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Friday, March 23, 2012

What Is President Obama So Afraid Of?

Quietly, and with little fanfare, President Obama signed a “National Defense Resources Preparedness” Executive Order on Friday. As the name suggests, the order intends to shore up the country’s national defense resources in advance of a national emergency.

To be fair, this is not the first time that such an order has been written. Presidents Bush (II), Clinton, Reagan, and even Eisenhower provided directives in the same spirit as President Obama’s order– providing some level of government commandeering in times of national emergency.

In the past, these orders have related to things like production capacity for defense contractors, or giving FEMA authority to resolve disputes between other departments in federally designated emergency areas.

President Obama’s order, however, takes things much, much further.

(1) The order vastly expands the role of Homeland Security… as if these knuckleheads didn’t already have too much influence in people’s lives. Apparently highways, shopping malls, airports, bus stations, Wal-Marts, hotels, train stations, etc. aren’t enough for DHS. Now the Secretary of DHS will:

a) “advise the President on issues of national defense resource preparedness”.

This one is really clear. Under normal circumstances, matters related to defense would fall under the Secretary of Defense… or perhaps the National Security Advisor. Giving such responsibility to DHS suggests that the government is expecting an emergency from within.

b) “provide for the central coordination of the plans and programs… under this order, and provide guidance to agencies assigned functions under this order…”

DHS now has authority to direct the emergency preparedness of every other government department. The Secretary of Homeland Security has effectively become the Emergency Czar.

c) have oversight of “all other national defense programs, including civil defense and continuity of Government.”

In case it wasn’t clear before, the people who molest children and radiate travelers will have total and complete control in some event defined as a national emergency in the sole discretion of the President.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

He talked about a national militia when on tha campaign trail last time.He feels it should have similar funding as our armed forces.

Anonymous said...

Obama brownshirts.
Obama youth programs.
We should have a national militia.
Completely out of the realm of Government.
But, they call that a terrorist organization now.

Anonymous said...

Commarades,the police state is upon us!

lmclain said...

He's afraid of the growing discontent among the most heavily armed population on the face of the planet. With a history of not having much patience with authority. He's not afraid of "terrorists". He's afraid of Americans.

Anonymous said...

I got one thing to say.when our country implements this and it will.not from a war from other countries but a civil war...Obama will be just like osama and saddam....in hiding! He will get what he deserves!