Congressman Admits They Were Threatened with Martial Law for a "No" Vote on Bailout Plan

Rep. Brad Sherman (D) from California illustrates how members of Congress were threatened with Martial Law for not voting for HR 3997, better known as the "Bailout Bill".



George Washington's Blog has a good post on how threatening martial law is no different than having it.

Former Congressman Warns of Martial Law In America

Former Congressman Dan Hamburg co-authored this article recently in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Here are a few excerpts.

Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law, arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of "an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs."

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States. The government has also contracted with several companies to build thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly to transport detainees.

According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal the removal of "all removable aliens" and "potential terrorists."

Is Blackwater training the Chicago Police?

According to rense.com and the Wayne Madsen Report, Blackwater has been involved in training many of our cities police departments, or at least some members of the departments. I tell ya it wouldn't surprise me. The police state seems ever more present in the city nowadays, especially at marches and protests in the loop. I'm waiting for the lockdown on the Farmers Market in Federal Plaza any day now.

Here is an interesting excerpt from the piece:

A number of the police departments that have been trained by Blackwater have abysmal civil rights and police brutality records, most notably the Chicago Police and Illinois State Police, both cited by former Illinois Governor George Ryan as being guilty of police misconduct in his decision to commute the death sentences of Illinois' death row inmates. It was a decision that likely had much to do with his indictment by the Bush administration on corruption charges -- political misuse of the Department of Justice that has been seen in the indictments and investigations of Alabama former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman and HealthSouth former CEO Richard Scrushy, Qwest's former CEO Joseph Nacchio, Democratic campaign contributor Martha Stewart, Coastal Corporation's former Chairman and Democratic contributor Oscar Wyatt, and Democratic-leaning trial attorneys around the United States, as well as the firings of several U.S. Attorneys who refused to engage in political prosecutions, and a Justice Department workup on North Carolina presidential candidate John Edwards in 2004.