Executive orders threaten liberties
Congress recently passed a new defense authorizing bill, and one of the unique extra items that was sneaked into it was a provision that virtually destroys our Constitutional protection. While it is said to be an anti-terrorist law, in reality it can be applied to anyone. All that is required is for government to “claim” someone has committed a belligerent act and thus they’re a terrorist. At that point no evidence is needed, no appeals can be made, legal representation maybe denied and they can be indefinitely detained. These individuals are effectively dropped into a black hole as if they never existed.
Somehow I don’t believe that this is what the Founders of the Constitution had in mind, and if that is not bad enough what about these presidential executive orders just awaiting the correct crises to be signed into law?
No. 10995 allows for the takeover of the news media. No. 10997 and No. 10998 allow the takeover of electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals and all means of transportation, including personal cars, and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways. No. 10999 allows the takeover of food resources and farms. No. 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
No. 11921 allows FEMA to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the president, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
Unfortunately there are many more like these, so those who like the idea of a big government coming to take care of them, welcome to your brave new world and a total police state.
Richard Gideon
Schaumburg