Quote Originally Posted by Gelatinous Cube
Redleg, here's the beef:

Martial Law is wrong. It is punishing the many for the deeds of the few. If the constitution is on my side, awsome. If some law or another agrees with me, cool.

But whether that is or is not the case, I am fundamentally opposed to Martial Law.
Well your most definatly wrong on that one. While Martial law can be abused (it's how Hitler took absolute control of Germany in 1933) it is in some cases nessisary to save lives. In a disaster situation like NO the regualr froms of due process wouldn't work. In fact going by buisness as usual would have cost many lives. The response would have been 2 times slower and thousands more would have died of starvation/thrist. Governments need the ability to shred the rights of their citizens at certain times. NO is one of those times. If not for the emergency powers taken by the state NO would be a toilet for the next 20 years.

Also to go back to Redlegs point about Habeas Corpus.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
They are obviously going by the public safety part. In a case where civil authority has fallen apart like NO is a defacto rebellion. It's not safe there no one has real control of the place.