Last October, President Bush tucked into the defense budget bill a provision called the “Defense Authorization Act.” The provision weakens two very old and very vital restrictions on presidential power. It overrides “posse comitatus,” the post-Civil War doctrine that bans the military from engaging in law enforcement. Under the new provisions, notes the New York Times, “the president may now use military troops as a domestic police force in response to a natural disaster, a disease outbreak, terrorist attack or to any ‘other condition.’”

That, my friends, is called a military dictatorship. Read the entire story at http://www.theadvocates.org/liberator/vol-12-num-9.html (scroll 1/4 down to the “Good News, Bad News, Unbelievable News” section written by James Harris.)

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