KABC just showed the CHP mutual aid team forcibly remove a lady that said she didnt want to leave her house in New Orleans. They also confiscated her revolver.
Arent those officers sworn to uphold the constitution? And are they operating under LA. Governor Blanco's authority?
So, in the State of California, they are not allowed to force someone out of their homes as a brush fire approaches, but in another state under someone;s authority, are allowed to forcibly evict someone from their private house without an arrest warrant and confiscate their firearm under Mayor Nagin's unconstitutional order.
Let's pray it stays this way and a HORRIBLE precedent hasn't been set today...
Dang, THAT was a stupid thing to say. We HAVE turned a corner today..
Has that incompetent governor declared martial law yet?
Martial Law:
This article is about the governmental concept. For the television show, see Martial Law (TV).
Martial Law is the system of rules that takes effect (usually after a formal declaration) when a military authority takes control of the normal administration of justice.
Martial law is instituted most often when it becomes necessary to favor the activity of military authorities and organizations, usually for urgent unforeseen needs, and when the normal institutions of justice either cannot function or could be deemed too slow or too weak for the new situation; e.g., due to war, major natural disaster, civil disorder, in occupied territory, or after a coup d'état. The need to preserve the public order during an emergency is the essential goal of martial law. However, declaration of martial law is also sometimes used by dictatorships, especially military dictatorships, to enforce their rule.
Usually martial law reduces some of the personal rights ordinarily granted to the citizen, limits the length of the trial processes, and prescribes more severe penalties than ordinary law. In many countries martial law prescribes the death penalty for certain crimes, even if ordinary law doesn't contain that crime or punishment in its system.
In many countries martial law imposes particular rules, one of which is curfew. Often, under this system, the administration of justice is left to military tribunals, called courts-martial. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is likely to occur.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martial_law
I don't know Karl. Every day that passes, this event seems to take weird twists and turns. Had a friend tell me they were intentionally distributing the people all over the entire country just to disperse them, or fragment them just to keep the noise down. I'll be dead and damned before I'd let someone forcibly move me out of my state. Not today, not ever.