In the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave, protecting our freedoms by eliminating our freedoms has turned our so-called democracy into a virtual dictatorship.
A Presidential Executive Order becomes law simply by being published in the Federal Registry. Congress is not involved in the process.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was created during the Nixon Administration. FEMA has been given responsibility for disasters, including weather-related incidents, forest fires, nuclear or toxic incidents, urban riots, home heating emergencies, refugee problems, etc.
FEMA, under Executive Order 12148, is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil defense planning and funding. An "emergency czar" was appointed. FEMA has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies. The bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic, and to build FEMA facilities (detention camps) to house dissenters.
Over time, every President since Nixon has issued Executive Orders, bypassing Congress, that have centralized more power to control the citizens of the USA.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 -- allows the government to take over control of all 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 take over all food resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 -- allows the government to take over all modes of transportation, private or public, including your car.
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.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11990 -- appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S. air space and all ports of entry.
These are just a few of the Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen
Several times in the past, FEMA stood ready for action.
For example, in April of 1984 President Reagan signed a directive that became a secret national “exercise” called REX 84. It was to test FEMA’s readiness in the event of a state of domestic emergency concurrent with a direct U.S. military operation in Central America. The plan called for U.S. military and National Guard units to be deputized and used for domestic law enforcement purposes. These units were to conduct domestic sweeps and round up an estimated 400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the USA. The immigrants were to be interned at 10 FEMA detention centers set up around the country.
In the 1990s, FEMA put mechanisms in place to override state and local jurisdictions during the Desert Storm operation in Iraq and the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles.
We are no longer a democracy with checks and balances. We are a virtual dictatorship at the whim of the President. And when an “emergency” hits the fan, we will be treated like sheep, the more vocal of whom being confined to one of the FEMA concentration camps.
The current Obama administration is attempting to centralize health care into the hands of the federal government, they are attempting to dictate salary levels in the private sector, they are attempting to gain control of the contents of the Internet, they are attempting to silence media voices of dissent, they are attempting to remove guns from private citizens, they are attempting to control the climate, and so forth. They have thrust this country into so much national debt that every citizen will be obligated to indemnify their reckless spending with the fruits of their labor for decades to come. And it won’t be a huge surprise if somewhere down the line they will attempt to implant a computer chip into all of their subjects in order to properly monitor and control them.
Isn’t it curious how so many things seem to be a crisis or an emergency these days. And isn’t it curious how so many of these events appear to be caused by those who are now attempting to correct them.
We are being enslaved one step at a time.
Wake up.
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Quote for the Day -- "A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." George Washington
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columnist and author of four novels. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and the Ghost of Davy Crockett. His blogs appear on several websites, including www.myspace.com/bret1111
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Sunday, August 23, 2009
Orb of Fools
According to an excerpt from Bob Woodward's book, STATE OF DENIAL, President Bush and Karl Rove "shared an array of flatulence jokes." Apparently, the previous leader of the free world likes to cut one loose on occasion.
This may be funny in junior high or at a Yale frat house, but it's a sad commentary on the state of our nation.
In our infinite national wisdom, we sure do a lot of dumb things. For example, it costs 1.7 cents to produce a penny. While not exactly a big deal, it's typical of the stupidity forced upon us by those who make the rules.
We change our time clocks twice a year for daylight savings time, except in Arizona, Hawaii and portions of Indiana, for no logical reason other than Benjamin Franklin thought it might be a good idea in 1773.
California has a population of 37 million and Wyoming has a population of a half a million. Alaska has 663,267 sq. miles and Rhode Island has 1,045 sq. miles. They each have two U.S. Senators representing them. Our political system, including the Electoral College, may have made sense in 1776, but not in 2009.
Some $50 billion is spent annually on a "War on Drugs" to prevent people from enjoying a substance that makes them feel good. Booze and tobacco, which kill millions of people, are legal while less harmful substances (lacking lobbyists) are outlawed. In the process, we lose our most precious freedom, our individual state of mind.
In spite of encouraging free markets, the federal government doles out $17 billion in farm subsidies annually, primarily to wealthy agribusinesses, including millions to farmers for not growing crops. About 8 percent of farmable land, the size of the state of New York, is not utilized for crops because the government pays for it to be idle. Guaranteeing payments for commodities encourages overproduction, driving down market prices, forcing even higher federal subsidies.
The Social Security system is a pending disaster. More people are entering the system, and people are living longer. By 2014, the system will be paying out more than it takes in. Plus, it's all smoke and mirrors. Social Security withholdings aren't set aside for future benefits, but rather go directly into the general tax fund.
Members of the U.S. Congress, who vote for increases in their own salary, earn $165,200 per year and have enough perks to choke a horse. They have no concept of how the average American struggles or the importance of controlling costs because their objective is getting reelected by mandating pork projects to their constituents.
The USA spends more money on military expenditures than all other countries on earth combined. We have a permanent military presence in over 150 countries and consider ourselves to be self-appointed global police force. Much of the rest of the world despises us. Go figure.
We contribute about half of our earnings toward taxes, yet our national debt exceeds $11 trillion and continues to grow daily. Presently, there's $640 billion of U.S. currency in circulation. If we collected and applied every dollar in existence toward the national debt, we'd have to repeat the process 18 times just to get to zero.
Bigger isn't always better and spending oodles of money we don't have is financial suicide for this country.
In our closed two-party political system the only two options each require excessive government, thereby suppressing freedom and undermining personal responsibility. Two costly alternatives isn't much of a choice.
We endured eight years of Clinton, with his tawdry behavior and slick excuses, followed by eight years of Bush, with his in-your-face diplomacy and questionable decisions. Enough is enough already.
Now we are saddled with King Obama, who is under the childish illusion that government's function is to manipulate and control every aspect of finance, commerce and human existence. He lives in a fantasy world, completely oblivious of the unintended consequences of his actions.
When Medicare was first created in 1965, the politicians projected the cost in 1992 would be $3 billion. The actual cost in 1992 was $110 billion. Politicians are big on promises, but grossly lacking in common sense, accounting skills and foresight. In 2009, the Obama public health care plan is projected to cost somewhere in the multiple trillions. The real cost will turn out to be in the gazillions, or whatever the numbers are beyond trillions.
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes cigarettes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Being President of the USA is a difficult task, not always appreciated, but the world is a very dangerous, flawed place requiring mature leadership. One of these days, we should consider electing an actual grown-up for the job.
We also need take a deep look at the global elites who really pulls the strings in this world. There are those behind the scenes, a powerful elitist bloodline, who are manipulating global affairs in an attempt to create a New World Order, controlled by the global elites who create it. These forces deliberately create conflict and profit from human misery. Wars and financial meltdowns are manufactured. They create a global crisis that requires a global solution. We fail to recognize the magnitude of our enslavement by those in power because we are being distracted by greed and fear and entertainment and consumption of useless things and manufactured conflict.
Yet in spite of the lack of coherent leadership at the top, we're one of the more advanced societies on the planet. Elsewhere, people are dominated by dictatorial tyrants or prisoners of collectivism. Disease, starvation and genocide are rampant in the third world. In many places, women are subjugated and innocent people are murdered in the name of religion. Many organized religions are simply organized bigotry, promoting superiority of self and hatred of others, worshiping the messenger while ignoring or distorting the message.
We're all stuck on a spinning orb, hurtling through a vast void, destination unknown. The human race has great potential but we are fools. We lust for power and possessions, and demand conformity to our individuality.
On this orb of fools we elect leaders who recklessly squander our wealth, slowly deny us our freedom and encourage us to work, work, work, work so we can keep the great economic engine going at full throttle.
Sooner or later, enough fools are going to figure it out and put an end to it.
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Quote for the Day -- "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." Barack Obama
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columnist and author of four novels. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and yearns for sanity to prevail. His blogs appear on several websites, including www.myspace.com/bret1111
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This may be funny in junior high or at a Yale frat house, but it's a sad commentary on the state of our nation.
In our infinite national wisdom, we sure do a lot of dumb things. For example, it costs 1.7 cents to produce a penny. While not exactly a big deal, it's typical of the stupidity forced upon us by those who make the rules.
We change our time clocks twice a year for daylight savings time, except in Arizona, Hawaii and portions of Indiana, for no logical reason other than Benjamin Franklin thought it might be a good idea in 1773.
California has a population of 37 million and Wyoming has a population of a half a million. Alaska has 663,267 sq. miles and Rhode Island has 1,045 sq. miles. They each have two U.S. Senators representing them. Our political system, including the Electoral College, may have made sense in 1776, but not in 2009.
Some $50 billion is spent annually on a "War on Drugs" to prevent people from enjoying a substance that makes them feel good. Booze and tobacco, which kill millions of people, are legal while less harmful substances (lacking lobbyists) are outlawed. In the process, we lose our most precious freedom, our individual state of mind.
In spite of encouraging free markets, the federal government doles out $17 billion in farm subsidies annually, primarily to wealthy agribusinesses, including millions to farmers for not growing crops. About 8 percent of farmable land, the size of the state of New York, is not utilized for crops because the government pays for it to be idle. Guaranteeing payments for commodities encourages overproduction, driving down market prices, forcing even higher federal subsidies.
The Social Security system is a pending disaster. More people are entering the system, and people are living longer. By 2014, the system will be paying out more than it takes in. Plus, it's all smoke and mirrors. Social Security withholdings aren't set aside for future benefits, but rather go directly into the general tax fund.
Members of the U.S. Congress, who vote for increases in their own salary, earn $165,200 per year and have enough perks to choke a horse. They have no concept of how the average American struggles or the importance of controlling costs because their objective is getting reelected by mandating pork projects to their constituents.
The USA spends more money on military expenditures than all other countries on earth combined. We have a permanent military presence in over 150 countries and consider ourselves to be self-appointed global police force. Much of the rest of the world despises us. Go figure.
We contribute about half of our earnings toward taxes, yet our national debt exceeds $11 trillion and continues to grow daily. Presently, there's $640 billion of U.S. currency in circulation. If we collected and applied every dollar in existence toward the national debt, we'd have to repeat the process 18 times just to get to zero.
Bigger isn't always better and spending oodles of money we don't have is financial suicide for this country.
In our closed two-party political system the only two options each require excessive government, thereby suppressing freedom and undermining personal responsibility. Two costly alternatives isn't much of a choice.
We endured eight years of Clinton, with his tawdry behavior and slick excuses, followed by eight years of Bush, with his in-your-face diplomacy and questionable decisions. Enough is enough already.
Now we are saddled with King Obama, who is under the childish illusion that government's function is to manipulate and control every aspect of finance, commerce and human existence. He lives in a fantasy world, completely oblivious of the unintended consequences of his actions.
When Medicare was first created in 1965, the politicians projected the cost in 1992 would be $3 billion. The actual cost in 1992 was $110 billion. Politicians are big on promises, but grossly lacking in common sense, accounting skills and foresight. In 2009, the Obama public health care plan is projected to cost somewhere in the multiple trillions. The real cost will turn out to be in the gazillions, or whatever the numbers are beyond trillions.
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who smokes cigarettes, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Being President of the USA is a difficult task, not always appreciated, but the world is a very dangerous, flawed place requiring mature leadership. One of these days, we should consider electing an actual grown-up for the job.
We also need take a deep look at the global elites who really pulls the strings in this world. There are those behind the scenes, a powerful elitist bloodline, who are manipulating global affairs in an attempt to create a New World Order, controlled by the global elites who create it. These forces deliberately create conflict and profit from human misery. Wars and financial meltdowns are manufactured. They create a global crisis that requires a global solution. We fail to recognize the magnitude of our enslavement by those in power because we are being distracted by greed and fear and entertainment and consumption of useless things and manufactured conflict.
Yet in spite of the lack of coherent leadership at the top, we're one of the more advanced societies on the planet. Elsewhere, people are dominated by dictatorial tyrants or prisoners of collectivism. Disease, starvation and genocide are rampant in the third world. In many places, women are subjugated and innocent people are murdered in the name of religion. Many organized religions are simply organized bigotry, promoting superiority of self and hatred of others, worshiping the messenger while ignoring or distorting the message.
We're all stuck on a spinning orb, hurtling through a vast void, destination unknown. The human race has great potential but we are fools. We lust for power and possessions, and demand conformity to our individuality.
On this orb of fools we elect leaders who recklessly squander our wealth, slowly deny us our freedom and encourage us to work, work, work, work so we can keep the great economic engine going at full throttle.
Sooner or later, enough fools are going to figure it out and put an end to it.
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Quote for the Day -- "My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it." Barack Obama
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columnist and author of four novels. He lives in the Ozark Mountains with a dog named Buddy Lee and yearns for sanity to prevail. His blogs appear on several websites, including www.myspace.com/bret1111
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