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Is Serfdom an Executive Order Away? (Is this E O the start of something?)
Reason ^ | Sheldon Richman

Posted on 04/07/2012 2:28:08 PM PDT by BirdFLU

President Obama provided such a step with his March 16 Executive Order—National Defense Resources Preparedness. In it we see in detail how completely the government may control our lives—euphemistically called the “industrial and technological base”—if the president were to declare a national emergency. It is instructive, if tedious, reading.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: defenseact; executiveorder; targetedkilling

1 posted on 04/07/2012 2:28:12 PM PDT by BirdFLU
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To: BirdFLU

Bflr


2 posted on 04/07/2012 2:41:16 PM PDT by REDWOOD99 ("Everyone should pay taxes. Everyone should pay the same rate.)
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To: BirdFLU

Much ado about nothing. If Alex Jones is worried about it, I’m not.


3 posted on 04/07/2012 2:59:41 PM PDT by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: BirdFLU

By his own words: He will act as he sees fit if Congress won’t. He denies the Court’s power to overturn laws (making one wonder in context about their power to refute his orders). He has declared his power to unilaterally take over the entire economy at any time on a vague pretext. He is arming his personal army (DHS). Vote counting has been outsourced to a foreign private business. The NSA is now monitoring all communications.

Oh sure there are rationalizations for all this - but it still adds up to dictatorship.

May he study well the origins of this country, and it’s still-existing spirit.


4 posted on 04/07/2012 3:01:38 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com/)
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To: BirdFLU

In truth Obama is not a legal POTUS be it by birth or cheating to get into office. They have the goods on him and he should be thrown out of office and placed into prison.


5 posted on 04/07/2012 3:05:58 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: DennisR
Much ado about nothing. If Alex Jones is worried about it, I’m not.

Ain't that the truth. Alex Jones is the poster child for the most cluttered-up, virus-ridden websites on the planet.

6 posted on 04/07/2012 3:07:27 PM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: BirdFLU; Admin Moderator
The title at the source is, “Is Serfdom an Executive Order Away?”

For the last couple years, I thought Obamacare was the American equivalent of a certain enabling act of 1933. Wrong. Our version dates from 1950.

7 posted on 04/07/2012 3:13:36 PM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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To: BirdFLU

This is frightening. However, to think that the guy who can do this is obama, makes is exponentially worse.


8 posted on 04/07/2012 3:17:45 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: BirdFLU
Only 211 days now, until we un-elect the communist saboteur.

America.

Above all: VOTE THIS YEAR.


9 posted on 04/07/2012 3:20:25 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network ((Racism Fatigue) America is the least racist nation on Earth)
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To: BirdFLU

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10 posted on 04/07/2012 4:11:56 PM PDT by chicken head
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To: ctdonath2

Marxist quota boy sure is a narcissist.
Be fun to be a fly on his wall if he loses. Then he gets ignored for thirty years like Carter??


11 posted on 04/07/2012 4:29:48 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Hey Mitt, F-you too pal)
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To: qaz123

What’s frightening to me is how much Congress is willing to go along with all this. Aren’t they supposed to balance and check the Executive Branch?


12 posted on 04/07/2012 5:29:15 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Kenny

that’s what I was taught in school.


13 posted on 04/08/2012 8:35:29 AM PDT by qaz123
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