LOCAL TV STATION GIVES APPROVING REPORT ON THEOCRATIC ROLE IN MARTIAL

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KSLA-TV SHREVEPORT, LA - Could martial law ever become a reality in
America? Some fear any nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.S.
soil might trigger just that. 

KSLA News 12 has discovered that the clergy would help the government
with potentially their biggest problem: us. Charleton Heston's
now-famous speech before the National Rifle Association at a convention
back in 2000 will forever be remembered as a stirring moment for all 2nd
Amendment advocates.  At the end of his remarks, Heston held up his
antique rifle and told the crowd in his Moses-like voice, "over my cold,
dead hands." While Heston, then serving as the NRA President, made those
remarks in response to calls for more gun control laws at the time,
those words live on. 

Heston's declaration captured a truly American value: An over-arching
desire to protect our freedoms. But gun confiscation is exactly what
happened during the state of emergency following Hurricane Katrina in
New Orleans, along with forced relocation. 

U.S. Troops also arrived, something far easier to do now, thanks to last
year's elimination of the 1878 Posse Comitatus act, which had forbid
regular U.S. Army troops from policing on American soil. If martial law
were enacted here at home, like depicted in the movie "The Siege",
easing public fears and quelling dissent would be critical. 

And that's exactly what the 'Clergy Response Team' helped accomplish in
the wake of Katrina. Dr. Durell Tuberville serves as chaplain for the
Shreveport Fire Department and the Caddo Sheriff's Office.

Tuberville said of the clergy team's mission, "the primary thing that we
say to anybody is, 'let's cooperate and get this thing over with and
then we'll settle the differences once the crisis is over.'" Such clergy
response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial law between the
demands of the government on the one side, versus the wishes of the
public on the other. 

"In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the
neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation,"
assured Sandy Davis.  He serves as the director of the Caddo-Bossier
Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. For the clergy
team, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the
public down or to obey the law is the bible itself, specifically Romans
13. 

Dr. Tuberville elaborated, "because the government's established by the
Lord, you know.  And, that's what we believe in the Christian faith. 
That's what's stated in the scripture." Civil rights advocates believe
the amount of public cooperation during such a time of unrest may
ultimately depend on how long they expect a suspension of rights might
last.

http://www.ksla.com/Global/story.asp?S=6937987

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