In <199611160123.RAA00315@crypt.hfinney.com>, on 11/15/96 at 05:23 PM, Hal Finney <hal@rain.org> said: : [snip] The thing :I found interesting is that it refers to the fact that we are currently :living under a state of national emergency! I searched on the whitehouse :web site and couldn't find the executive order referred to (maybe it was :classified) : : [snip] I remember, sometime ago, stumbling across a reference that an Executive Order for a State of National Emergency at the request of James Stanton from Lincoln has never been withdrawn. does not make a lot of difference anyway --Slick Willie would: a) ignore any restrictions not to his liking; or, b) write a new one. actually, the ones to worry about are the various interlocking Executive Orders for FEMA --that is a pure police state with total property condemnation without process or compensation. that, and the even more ominous "survey" given to all USMC spec-op/recon units (including my oldest boy) and all Navy Seals: 46. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale, transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. ...Consider the following statement: I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." --The USMC 29 Palms Combat Arms Survey one last parting shot: without arms they do not resist; without communication they know not what to resist. --attila -- Cyberspace and Information are Freedom! FUCK your WIPO, too. -attila