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The US has not declared war for over 50 years.

• rurban 13y ago
  The US is in state of emergency, essential martial law since March 9, 1933. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency#Ongoing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency#Ongoing
  • sneak 13y ago
    what the fuck
  • darklajid 13y ago
    And just for the sake of it, they did it AGAIN in 2001? I mean.. I'm not quite sure if I trust Wikipedia here. How can you explain this combination: United States, Senate Report 93-549 states: "That since March 09, 1933 the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency." Proclamation No. 2039 declared by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 9, 1933. This declared national emergency has never been revoked and has been codified into the US Code (12 U.S.C. 95a and b). United States declared a state of emergency on September 11, 2001, this state of emergency has been maintained without pause into the present.[62] --- It's like .. an ongoing double emergency?
    • squozzer 13y ago
      You mean double (not so) secret emergency.
  • dragonwriter 13y ago
    > The US is in state of emergency, essential martial law since March 9, 1933. No, its not. That it, it is in a declared state of emergency (often more than one -- sometimes very many at a time) since then, but neither the one declared March 9, 1933, nor all the rest combined create "essential martial law". Each such declaration invokes specific statutory emergency powers, and while (e.g., under the Insurrection Act) those powers could include martial law or something like it, none currently in force do.