martial law

VIDEO: Voices From the Epicenter of Protest in Baltimore

May 3, 2015
The Real News Network captured confrontations between Baltimore police and protesters defying Friday night’s 10 pm curfew, which attorney A Dwight Pettit and law professor Doug Colbert consider a dress rehearsal for martial law Also, Baltimore residents react to the charges brought against six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray Dwight Pettit and law professor Doug Colbert consider a dress rehearsal for martial law.
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Is Homeland Security Preparing for the Next Wall Street Collapse?

Oct 7, 2013
An Associated Press article in February confirmed a purchase order by the Department of Homeland Security for 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition. That’s enough to sustain an Iraq-sized war for over twenty years. Someone in government seems to expect some serious civil unrest. Why?

Poles Take Another Look at Jaruzelski

Nov 30, 2008
As Poland's last communist-era head of state, Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski faced off with the country's growing pro-democracy Solidarity movement and drew widespread criticism and outrage for his 1981 crackdown on the organization. Now some former detractors are reconsidering his legacy.

Send In the Clergy!

Aug 21, 2007
KSLA News of Shreveport, La., is standing by its report on "Clergy Response Teams," trained by the federal government to pacify an angry citizenry in the event of martial law. The idea being, as far as we can tell, that religious leaders are ideally suited to the task of explaining to people why they should give up their freedom for the "better good."