-Caveat Lector- --------------------------------------------------------------- Story from the indymedia newswire Checkout independent media coverage of politics, protest, and life at: http://www.indymedia.org This message was sent to you by: Pip Squeak Comments: Fun galore! --------------------------------------------------------------- Article by: Mike Whybark Tuesday 23 Jan 2001 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Summary:House Bill on flor currently reverses three anti-assassination executive orders - theoretically opening you and I, brothers and sisters, to legally sanctioned govermental murder without trial Article: this was forwarded to me by a good friend - everything I reviewed checked out --- This has not hit the papers. And yes, this is completely genuine. The Bush crowd has wasted no time. The bill reproduced below would eliminate all prohibitions on assassination, which are codified into law only through the Executive Order clauses that Rep. Barr seeks to nullify in Sec. 3 below. I\'ve appended the relevant clauses for your reference. It was introduced Jan. 3, along with over 120 other bills. It was the same day they elected the new speaker. The chairman of the committee this bill was forwarded to is Henry Hyde, an old friend of (sometimes illegal) spook ops. Obviously, that does not bode well. This bill specifically \"targets\" terrorists (i.e. Osama bin Laden). However, I hasten to remind everyone that during the Reagan Administration, the official US list of \"terrorist groups\" included such perfectly legal and 100% non-violent domestic activist groups as CISPES and the Progressive Student Network. (If memory serves me, even SANE/Freeze was on that list, but I\'m not positive.) In the post-WTO-protest world, esp. with an Atty. Gen. like Ashcroft (or back-up nominee Slade Gorton), just imagine how many of us or our friends could wind up on such a list, and thus as potential targets for executive action. Source: http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aaces002.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [DOCID: f:h19ih.txt] 107th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 19 To nullify the effect of certain provisions of various Executive orders. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2001 Mr. Barr of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Relations _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To nullify the effect of certain provisions of various Executive orders. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Terrorist Elimination Act of 2001\'\'. SEC. 2. FINDINGS. Congress finds that-- (1) past Presidents have issued Executive orders which severely limit the use of the military when dealing with potential threats against the United States of America; (2) these Executive orders limit the swift, sure, and precise action needed by the United States to protect our national security; (3) present strategy allows the military forces to bomb large targets hoping to eliminate a terrorist leader, but prevents our country from designing a limited action which would specifically accomplish that purpose; (4) on several occasions the military has been ordered to use a military strike hoping, in most cases unsuccessfully, to remove a terrorist leader who has committed crimes against the United State; (5) as the threat from terrorism grows, America must continue to investigate effective ways to combat the menace posed by those who would murder American citizens simply to make a political point; and (6) actions by the United States Government to remove such persons is a remedy which should be used sparingly and considered only after all other reasonable options have failed or are not available; however, this is an option our country must maintain for cases in which international threats cannot be eliminated by other means. SEC. 3. NULLIFICATION OF EFFECT OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF VARIOUS EXECUTIVE ORDERS. The following provisions of Executive orders shall have no further force or effect: (1) Section 5(g) of Executive Order 11905. (2) Section 2-305 of Executive Order 12036. (3) Section 2.11 of Executive Order 12333. <all> [end] +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://sun00781.dn.net/irp/offdocs/eo11905.htm Executive Order 11905: United States Foreign Intelligence Activities February 18, 1976 Pres. Gerald R. Ford Section 5. RESTRICTIONS ON INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES (g) Prohibition of Assassination. No employee of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, political assassination. +++ Executive Order 12036: United States Intelligence Activities 24 Jan 78 Pres. James Carter - Revoked by EO 12333 [below]. In part, it renewed Ford\'s ban on assassinations. [ Archival text unavailable at FAS or GPO web sites. ] +++ http://sun00781.dn.net/irp/offdocs/eo12333.htm Executive Order 12333: UNITED STATES INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES 4 December 1981 Pres. Ronald Reagan 2.11 Prohibition on Assassination No person employed by or acting on behalf of the United States Government shall engage in, or conspire to engage in, assassination. [Despite this Executive Order, Reagan signed at least two top-secret \"findings\" (National Security Decision Directives) that authorized anti-terrorist assassinations under the dubious legal guise of \"pre-emptive strikes.\" One CIA-backed operation resulted in a car-bombing in Lebanon which killed 80 and injured 250 -- most of them innocent civilians, including a large number of children returning from a mosque. The target, the leader of Hezbollah, was uninjured. See Bob Woodward & Charles R. Babcock, \"Antiterrorist Plan Rescinded After Unauthorized Bombing,\" Wash. 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