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Today I am flying the 1st Navy Union Jack.  I fly this flag when Liberty and Freedom are threatened.  If you already know all about Executive Orders, then your time here would be wasted today. But if you seek more, read on. Liberty and Freedom hang by a thread … all it takes is a “national emergency” and with the stroke of a pen, Liberty and Freedom can be annulled with the potential Final Executive Order.

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What is a Presidential Executive Order?

uTexas: An order from the President, as Chief Executive, to a federal agency or agencies to authorize or prohibit a specified action. An executive order may be a simple, routine exercise of authority, or it may be a far-reaching policy that challenges congressional control of policy.

This Nation: Executive Orders do not require Congressional approval to take effect but they have the same legal weight as laws passed by Congress. [snip] Executive Orders (EOs) are legally binding orders given by the President, acting as the head of the Executive Branch, to Federal Administrative Agencies. Executive Orders are generally used to direct federal agencies and officials in their execution of congressionally established laws or policies. However, in many instances they have been used to guide agencies in directions contrary to congressional intent.

Some frightening Presidential Orders already documented: LibertyforLife:

• Executive Order 10995: (Kennedy- Feb 16, 1962) “Assigning Telecomunications Management Functions” All communications media are to be seized by the Federal Government. Radio, TV, newspapers, CB, Ham, telephones, and the internet will be under federal control. Hence, the First Amendment will be suspended indefinitely.
• Executive Order 10997: (Kennedy- Feb 16. 1062) “Assigning Emergency Preparedness to the Secretary of the Interior“ All electrical power, fuels, and all minerals well be seized by the federal government.
• Executive Order 10998: (Kennedy- Feb 16, 1962 ) “Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Sec of Agriculture” All food resources, farms and farm equipment will be seized by the government. You will not be allowed to hoard food since this is regulated.
• Executive Order 10999: (Kennedy – Feb 16, 1962) “Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Sec of Commerce“All modes of transportation will go into government control. Any vehicle can be seized.
• Executive Order 11000: (Kennedy – Feb 16, 1962) “Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to the Sec of Labor“  All civilians can be used for work under federal supervision.
• Executive Order 11490: (Nixon – Oct 28, 1969) “Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions to Federal Departments and Agencies” Establishes presidential control over all US citizens, businesses, and churches in time of “emergency.” (Rescinded by E.O. 12656)
• Executive Order 11921: (Ford – June 11, 1976) “Assigning Emergency Preparedness Function Changes to Federal Departments and Agencies” Provides that the President can declare a state of emergency that is not defined, and Congress cannot review the action for six months.
• Executive Order 12656: (Reagan- Nov 18,1988) “Assignment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities“, “A national emergency is any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States. Policy for national security emergency preparedness shall be established by the President.” This order includes federal takeover of all local law enforcement agencies, wage and price controls, prohibits you from moving assets in or out of the United States, creates a draft, controls all travel in and out of the United States, and much more.
• Executive Order 12919: (Clinton – June 3, 1994) “National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness“  Directs various Cabinet officials to be constantly ready to take over virtually all aspects of the US economy during a State of National Emergency at the direction of the president.
• Executive Order 13010: (Clinton – July 15, 1996) Critical Infrastructure Protection Directs FEMA to take control over all government agencies in time of emergency. FEMA is under control of executive branch of the government.

Executive Order by President

Congressional Recourse:

ThisNation: If Congress does not like what the executive branch is doing, it has two main options. First, it may rewrite or amend a previous law, or spell it out in greater detail how the Executive Branch must act. Of course, the President has the right to veto the bill if he disagrees with it, so, in practice, a 2/3 majority if often required to override an Executive Order. Congress is less likely to challenge EOs that deal with foreign policy, national defense, or the implementation and negotiation of treaties, as these are powers granted largely to the President by the Constitution. As the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, the President is also considered the nation’s “Chief Diplomat.” In fact, given national security concerns, some defense or security related EOs (often called National Security Directives or Presidential Decision Directives) are not made public. In addition to congressional recourse, Executive Orders can be challenged in court, usually on the grounds that the Order deviates from “congressional intent” or exceeds the President’s constitutional powers

Constitutional Grey Area? Executive Orders are “iffy” Constitutionally and from reading the above examples, you can see they can be frightening for the causes of Freedom and Liberty … regardless of the party in power.  These are powerful statements that could wipe out Liberty and Freedom with the stroke of a pen.  I am betting most Americans are not aware of the Executive Orders (above) already “in the books” and ready to be activated. I didn’t realize how fragile this system is until I went through the executive orders.  Are you surprised?

Crisis Welcomed?

All that’s needed is a “National Emergency”:  All of us want the United States of America to be safe, no one will quibble with the need to keep it safe.  But with the present “Chicago gang” in power (especially looking at their historical radical “down-with-government, burn-it-down-or-blow-it-up associations) and with the support of a super-majority in congress … one emergency, one stroke of a pen … and goodbye the USA as we have known it. And the radicals of the 60′s will have won.  Such an emergency could be something like a health scare (almost with H1N1) … it could be a terrorist attack, it could be a financial meltdown … nearly anything that would be deemed by these people to be a national disaster could trigger the “Final Executive Order.  Rahm Emanuel has been quoted as saying “It is a shame to let a crisis go to waste.“  These people put control over the country and their own personal control ahead of national security. Watch them closely … every day!

The Free Dictionary: [A National Disaster is] a condition declared by the President or the Congress by virtue of powers previously vested in them that authorize certain emergency actions to be undertaken in the national interest. Action to be taken may include partial, full, or total mobilization of national resources.

Be vigilant! The last two Executive Orders came quietly and with no announcement to the media … and (as usual) no media coverage.  There are two places to watch closely for “silently emerging” (which is the modus operendi for this administration and EOs):

1. Executive Orders – Whitehouse.gov – Actions by the President
2. Federal Register – Executive Orders Disposition Tables

Political commentator Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”  A crisis will happen and when it does, this will be the “excuse” for submitting the Final Executive Order.  The pieces are all in place … they only need the trigger of a “national emergency” … real or contrived!

1. TheFreeDictionary.com: Background on Executive Orders … good reading!
2. TheStraitsTimes: H1N1 is Global Scam … (Was this an attempted trigger?)
3. InfoWars.com: Obama Declares He Will Rule by Authoritarian Decree
4. CanadaFreePress: Obama Declares other two branches of Gov Irrelevant

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