A bit of history

1932. The Bonus Army:



You probably never heard of this - American citizens attacked by the US Army.

It could happen again.

Disturbing development

Close to home....

U.S. Army Conducts Military Occupation Drill in Small Town Wisconsin

Operation Tiger emulates military control of local, elected officials.

Kit Daniels
Prison Planet.com
August 13, 2013

A U.S. Army Civil Affairs and Psychological Operations (CA & PSYOP) Command battalion recently practiced joint control of a small town with local authorities in a “realistic training exercise.”

Beloit recently received some sort of APC. Friends have seen it driving around town.

There is no legitimate reason for a police department in America to have battlefield equipment - or a SWAT team, for that matter. The Second Amendment says less about arming the police than about duck hunting.

More on Osama's power grab

Supposedly, this is just clarification of existing governmental powers, but...



Long, but interesting.

Osama declares martial law?

Some people are thinking so. This just released on Friday, with no MSM reporting:

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release

March 16, 2012

Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness

EXECUTIVE ORDER

NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended (50 U.S.C. App. 2061 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Entire text below the fold.

It seems to me that this gives Osama and his successors the power to do anything with anything, any time he feels like it, as ling as he can declare some sort of "emergency". 

There's no need for martial law, if the government owns everything and commands everyone all the time.