Karen
02-10-2006, 10:02 AM
...Within the ruling elite, any commitment to the core democratic principle of military subordination to civilian authority has vastly eroded....
...Most ominously, the Bush administration has floated plans to lift existing restrictions on the use of the military for domestic police functions. These were laid down in a 124-year-old statute known as the Posse Comatitus Act, passed at the end of the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. If Bush succeeds in this effort—and there is little reason to believe that the Democrats in Congress will seriously oppose it—forces such as the Green Berets could be sent into action on US soil...
The American people are not immune to the worldwide eruption of US militarism. Torture, death squads and “disappearances” that so many peoples have suffered at the hands of US backed dictatorships can, indeed, happen here.
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/brag-a02.shtml
Mass murderers, invaders, thieves. Will they attempt to silence critics? u bet. I hope you will all read this one.
...Most ominously, the Bush administration has floated plans to lift existing restrictions on the use of the military for domestic police functions. These were laid down in a 124-year-old statute known as the Posse Comatitus Act, passed at the end of the Reconstruction period that followed the Civil War. If Bush succeeds in this effort—and there is little reason to believe that the Democrats in Congress will seriously oppose it—forces such as the Green Berets could be sent into action on US soil...
The American people are not immune to the worldwide eruption of US militarism. Torture, death squads and “disappearances” that so many peoples have suffered at the hands of US backed dictatorships can, indeed, happen here.
https://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/aug2002/brag-a02.shtml
Mass murderers, invaders, thieves. Will they attempt to silence critics? u bet. I hope you will all read this one.