You are already under martial law, guys, it just hasn't got to you individually yet. You are under wartime rules, including suspension of habeas corpus by reason of necessity. This began in the Cold War -- a nation has to be already mobilized for war, because there is only 15 minutes before the war begins. America only began to demobilize, before remobilizing began, with the restarting of military secrecy, expanded executive government, etc. There was a brief period after 1989 when there was a chance of demobilizing, because the threat of nuclear war disappeared, but that was lost by the Bush and Clinton administrations dithering around (for which history will not forgive them); and the new Bush administration desperately seeking to manufacture new enemies to justify missile defences and other nonsense. September 11 ended that chance: preparation for war can continue unabated, because terrorism is never ending, there are always enemies. The rear guard battle for civil liberties can go on, but it is mostly over, once war is never ending. I cannot understand why conservatives of all people refuse to see that an endless war footing is the most dangerous threat to civil liberties of all. It will end in a military dictatorship. Read your Orwell.
yours, Peter T.