Jones is that he likes to make himself the story.

I completely believe that our government in its present bloated and unconstitutional form is fully capable of instituting martial law.

Agreed. In fact, I was fairly well surprised that Martial Law wasn’t institited on September 11, 2001.

Anyone else?

Tommy Franks took over as CENTCOM commander on July 6, 2000. On page 236 of his bestseller, American Soldier, Franks describes speaking to the “CENTCOM intelligence staff” on September 7, 2001:

“I spoke about the excesses of Reconstruction after the Civil War, which had resulted in the enactment of Posse Comitatus, the law that prevents military forces from serving as policemen inside the United States. Would that stricture survive a full-blown terrorist attack?

“So, the thing that keeps me awake at night, Sergeant,” I emphasized, “is the possible use of our armed forces against American citizens. We do our job well, but we’re trained to fight foreign enemies. We’re not police officers, sheriffs, or the FBI. If we were ever required to act in that capacity during a major emergency like an attack on the World Trade Center, the effect on America could be devastating. Martial law would not sit well in a free and open society.”

On page 235, Franks recalls the summer of 2001:

“The summer found our intelligence people working with the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, collecting and analyzing persistent but inspecific indications of planned terrorist activity in the Middle East. This was “all source” information - a blend of human intelligence and technical intelligence. I ordered the component commanders to have their people keep a lower profile. On several occassions, I increased our force protection posture - the Threat Con - but never as a result of a specific threat. Something was bewing, but the best minds at the CIA and the National Security Agency could now pin down the threats with any degress of certainty. Where would we see a terrorist act. . . and when?

“As I read the increasingly alarming reports of potential attacks on Western facilities in the region, a thought formed. Al Qaeda had used cars, trucks, and boats as suicide bombs. What about small planes loaded with explosives? I sent a note - first to our embassy in Riyadh, then to other embassies across the AOR - asking the ambassadors to pass on my concerns to their hosts. “We should work to tune the host nations in the region in to this type of threat,” I said.”

No worry’s it was all a surprise.