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...The proposed legislation is incredibly disturbing since there is already an apparatus in place to setup nationwide martial law...
...After everything Congress has put the people through these past eight years, it's unlikely that the bill is meant to help people...
...It's time for the ruling by fear to stop and the ruling by law to begin...including politicians who violate it, not just the rest of us.
Section 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), that never became law, says “Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies,” gives the executive the power to invoke martial law, meaning that for the first time in over a century, the president could authorize the use of the military in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other condition deemed necessary by the President in a situation where its determined that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order