THE MUSH BRAIN STRIKES AGAIN
It's a shame when once sane people become MUSH BRAINS.
Posted on 09/07/2005 11:31:06 AM PDT by infocats
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EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
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Two words...Karl Rove
Holy cow! You did a lot of research on your post #14. I'll try to check some of them out, time and patience permitting.
"From what I understand it takes an act of congress to change an EO and they don't do it very often."
They are Executive Orders, nog legislative orders. Congress can pass a law overruling executive orders with a law, which would invalidate an executive order.
The president can change executive orders. They are directions by the president on how the existing laws and powers granted to the executive branch are to be enforced.
Hey, if you can post it on the Internet, that doesn't sound very secret to me.
Thank you. You're more persistant than me.
Still, he doesn't have the cabinet level status which the Postmaster General previously enjoyed prior to the privitization (or whatever has happened) of the USPS.
While I agree with you in theory, I'm not sure how well it works in practice. For example, with Hurricane Katrina, the local government failed miserably with its primary responsibility, guaranteeing the safety and welfare of its constiuency. With that in mind, it only makes sense for a superceding authority (the fed via FEMA) to take over in the restoration of domestic tranquility. This is really the same reason that we have a republic as opposed to a direct democracy, so that more distant and cooler heads can prevail in times of crisis. Of course, issues that are purely local are best handled directly without undue external influence.
If I have any disagreement with the fed on this issue, it's that they didn't assert their authority more quickly when they were obviously aware of the dysfunctionality of both the city and state level in Lousiana.
Executive orders are the primary means by which the President makes official statements concerning the function and management of the Executive branch of the Federal Government. Executive orders have been used by every President since George Washington.
The President's authority to issue executive orders derives from powers both enumerated, implied and inferred by the Constitution, as well as from authority delegated to the President by Federal statute.
In the overwhelming majority of cases, executive orders and proclamations are an appropriate public way of guiding the actions of numerous Federal agencies and other components of the Executive branch. While thousands of executive orders have been issued over the last two centuries, Federal courts have been extremely reluctant to challenge executive authority. When executive orders are issued without a constitutional or legal basis, they implicate the Separation of Powers Doctrine that underpins divided government. The Separation of Powers Doctrine allocates responsibility to each branch to energetically exercise and zealously defend its constitutional prerogatives.
In the proper exercise of its authority, Congress has an ongoing responsibility to affirm its lawmaking primacy and to closely monitor executive action that might usurp its exclusive legislative mandate.
Advocates of an assertive executive have contended a President should be accorded broad deference to issue executive orders, even in the absence of clear legal authority. They have argued the President is uniquely capable of formulating national policy and that executive orders are an efficacious way of circumventing the parochial institutional intransigence of Congress.
This attitude was all too prevalent during the Clinton administration. Former President Clinton's senior domestic policy advisor, Paul Begalla, summed it all up when he remarked, ''Stroke of a pen, law of the land, kind of cool.''
Well, it's not kind of cool. Fidelity to constitutional self-government requires adherence to the formal legislative process the framers skillfully drafted into our founding document. When Congress yields its delegated powers to the President, or fails to check executive overreach, it not only undermines its own power, but mars the constitutional fabric carefully tailored by the Founders to preserve and protect our individual liberties.
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/judiciary/hju72142.000/hju72142_0f.htm
SHHHHHHH!. They might be watching...and reading...and listening... ;-)
Speaking of great tragedies. Here come Ophelia. Who says anything about a secret government. I was a jarhead and can see some manipulation going on. Any Air Force dudes lurking hopefully can shed some light on this.
http://cyberspaceorbit.com/scottoph.html
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