In my own words, what's most disturbing about this executive order is that it is meant for peace time as well as war time. And no matter how hard you look, or try to justify that all's well, there is no good reason for martial law. It's an excuse for a totalitarian power grab. I also think that learning from history is VERY important. The first commenter below has compared this EO to Hitler's DISCRIMINATORY LAWS / DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE. The similarities are haunting.
Obama’s Latest Executive Order: Martial Law, Confiscation of Private Property and Forced Labor
Kurt Nimmo
Prison Planet.com
March 19, 2012
On Friday, March 16, Obama issued another unconstitutional executive order. The National Defense Resources Preparedness EO allows the government to confiscate your property without due process under the direction of Janet Napolitano and the Department of Homeland Security.
Photo caption: Obama Il Duce: Executive order permits government and corporations to steal private property.
Obama’s EO allows the president to “take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate resources and production capability, including services and critical technology, for national defense requirements” in the event of a “potential threat to the security of the United States.”
Obama’s latest EO demonstrates once again that the executive will continue to violate the Constitution, in particular Article I, Section 1, which states: “All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”
Any enactment of law by the executive is made in Excess of Jurisdiction and is by definition treason.
Fascist Executive Orders
Obama’s latest EO underscores and reemphasizes Bill Clinton’s EO 12919, signed on June 6, 1994.
Clinton’s 12919 followed a number of earlier executive orders allowing the government to steal your property – and also force you to be a slave laborer – during a vaguely declared “national emergency.” The government has given itself the authority to seize all communication (from television stations to CB radios), confiscate all food resources (including farms and farm equipment), take control of all transportation (including your family car), and compel you at gunpoint “under federal supervision” to work as a slave.
National Defense Resources Preparedness is a textbook example of fascism. It allows the government to steal privately owned property and publicly owned infrastructure and hand it over to its preferred corporate partners under the guise of a national emergency: “(b) provide for the modification or expansion of privately owned facilities, including the modification or improvement of production processes, when taking actions under sections 301, 302, or 303 of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2091, 2092, 2093; and (c) sell or otherwise transfer equipment owned by the Federal Government and installed under section 303(e) of the Act, 50 U.S.C. App. 2093(e), to the owners of such plants, factories, or other industrial facilities.”
Fascist philosopher and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini used his principle of a “nation in arms” to steal private property from citizens. Obama’s latest EO declares the right to do the same. Mussolini devised fascist corporatism – the philosophy of the “corporative state” – and Obama under the direction of his Goldman Sachs and transnational corporate and bankster controllers has updated this corporate-statist doctrine, including the ability to steal privately earned and held wealth under the pretense of a national emergency.
Martial Law
Previous administrations installed the groundwork for Obama’s authoritarian move. Under Reagan, executive agencies were granted sweeping emergency powers to not only grab infrastructure and private property, but also round up citizens and put them in concentration camps and force them into slave labor brigades.
During the Iran-Contra hearings in 1987, it was revealed that the program was a secretive “scenario and drill” developed by the federal government to suspend the Constitution, declare martial law, assign military commanders to take over state and local governments, and detain large numbers of American citizens determined by the government to be “national security threats.”
Obama’s NDAA was established to provide the legal mechanism for tasking the military to round up activists and others targeted by the government. Prior to the NDAA, the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act and other related programs, the government devised Rex 84 and in particular Operation Garden Plot, an operational plan to use the Army, USAF, Navy, and Marine Corp. in direct support of civil disturbance control operations. It has since added numerous elements under the rubric of Continuity of Government, the overall war on terror, civil disturbance and emergency response.
With the scantily covered National Emergency Centers Establishment Act, the Military Commissions Act, and the recent NDAA sailing through Congress, and a raft of lesser legislation and unconstitutional directives, we are beginning to see the contours of the police state.
Corporate Media Ignores National Defense Resources Preparedness
A Google News search produces virtually no mention of Obama’s latest assault on the Constitution from the establishment media. The alternative media began covering the latest Obama executive order from the moment it was posted on the White House website on Friday, but the corporate media remains silent.
Obama’s EO should be headline news. It is a direct assault on the Constitution and further empowers an executive branch dictatorship and allows it to exploit a “full spectrum of emergencies” and permits it to confiscate private property and turn citizens into slaves.
As John Adams noted, the very basis of the Constitution rests on the concept of private property. “The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God,” Adams wrote, “anarchy and tyranny commence. Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist.”
Commenter Rwolf says: March 23, 2012 at 11:13 am
Could Obama Be America’s First De Facto President?
Obamas recent Executive Order (The National Defense Resources Preparedness Order) cloaks an expansion of the Defense Production Act of 1950 that concerned Time of War. Obamas broadly written (Preparedness Order) opened the door for Obama to alleged during (Peacetime) any crisisaffects National Securityas a (premise) to e.g. to take over control or confiscate private property fromAmericans, corporations and businessesredistribute any product, food, energy, water or transportation. Who might receive redistributionof other peoples property should concern every American.
It is unimaginable the Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta for President (Obama), informed Congress the President would no longer need their consent to wage war, that President Obama would get his authority from international treaties and the United Nationsthe latter (A Foreign Agent). Is this an impeachable offense?
For those informed, it was not a surprise when President Obama insisted on indefinite detentions of U.S. Citizens in the Defense Authorization Act? It was widely known Obama gave a speech in May 2010 at a Security Conference that proposed incarcerating anyone in indefinite detention without evidence of wrongdoing that government deemed a combatant or likely to engage in a violent act in the future; including U.S. When Obama signed NDAA Americans Lost their Constitution and Country To Fascist Legislation. Obama like Hitler gained the power to have U.S. Citizens dragged off the street and from their homes without evidence or probable cause to be imprisoned indefinitely based only on Governments claim they supported hostilities, are a combatant or Belligerent, for whateveror threaten National Security.
After Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act of 2012, overnight millions of lawful U.S. activists may be subject to arrest or Indefinite Detention. Perhaps a portent, when you examine Obamas May 2010 security conference speech, it appearrf Obama was asking for (retroactive power) to incarcerate anyone without evidence that government claimed had prior or currently committed or supported violent acts (on the premise) he or she is likely to engage in or support violent acts in the future: U.S. activists are vulnerable because no activist knows what other activist or groups they associated or networked did in the past or might doalleged illegal in the future domestically or overseas. Some observers believe NDAA included the vague term Belligerent in the manner it did, so U.S. Government would have authority granted by Congress to Indefinitely Detain large numbers of Americans not involved in terrorism.
Under NDAA some Writers may be dead-meat. Government too easily can allege an authors writings inspired hostilities, Combatant(s) or Belligerent(s) to order an authors indefinite military / civilian detention.
It is problematic indefinitely detained U.S. Citizens not involved in terrorism or hostilities, not given Miranda Warnings or allowed legal counsel that are interrogated, will be prosecuted for ordinary crimes because of their (alleged admissions) while held in Indefinite Detention. Obama appears intended to override the U.S. Constitution. Obama believes he has the power to detain indefinitely any American without probable cause or evidence. What Americans will dare speak out, criticize or question Government if Obama unleashes NDAA against the public?
Obama is centralizing power in the federal Government by getting passed legislation U.S. government can potentially use to intimidate and threaten corporations among others. Hitler got passed similar laws shortly before the burning of the German Parliament building that was blamed on the communists. Immediately after the fire, Hitler used his prior passed police-state laws to coerce and blackmail corporations and influential Citizens to support passage of fascist legislation e.g., the (DISCRIMINATORY LAWS / DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE that suspended provisions of the German Constitution that protected Citizens freedoms and civil liberties. Obama can us NDAA and Patriot Act section Section 806 and sections of Title 18 The United States Code that include more than 350 civil asset forfeiture laws to threaten any individual or corporation with government asset forfeiture to support his government policies; or Fascist legislation to intimidate, threaten and curtail the civil liberties of Americans. Under U.S. federal civil asset forfeiture laws, a person or business need not be charged with a crime for government to forfeit their property. Government civil asset forfeiture requires only a civil preponderance of evidence, little more than hearsay.
The passed (Defense Authorization Act of 2012) appears more threatening to Americans than (Hitlers FASCIST 1933 Discriminatory LAWS) that suspended provisions in the Reich Constitution that Protected German Citizens Civil Liberties? For exampleHitlers 1933 DISCRIMINATORY LAWS (stated fines and time limits) Germans could be incarcerated for e.g., Serious Disturbance of the Peace, Provoking Public Unrest, Rioting; Acts that threatened National Security. In contrast Senators John McCain and Carl Levins passed National Defense Authorization Act of 2012mandates holding Americans (Indefinitely) in Military Custody for being a mere Belligerent.
Compare below Hitler s 1933 DISCRIMINATORY LAWS with passed NDAA The Nationals Defense Authorization Act of 2012:
1933. ROBL. I 83. GERMANY Preliminary Compilation of Selected Laws, Decrees, and Regulations:
DISCRIMINATORY LAWS:
DECREE OF THE REICH PRESIDENT FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PEOPLE AND STATE
Note: Based on translations by State Department, National Socialism, 1942 PP. 215-17, and Pollak, J.K., and Heneman, H.J., The Hitler Decrees, (1934), pp. 10-11.7
In virtue of Section 48 (2) of the German Constitution, the following is decreed as a defensive measure against Communist acts of Violence, endangering the state:
Section 1
Sections 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124, and 153 of the Constitution of the German Reich are suspended until further notice. Thus, restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press, on the right of assembly and the right of association, and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications, and warrants for house-searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.
Section 2
If in a state the measures necessary for the restoration of public security and order are not taken, the Reich Government may temporarily take over the powers of the highest state authority.
Section 4
Whoever provokes, or appeals for or incites to the disobedience of the orders given out by the supreme state authorities or the authorities subject to then for the execution of this decree, or the orders given by the Reich Government according to Section 2, is punishableinsofar as the deed, is not covered by the decree with more severe punishment and with imprisonment of not less that one month, or with a fine from 150 up to 15,000 Reich marks.
Who ever endangers human life by violating Section 1, is to be punished by sentence to a penitentiary, under mitigating circumstances with imprisonment of not less than six months and, when violation causes the death of a person, with death, under mitigating circumstances with a penitentiary sentence of not less that two years. In addition the sentence my include confiscation of property.
Whoever provokes an inciter to or act contrary to public welfare is to be punished with a penitentiary sentence, under mitigating circumstances, with imprisonment of not less than three months.
Section 5
The crimes which under the Criminal Code are punishable with penitentiary for life are to be punished with death: i.e., in Sections 81 (high treason), 229 (poisoning), 306 (arson), 311 (explosion), 312 (floods), 315, paragraph 2 (damage to railroad properties, 324 (general poisoning).
Insofar as a more severe punishment has not been previously provided for, the following are punishable with death or with life imprisonment or with imprisonment not to exceed 15 years:
1. Anyone who undertakes to kill the Reich President or a member or a commissioner of the Reich Government or of a state government, or provokes to such a killing, or agrees to commit it, or accepts such an offer, or conspires with another for such a murder;
2. Anyone who under Section 115 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious rioting) or of Section 125 (2) of the Criminal Code (serious disturbance of the peace) commits the act with arms or cooperates consciously and intentionally with an armed person;
3. Anyone who commits a kidnapping under Section 239 of the Criminal with the intention of making use of the kidnapped person as a hostage in the political struggle.
Section 6
This decree enters in force on the day of its promulgation.
Reich President
Reich Chancellor
Reich Minister of the Interior
Reich Minister of Justice