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Shlomo:
Now you know I'm not one for conspiracy theories, and I asked Chaim about this last night and he though it might just be another one. Neither one of us had heard about this before and it sounded nuts.

Today I got this link from a good friend of mine. I want to offer it up for discussion because it's a clip of footage live from congress itself.

Congress under Martial Law to pass banker bailout bill


What do you think? This is scary stuff.

AsheDina:
  It is not a 'conspiracy' -Congress- (the Republicans have literally been held up)- like a 'house arrest' THIS IS VERY SCARY.   People SHOULD be OUTRAGED at this.  I saw this, and it made me want to vomit- people- I AM TELLING YOU, that something TERRIBLE is happening.

AsheDina:

--- Quote from: Paulette on October 05, 2008, 05:35:25 PM ---  It is not a 'conspiracy' -Congress- (the Republicans have literally been held up)- like a 'house arrest' THIS IS VERY SCARY.   People SHOULD be OUTRAGED at this.  I saw this, and it made me want to vomit- people- I AM TELLING YOU, that something TERRIBLE is happening.

--- End quote ---

Shlomo- it means that CONGRESS IS UNDER A MARTIAL LAW - not 'the people' that has NOT happened----------yet.  I am sorry- please forgive me, but anarchy IS going to happen in this nation. YOU PEOPLE had BETTER WAKE UP.

Roadwarrior:

I think he was probably just using a metaphor
to say the Speaker put them under "martial law".
I don't take it literally

Kahane-Was-Right BT:
From what I understand:  Martial law in this case is a power (of the house speaker?) that can be imposed in exceptional situations to force a vote by Congress.   That right was invoked in this exceptional scenario/financial crisis.   Thus, congress was forced to decide on whether to support the billions bailout bill or not.   Problem in this case is that congressmen weren't given enough time to actually review the bill, and as one of the Republicans points out in his complaints, judging from the substance of discussions that ensued in the leadup to the vote, there was never any interest in a real debate on the content of the bill, but more about how it would be presented to the public once it was presumably passed.    So this was intended by the house leaders and executive branch to be passed - one way or another - even if it meant imposing a martial law - forced vote - in which sufficient time was not allowed for review of the hundreds of pages worth of the bill, and in addition, that the discussions that did take place would be meaningless ones that wouldn't actually debate it.

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