“During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.” YearsHas BeensWarStatesStoriesLastsLawEnjoyPowerfulClassPowerMilitaryCommunicationSpeechAuthorityAdvantageEconomicsConstitutionPressesLocalsTalesOppressionDozenFree SpeechBentDespotismSuppressionFree PressAssemblageMartial Law Author:Edward Alsworth Ross
“A large number of suspects, both men and women, escaped martial law for lack of any shred of evidence against them on which a court-martial could convict. So they began setting them free in groups, according to their birth-place. But half-way, the car-load would be emptied into a ditch.” MenWayWould BeLawNumbersHalfGroupsCarBirthEvidenceMen And WomenCourtSettingSettingsSuspectsLoadLarge NumbersConvictsHalf WayBirth PlaceMartial Law Author:Georges Bernanos
“These are the strategic dialectics of anti-imperialist struggle: through the defensive reactions of the system, the escalation of counterrevolution, the transformation of the political martial law into military martial law, the enemy betrays himself, becomes visible.” LawPoliticalEnemyStruggleMilitaryTransformationReactionsVisibleBetrayStrategicDialecticsEscalationMartial Law Author:Ulrike Meinhof
“Homeland Security is armed and locked and ready to blow your brains out if you start protesting martial law.” IfsLawBrainSecurityReadyBlowLockedHomelandHomeland SecurityMartial Law Author:Gerald Celente
“Proscription, martial law, the billeting of the rude troops, the tax collector, the unjust judge, anything at all, is sweeter than responsibility.” LawResponsibilityJudgingTaxesTroopsRudeUnjustCollectorsMartial Law Book:The company she keeps Source: The company she keeps
“The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way.” WayHumansHeartEarthLawDesireSecretForeverWallPolicePrisonHuman HeartSecret PolicePrison WallsMartial Law Author:George W. Bush