martial law
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martial law is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 20, 2021 and July 26, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the President can declare martial law”; “secretly placing the country under martial law”. It most often appears alongside White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, 2020 election.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 20, 2021
- Last seen: July 26, 2024
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
The next day, President Hammond goes before Congress, asking for $4 billion to create his new Army Of Public Works. But his rich friends and advisors have gotten there first, and proposed impeachment: the President has clearly gone mad. Congress is pretty on board, because they're all scared of anybody less rich and corrupt than they are. But Hammond comes in, gives a stirring speech on American history and George Washington and so on, and...nope, Congress still wants impeachment. So President Hammond suggests that they “read the Constitution”, which states that the President can declare martial law. Congress is aghast - this is a violation of democratic principles! But (asks Hammond) is it really? Isn't it even more of a violation of democratic principles that the President - a good man, a man elected by the people to fight for their rights - can be stymied by a bunch of corrupt rich people who don't care about the people at all? Isn't that the real violation of the Constitution going on here? Makes you think!
Having declared martial law and solved the unemployment crisis, President Hammond moves on to the gang crisis. He strong-arms Congress into repealing Prohibition, but we cut to a scene of gangsters laughing and gloating because it will take years to get the states to sign on, and during that time they can continue killing and robbing whoever they want.
Military forces loyal to Trump, empowered by the Insurrection Act and other executive orders secretly placing the country under martial law, have been conducting special forces operations to hunt down and secretly arrest various high-profile Americans on charges of treason.