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how to prevent this "emergency" from happening. We know it's bound to be the next October surprise. I suspect that POTUS and the Veep would like to avoid cleaning out their desks in January. If McCain wins he'll play along but if Obama wins all bets are off. And what do they need for an excuse? A few good hurricanes, maybe another politically empowering terrorist attack like 911? What if the stock market crashes? You know disasters happen all the time, so how do we prevent the president from taking advantage of that and declaring marshall law and extending his presidency for as long as... the war in Iraq? Can you picture all of us left wing salon posters being gathered up like so many WWII Japanese Americans. We could be re educated like the South Vietnamese, or forced to deny global warming like the early christians were forced to deny Christ. Just because it sounds rediculous doesn't mean it can't happen. I don't want to believe it can, but history teaches differently over and over again.
