Any doubts yet…

…as to where this country is headed? Orwell must be having a fit a laughter in his grave…
CNN.com – Bush military bird flu role slammed – Oct 5, 2005

WASHINGTON (CNN) — A call by President George W. Bush for Congress to give him the power to use the military in law enforcement roles in the event of a bird flu pandemic has been criticized as akin to introducing martial law.
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And Gene Healy, a senior editor at the conservative Cato Institute, said Bush would risk undermining “a fundamental principle of American law” by tinkering with the act, which does not hinder the military’s ability to respond to a crisis.
“What it does is set a high bar for the use of federal troops in a policing role,” he wrote in a commentary on the group’s Web site. “That reflects America’s traditional distrust of using standing armies to enforce order at home, a distrust that’s well-justified.”
Healy said soldiers are not trained as police officers, and putting them in a civilian law enforcement role “can result in serious collateral damage to American life and liberty.”