Martial Law has begun in the USA. In one way or another it has always been a shadow force and presence in the USA. Now, it is here marching through the streets: ICE and Homeland Security agents in our neighborhoods, the National Guard on the streets of major cities, and the complete impunity the Supreme Court has granted the president. We are now in the most dangerous time in US history. Today as I write, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of the most outspoken critics of the Trump administration, her house in Washington was raided by the Department of Justice.History is littered with the legacies of Martial law. The rise of the Nazi Party did not begin in 1932 or 1933. It began with the Versailles Treaty and the Weimar government: the failure of economic policy, the growing poverty, the Great Depression, and the massive war debts. In Spain, Franco would never have succeeded without the collusion of Italy and Germany, and succeeded Europe looked away. As Santayana said, “Those who cannot re…