Drew J

A list of presidential directive orders that circumvented that pesky democratic-like thing called Congress.

* 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 seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.

* EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 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. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate:

o the National Security Act of 1947, which allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities;

o the 1950 Defense Production Act, which gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy;

o the Act of August 29, 1916, which authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency; and

o the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

Marching Folly

Yet more from that page:

:rolling:

Marching Folly

I don't think we're in Political Discussions anymore, Toto!



:wave:

Drew J

"President Regan signed Presidential Director Number 54 in April of 1984 that allowed FEMA to activate a secret national readiness exercise. This exercise was given the code name REX 84. The purpose of the exercise was to test FEMA's ability to assume military authority. REX 84 was so highly guarded that special metal doors were installed on the fifth floor of the FEMA building in Washington, D.C. The only people that were allowed to enter the premises were ones who had a red Christian cross on their shirt. The exercise required the following.....

Suspension of the Constitution of the United States
Turning control of the government over to FEMA
Appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments
Declaration of Martial Law

So how much money goes into an organization like this? Well it has been discovered that FEMA has a quasi-billion dollar budget. However, about 6% of that budget goes into the relief effort. So why is it that they need so much money? Ever wonder where the President goes when it's said he is in a "secure location"? Well most of the time that location is a secret government complex built into a mountain. It is called Mt. Weather."

AllNerdsAndGeeks

Marching Folly

One question. Just one question. Answer this, and I'll leave you alone.

The flag.



The little circle.



What is the most likely explanation for this one picture? You can assume if you like that all the other pictures are really of concentration camps in the continental United States. Just this one picture, the one with the little circle. Where was it taken?

Drew J

A Yugo flag? I dunno. You wanna tell me why that, as you imply, yugo sign is in English? Are you telling me that country's (now 2 countries) dominant language is that of America's? You wanna tell me what an American flag is doing on a foreign continent therefore? You wanna tell me what the purpose of all those directive orders were? You wanna tell me why all those protestors in new York when the Republican Convention came there a while ago were locked up in a Pier 57 detention center? You wanna tell me what the purpose was of violating their constitutional rights?

Marching Folly

Well I dunno. That one's kind of a toughie. Perhaps it's doing the same thing that the above sign is doing in the middle of Korea.



Well I dunno. That one's kind of a toughie. Perhaps it's doing the same thing that the above flag is doing in the middle of Iraq. SOP, my friend! Where the military goes, the flag goes.

You wanna tell me whether that's a:?



More importantly, you wanna tell me whether you are going to answer that one very simple question?

Evil Sentient Duck

:rolling:

A flag that ANYONE can get? :huh:

How do you know that this isn't some whacked out training camp for militia men who are preparing for Armageddon? Or trying to spread their paranoia by claiming that THEIR base is a concentration camp? For being such a 'Top Secret' base with a dastardly purpose, these are awfully close pictures.

You do know that white supremacists have been trying to start a war in this nation for years, don't you? What better way to do this than to spread a multitude of half truths and outright lies to cause mistrust, paranoia and resentment?

So, I just pitched a conspiracy theory right back at you….

AndresDeLaHoz

Somebody tell me this is a parody thread.

George Oilwell

That depends on who you are asking.
Drew is deadly serious, as for everyone else I doubt it.