{"id":3465,"date":"2007-04-24T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-24T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/congress-rubberstamps-martial-law\/"},"modified":"2007-04-24T08:57:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-24T15:57:58","slug":"congress-rubberstamps-martial-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/24\/congress-rubberstamps-martial-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Rubberstamps Martial Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress amended the Insurrection Act last September to make it far easier for the president to declare martial law.   I go into the cheery details in a piece in the April 23 issue of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amconmag.com\/2007\/2007_04_23\/article4.html\">American Conservative<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><em>How many pipe bombs might it take to end American democracy? Far fewer than it would have taken a year ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Defense Authorization Act of 2006, passed on Sept. 30, empowers President George W. Bush to impose martial law in the event of a terrorist \u00e2\u20ac\u0153incident,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d if he or other federal officials perceive a shortfall of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153public order,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d or even in response to antiwar protests that get unruly as a result of government provocations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The full text of the piece is posted at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/23\/the-martial-law-act-of-2007\/\">my blog here<\/a><\/strong>, where comments &#038; caterwaulings are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress amended the Insurrection Act last September to make it far easier for the president to declare martial law. I go into the cheery details in a piece in the April 23 issue of the American Conservative: How many pipe bombs might it take to end American democracy? Far fewer than it would have taken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3465"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}