New American: “President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order on March 16 giving the White House absolute control over all the country’s natural resources in case of a natural disaster or during a time of war.
In the order, the National Defense Resources Preparedness Order, the President granted to himself the authority to approve the dispensing of all domestic energy, production, transportation, food, and water supplies as he deems necessary to protect national security.”
Continuing: “Despite the national defense hurdle that ostensibly must be jumped in order for the order to take effect, the text of the document itself does not limit implementation to a time of war.”
The celebration has never stopped and last week Cee Lo said it all. The masks have been removed. Obama doesn’t care.
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drugsandotherthings
March 19, 2012
You realize of course that the original EO on national defense (#8248) was issued in 1939? That nearly every president since has updated and superceded it with revisions? that this is based on the Defense Production Act of1950? And that this EO is simply updating EO 12919 that has been in place since 1994 and updated/amended numerous times since then. And there is NOTHING significantly new.
Care to enlighten us all with what has so drastically changed from the original EO under CLinton, or either of George W Bushs revisions in 2003 and 2008?
And if you are so concerned about our liberties (as you should be)maybe you should read some of the EO’s and laws passed under George W Bush George W Bush issued Executive Order 12656 “Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities”, February 16, 2004 plus Executive Order 13074, Amendment to EO 12656, February 9, 1998.
Or the John Warner National Defense Act passed in 2006. And of course the patriot act…
A thorough analysis & comparison, with references, can be found here: http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/18/national-defense-resources-preparedness-executive-order-power-grab-or-update/
mpbulletin
March 19, 2012
drugsandotherthings> It is SOOOOoooooo nice seeing someone else out there injecting some sanity into the political rumor. Keep it up!