Very good possibility I’ve considered for quite a while.
Didn’t want to believe it at first, surely he wouldn’t do that...wrong...
Take this executive order for example.
It essentially lets the president have complete control over he entire infrastructure of the country, and can be implemented in peacetime as well.
A couple of tidbits...
Government-Owned Equipment. The head of each agency engaged in procurement for the national defense is delegated the authority of the President under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to:
(a) procure and install additional equipment, facilities, processes, or improvements to plants, factories, and other industrial facilities owned by the Federal Government and to procure and install Government owned equipment in plants, factories, or other industrial facilities owned by private persons;
(b) provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes, when taking actions under sections 301, 302, or 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, 2092, 2093; and
(c) sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government and installed under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to the owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities
Did you get that? He can install government equipment in privately owned facilities...
“Civil transportation” includes movement of persons and property by all modes of transportation in interstate, intrastate, or foreign commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions, and the District of Columbia, and related public storage and warehousing, ports, services, equipment and facilities, such as transportation carrier shop and repair facilities. “Civil transportation” also shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership. “Civil transportation” shall not include transportation owned or controlled by the Department of Defense, use of petroleum and gas pipelines, and coal slurry pipelines used only to supply energy production facilities directly.
Note this line:
also shall include direction, control, and coordination of civil transportation capacity regardless of ownership.
Regardless of ownership???
This was put in effect in March 2012, probably in hopes everything would collapse into chaos when the Mayan calender ended in December. That flopped, it was the end of an age, not the end of the world as we know it.
But everything we see can be interpreted to point in this direction. Pulling out of the rest of the world, allowing illegal immigrants to pour into the country, destruction of Christianity, virtually all of our rights are being trampled... http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/10/americans-have-lost-virtually-all-of-our-constitutional-rights.html
All of this does lend a lot of credibility to the potential for a collapse of the country and subsequent takeover by imposing martial law and cancelling elections. Instant dictator.
I just want to comment about your first EO - this Order is the same for every President. They all sign it .. for the reason that should we be attacked, it gives the President the ability to do things he couldn’t do otherwise.
So, that item is really not a measure.
It was what allowed GW to order certain things be done - using that EO.
I’ll read the rest of your msg later - have to leave in a few minutes and I want to really look at what you’ve written .. because it’s always good to get another perspective.