I wouldn't think that would stand.  Regardless of how it sometimes seems, we do not live in a 3rd rate Bannana Republic, and people do NOT have to answer to him.  He would need to build a strong and loyal force of well-armed men to enforce his will, and frankly I think he's been so busy sending them off to be slaughtered in Iraq that their loyalty to him is hanging by the thread of their oath and damn little else.

If he were not bound by the 2 term limit, I'd say we could expect an election-rigging in 2008, but the Republicans themselves were so outraged that a liberal would take office and impede their rollback of the New Deal for almost 16 years straight that they may have cut off their own noses to spite their face in amending the constitution to limit Presidential terms.

In America, there is no such thing as martial law.

Show me a man trying to enforce martial law in America, and I will show you a foreign invader or a traitor to the Republic.

prohibits US soldiers from excersizing any police powers, martial law or no.

Otherwise the US would be a police state.

Is Cheney  telling us something?

was NOT declared. I wish people would stop saying this.

We talked about this in my law school class the other day. Our professor talked about how there was a press conference with everybody, and they were very careful NOT to declare martial law.

So the dude should not have been detained. Full stop.