Journal Jeremiah Cornelius's Journal: Reichstagsbrandverordnung? 2
On the basis of Article 48 paragraph 2 of the Constitution of the German Reich, the following is ordered in defense against Communist state-endangering acts of violence:
1. Articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights of personal freedom [habeas corpus], freedom of opinion, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications. Warrants for House searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 - allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 - allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 - allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 - allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 - allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 - allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 - allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 - designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 - allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 - allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 - allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 - specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency 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. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the...
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 - grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 - assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 12148 - created the Federal Emergency Management Agency to interface with the Department of Defense for civil defense planning and funding. An "emergency czar" was appointed. FEMA has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies. The bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 12656 - appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and all ports of entry.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 12919 - Collects EOs 10995, 10997, 10998, 10999, 11000, 11001, 11002, 11003, 11004, 11005 and 11051 together into one new Executive Order.
National Security Act of 1947 - allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities.
1950 Defense Production Act - gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy.
Act of August 29, 1916 - authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.
International Emergency Economic Powers Act - enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.
Quite scary (Score:2)
Yep, and almost all of those are Executive Orders which means from the desk of the POTUS, and not condoned officially by Congress, even if they do uphold his right to limited use of them. But all agencies with appointees are expected to honor these EOs, so it's really about what the POTUS has asked the agencies to do.
Quite scary.
Then there's the expectation to have a second "on demand" ready reserve (I don't care if it's spun as health-care professionals, look at the groups listed, some of them could as eas
Re: (Score:3, Informative)
The Presidential powers are clearly extra constitutional. Many of these EO's are "cold war" era - but the Shrub's team cleared away any pesky Judicial barriers to the exercise of this power. Obama exists mainly to put-to-rest the notion that this belongs to a party or faction - by backing, entirely, the Bush-era supports for a "Unitary Executive".
The trap closes slowly. This has been in motion since Johnston, at least. It began in earnest c 1980 - concurrent with the Reagan corporate puppetocracy.
Why ha