This is a short post, a heads-up really. Over at Rawstory at this very precise instant is a headline about how the clergy would be used to help calm the populace if/when martial law is declared.
I have one immediate thought if you wish to move below the fold...
WTF!?
Homeland Security (GOD I hate that name!) is enlisting clergy to help quell civil unrest in the event that martial law is declared?! The article makes the comparison to post-Katrina where we saw troops marching the streets, confiscating guns (that will certainly catch the eyes of the NRA), etc. There, of course, was also the ever so valiant Black Water mercs there as well.
So, we have Chertoff's indigestion signaling something amiss vis a vis terra-ist attacks in the USA soon. We have scare tactics used (AGAIN!) to push the Congress to totally destroy our 4th and 5th Amendment rights last month. We have already tossed Habeas out the window with no return in sight. We are soon to have our own military spy satellites pointed AT US. And here is a nice release from Der Fatherland Security...err...Homeland Security about martial law and how they will enlist clergy, Mussolini-style, to help quell unrest due to the elimination of every other Constitutional right we had.
The article takes a somewhat non-sequitor, or at least, clumsy jump to Charles Heston and his "cold dead fingers" NRA speech and then discusses the confiscation of guns...
I am not one to generally side with the NRA on much. They are simply a little too creepily in deep personal lust with their weapons, but I have to claim solidarity with that Heston speech. I own weapons but I am not in lust with them...mine is a purely warm platonic relationship. That said, confiscate MY guns? THIS government?! Not a friggin chance do I give up my weapons to this junta. How many more rights do we actually have to lose now? We haven't had a true 1st Amendment since "watch what you say" came out...or "Free Speech Zones"...and then there's this.
So, how does general martial law discussions from Chertoff and friends make you all feel? Cozy and secure in Constitutional Right heaven?