The Liberty Lamp: Libertarian News & Editorials

Today, just a short time after Congressman Ron Paul's whistle-blowing on the topic (see below post), President Bush has again reiterated his afinity with using the United States military to control large portions of the country under martial law. The pretense for getting Congress to give him such powers (which would be unconstitutional either way) is that when the almighty Avian Flu comes to North America and kills an alarmingly high number of say 50 people (it has killed 60 in the world so far) that we're all going to go crazy and induce murder and mayhem. Exactly... Nevermind the fact that military occupation actually exacerbates these problems, as demonstrated by the Hurricane Katrina fiasco.

Speaking of FEMA, Michael Chertoff of the Department of Homeland Security has admitted that the Federal Government's actions were ineffective. No kidding. And to think he had to go to grad school just to be able to reason like that...