Executive Order: National Defense Resources Preparedness

The White House ^ | 3/16/12 | The White House

[thesearethetimes...]

Don’t know if this has been picked up upon yet, as I have not read all the way through the thread when I decided to go back and start on the EO - * emphasis is mine, as are the questions marks : \

“”PART II - PRIORITIES AND ALLOCATIONS

Sec. 201. Priorities and Allocations Authorities. (a) The authority of the President... to require acceptance and priority performance of contracts or orders... to promote the national defense over performance of any other contracts or orders ...to allocate materials, services, and facilities as deemed necessary or appropriate... is delegated to the following agency heads:

(1) the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to food resources, food resource facilities, livestock resources, veterinary resources, plant health resources, and the domestic distribution of farm equipment and COMMERCIAL FERTILIZER?! So folks can’t make explosive devices maybe? ;

(2) the Secretary of Energy with respect to ALL forms of energy;

(3) the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to health resources;

(4) the Secretary of Transportation with respect to ALL forms of civil transportation;

(5) the Secretary of DEFENSE with respect to WATER?! resources; and

(6) the Secretary of Commerce with respect to ALL other materials, services, and facilities, including construction materials.

(b) The Secretary of each agency delegated authority under subsection (a) of this section (resource departments) shall plan for and issue regulations to prioritize and allocate resources and establish standards and procedures by which the authority shall be used to promote the national defense, under BOTH emergency and NON-EMERGENCY conditions.””

That last sentence is why I copied all of that section... Emergency and NON EMERGENCY conditions. Why in the heck would any of this need to happen in a NON EMERGENCY situation?!

P.S. Sorry for all of the caps, but I never did graduate from HTML Sandbox, sheepish look.

Dear Lord, I am pretty sure we know the answer. Please give us strength, to fight this battle.
Tatt

[Shady]

Agreed. We will fight back and preserve Liberty and America...No one “man” is bigger than our heritage.

[Shady]

Humans can last 40 days without food...3 days without water.

[Outlaw Woman]

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[tomkat]

Sorry, was out for awhile, not ignoring you .. I sent Breitbart the headline and a link.

[eak3]

everyones out enjoying the early spring weather. This story isn’t anywhere not even Infowars has jumped on it yet. Probably not see anything till maybe tomorrow.

[EBH]

I am not sure what you are asking?

Preexisting agency is under FEMA and according to their directives are only activated during emergency, not during peacetimes.

http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/110006p.pdf

This EO seems to be a very wide expansion of their directive. No?

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“Humans can last 40 days without food...”

I am sure the mooch Ms. Hogly can last twice that long without food.

Like a camel, she can feed off those two humps on her rear.

[Twinkie]

My thoughts; as much as a Twinkie can have a thought, that is:

Obama came out right at the start declaring that he intended to have a “civilian security force as powerful, as well funded as the military”. - It went over like a lead balloon; people, including Twinkie, asked, “don’t we already have a National Guard?”

That comment got lost in the Obama deluge of comments over the past 3 or 4 years, and the idea was dropped. We thought . . until now, that is.

[Rocky]

The excuse is “national defense” - ie, external

The actions all pertain to Homeland Security and US industrial production - ie, internal

Any excuse to expand presidential powers.

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“I sent Breitbart the headline and a link.”

Any feedback/acknowledgement from those wonderful folks yet?

[tomkat]

Not as yet .. I'd surely post it here, barring their expressing a good reason not to.

Perhaps, given the weekend to digest it and ask around, they'll come out with something Mondayish.

[tbw2]

I read somewhere else that the timing is also 2 days into March Madness, taking attention away from the news in addition to it being the start of the weekend.

[phockthis]

sfl

[Gatún(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)]

“Not as yet .. I’d surely post it here, barring their expressing a good reason not to.”

Thank you. You are very kind.

[reagandemocrat]

Doh, I missed the March Madness angle. And his courtside bromance with hotdog-chowing Cameron.

[Excellence]

I would probably get arrested for nailing this to my reps door. And both my senators are dems, so that's out.

[tomkat]

You are very kind

Actually, sometimes I'm not.
But you're welcome, and thanks !

lol

[Mariner]

This is an interesting order to emerge considering current events on the world stage.

This puts in place the kind of authority Roosevelt wielded in WWII on the logistics, commodities and manufacturing fronts.

It's putting every US Agency on notice they could be called upon to shift every incentive, every stick toward a national security goal.

That's big stuff there.

Or not.

[Excellence]

I was under the impression Clinton had one also. This one has quite the reach.