Encroachment of the military police state

It seems that another disaster is being leveraged to help shoe-in a military police state. Although denying the military any authority domestically is a long-standing safe-guard, it seems that the current administration is looking into changing all that. The military is already permitted to do domestic emergency relief, but they cannot do policing, searching, or arrests. Apparently that's not good enough, even though what was needed after katrina was prompt emergency relief, not policing. The 'looters' didn't start causing trouble 'til AFTER they were starving and abandoned, and there weren't really all that many of them.

Followup:
Pentagon begins review
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