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Martial Law Is Here

whitehouse.gov — I'm not sure how we missed this one... but as of 2 days ago, the United States is now in Martial Law... don't believe me? Straight from the Whitehouse's own website, and GWB's own pen.

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  • JKap, on 06/28/2008, -24/+94In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

    The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

    When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

    We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

    That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

    Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

    He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

    He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

    He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

    He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

    He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness of his invasions on the rights of the people.

    He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

    He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

    He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

    He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

    He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

    He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

    He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

    For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

    For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

    For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

    For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

    For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

    For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

    For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

    For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

    For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

    He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

    He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

    He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

    He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

    He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

    In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

    Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

    We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

    * New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
    * Massachusetts: Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
    * Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
    * Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
    * New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
    * New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
    * Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
    * Delaware: George Read, Caesar Rodney, Thomas McKean
    * Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
    * Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
    * North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
    * South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
    * Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
    • SaraLiberty, on 08/16/2008, -9/+21Right on...When people actually had some ***** BALLS to stand up for what is right. Where are the men, the REAL leaders and truly brave visionaries like this now? America has been sold out to the highest bidder.

      I feel that we have already become a fascist police state. Most of the American people of many stripes have been played by this corrupt, war profiteering scandalous government, greedy corporations, the controlled media, etc. for a very long time. They have been extremely adroit in keeping most of the citizens distracted and divided, fighting amongst each other over petty non-issues and bull *****.

      We may have done this to ourselves! We should NEVER let our guard down.

      At least some of us aren't fooled by these criminals!

      The fascist, wrongfully-named "Patriot Act", "PNAC" manifesto, unconstitutional "Homeland (in)Security" gestapo scheme and due process destroying "Military Commissions Act" need to be repealed and abolished. Habeas Corpus, our Bill of Rights and America's Constitution need to be fully restored. No compromises. These things can only happen with fearless leadership, not fearful capitulation to a lying President.
      • sgiffy, on 06/29/2008, -12/+6Um, bitching on Digg is not exactly a revolutionary act. Why not try walling yourself in some compound like your 'patriot' brothers.
      • SaraLiberty, on 08/16/2008, -4/+9Shouldn't you be watching 'Dancing With the Stars' and getting "wasted" on cheap liquor?
    • JKap, on 06/28/2008, -4/+134 buries on the U.S. Declaration of Independence? What country are you from?
    • leetninja, on 06/28/2008, -3/+7Time to stand up America! Time to do something!!! I warned people 6 years ago that he would do this and they all said i was out of my mind! Time to revolt!!! TIME TO TAKE ACTION! IF WE LOSE OUR RIGHTS WE LOSE OUR COUNTRY!!!
      • SaraLiberty, on 08/16/2008, -4/+8We're reached a point in history where full scale revolution seems the only option.

        What the ***** else are we serfs gonna do, write congress? lol! Right...like that does jack ***** of good. They ignore us, continue to shut us out. They don't hear our voices, nor do they care less than a ***** to. They could care less what real American people are thinking or feeling on issues which face our country and our future. They do whatever the ***** they please with NO accountability. What are we gonna do, e-mail a senator? so their "assistant" can just hit "delete" and continue to file their nails and sip coffee. It's not gonna change *****. Protest? We already know where that option has got us.. Further ridicule and demonization by the controlled, treasonous television and print media. Laughed at and spit on for speaking truth to power. No one cares. Same as it ever was. While the ultra-corrupt "powers that be" continue to take more and more of our hard fought, won & died for Constitutional rights, civil liberties, and freedoms away for good under false, manufactured pretense. Once those freedoms are gone we will NEVER get them back. The so-called "war on terror" is a complete scam. The 'war' is on us. "Radical Islamists" aren't the ones destroying Americas Constitution, curtailing our American freedoms one by one and assaulting our Bill of Rights and liberties in this country. Congress is. The senate is. The sold out politicians are. The PNAC scheming administration is. Bin Laden didn't give us a "Patriot Act" or corrupt "Homeland (in)Security" legislation that eviscerates American freedoms and pisses on our Constitution either. Who are these terrorists who "attacked us because they 'hate our freedoms and way of life" again ?? It obviously isn't who were told it is.

        Nothing short of all out revolution is gonna change anything for the better for 'we the people' in this hi-jacked country of pro fascism "Patriot Act"s, militarized tazer-fevered above the law police, "Homeland (in)Security" schemes, rigged elections, lying, treasonous self-serving career politicians, PNAC manifesto, endless war fraud profiteering and warrantless wiretapping spy legislation just to name a few. Tear all the ***** down and start over. Rise up and take *our* country back from the fascist, criminal traitors who hi-jacked it. It's time.
    • SuperWinner, on 06/29/2008, -4/+4Marked as inaccurate by 'bush news bury squad' in 5, 4, 3, 2...
    • xadhominemx, on 06/29/2008, -3/+4There have been 32 declared National Emergencies since 1976. You're a ***** retard.
    • billyf1, on 06/29/2008, -3/+0tl;dr
  • Becca4RonPaul, on 06/28/2008, -4/+54Sorry if my question seems dense, but how does this specific order mean that we are now under martial law?
    • FrankHope, on 06/28/2008, -13/+13See my answer below.
      • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -5/+16"See my dimwitted lack of understanding of how government, and the National Emergencies Act, works below"

        FTFY
    • KyleGoetz, on 06/29/2008, -3/+16It doesn't. People like FrankHope are huge, reactionary dumbasses.
      They would do well to re-read the story of the boy who cried wolf. It's people like him who will create the situation in which the proverbial ***** will hit the fan, and no one will believe it until it's too late.
      And it will be their fault.

      Their line of thinking is that "national emergency declared" implies "martial law declared," when it doesn't. There's at least one national emergency declared every year. Hell, Bush declared a national emergency when the floodings started last week or whatever.
      • rayfiend, on 06/29/2008, -6/+3Aye, Kyle, if the counter-neocons become as bulimic in substance and equally bombastic to those we counter, we're all going to lose. Let's not use the dramatic FOX approach to fight the dramatic FOX approach, but rather truly stand up the values and reasonableness we proclaim as our standards.

        Leave the dramatic hyperactivity to the Rush's of the world.
      • HanFastolfe, on 06/29/2008, -3/+4"People like FrankHope are huge, reactionary dumbasses"

        A lot of people say it, but I did literary laugh out loud. Dugg for truth, thanks for the grin.
    • blazes816, on 06/29/2008, -6/+15You don't seem to understand how digg works. If it has to do with Bush, or even republicans in general, everything get's bumped up to a world ending crisis.
    • CrazedLeper, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3Political maneuvering is like chess. One side makes a move and the other side--if he can see what the opponent's move means--will behave correspondingly. Bush stole much power and influence when HE DID 9/11. No, he clearly wasn't the mastermind (his daddy was) but the front-man.

      There was a miscalculation with the last plane and the venture took the nation to the brink of martial law...but not over the threshold, as planned. The "patriot" act and many subsequent power grabs have since given the president dictatorial powers--pending a vaguely worded "national emergency".

      Almost everyone was caught off-guard by 9/11 but what was done was done. All US politicians new they had to play along --or else. Nancy Pelosi saw another move toward martial law coming which is why she "took impeachment off the table". She knew that the process could never get finished before another false-flag terrorist attack ended the government as we now know it (and her own personal relevance).

      Dennis Kucinich, on the other hand, probably believes that they aren't quite ready to take over the country (they'd probably do it anyway) and started impeachment proceedings anyway. Bush responded with this maneuver, effectively dangling us all over the cliff of Fascism, and has only to let go at will. This is his message to congress that they'd better make the impeachment go away--or else.
    • sconnor, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1I will refer you to an article in my fav's- State of Emergency(re:NSPD-51)Nat'l Security Presidential Directive 51. Please DIGG & pass the word! Thanks.
  • FrankHope, on 06/28/2008, -41/+55"I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."

    Under a "national emergency" the President can suspend civil liberties and declare martial law. How is the situation in North Korea a "national emergency" for the United States? Why does the President need special powers to deal with this situation? Aren't there enough laws on the books to deal with this without declaring a "national emergency"?

    It only takes a stroke of the pen to create a dictatorship. Congress, who could stop it, refuses to act. IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

    "Martial Law coming to a country near you":
    http://futurenewstoday.blogspot.com/2008/06/martia ...
    • Herkimer56, on 06/28/2008, -14/+43Here's the part you left out: "I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. I further find that, as we deal with that threat through multilateral diplomacy, it is necessary to continue certain restrictions with respect to North Korea that would otherwise be lifted pursuant to a forthcoming proclamation that will terminate the exercise of authorities under the Trading With the Enemy Act (50 U.S.C. App. 1 et seq.) (TWEA) with respect to North Korea."

      In short, nowhere in this document does it talk about martial law. What it does talk about are continuing economic sanctions against North Korea. Either you totally fail at reading comprehension or you are trying to create a situation that does not and will not exist. You are the absolutely worst kind of liar.
      • Zarokima, on 06/28/2008, -12/+7He declared a NATIONAL ***** EMERGENCY for some *****. Sure they got nukes, but when's the last time they threatened to use them? WE have nukes so I don't see why simple possession could possibly be construed as a threat. You do know all the extra powers the President has during a national emergency, right?
      • Hortnon, on 06/28/2008, -7/+14Well, not to mention reading the rest of the Order, which clearly defines the scope of the restrictions.

        People are idiots.
    • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -5/+22Should we go back and retroactively impeach all the other President's who have declared national emergencies?

      You are a complete idiot.

      There have been 32 declared National Emergencies since 1976. Better get the cops on that!

      Do you ***** your pants over EVERYTHING you don't understand?

      And the 19 people who Dugg him up: Get out of the basement, get a ***** clue, and quit ruining this country with you stupidity.
    • doctorfungi, on 06/29/2008, -2/+10I hope you study some History and Politics before you continue to make comments FrankHope. Same goes for everyone who dugg you up.
    • sgiffy, on 06/29/2008, -5/+2Well that's it then, 200 years of freedom done away with by a jester with an html proclamation.
      • WhiteRaven, on 06/29/2008, -2/+8Can't read, can you? This executive order spells out exactly what measures are to be taken and none of them resemble marshal law. Just because declaring a national emergency is a necessary step before imposing marshal law does NOT mean that any particular emergency will result in marshal law.

        You fail basic logic.
      • sgiffy, on 06/29/2008, -3/+1You fail both sarcasm and an appreciation of Simpson's quotes.
    • WhiteRaven, on 06/29/2008, -5/+9You morons. Yes, declaring a national emergency would be one necessary step before declaring martial law.

      BUT DECLARING A NATIONAL EMERGENCY DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE IS MARTIAL LAW.

      Just get a ***** clue. Nothing remotely resembling anything like martial law will result from this minor act.

      Will any of you despicable asses *apologize* when Bush's term ends in 2009 without any of this crap you keep blubbering about actually coming to pass? No, we are not going to invade Iran. No, the presidential election is not going to be canceled.. And no, there will not be marshal law.

      GROW UP!!! If you don't like Bush, please try to find *real issues* to object to.
    • FrankHope, on 06/29/2008, -3/+3So many clueless replies, so little time. I think Paul Craig Roberts pretty much sums it up in this talk show appearance in November 2007. If it takes a little hyperbole to get the point across, so be it. No we don't literally have Martial Law, what we have is the infrastructure for Martial Law. If we did have Martial Law then we wouldn't be able to go on Digg and say it. So it's better to issue a warning before the Police come bash down our doors at 4 AM. Don't you think?
      http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d4d_1195005274&p=1
      Paul Craig Roberts, a Republican who worked in the Reagan administration, is predicting a 9-11 type of attack before the 2008 elections. If that occurs, Bush can declare martial law and begin arresting those who disagree with his foreign policy (based on Executive Orders recently issued by the Bush Administration that grant the President these powers and more.)
      • shank2001, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1Better pull that tinfoil a bit tighter there Frank. How long have you been off your medication?
      • Becca4RonPaul, on 06/30/2008, -0/+2Frank, I agree with a lot of what you have to say. This does seem to be another calculated overreaction by the executive, accustoming the American public to heavy handed fiat statements of the expansion of government power needed for "our protection." However, I think this particular action was blown out of proportion, or at least needs a LOT of historical context and explanation for you to make the case that "we are now under martial law" and that this is clear from a reading of this order. There is plenty of cause for alarm concerning our liberties, but we need to be careful not to go off half-cocked at everything that may seem suspicious. We need to investigate things as carefully as possible and present them in an understandable and well-evidenced way.
    • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3frank you are delusional as *****. Here I will play into your game though.
      I hope the Honorable President G W Bush does declare martial law and that I get called back on to active military duty. That way I would be one of the ones who round up traitors and criminals like yourself frank.
    • thedogfatherx, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1This is Digg :

      IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

      All caps to. Like we can't ***** SEE IT!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!
  • Herkimer56, on 06/28/2008, -26/+36And how many troops are there patrolling the streets where you life, Frankie? I hope you realize just how ***** crazy you are.
    • 0Xonox0, on 06/28/2008, -13/+13I'm not sure if you understand how this all works. Bush has declared a national emergency, which, thanks to the laws congress has passed over the past few years, means he now hold dictatorial powers. It's not a military coup, and he doesn't necessarily have to use his powers right away. But as of June 26th Bush can withhold elections, suspend your civil rights, and essentially do whatever he wants. The question is, what is his next move?
      • Hortnon, on 06/28/2008, -8/+16I'm not sure if you understand how this all works.

        Usually, you read the entire Order before making snap judgements instead of just assuming that you'll be in Martial Law "any day".
      • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -10/+20Joining the other 15 national emergencies already on the books, for YEARS now.

        You are a ***** fool, and just more proof that fear mongers like you have ZERO understanding of how things actually work.

        Get a ***** clue, take a ***** government class, do SOMETHING other than piss your pants over ***** you don't understand.
      • inobla, on 06/29/2008, -6/+8"The question is, what is his next move?"

        I'm sure you guys will be disappointed in the coming months when you learn that his next big move was to serve out the remainder of his term before handing the reigns to either McCain or Obama.

        Does anybody else get the vibe that the majority of these conspiracy nuts actually want their prophecies of doom to come true?
      • shank2001, on 06/29/2008, -6/+6These sickos have taken over digg and the internet, and have no understanding of how the Gov. works. Their hatred of the government has driven them into a frenzy and they are coming out of the woodwork. If you hate the USA so much, LEAVE! And don't let the door hit you on the way out! Go live in Cuba or something, for all I care.


      • bronxelf, on 06/29/2008, -5/+6@inobla-
        "Does anybody else get the vibe that the majority of these conspiracy nuts actually want their prophecies of doom to come true?"

        Yep.
      • CrazedLeper, on 06/29/2008, -1/+2Americans are so damned stupid. 1 stupid person can doom 10 sensible and the sensible are outnumbered 500:1.
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -6/+3"thanks to the laws congress has passed over the past few years, means he now hold dictatorial powers." LOL LOL So stupid, so little time. The more you tards lie about Bush the more you reenforce that I made the right decision by voting for Bush twice.
        "But as of June 26th Bush can withhold elections, suspend your civil rights, and essentially do whatever he wants."
        Hmm why didn't Bush withhold elections in 06? That way the Republicans would still be in control of congress. and since when did you troofers and paulbots care about anyone else's civil rights? With the way you troofers and paulians talk about the our fellow Jewish countrymen you would be very happy starting another holocaust.
        Shame though that this is just delusional troofer rambling and not true otherwise maybe the traitors (troofers and paulbots) would be rounded up and imprisoned for treason.
    • CrazedLeper, on 06/29/2008, -3/+6Very short-sighted. You clearly don't play chess.
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -7/+2Chess no, I am too busy writing post grad cosmology papers. But I do see that you troofers and paulbots still have not gotten past playing with play dough and Legos.
      • 911ArtStudent, on 06/29/2008, -1/+3Cosmology? Cosmology is to any rigorous quantitative discipline what numerology is to mathematics.I knew you were a moron h8boy. I see I am not disappointed.
      • CrazedLeper, on 06/30/2008, -1/+2Ooh, cosmology papers. Sounds really smart--and yet you're not. Chances are the NWO will let you finish it --as their slave. Either that or you can enter one of those FEMA concentration camps with us "Troofers". Damned idiot.
  • obliviousfool, on 06/28/2008, -9/+14Great. "National Emergency" translates into all sorts of bad things in Addington-ese.
    • CrazedLeper, on 06/29/2008, -3/+3North Korea is clearly no threat to the USA. They have little money and no viable means of assaulting the mainland USA. This is a BS move to bury the declaration of "national emergency" so that it doesn't generate the revolt it should. It's all downhill from here.

      If Obama (somehow) gets elected in November, by December the Gov't would be declared obsolete. After that, it's North American Union, the Amero, chips in the hand and the return of the Final Solution for the undermenschen.

      Scoff all you want; I wish I were wrong or "crazy". Your unwillingness to believe it is the fuel for the machine that will overrun you.
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -3/+4Scoff, scoff, scoff. Besides the only ones calling for "final solutions" are you anti semantic paulbots, troofers and other assorted America hating paranoid lunatics.
        "North Korea is clearly no threat to the USA." A rouge, personality cult, dictator state with nuclear weapons is "not" a threat to the USA? Well I see you failed when it comes to national defense. 100 to 1 odds is that you are one of these liars that claim that Iraq had no WMDS or Iraq never attacked the US too right? You are a delusional tool but you are still as easy to read as a children s book.
        "by December the Gov't would be declared obsolete. After that, it's North American Union, the Amero"
        Thats funny you tinfoil hat wearers have been crying wolf about that for over a decade now. It is still amazing though how you idiots can confuse national soverignty with economic free trade.

        And you anti semantic paulbots, troofers and other assorted America hating paranoid lunatics wonder why we laugh at you.
  • 0Xonox0, on 06/28/2008, -4/+32Well, he's right about one thing, we've got a national emergency here, but its not because of North Korea.
    • Garlik, on 06/28/2008, -21/+3No, it's because of people like Obama and Ron Paul trying to become the president. McCain is the best candidate and will always be the best choice in my opinion. If Bush could run for a third term, I'd vote for him.
      • Zarokima, on 06/28/2008, -6/+13You are what's wrong with America.
      • sphira, on 06/28/2008, -4/+7and so many more like em -
        in this case blinded by the right -- as I used to be

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnwLgrSJZKs
      • Garlik, on 06/28/2008, -3/+10I think it might be too late to edit a "/sarcasm" at the end of my post
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -4/+1McCain is the best candidate for 2008. He is a honorable and decorated war hero. He knows how to keep on the offensive and how to keep America safe. He will not surrender to the jihadists like Obama and kooky uncle ronnie would on their first day. McCains only weak point is that he is weak on immigration.
        GWB would make a fantastic VP though. No Sarc tag because I mean what I say.
      • card51short, on 07/01/2008, -0/+3"GWB would make a fantastic VP though. No Sarc tag because I mean what I say."

        Just the fact that you know you have to admit you're not sarcastic is hilarious.
        You like Bush and McCain?
        You have more PTSD than I thought! Liberal commie!
  • HanFastolfe, on 06/28/2008, -8/+56It's stunning that so many of you have zero historical context. It's like history began for some of you on Jan 20th 2001, or something equally inane. I guess it's an indictment on the public school system. That's the only hope I can hold out for many. The professional outrage merchants, I know they have an agenda that's fine. But the rest of you? Seriously?

    There is nothing new, or particularity interesting about the current president declaring a national emergency, or any of the presidents for the last seventy some years for that matter. Just because it's Bush so many genuflect into "oh noes!!eleventy11!" mode. I realize that for many the learning curve is basically flat, but here's some supplemental information for your inner Francis to lighten up:

    "So the bottom line is that we'd better pay attention when a national emergency is declared, right?

    That's right, in fact pay attention fourteen times. There are currently fourteen (14) national emergencies in effect in the United States. Here they are, with their topics, listed chronologically in order of their last annual renewal (they seem perpetual):"

    Read the rest yourself:

    http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/bacon3.html

    I had to spend extra Google Fu to find a link that should be acceptable, so read the whole damn thing. Even thou my personal feeling is that the website (and author) are scum sucking bottom feeders, the take on the relevancy of this issue is essential correct.

    Wow, just wow... rarely do I consider people to be outright tards, but ignorant indignation should not be a vocation.
    • p0s3r, on 06/28/2008, -4/+11Ignorant indignation sums about just about 80% of the diggtard comments in any political article on this site.
    • chillfaktor, on 06/29/2008, -10/+1You're full of yourself
    • lonewolf88, on 07/01/2008, -0/+2Intelligence on the internet - its apocalyptic
    • sconnor, on 07/12/2008, -0/+1I will also refer you to the article in my fav's- State of Emergency(NSPD-51) Nat'l Security Presidential Directive 51.If you take the time to read it you'll realize the threat any "catastrophic emergency" under this directivegrants unprecedented executive powers!
  • sphira, on 06/28/2008, -18/+7emergence -- see

    Emergence of a NWO one world government that is -
    • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -2/+1why are you so stuck on a old wrestling group that is no longer even around? The NWO broke up back when I was a teenager.
  • Ockniel, on 06/28/2008, -29/+6can't any of you see that bush knows whats going on? He's doing whats best for us as americans and has been doing so since the start. If bush thinks that martial law is the way to go, then it is.

    Maybe if you'd all stop downloading movies and pirating music, you wouldn't be so worried.

    BUSH 4 LIFE!!
    • sylvok, on 06/28/2008, -4/+8Dont feed the Troll
    • RomanThommassen, on 06/28/2008, -5/+4lol, dugg for extreme sarcasm.
    • Ockniel, on 06/28/2008, -14/+1I'm serious!! Why can't you people see whats going on? Hes president because he knows best!! MCCAIN 08!!!!!
    • Ramenboy005, on 06/29/2008, -4/+0It is the will of lord XENU!!!
    • Seidoger, on 06/29/2008, -2/+2Hahaha user doesn't exist.
  • sylvok, on 06/28/2008, -17/+2Thats it were *****
    • shank2001, on 06/29/2008, -1/+4Better double up on the layers of tinfoil there buddy, or better yet, quadruple!
  • dunktim, on 06/28/2008, -15/+2January 2009 can't get here quick enough!
  • masterm1nd, on 06/28/2008, -5/+38http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boy_Who_Cried_Wol ... .
    • nblsavage, on 06/29/2008, -4/+4Well this is an historic occasion. I actually agree with you.
  • Hortnon, on 06/28/2008, -10/+47Sooo...

    None of you actually read it, did you?
  • pjpark, on 06/28/2008, -11/+9I Dugg this submission because I think the submitter is having some fun with people who Digg headlines like this and comment on them without actually reading the target article. If he is, then this is absolutely brilliant. Naturally, I also Dugg the Declaration of Independence -- and so should you.
    • coolcrowe, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6Sadly, that's not the case. This person's serious.
  • madfrogurt, on 06/28/2008, -10/+28Do any of you conspiracy nuts get tired of constantly being wrong about the US declaring war on Iran or North Korea, or the monthly "we're in a state of martial law/ police state/ dictatorship" proclamations?

    Do us all a favor and save up your conspiracy rants for a couple months then make an outrageous statement. Why not claim we're in store for an October surprise that we've been hearing about every year.

    I know this is digg and so the background noise about how we're all doomed is pretty high, but this article is pretty lame even for a doomsday warning.
    • WhiteRaven, on 06/29/2008, -3/+9What will these people do when inauguration day rolls around, a new president takes office and none of their paranoid delusions come to pass?

      Will they apologize for the venom and lies they have spewed?

      Of course not.
      • willfe, on 06/29/2008, -5/+2Conversely, if these supposed loons happen to be correct, will we be seeing an apology from *you* for berating and insulting people with different political ideas than you?

        Should be interesting :)
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -4/+4No they will just say they never said it and claim that us showing us this is a conspiracy out to get them. Troofers and paulbots are ***** worthless *****.
  • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -9/+28I'd like to thank the 86 idiots who Dugg up this story, without actually reading the entire order, or having ANY understanding of history, orders already in place, etc.

    I can put you all on "ignore these ***** morons" right now!
    • pjpark, on 06/28/2008, -1/+10Hey, I read the article AND Dugg this because I think some of these comments are really funny. This is the most fun I've had all day.
      • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -5/+11Yeah, I saw your comment, and left you off the list ;-)

        It would be funny, if it wasn't such an obvious reminder of how stupid the prisonplanet crowd is.

        I WAS tempted to stoke the fires, just to see the freakouts, but it isn't fair to take advantage of the retarded...
    • sphira, on 06/28/2008, -9/+6If you are going to rely so heavily on insults and so little on substance, don't you think you ought to be better at it?

      "I WAS tempted to stoke the fires, just to see the freakouts, but it isn't fair to take advantage of the retarded.."

      Only a troglodyte imbecile thinks himself as wise as you think yourself!
      • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -5/+13Says the guy who Dugg this article, claiming martial law is about to happen, with ZERO understanding of the National Emergencies Act.

        Funny, no martial law in 30 years!

        Welcome to my blocked list, moron.
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -3/+3LOL says the guy wearing a tin foil suit living in his parents basement putting up foil in the rafters.

        Well I hope you are right so I get called back to active military duty so I can march you to the FEMA camp where your kind (the retarded) belong.
    • contemplator, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1@ssn
      You can. But you won't. It defeats your purpose. You would have nothing to do if you weren't calling down people with a different world view than your own.
  • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -7/+26This thread is FULL of people screaming the sky is falling, without ever even having read the National Emergencies Act.

    Yeah, you guys are the informed ones. There isn't a face palm big enough to cover you idiots.
    • DickyT83, on 06/29/2008, -2/+4O rly?

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      • KyleGoetz, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5Not big enough for this article making the front page. :(
    • DefaultGen, on 06/29/2008, -0/+7http://www.dvgfx.dejavugfx.com/img/image/570.jpeg
  • elhaf, on 06/28/2008, -1/+23Sec. 7. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person.

    Oh noes!
    • p0s3r, on 06/28/2008, -2/+13Stop ruining their Chicken Little moment.
    • KyleGoetz, on 06/29/2008, -3/+1That clause basically just says that the National Emergencies Act doesn't in and of itself give anyone the ability to sue the federal government or any part of the federal government. It's boilerplate language when the government passes new legislation--that same phrase exists in hundreds of laws in the US Code.
  • Carv, on 06/28/2008, -7/+21OMG! Martial law! Globalist CFR conspiracy! New world order!

    *sigh* /facepalm
    • nblsavage, on 06/29/2008, -2/+9You didn't quite cover all the bases there. You probably should have blamed the jews for something and pushed Ron Paul on us.
  • nittanylion06, on 06/28/2008, -1/+18Wow.... way to never actually make it to the operative clauses.
  • onetimer, on 06/28/2008, -8/+17Haha yet another article that caused the troofers and survivalists to ***** their pants because they didn't actually *read* it...
    • ssn697, on 06/28/2008, -7/+11And probably sent shouts out to their friends list, warning them to "Stock up! Martial law is coming!!!!"

      It would be funny, if their gullibility wasn't such a cash target for AJ and his ilk. The rest of us have to suffer their witless tirades...
    • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -6/+4troofer/ ron paul supporter/ survivalist/ militia supporter/ patriot movement member/ anti semite/ traitor/ ASVAB failure/ military hater/ jihadist supporter/ white nationalist/ racist/ stormfront member/ skinhead/ nutjob/ Paranoid Schizophrenia/= ALL ARE THE EXACT SAME THING. EACH ONE GOES HAND IN HAND. YOU CANNOT BE ONE WITH BEING ALL OF THEM.
      Time after time and separate personality after personality has shown this to be true.
  • sphira, on 06/28/2008, -8/+4moron

    Yep not improving at all --

    As I said -- wise you think yourself oh great termagant, and I'll add: mean to the rotten core -

    • Conspiracy20, on 06/28/2008, -7/+4:) simple, very nice
      • sphira, on 06/29/2008, -6/+2thanks -- and sadly true
        I really have nothing against the guy
        I wish the he would get to understand it - But hateful like that is uncool
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -3/+5conspiracy20 reported for using multiple accounts
      • 911ArtStudent, on 06/29/2008, -4/+3h8boy reported for suffering from Tourettes' syndrome
    • falese, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3dork.
  • chubbybubba, on 06/28/2008, -7/+7Some of you guys need to smoke some weed and chill.
    • zebco, on 06/29/2008, -5/+10Some of you need to ***** lay off the weed and do much less chilling.
      • 3amboo, on 06/29/2008, -3/+2Some of you need to ***** stop telling people to ***** lay off the weed and do much less chilling.
      • falese, on 06/29/2008, -2/+1weed?
    • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -3/+4how about getting a job and lay off the drugs. That may be a reason you fall for such stupid conspiracies.
      Besides "weed" is a controlled substance and illegal. I truly hope you get busted with it and get stuck in the criminal justice system.
  • l0k0, on 06/29/2008, -1/+13National Emergency = Martial Law!
    The U.S. has declared a national emergency 32 times between 1976-2001. Usually to restrict trade, kind of like what's happening now between the U.S. and North Korea.
    • bjornski, on 06/29/2008, -5/+1So?

      Stuff will just go through Dubai. It's how stuff makes it to Iran now.

      What I love most is that it took place after North Korea started dismantling their stuff, and not in the time leading up to that action.

      Working on nukes = no emergency
      Dismantling and allowing inspectors = declare emergency!
      • shank2001, on 06/29/2008, -1/+1Were you asleep the entire time N. Korea was working on nukes and what the US and other countries were doing about it? WOW... just WOW. The USA has been pretty darn clear on this issue.

  • DaDrake, on 06/29/2008, -2/+13That's odd .... no troops in my city. George W Bush in a big dark office with tons of minions plotting world domination must have missed it ::laugh::

  • scotishstriker, on 06/29/2008, -4/+5packs of stray dogs controlling the major cities
  • jester55, on 06/29/2008, -0/+14this just talks about North Korea. I don't see how this enacts martial law.
  • sgiffy, on 06/29/2008, -1/+11This is a much a sign of marital law as the fact that every time it rains really hard a state of emergency is declared.
  • chrgrose, on 06/29/2008, -0/+11This is retarded. Burried.
  • satost, on 06/29/2008, -1/+12Martial law USA style is pretty sweet. *cracks open beer" . I wouldn't have been able to tell anything was any different if I hadnot opened this thread
    • falese, on 06/29/2008, -5/+2dork.
      i bet your beer is a michelob ultra
      • bjornski, on 06/29/2008, -3/+1I dunno. He seems like a "good ol' boy".

        I'm leaning toward Budweiser.
    • bjornski, on 06/29/2008, -6/+1That's the way it works best.

      Keep 'em drunk, dumb and watching TV. They'll never notice.
      • ssn697, on 06/29/2008, -1/+6what is your excuse for buying into this stupid *****? prescription meds?

        Talk about stupid. You DUGG this up!
      • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -1/+2Can't be meds, I take a lot of meds for pain and I know this is nothing more than troofer paranoia. This falls along the same lines of "US getting ready to put citizens in FEMA death camps (even though we have no proof)"
        The only thing that can make someone believe this ***** story is a unmeasurable hatred for the United States and mental illness including paranoia.
        Care to bet that the fools that buy into this story also believe 911 was a inside job and we never landed on the moon?
    • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -2/+2yea now that I look at it that way martial law is pretty nice. I FULLY SUPPORT THIS TYPE OF MARTIAL LAW. With this kind of martial law I think it is time for us to open up those FEMA "happy" camps and round up the troofers and paulbots for a barbq
  • internetass, on 06/29/2008, -2/+6dugg after reading comments because this is funny
  • leejarratt, on 06/29/2008, -1/+6Oh, I thought it read 'Martian Law', I was excited to read how we are all being ruled over by Martians. Guess not -_-
  • dchaosdx, on 06/29/2008, -4/+1rtfa otero1
  • silentjay85, on 06/29/2008, -3/+4Bury this crap.
  • DickyT83, on 06/29/2008, -6/+2Man, just imagine what's going through Bush's mind as he tries to read and comprehend material such as this. He's gotta be signing this stuff blindly.
    • KyleGoetz, on 06/29/2008, -4/+1Well, he does have an Attorney General for the specific purpose of explaining the law to him.
  • lopla, on 06/29/2008, -12/+3I told you idots days ago that THIS IS ALL PLANNED. The main event will be the planned economic collapse of the USA at which point civil unrest will lead to martial law and the collapse of the government. Sorry Obama, not this time. Luckily I live overseas but I wish I could be there to see the look on everyones face. I suppose it will not matter though, as the troops take control Americans will be too busy watching the latest reality tv episode.
    • falese, on 06/29/2008, -4/+1your a scumbag. i hope a turrurist eats your liver.
    • KyleGoetz, on 06/29/2008, -4/+27/10
    • bjornski, on 06/29/2008, -4/+1Yes, it's coming.

      But this isn't it.
    • ssn697, on 06/29/2008, -0/+5LOL. Please STAY overseas. Tell us all how the other 32 National Emergency declarations since 1976 caused martial law. Oh yeah, you are full of *****, and clueless to boot, to go with your paranoia.

      Bad combination: stupid, clueless, and paranoid. Alex Jones wants you to subscribe!
    • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -1/+3I see you live overseas. fantastyland perhaps.
      Boy you are a ***** nutjob.
  • nemo001, on 06/29/2008, -1/+8Buried as inaccurate. Too bizarre for digg. Go try reddit.
  • 3amboo, on 06/29/2008, -4/+3i'm too sleepy to actually read everything to confirm if its true... i'll just wait until yahoo puts up a news flash ticker across their homepage that says "BREAKING NEWS: U.S. now under Martial Law" in the color red.
  • MajorMauser, on 06/29/2008, -5/+1I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that the current existence and risk of the proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material on the Korean Peninsula constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.

    FISSILE MATERIAL!!!!?? MORONS!
    • pitlord, on 06/29/2008, -0/+1fissile |ˈfisəl; ˈfisˌīl|
      adjective
      (of an atom or element) able to undergo nuclear fission : a fissile isotope.
      • (chiefly of rock) easily split : flat-bedded and very highly fissile shale.
      >.>
      Who is a moron?

  • coolcrowe, on 06/29/2008, -0/+10Hey, let's bury this *****.
  • SOTD666, on 06/29/2008, -1/+6Anyone who is not from a communist country, or a former communist country (myself), has no clue of what martial law even means, what it means to have your freedom curtailed by the state... Hollywood is not how the world works people.

    Second, you have to be really ***** nuts to think that martial law would be backdoored like that in America. As horrible as the current goverment is, and as stupid as the general American population is things just would not fly that way or else we would have been bent over to take it up the ass years ago.

    That being sad I am actually happy with the order, if only in part. NK needs to be dealt with and its good to see that at least something is being done, little as it is. If military action is required anywhere its in NK because that's where you go to see all the wrong things there are with government.
    • shank2001, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3You probably think the American population is stupid because of EXACTLY these kinds of loons. I will let you in on a secret.... the American population is anything but stupid, and YOU should have figured that out by now. But I dugg you up, because at least your heart is in the right place. Most people in the USA have no idea what living under a truly oppressive government is like. Americans who complain about the US gov. are like those 7 year old kids who complain that "Mommy and Daddy won't let me stay up past 11PM watching TV" type of kids. Spoiled brats who don't know how good they have it.

  • AngryChris, on 06/29/2008, -0/+8Buried as wildly inaccurate (and just plain stupid).
  • ssn697, on 06/29/2008, -2/+7This story is over 200 Diggs? There are that many idiots on Digg?

    For anyone who actually CARES, there is a list of the 32 National Emergencies declared between 1976 and 2001 here:

    http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/6216.p ...

    I realize Digg is a den of dufus-ness, and people will Digg up just about anything (if it has a sensationalist headline) but ***** PEOPLE, get a ***** clue!
    • CoolHandLuke70, on 06/29/2008, -6/+2There can be a number of reasons why people digg or bury. So, why don't you just piss off jackass!
      • ssn697, on 06/29/2008, -2/+6Digging up a completely ***** story? That is for idiots, period.

        Ah, I SEE! YOU Dugg this story up! So, what is your excuse for helping pass on false information, and having no understanding of how the National Emergencies Act works, or has been implemented for the last 32 years?

        Excuses are like assholes. Oh, and you are an *****. An idiot ***** to boot! Didn't you check with Ron Paul before buying into this garbage?
    • CoolHandLuke70, on 06/29/2008, -4/+2Wow, what a sad sack of ***** you are!
  • TheHomeOffice, on 08/08/2008, -1/+7Buried as wildly inaccurate (and just plain stupid).

    And it looks like we decent people here on digg have gotten our way and now it is labeled as inaccurate by digg.
    Nice try troofers but your time for gaming digg is over.
  • pitlord, on 06/29/2008, -0/+3This is what I hate about digg. Ridiculous stories getting gamed to the front page by cheaters and hackers using sock puppet accounts run by diggbots and burybots to promote the stories of their own and any "friends" they have with enough money.
    >.>
  • ianydirt, on 06/30/2008, -1/+0sigh. I certainly wouldn't put it past the Bush Administration to pass marshal law, but this particular executive order isn't really declaring marshal law. Just go through and read how many times it mentions North Korea. I don't know if this is opening up a door for marshal law, it could be, but it hasn't actually been done yet. By the way, props to whoever posted this without reading it first...........
  • lonewolf88, on 07/01/2008, -0/+1way to go people: don't bother actually reading the law passed which has nothing to do with martial law. Title for this page should read: Embargo causes massive sighting of zealots.
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