Every piece of news I read or look at the comments are full of people worried about martial law. “They’re doing this to incite riots and then they can declare martial law!”
People are so stuck on this boogeyman of martial law(and my god if I read MARSHALL LAW one more time). We’re all missing the forest for the trees!
The Purpose of Martial Law
The reason up and coming despots and dictators like to use martial law is because it allows them to suspend civil liberties and circumvent the laws of the land. It is a tool aspiring dictators use to consolidate power in the first stages of their coup.
Martial law is used so that their illegal actions can’t be stopped by the courts.
Martial law is used so that their illegal actions can’t be stopped by congress.
Marial law is used so that they can deploy military domestically when it would be otherwise illegal.
Martial law is used so that the dictator can ignore civil liberties and arrest and detain people based on his whim, without due process.
They use a real emergency, or create one via a false-flag operation, and declare martial law. Then they use their emergency powers to consolidate power. They use these emergency powers to make sure the courts, the congress, the military, and the police are all full of loyalists who won’t impede their actions.
After this step…
After this step of consolidating power they don’t need martial law. Does Putin declare martial law every-time he needs a political rival to fall out a window? Does Iran enact martial law every-time they need to execute a dissenter?
They don’t because those nations are fully under the control of the authoritarian at the top. No one in their courts, their military, their police, their elected official are going to resist or stop them.
People are so concerned about martial law that they miss the fact that the trump regime has already consolidated power. The courts, congress, senate, military and federal law enforcement leadership are all going along with his agenda.
He is already deploying military troops on the streets of the United States with impunity.
He is already disappearing people without due process.
He is already ignoring judges and court orders and facing zero repercussions.
The GOP is out in the open planning to re-draw districts so that they will win the midterms and never lose power again no matter how people vote. Remember, Russia still holds elections. Iran holds elections.
They Don’t Need Martial Law
What power do you think trump needs or wants that he doesn’t already have and needs to declare martial law for?
I think people are waiting on martial law as some sort of red line indicator to indicate that we’re truly in a dictatorship. Well, we have skipped that step entirely. The Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, and all the other treasonous fuckers did such a great job of getting their people into the courts and elected positions that this coup went so smoothly they didn’t even need to declare a state of emergency as they seized power.
They just, did it. And no one put up any meaningful resistance.
We are in a dictatorship. You need to understand this and act accordingly. If you were waiting for martial law before you got serious, you need to get serious now.
They have seized power. No one in power who could resist or stop them is doing anything.
We can and should continue to boycott, stop economic activity, and continue to organize a general strike. The stark reality however is history shows there really is only two viable courses left. The first is the people simply roll over and comply. I think the most realistic model of what the US will become is a kleptocracy ruled by Oligarchs like Russia mixed with the terror squads of tin-pot South American dictators and slave labor camps.
The other option is the only tried and true method history has shown of deposing dictators. We are not “sliding into fascism.” We are not “in danger of becoming a dictatorship.” We are there. They don’t need to declare martial law. They have already proven that they can do what they like, ignore our laws and our constitution and no one will stop them. That means we are already there and it’s simply a matter of how much worse will it get and will the people do anything to stop them.
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