The new math, by Gen. Tommy Franks: WMD + US = bye bye constitution

[misterx]

"Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government."

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/11/20/185048.shtml

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[shirokarasu.livejournal.com]

A fanatic... yes...

Thanks for call

[tastelikechickn.livejournal.com]

Read the article...

This is what he *fears* will happen, not what he thinks *should* happen.

Re: Thanks for call

[misterx.livejournal.com]

Not surprising. He's probably aware of the various executive orders that are ready to roll (or already signed):

Here are just a few Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Below, we list some of the Executive Orders that could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:

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.

EXECUTIVE ORDER 12919: "National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness" signed by President Clinton on June 3, 1994, delegates authorities, responsibilities and allocations of FEMA's Executive Orders for the confiscation of ALL PROPERTY from the American people, and their re-location and assignment to 'labor' camps. The Executive Order also supersedes or revokes eleven (11) previous Executive Orders [from 1939 through 1991] and amends Executive Order 10789 and 11790.

(descriptions copied from http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001IoE )

Re: Thanks for call

[tastelikechickn.livejournal.com]

Yep. Nothing new about that, though.

Those or essentially identical orders date back to the early cold war. At that, they represent at least an attempt at honesty...most if not all of those powers were just assumed during the First and Second World Wars, the Depression, the Civil War, and the Red Scare (the real one, around the turn of the century, not that annoying McCarthy in the 50's).

Somehow, we muddled though anyway.

[tastelikechickn.livejournal.com]

By the way, I have no idea how that title (Thanks for the call) got there. Bug.