Arkansas town under martial law

If you think you can be outside on your own property (or the property that you rent) without going to jail, you'd be right - if you live in a free country.

But in BushAmerica, you're not so lucky.

The city of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, has imposed what amounts to martial law on a mile-wide section of town. (Helena and West Helena merged in 2006.) It's like a strictly enforced curfew that applies to every person, of any age, at any time of day, for any reason.

If you so much as step out of your house, even if you don't leave your own yard, you go straight to jail.

This is another example of how when all you have is a hammer, the whole big, nasty world and everything in it looks like a nail. Every problem - whether real or perceived - is confronted with a sledgehammer "fix" that penalizes the innocent.

The ACLU has correctly issued a letter calling the martial law unconstitutional. And residents are furious at the new curfew. One called the situation a "jail" in which "you can't go to the store without being harassed by police."

Martial law is what America has come to these days?

(Source: http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=26fb4396-0109-40ed-aec7-48924ac4cd26)