US residents in military brigs? Govt says it's war! (Constitution is dead)

[MikeWB]

By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
1 hour, 38 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - If his cell were at Guantanamo Bay, the prisoner would be just one of hundreds of suspected terrorists detained offshore, where the U.S. says the Constitution does not apply.

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But Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri is a U.S. resident being held in a South Carolina military brig; he is the only enemy combatant held on U.S. soil. That makes his case very different.

Al-Marri's capture six years ago might be the Bush administration's biggest domestic counterterrorism success story. Authorities say he was an al-Qaida sleeper agent living in middle America, researching poisonous gasses and plotting a cyberattack.

To justify holding him, the government claimed a broad interpretation of the president's wartime powers, one that goes beyond warrantless wiretapping or monitoring banking transactions. Government lawyers told federal judges that the president can send the military into any U.S. neighborhood, capture a citizen and hold him in prison without charge, indefinitely.

There is little middle ground between the two sides in al-Marri's case, which is before a federal appeals court in Virginia. The government says the president needs this power to keep the nation safe. Al-Marri's lawyers say that as long as the president can detain anyone he wants, nobody is safe.

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A Qatari national, al-Marri came to the U.S. with his wife and five children on Sept. 10, 2001

[LatinAmericanview]

Bill Cooper said during his 911 broadcast that the US was under Martial Law on 9/11. Article is really talking about something that happened 6 years ago and only now the legality of that action is about to be scrutinized. I think that the US has been under martial since 911. Clearly the constitution has been on hiatus.

[joeblow]

As a former patriotard, I can tell you that the U(<-should be lowercase)nited States of America has been under Martial Law since Roosevelt (Crypto-Jew, HHQ I mean no way to be devaisive, it's the truth).

http://www.outpost-of-freedom.com/opf940524.htm

Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now four presidentially proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 6, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971.


http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/ma ... iallaw.htm

We're already living under an infrastructure of martial law and have been since 1933, all that remains for it to be fully implemented is a big enough natural disaster, mass terror attack or other catastrophe that will cause the necessary carnage and panic that affords the federal government enough leeway to implement open dictatorship with the least possible resistance.