Actually, we may be at peace now, but with Iran going to be bombed using our stealth bombers and N Korea sending off another missile and the white house sounding mad about it, plus all the stuff in Syria and our boots in Somalia, I can imagine the authors are getting excited about marshall law and finally making the nation fascist.
Back in Sept. 2011 0bama extended the National Emergency Act 2001 for another year. To expire 9/24/2012...