Well… that’s that.
R.I.P.
U.S.A.
September 13, 1787 - July 9, 2008
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I thought that when martial law came upon us, we’d know it. Silly me. I figured there’d be tanks in the streets and full-auto weapons on every corner. Silly me.
Instead the suspension of the Constitution comes in the guise of secret memos:
… our Office recently concluded that the Fourth Amendment had no application to domestic military operations. See Memorandum for Alberto R. Gonzales, Counsel to the President, and William J. Haynes, II, General Counsel, Department of Defense, from John C. Yoo, Deputy Assistant Attorney General and Robert J. Delahunty, Special Counsel, Re: Authority for Use of Military Force to Combat Terrorist Activities Within the United States at 25 (Oct 23, 2001)
Since the Executive has been operating in a manner “justified” by this memo, we must assume that they are indeed performing domestic military operations and have therefore suspended the Constitution.
I’m rather disappointed really, the whole thing was pretty anti-climactic.