[Azselendor]

The one thing I liked about Lincoln was his critics. Lincoln let his critics bash him left and right and insult him all the time and didn't suppress speech (too much, I know he censored a few papers). Then when Lincoln died, his critics stopped for a minute and looked at what Lincoln was actually saying and trying to do and said to themselves, "He was a better man than us"

But I totally agree, democracy should never be suspended in time of crisis. Hell, if 2/3rds of the US state and federal gov't was wiped out by some freak disaster, I hope they hold emergency elections instead of declaring martial law. After all, Martial Law has never been declared by a sitting president. I hope this one holds to that tradition at least.