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To: xone; Grimmy

I’ve posted this before but would like others’ viewpoints on this. Not that I think POTUS would do all of these such as take privately held gold.

https://www.wearethemighty.com/presidents-emergency-powers?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2

6 insane things the President can do during a crisis

1. Regulate all commerce and business transactions.
Under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, the president is allowed to regulate all the finances of the United States, including all international transactions.

2. Seize all privately-held gold stores.
Under the same 1917 act of Congress, the president has the authority to take all privately owned gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates. The last time this was used was in 1933 to mitigate the effects of the Great Depression. Citizens were allowed to keep only $100 worth of gold.

Citizens were paid its value per ounce and for the cost of transportation as they were required to surrender the gold to a Federal Reserve Bank within three days of the order.

3. Take control of all media in the US.
Under the Communications Act of 1934, the president can establish the Office of Telecommunications Management, which oversees all media and telecommunications, regardless of advances in technology.

President Kennedy did this through Executive Order 10995 in 1962.

4. Basically capture all resources and manpower.
Kennedy also signed executive orders allowing for the seizure of electric power fuels and minerals, roads, highways, ports, sea lanes, waterways, railroads, and the private vehicles on those throughways.

Under further orders, he allowed for the Executive Office of the President to conscript citizens as laborers, seize health and education facilities, and airports and aircraft. These are continued in Executive Orders 10997, 10999, 11000, 11001, 11002, 11003, 11004, and 11005.

5. Deploy the military inside the United States.
While American governors can offer their National Guard resources to the president without being ordered, as they do in the case of US troops monitoring the border with Mexico, the use of Active Duty troops inside the US is forbidden under the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878 ... unless there’s an emergency.

The Insurrection Act allows for the president to use troops to put down insurrections or rebellions within the United States.

After Hurricane Katrina, however, the Insurrection Act was amended to allow the POTUS to use federal troops to enforce the law — a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act. Every US governor was against this change.

6. Suspend the government of the United States.
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President Donald Trump takes the oath of office from Chief Justice John Roberts on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 27, 2017. Pool/Jim Bourg via Associated Press
A presidential directive signed by George W. Bush on May 9, 2007, gives the president of the United States the authority to take over all government functions and all private sector activities in the event of a “catastrophic emergency.”

The idea is to ensure American democracy survives after such an event occurs and that we will come out the other end with an “enduring constitutional government.” This piece of legislation is called “Directive 51.”


1,497 posted on 05/01/2020 6:55:49 AM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: little jeremiah

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1,635 posted on 05/01/2020 9:25:38 AM PDT by Cats Pajamas
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To: little jeremiah
In effect he would have to use the Insurrection Act to get military to act as law enforcement.

Martial Law

FTA: And several laws create exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act’s general rule. The most important of these is the Insurrection Act. It allows the president, at the request of a state’s governor or legislature, to use federal troops to suppress an insurrection in that state. The president may also deploy troops without a state’s request if an “unlawful obstruction,” domestic violence or similar civil unrest is creating barriers to execution of the law. Troops may be used either to assist local law enforcement or, if necessary, to supplant them. In the latter case, the act authorizes a form of martial law, triggered by vague criteria and with few clear constraints on its use.

'The president may also deploy troops without a state’s request if an “unlawful obstruction,” domestic violence or similar civil unrest is creating barriers to execution of the law.'

Here is the piece that matters.

1,699 posted on 05/01/2020 10:34:14 AM PDT by xone
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