Generally, martial law is military authority substituted for civil government during periods of unrest. The following day, Defense Secretary Mark Esper clarified: “To be clear, this is not a move toward martial law, as some have erroneously claimed.”Įsper was responding to persistent online rumors that martial law is either currently in place or very near.
President Donald Trump mobilized the National Guard on March 22 in Washington, California and New York - three states that have been hit hard by COVID-19 - to assist with everything from distribution of food to set-up of medical tents. Those bogus reports are being pushed in some cases by those who sell emergency and survivalist products. Nevertheless, we’ve contacted her department to seek clarification.Viral social media posts and videos have falsely claimed that “martial law imminent” in the U.S. It was also used in the Second World War and it seems pretty unambiguous that Chant was using the phrase to describe a world after coronavirus - like the much loathed “new normal”. Before then, it was used after the First World War by then President Wilson to describe a new peacetime era. In 1991, then President Bush used it when talking about the Gulf War.
Twitter, meanwhile, flagged the term as being part of an “unfounded conspiracy theory”.īut the phrase has also been used in political contexts to describe the shifting sands of international relations. They also think the government may confiscate guns. According to group the Anti Defamation League, ‘New World Order’ conspiracists also commonly believe that the US government has built secret concentration camps ready to house dissenters and that the government will declare martial law, possibly on a pretext such as responding to a terrorist attack.
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