To be honest I heard about it from a less than reliable source so I wanted to read it myself and see what I thought.
It really seems like this has the power of law, and would allow the president to completely control every aspect of the economy and private property. I'm not surprised no one is talking about it, look at how little fanfare there was over the NDAA. On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:06 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > all the google hits are for blogs. Not sure what that means or which of the > first four pages of results I'd believe. But yeah, I agree that that text > is scary. > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Dana <[email protected]> wrote: > > > even scarier to me is that I've spent the last couple of days in Google > > News and haven't seen a thing about it. Essentially this seems to be > saying > > that any time the president thinks it's important enough he can take over > > whatever. Is that really what I am reading here? I've got to finish > > something but I'll see if I can't find some credible commentary later > on. I > > did a little more than a fast but this looks like the sort of legal > > instrument that needs to be filtered through a good legal mind for > sensible > > analysis to occur. > > > > For instance, I'd be fascinated to know what Ron Wyden thinks of this, > > because he keeps saying that there's a secret legal opinion about the > reach > > of the Patriot Act that would scare the hell out of anyone that could > read > > it. Maybe you have to be a US Senator to say that sort of thing with > > impunity; in any case given his committee seats that there sounds like a > > pretty informed opinion to me. > > > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 12:21 AM, LRS Scout <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> Ok so I haven't read the whole thing, only skimmed it, but this is scary > >> as > >> hell to me, especially when taken in combination with the NDAA and the > >> Patriot act. > >> > >> > >> > http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness > >> > >> > >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348719 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
