"Heroes'" Hiro

...apparently really is a computer geek: he's (among other things) a programmer for Industrial Light and Magic: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,71984-0.html?tw=rss.index

I am vastly amused.

Bush expands his ability to declare martial law

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/28/1934208

linking to

http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/ (currently soaked as of this writing)

and

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h109-5122

quoting from the article:

"In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law. It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions."

Any questions? Anyone still don't think they need to vote this coming Tuesday?

(Some have suggested that this is being done in case another Katrina happens, to address the supposed problem in which no one had both the will and the authority to call in the troops to help out. If I had any reason to believe that the Bush administration had taken Katrina seriously ahead of time, I might buy this. I don't.)