As you saw in my first article, FEMA is not what it appears to be. This can be said with most rules, regulations, and laws that come out of Washington (and most state capitals). Human greed and the quest for power are endless.

I first learned of this in the late seventies and called Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes’ office for copies of all the pertinent Executive Orders. After a few weeks they provided everything.  It didn’t take long to see what was behind all of this preparedness.

I don’t know if the Presidents involved completely understood the implications. I doubt it or they may never have signed off on them. Some staffers probably worked on it and they just signed it thinking they were doing the right thing. Maybe no one did it intentionally. That we will never know.

However, the point of fact is, it is a dangerous and tyrannically system if used by the wrong person(s).

This and other bits and pieces of knowledge that I accumulated over the years led me to believe there would be a time when we had the chance of a drastic change in our government, and FEMA might just led the way. I figured it might be in the nineties but it didn’t happen.

Ronald Reagan was too much of a patriot and had little time or energy for a power grab. George Bush I, though a liar and fairly incompetent, was the same. Bill Clinton was just a social guy looking for a good time, a name in history, and the percs of office. No matter what you think of him, George Bush II was a patriot without the ambition of power.

When Alexander Haig was a well known name, I had my fears he would be the one. He tried to take over the government when Reagan was shot, though he had no legal right to do so. It was rumored that the explosion in his NATO caravan was just a ploy to get his name in the news. Who knows? Regardless, thankfully he faded into to history and never became a serious candidate for President.

In addition to the Orders I listed and the rulings of the Supreme Court, something extremely disturbing happened in 2007. That was the basic repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act.

“The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act.” (Wikipedia)

Public Law 109-364, the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) basically overrides Posse Comitatus and allows use of the military inside the borders of the U.S. One section has a very dire and foreboding change. “(It) specifies situations in which the President can invoke martial law (natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident or other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order). These had not been specified before.” (BORDC) You can read all of the highlights at Bill of Rights Defense Committee's Report.

With the ability to declare martial law combined with the FEMA Orders, we have the absolute possibility of an unstable and uncertain future with the right person at the helm.

Next Time in Part III, I will discuss what is happening now.

As always, be prepared,

Chuck



Copyright Crickard Publishing 2009. All rights Reserved

As you saw in my first article, FEMA is not what it appears to be. This can be said with most rules, regulations, and laws that come out of Washington (and most state capitals). Human greed and the quest for power are endless.

I first learned of this in the late seventies and called Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes’ office for copies of all the pertinent Executive Orders. After a few weeks they provided everything.  It didn’t take long to see what was behind all of this preparedness.

I don’t know if the Presidents involved completely understood the implications. I doubt it or they may never have signed off on them. Some staffers probably worked on it and they just signed it thinking they were doing the right thing. Maybe no one did it intentionally. That we will never know.

However, the point of fact is, it is a dangerous and tyrannically system if used by the wrong person(s).

This and other bits and pieces of knowledge that I accumulated over the years led me to believe there would be a time when we had the chance of a drastic change in our government, and FEMA might just led the way. I figured it might be in the nineties but it didn’t happen.

Ronald Reagan was too much of a patriot and had little time or energy for a power grab. George Bush I, though a liar and fairly incompetent, was the same. Bill Clinton was just a social guy looking for a good time, a name in history, and the percs of office. No matter what you think of him, George Bush II was a patriot without the ambition of power.

When Alexander Haig was a well known name, I had my fears he would be the one. He tried to take over the government when Reagan was shot, though he had no legal right to do so. It was rumored that the explosion in his NATO caravan was just a ploy to get his name in the news. Who knows? Regardless, thankfully he faded into to history and never became a serious candidate for President.

In addition to the Orders I listed and the rulings of the Supreme Court, something extremely disturbing happened in 2007. That was the basic repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act.

“The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 16, 1878 after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.

The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act.” (Wikipedia)

Public Law 109-364, the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007" (H.R.5122) basically overrides Posse Comitatus and allows use of the military inside the borders of the U.S. One section has a very dire and foreboding change. “(It) specifies situations in which the President can invoke martial law (natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident or other condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public order). These had not been specified before.” (BORDC) You can read all of the highlights at Bill of Rights Defense Committee's Report.

With the ability to declare martial law combined with the FEMA Orders, we have the absolute possibility of an unstable and uncertain future with the right person at the helm.

Next Time in Part III, I will discuss what is happening now.

As always, be prepared,

Chuck



Copyright Crickard Publishing 2009. All rights Reserved

It would seem natural that all governments would want to protect their people in times of disaster, both natural and man-made (though not all do). Contingencies may be set up for such events. The United States is no exception. But as with all good intentions the pathway to oblivion is only a short change of course.

Very few citizens had ever heard of FEMA before hurricanes Andrew & Katrina, most have no idea of its origin, abilities, and true purpose. I will set a lot of it out for you in these articles, but you must follow the links and read the official government documents for yourself.

This is not to add to your fear but to your preparedness. As with most things governmental, citizen vigilance is absolutely necessary.

For clarification: An executive order is a proclamation by the President of the United States without the input or action of the congress or senate. It is the law.

It all started simply enough in 1962 with Executive Order EO 10990 ostensibly to re-establish the National Safety Council: true purpose, to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaport in case of an emergency.

That was followed by these:

EO 10995: allows the government to seize and control the communication media.

EO 10997: allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.

EO 10998: allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.

EO 11000: allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.

EO 11001: allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.

EO 11002: designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.

EO 11003: allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.

EO 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.

EO 11005: allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

EO 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.

EO 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.

That is quite a list compiled by too many sources to credit here, so I have set up links directly to US government data bases for you to read them first hand.

EO 11049: assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies. All together EO 11049 organized and codified 21 Executive Orders, including those above, and 2 Defense Mobilization Orders: VI-2, 1-12. These EOs & DMOs began to accumulate in 1951. This order made them one law.

EO 11049 stated that this was for use in a national emergency, but never defined what that was. At that time everyone thought that it was about nuclear war, but we have seen that FEMA gets involved in much more than that.

EO 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.

EO 11921: simply tightened the grips on the nation, if ever used fully.

To date, U.S. courts have overturned only two executive orders: the Truman order (integrating the armed services) and a 1996 order issued by President Clinton that attempted to prevent the US government from contracting with organizations that had strike-breakers on the payroll. Congress may overturn an executive order by passing legislation in conflict with it or by refusing to approve funding to enforce it. In the former, the president retains the power to veto such a decision; however, the Congress may override a veto with a two-thirds majority to end an executive order. It has been argued that a Congressional override of an executive order is a nearly impossible event due to the super-majority required and the fact that such a vote leaves individual lawmakers very vulnerable to political criticism. (From Wikipedia)

In theory, the President could issue executive orders such as placing decenting legislators under house arrest, or simply nullifying their votes through political pressure.

As you can see there is much more to FEMA than meets the eyes.  I have made no conjectures or statements that you can not verify by reading the original documents.

Next time: What does all of this mean to you and me today?

Be vigilant,

Chuck


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