Re: Tommy Franks/WMD/US Constitution

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

aren't there a lot of laws currently on the books that would allow the detention of large numbers of US citizens if/when a national emergency were declared?
JD

>Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack 
John O. Edwards, NewsMax.com
Friday, Nov. 21, 2003 

>Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government. 
Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men's lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado.

>In the magazine's December edition, the former commander of the military's Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.<