1 Oct
2001
1 Oct
'01
1:57 p.m.
On Monday, October 1, 2001, at 10:38 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
On Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 08:25:08AM -0700, David Honig wrote:
Yes. Though these days they have Emergency Powers for everything, and chronic, continually extended 'Emergencies'.
I've always enjoyed the regular declarations of emergencies required to keep the encryption export control regime active.
If an emergency exists for decades, can it still be properly called one?
Lincoln began the process with his emergency decrees, including his suspension of habeus corpus. (Basically, folks could be jailed without the state producing strong evidence of a crime.) (I expect today's Emergency Orderers are sifting through all such decrees to see what they can crib.) --Tim May