As of 5:00 PM EST Friday, authorities in multiple Northeastern US states have implemented martial law, due to “the weather.â€
Facing up to one year in jail and a $1000 fine for merely driving their own cars on public streets and highways, citizens in various areas within the New England region have been hit with executive orders, threatening residents with criminal penalties if they leave their homes and attempt to drive during the current snowstorm.
Using the color of law to impose demands on the public that can only be seen as a massive overreach of power, individuals in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts thus far have been issued bans on driving in those areas.
R.I. Gov. Lincoln Chafee, for instance, has ordered vehicles off of Routes I-95, I-195, RI-146, RI-24 and I-295, beginning at 5 p.m., according to the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agency.
The only exceptions, according to R.I.'s WPRI, are the news media, public safety vehicles and public works vehicles and workers that includes contract personnel, government officials on official business, utility company vehicles and workers, health care workers who travel to and from work in order to provide essential health services, travel necessary to maintain and deliver critical private sector services such as energy, fuel supplies, financial systems and critical commodities and travel to support business operations that provide critical services to the public, including gas stations, food stores and hardware stores.
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick also signed an executive order banning all non-essential motor vehicle travel statewide beyond 4 p.m., believed to be the first such travel ban since the blizzard of 1978, according to the Associated Press.
http://www.examiner.com/article/martial-law-imposed-ne
This sure could be ghastly for all the people during this period. Hopefully they aren't going to go around and take their weapons. In a situation such as this or Katrina people don't have food, getting food or water might be difficult to reach these people since many roads may not have easy access. High winds aren't easy to manage as well.
If some of these people aren't stocked up on food for the just incase emergencies, it might be a long wait.
The eletric could be out for weeks possibly if not longer. THere again people aren't going to have heat, a method to cook, no hot showers there isn't much FEMA can do about that.
Best of luck to these people in that they get power back quickly, and a source of food and heat.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs56_GqTyIQ
We lived in Spokane for decades. The cold alone, in the absence of snow to this degree, caused dozens of deaths. Resources are limited, & can't be wasted rescuing {insane} idiots who think their needs trump everything. I see nothing wrong with imposing restrictions to ensure the safety of people trying to clean up the mess &/or save lives, & fines on those who refuse to observe the needs of others.
...& let innocent people be hurt by the actions of a few...
The Socialist mentality prefers to favor the use of force to avoid inconvenience to authorities (and local snow plow crews) over the rights of the individual citizen. We're seeing th former attitude applied more and more, and it bothers many of us who still believe in the sovereignty of the individual - you know, the basic theme in the Constitution of the US which is still partly in force as long as it is not too inconvenient to those in authority?
Have you a link for this news that you can give me? I think I will have a little fun with a certain person who has just written a post if you have.
I don't think there is going to be much about it because before any storms, you don't go anywhere near grocery stores if you want to maintain your sanity since they're swarmed with pushy people stocking up food.
It's a corollary that if plows can't even get through, delivery trucks are going to have a problem too so here's a picture of a plow that's stuck.
They're going to say that AGW means that more moisture is in the atmosphere and so it can come down in the form of snow too. I just wish it would stop streaming down in the form of BS too.
http://dedham.patch.com/articles/a-race-against-time-shops-close-for-blizzard-and-vehicle-ban#photo-13302734
August why dont you bring youself up to a respectable level and leave out the insults whether you agree with NUTJOBS or not. If there were no martial law it would not be stated, Second off do you even know the defintion of Martial Law. I dont think you do because we are and have been under it already with out the gun ban yet.
I will post the definiton of Martial Law because many don't even know what it means even when it is enacted.
In addition, you & many of your friends have made it clear that they would not tolerate any form of unreasonable, unnecessary government control. If you sincerely believe that people would rise up against it, you can't also believe that there are enough people within, or outside of the system that would sit back & allow any president to attempt a military takeover. There's nothing wrong with being passionate, providing it doesn't cross the boundaries of common sense.
Not sure what you mean by this, but what I read in Phelps articles was nutty~you prefer another word, let me know & if it fits, I'll use it. Next time you address me, do it under the comment I posted~if it wasn't for following Becky's comment from the HP, I would've missed this.
As far as the INSULT you are on their level, and they have names for people like you. Sad thing is Check knows who you ALL are, Everyone who has been on here KNOWS WHO YOU ALL ARE how pathetic is that, and what does that say when others know exactly what you and your pack do. IT is the same people over and over and over. So again if you cant be human and desentized stay the hell off my post as well as the same with the others. Stupidity in the end is going to cost all of you and your families well beings that is what being in the dark causes. Just like those in this storm who happened to NOT PREPARE with Food. Warnings are out there man you people are so naieve it is really, really sickening that you dont understand the Economy, you dont understand when experts put it in your faces of how the dollar is being turned away.. Spolled brat AMericans shines through... Greece is begging for food they are starving... but hey that wont happen here......Funny they have the internet shut down for a month so people dont know what is going on over there, that isn't fishy at all. But hey some peoples minds are so small you can never get through to them and those are the ones who end up having all the things above happening to them.
Everyone has a right to their own projections of what is coming tomorrow as long as it does not unlawfully injure anyone now. And there are plenty of very good reasons to be concerned about what is coming from our own government given what it has been involved with over the past four years.
It takes a very heavy set of blinders not to see what Obamacare, Fast & Furious, Benghazi, government purchase of thousands of "assault weapons" and hundreds of millions of rounds of deadly hollow point ammunition by civilian agencies, proposals for a civilian army as large and well-equipped as the US military, and the recent 23 extra-constitutional Executive Orders emanating from the White House, not to mention the much accelerated mounting rate of national debt, show about where national government has been headed. Time to pull our heads out of our backsides, open our eyes and see the sad and dangerous reality.
The potential danger of any particular aspect of martial law (such as a ban on travel with the force of law and threat of imprisonment and/or fine) is the enhanced possibility of it being repeated under conditions which benefit only government rather than citizens. That may appear paranoid until it actually happens, especially to those who still get their carefully censored version of the news from people who have the same freedom-restricting, government-power-enhancing Socialist agenda.
Given all the ways this government has overreached itself Constitutionally already, it is reasonable to be concerned about the willingness of current government officials to apply threats of force of any new or unfamiliar sort to otherwise law-abiding citizens.
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control by armed forces: the control and policing of a civilian population by military forces and according to military rules, imposed, e.g. in wartime or when the civilian government no longer functions
It is clear you have no clue what Martial law is, and during these disasters who do you see patrolling the streets " Military" it is not under the Constitution the job of the military to patrol the streets , especially when it is not during the time of a disaster and many of us are seeing military working with police even during a normal call on crime. MP will come.
And here is where the law has been broken by KING OBAMA this is now called -->
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction. The Act was intended to prohibit Federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Posse Comitatus Act and the Insurrection Act substantially limit the powers of the Federal government to use the military for law enforcement.
http://www.uslaw.com/us_law_article.php?a=343
More evidence right during little ole hurricane sandy for those who still need to learn a little law and have no clue what they are talking about.
The President just hasn't called " OPEN MARTIAL LAW YET". But executive orders to lead this country into chaos by many things, such as economic, forced housing areas to where he wants us to live is under way.
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