It was Representative Ron Paul of Texas who read into the Congressional Record on June 25, 1997 - well before the malfeasance of George Bush, the Constitution-bashing Patriot Act, and the reckless so-called war on terror - the following: "In a police state the police are national, powerful, authoritarian. Inevitably, national governments yield to the temptation to use the military to do the heavy lifting…. [O]nce the military is used, however minor initially, the march toward martial law - becomes irresistible."
Fast-forward to the present. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, General Peter Grace, soon to become Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has called “for Posse Comitatus to be reconsidered in response to suggestions that it slowed down deployment of troops." according to Jurist, a legal research website.
