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[B <beeline AT mindspring.com>]

thomas wrote:

>Holy fuck.  Why not just declare martial law and be upfront about it?

Wouldn't that mean that, sooner or later, they'd have to declare the end of 
martial law?

(... Hum. Now that I've written that, I vaguely remember hearing some time 
ago that our government is operating under some old war act law, or martial 
powers rule, or a national emergency, or something along those lines that 
they've neglected to end officially; so now, a bunch of regulatory stuff 
would be null and void if the status quo were altered...? Maybe it was from 
an alternate universe.... Or, I find, I'm probably thinking of the State of 
Emergency declared March 9, 1933, but never ended, 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency ....)

~B

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