We are one major crises away from martial law and the end of the Bill of Rights.
John Whitehead in this article makes it clear that the groundwork has already been laid for martial law. It should be rather obvious that our government has used each crises and disaster as a means to gain more federal control. The local Police forces are now arms of the Department of Homeland Security and the swat teams are all trained to be its 21st century storm troupers.
The Department of Homeland Security now runs the police forces of this nation and is under total controlled of the President. One word from the President and all police forces in the nation will be nationalized and follow Homeland’s commands. This nation had laws against a national police force and federal armed force’s military actions against our own people for the very reason that any national police force takes away local sovereignty rights. It puts all national power under one man who could become tyrannical and take away our rights. Nevertheless, government used some recent attacks and disasters to form a national police anyway, all in the name of national security.
It is true that we gained some short term security from terrorists but at what cost? The cost will be losing our own freedoms after the next national crises when they use the next crises as an excuse to take our constitutional freedoms away.
Within the next few years you will certainly see martial law declared and once it is enacted I do not see how we will ever get our freedoms back short of a revolution. Americans voted in people willing to give up our freedoms for security and now they will find out that the greater threat to our security is the people they elected and trusted in government.
Once government has police powers they will not give them up after the immediate crises is past. They will just expand those powers to enforce every law and decree of government. Once you have a police state only “our Dear Leader” will police the police just like in North Korea. You can then throw the whole Bill of Rights out the window.
When the people allowed the removing of the safeguards set up to prevent the rise of government tyranny what else should they expect but the eventual rise of tyranny?
The history of the world is full of examples of peoples oppressed by tyrannical governments because the people put their total trust in the ideas or the power of some man instead of trusting in God. America has now put itself on the path to that same folly. The world is doomed to repeat its mistakes because so many are like Esau, are willing to sell out their whole future for a bowl of red stew today.
The Rutherford Institute – Commentary
During his two terms in office, George W. Bush stepped outside the boundaries of the Constitution and assembled an amazing toolbox of powers that greatly increased the authority of the Executive branch and the reach of the federal government.
Bush expanded presidential power to, among other things, allow government agents to secretly open the private mail of American citizens; authorize government agents to secretly, and illegally, listen in on the phone calls of American citizens and read our e-mails; assume control of the federal government following a “catastrophic event”; and declare martial law.
Just consider some of the lines that have already been crossed.
The local police have, in many regards, already evolved into de facto extensions of the military. Dressed like Darth Vader look-alikes, the police have opted for the SWAT-team dress formally adopted by the federal agencies. Congressional legislation allows the U.S. military, by way of the Pentagon, to train civilian police. The Pentagon has also provided local police with military equipment such as M-16 rifles, bayonets, boats, vehicles, surveillance equipment, chemical suits and flak jackets, among other items. Thus, they are armed to the teeth.
According to the Army Times, we now have at least 20,000 U.S. military troops deployed within our borders to “help with civil unrest and crowd control or to deal with potentially horrific scenarios such as massive poisoning and chaos in response to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive, or CBRNE, attack.” I am not alone in believing that we are just one incident–be it a terrorist attack, a major financial blowout or a widespread natural disaster–away from martial law being declared in this country. And once that happens, the Constitution and Bill of Rights will be suspended and what government officials believe and do, no matter how arbitrary, will become law
For those who have been paying attention, such as former war correspondent Chris Hedges in his Truthdig article, “Bad News From America’s Top Spy,” it’s clear that the groundwork for a seamless transition into martial law under a totalitarian state of government has been laid. And local law enforcement, which has already been serving as a de facto military force, will be the key to maintaining martial law under a police state. Given the interconnectedness of our federal, state and local agencies, you can be sure that all of this will happen quickly.
All that is needed is another threat to national security–a so-called “catastrophic event.”
What does all this mean for you and me, the average citizen? When and if martial law is declared, freedom, as we have known it, will be obsolete.
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Don Koenig founded www.thepropheticyears.com website in 1999 after almost thirty years of independent study on the Bible and learning from many astute teachers within Christendom. Don created his website to write about Bible prophecy, biblical discernment and his Christian worldviews. Don wrote a free Revelation commentary ebook in 2004 named "The Revelation of Jesus Christ Through The Ages". The World and Church and Bible Prophecy section of this website was started in 2007. 
When George Bush first said Christians, Muslims etc. were praying to the same God, I knew this wasn’t who we all thought we elected. At the end of his term he said he accepted evolution. In between came much of the events, decisions, etc. that have taken us to this perilous time.
It’s easy to be mad at Obama. Look at how much was set up in the previous administration.
Speaking of martial law…I know I probably sound like a conspiracy theorist, haha, but I noticed here in PA we have new detour signs everywhere…Red, Blue, Orange, etc. These are small signs and the PENNDOT website says very little about the purpose of these signs. I would think if this was something we should be using for emergencies, we would be made fully aware of their purpose. When I searched the net, I read rumours that they might be used in the event of martial law, natural disaster, or any other potential crisis (of which there are many). Are they anywhere else in the country? The only legitimate explanation I found was because of the 78 snow disaster last year, but again, if they were for that reason, you would think our transportation department would inform us of their specific purpose. Just curious…
Here in the UK people are voicing many of the same concerns. We have more closed circuit television cameras per person than almost anywhere in the world, so we can be watched and traced in a lot of what we do. That is in addition to tracing people via phones, credit card payments, computer records and other things. We do not allow the police to carry such dangerous weapons or anything like that, but surveillance is probably more extreme here than in the US.
We have also had a more left wing government than America for a long time and people do not feel oppressed. Freedom of speech is allowed, as is freedom to work and freedom to live your life however you want (including some who waste their lives, some who follow one religion or another, those who live openly gay lives etc etc) as long as they do not affect others. So we have a reasonably free country.
As yet, we have not had a maniac of a prime minister at any point who would destroy our freedom completely. It is hard to tell whether this is likely to happen or not. If it is, then we should be vigilant and make it very difficult to do. If it is not, then we can live a little easier. Whether we act or not, it will be possible that a dangerous leader is voted in by a majority in the country and all we can do is hope that we can stop them before it becomes impossible. The elections in Palestine voting in Hamas is definitely an example I think about in this context.
Grinnyguy
Hope this comment is acceptable under your new guidelines. I do not want to provoke or offend, only to comment and add a contribution because I have enjoyed reading the article
Truth is always acceptable on my blogs even if it provokes or offends some.
Did you hear that they plan to enter homes secretly and do surveillance on certain people in Britain in their own homes and not even tell them about it for up to18 months?
Britain simply has gone nuts. You know as well as I do that sooner or later the day will come when martial law is declared. When that day arrives one person will have the power to use all the surveillance systems in Britain for his own end. Big Brother has already set up his devices in great Britain.
My question is why do the Brits put up with your out of control government? Have all men been chemically castrated? Stop drinking the Kool-Aid!
Thanks for your comments. I hadn’t heard about the plan to go into people’s homes, and I wonder what circumstances would have to exist to allow that to happen. The amount of surveillance in Britain is now at the stage where it would be virtually impossible for anyone to watch it all. As technology stands currently therefore, it could only be used to react to suspected illegal activities, not to monitor the country for its own ends. That may change with improving computer technology.
The reason why Brits put up with it is the media. Brits who read certain newspapers would try to vote out any government who increase surveillance, whereas those who read other newspapers believe it is perfectly okay to have these systems in place. Hardly anyone looks into the issue themselves, and they have only themselves to blame. I fall into the same category but I am not ignorant enough to think I have all the information. At the last election, the media balance was for Labour, so Labour was voted in. This government will be voted out next year, but what will change may be minimal.
Mmm Kool-Aid!
“The history of the world is full of examples of peoples oppressed by tyrannical governments because the people put their total trust in the ideas or the power of some man instead of trusting in God.”
Very well said. This not only is at the heart of the Christian worldview, it is also the essence of what true conservatism stands for as opposed to the blind belief in some fancy ideals and man-made ideology of those on the Left and the majority of those on the Right these days as well. Where it’s Marxism or Randyan Objectivism – it all boils down to the same old idea that man is basically good and that he can model the world after the fruit of some person’s imagination.
Oh btw read this http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/4987415/All-travel-plans-to-be-tracked-by-Government.html. So much for liberty. The government is good at tracking its own citizens and depriving the natives of their rights, but cracking down on Islamic fundamentalists apparently is a bit more of a problem to them. What a bunch of dhimmis. They ought to be ashamed of themselves. I’m surely never going to move to the United Kingdom.
When you look at how the spirit behind key events has moved it is astounding at how brilliant Satan is and how powerful the discernment is in the minds of God’s flock.
Satan has successfully built walls with untempered mortar in the stead of the Rock of Christ’s gospel by the creation of Mormonism, the Watch Tower Society, Roman Catholicism, Islam, and many others… while making many, who call themselves by the name of Christ, filthy rich and the epitomy of licentious confusion to those without the body.
We have propped an economy on the back of sin and our Country stinks of ill gained opulence. American taxpayer funded murder of the unborn, rampid drug abuse and the profit from it thereof are enabling drug warlords and their respective supply side illegal drug caches to be in high demand from the demand side of the border i.e. America.
This Country via PETA has elevated the value of the rat over the value of the unborn baby. This Country has allowed radical groups like ACORN and ASMA to move stealthily under the cover of non-profit status to tap into billions of taxpayer dollars to merely propagate a pattern of culture alien to that afforded by our Constitution.
Gambling and gargantuan revenue earned from children’s video games and movies that glorify Satan. Sexual promiscuity encouraged by a public school system that is always in financial want.
Biofuels pushed when American oil reserves remain capped and at the behest of a governement gone mad. American commodities exports waning and Global food markets collapsing because of the incessant mission to destroy the liberty and bill of rights by CO2 taxable emmission restrictions.
The global war on AIDS and the multi-billion dollar American colossal financial investment and it’s condom campaign band-aid solution to AIDS is a mere crutch to deal with the consequence of a disease rather than address the root of the problem -sin.
Illegal immigration is destroying America by bankrupting hospitals and sucking social service programs dry designed for the needful American citizen, bloating the prison system, and helping destroy the common bonds of a Country held together by a common language, culture, and system of laws and order.
America is going down and going down hard if God Himself does stop this careening descent.
There is no way that this Country will escape the wrath of Almighty God. The Grace and Mercy of Almighty God is truly incomprehensible. His love is simply amazing to allow this Country to slide so slowly to ultimate destruction thereby allowing many to repent and turn to the living and true God, our Lord and Savior Jesus the Christ.
May the Lord God Almighty, the Maker of the fearfully and wonderfully made man, give sight to the blind and may He grant a recognizable sound in our ears so that we as sheep in His fold be used by Him for His Glory now and forever.
May God bless you my brothers.
Nice to hear from someone who is aware of the many evils and communicates them so well. Thanks for the input Brother.
Like Betty said, here in Western Pa. these “Detour” signs are all over the major highways, and we have no idea what they are for. Blue, Black, Orange, Red….. If we are going to need to move a mass of people, shouldn’t there be a map, instructions and communication…I.E. the days of Civil Defense? Anybody know what these signs are truly for????
Jay, “Signs, signs everywhere signs” I’m glad I’m not the only one wondering about those signs, lol.
Unfortunately, it is because there are no emergency instructions being relayed to the public that has cemeted my belief that their purpose is for the use of the “authorities”. And we can thank president Bush for paving the way for this possibility. He is the one who passed the law that would give the President authority to impose martial law and trample all over the limitations that were put on that power in the original insurrection act.
Like most of our “new and improved” laws, the wording is so generalized and open to interpretation that it really will take very little to tip the scales. Be prepared.