Mao Tse Tongue said:
Congressman threatened with martial law to pass bailout bill
Semantics is important. There is a significant difference between what is implied by the above and what is really meant.
“Congress told, if something is not done now, there will be such severe consequences that there will be public disorder and it will end up with there having to be declarations of Martial Law.”
or if you want to boil down the above.
“Congress told, unless we act now things will get so out of control, it will end up with declarations of Martial Law.”
You can say this is nit-picking, but there has been a fair amount of misuse of the term "Martial Law" the past week or so.
