Posted on 07/06/2013 6:59:53 PM PDT by yorkie
US President Barack Obama quietly signed his name to an Executive Order on Friday, allowing the White House to control all private communications in the country in the name of national security.
President Obama released his latest Executive Order on Friday, July 6, a 2,205-word statement offered as the “Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.” And although the president chose not to commemorate the signing with much fanfare, the powers he provides to himself and the federal government under the latest order are among the most far-reaching yet of any of his executive decisions.
“The Federal Government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions,” the president begins the order. “Survivable, resilient, enduring and effective communications, both domestic and international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local, territorial and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public, allies and other nations.”
President Obama adds that it is necessary for the government to be able to reach anyone in the country during situations it considers critical, writing, “Such communications must be possible under all circumstances to ensure national security, effectively manage emergencies and improve national resilience.” Later the president explains that such could be done by establishing a “joint industry-Government center that is capable of assisting in the initiation, coordination, restoration and reconstitution of NS/EP [national security and emergency preparedness] communications services or facilities under all conditions of emerging threats, crisis or emergency.”
“The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of NS/EP communications policies, programs and capabilities,” he adds.
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Executive Orders can be overturned. See Youngstown Steel and Tube v. Sawyer.
In other words...we’re screwed?
Do Muslims use HAM radios?
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
I will be here all week, try the veal........ ;-)
a license is required, (but enforcement of that requirement may depend upon circumstances)
Where are the good guys in dee cee? Getting close to the time where the good guys need to let us know they’re there and not going to go along with the ovens/gulags/cattle cars/re-education camps/ravines!
Hello??????
Okay, I give up. I will report you to the mods, nully, unless you add me....
“Executive Orders can be overturned.”
By who - the wet-noodle Republicans?
Does that mean he can make himself my friend on Facebook without me ok’ing it?
No, I don’t have FB.
That’s right. I remember when we discussed this last year.
This is a year old.
Welcome to the sssssssshow...
This is a year old.
(signed) B. H. Obama
SandRat! I was thinking about you yesterday in my rants against checkpoints....
I learned Morse Code way back when as a girl scout... Need to find my cheat sheets... what’s Semaphore?
Awww, ty.
I think the thing that freaks everybody out is that Obama has a track record of taking more or less innocuous things and using them as an excuse for or normalization of another power grab.
A lot of the NSA stuff was pretty harmless - because we didn’t think it was gong to be abused. But under Obama, it was.
You don't remember the Klintoonistas bragging about "Stroke of the pen, law of the land, kind of neat, Huh?" An EO can the overridden by a majority vote of the Senate but then the slavish RATs run the Senate.
I had to get a license back in the 70’s for a CB radio, still remember my call letters, but that is no longer required. I have no idea if SW is the same. I doubt the Feds are spending any money monitoring that stuff any more, but I could be wrong.
Executive Orders can be overturned by either of the other branches of government.
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