In , on 11/15/96
at 06:59 PM, "Timothy C. May" said:
:[snip...]
:One of the things that most people don't appreciate is that these emergency
:orders are essentially never repealed. (Not too surprising--if I was in
:government, I wouldn't voluntarily give back any additional powers, either.
:And the only consituency for rolling them back is the membership of the
:evil militias, so nothing happens.)
:
yes, you are absolutely right. absolute power corrupts
absolutely and a government given (or taking) extra powers is not
likely to surrender same --they hope everyone forgets?
maybe there is an analogy:
militias: the only way they'll take my weapon
is from my cooling, smoking hand....
prez: the only way they'll take my executive privileges
is to vote me out of office --IF I consent to leave.
--
without arms they do not resist;
without communication they know not what to resist.
-attila
[snip...]
:Basically, this was one of the alphabet soup of Emergency Orders, National
:Security Decision Directives, and Executive Decisions passed or enacted
:(sometimes in secrecy) during the last 30 years of the Continuing Emergency.
:(Nixon's wage-price freezes, the oil embargo actions, the strategic
:reserves, the anti-inflation measures, various Carter emergencies, and
:various Reagan emergency orders, including NSDD-145, which directly affects
:control of communicaitons, cryptography, etc.)
:FEMA, the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency, took over several of these
:emergency orders (the running of them) in the late 70s.
:Standard stuff for we conspiracy buffs. One doesn't need to invoke
:historical groups like the Illuminati to see that the levers of power are
:pulled by strange folks.
