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Executive-order panic: Martial law in U.S.?(can O suspend the elections?)
WND ^ | 03/18/2012 | Drew Zahn

Posted on 11/03/2012 9:01:47 AM PDT by Be Careful

The White House’s late-week release of an executive order has sent the online community into an uproar, worried that President Obama had secretly provided himself means to institute martial law in America.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2012dncstrategy; bho2012; elections; martiallaw; obama
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Can anyone ascertain if this order can be applied to this current Sandy situation in order to interfere with the election?

Bloomberg appears to be a co-conspirator in this possibility.

1 posted on 11/03/2012 9:01:55 AM PDT by Be Careful
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To: Be Careful

Nope.


2 posted on 11/03/2012 9:04:51 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Be Careful

Not unless they amend, revise the Constitution............


3 posted on 11/03/2012 9:05:18 AM PDT by basil (Second Amendment Sisters.org)
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To: Be Careful

No.

Stop the madness!


4 posted on 11/03/2012 9:05:46 AM PDT by jjotto ("Ya could look it up!")
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To: Be Careful
Really? the same way that Bush did it to give himself a 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc. term?

F this cr@p.

5 posted on 11/03/2012 9:06:33 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: unixfox

I am happy that you seem very clear on this....by what mechanism, given his own order, would he be blocked?

I read that Bloomberg wants 20 days more in order to hold elections in NYC.


6 posted on 11/03/2012 9:07:03 AM PDT by Be Careful
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No, the doofus cannot legally suspend the elections. Certain states, under their own accord to so, but the-guy-in-the-white-house cannot.(That is if I understand correctly)

We didn’t even suspend them during the Civil War, why do it because of a storm. It has NEVER been done.


7 posted on 11/03/2012 9:07:07 AM PDT by madison10 (I love it when My plan comes together ~~God)
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To: Be Careful

Article indicates headline is too far a stretch...and I agree.


8 posted on 11/03/2012 9:07:53 AM PDT by sanjuanbob
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To: Be Careful

I think they recycle these articles every 4 years. Seriously, it ain’t happening.


9 posted on 11/03/2012 9:08:47 AM PDT by Shadow44
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To: madison10

No president ever had the power per the executive order that O has assigned himself. I hope someone can explain this order to us.


10 posted on 11/03/2012 9:08:59 AM PDT by Be Careful
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To: Be Careful
Funny! The idea that this nasty incompetent fool could take
military control is laugh provoking. I'm sure he could kill a lot of his fellow citizens. But at the end of the day the putrid mess he has stirred up will again settle in the Universities, newsrooms, union halls and schools.
11 posted on 11/03/2012 9:09:29 AM PDT by Hans
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I think it is too late with the election in only 3 days.

Secondly, the federal government is failing miserably re: Sandy and would doubtful want even more responsibility when it can't bear up under what it already has.

And as to Bloomberg, Sandy may be his undoing. People are starving and homeless and Bloomy still thought the Marathon should go on.

12 posted on 11/03/2012 9:09:34 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Obama: "If you've got a business -- you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.")
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To: Be Careful

Is this where the huge stash of hollow-point bullets (for Obama-run government agencies) might come in? Only for a contingency, of course.


13 posted on 11/03/2012 9:10:33 AM PDT by luvbach1 (Jail to the Chief!!)
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To: Be Careful

It won’t happen because the repercussions would be enormous.

To suspend the elections would require an act of Congress. The pResident has no such power regardless of any executive order he creates.


14 posted on 11/03/2012 9:10:42 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Be Careful

This is tin hat stuff IMO. The military would not be complicit in a martial law scheme. There are limits to their pledge to obey.


15 posted on 11/03/2012 9:12:27 AM PDT by luv2ski
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To: Be Careful

Please folks.....All you “Martial Law” theorists forget one important fact. Martial Law in the US is unenforceable. Unless of course the politicians stand up the militia. :-)


16 posted on 11/03/2012 9:13:18 AM PDT by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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Are there not any legal mechanisms to prevent this power grabbing? Can’t congress or the SCOTUS say hey you can’t do that?


17 posted on 11/03/2012 9:14:23 AM PDT by cwbys4evr (number obsessed poll watcher)
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To: Be Careful

No, but I would truly love to see him try to.

LLS


18 posted on 11/03/2012 9:14:29 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (OUR GOVERNMENT AND PRESS ARE NO LONGER TRUSTWORTHY OR DESERVING OF RESPECT!)
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To: Be Careful

Congress determines when presidential elections are to be held, whuch they did in the 19th century (firest Tuesday after the first Monday in Nov.). The individual states actually run the election. The president has no say in the matter.


19 posted on 11/03/2012 9:17:36 AM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: RoosterRedux

I wish that the marathon had gone on without him having to face the political pressure of the last few days.
He finally would have been exposed but people yelping about it beforehand helped him to keep the mask in place.
Bloomy is still an out of touch a****** of the highest sorts and I have a feeling that he isn’t going to handle the aftermath of Sandy so well.


20 posted on 11/03/2012 9:18:12 AM PDT by JerseyDvl (Cogito Ergo Doleo Soetoro, ABO and of course FUBO!)
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