The government has too much control. Too much.
AMERICA - wither goest thou?
By Harry V. Martin
Copyright FreeAmerica and Harry V. Martin, 1995"The nation has been gearing up for internal problems for many years.
Hundreds of Presidential Executive Orders have been issued to allow
emergency powers under any type of crisis - perceived or real. A
Presidential Executive Order - whether Constitutional or not - becomes
law simply by its publication in the Federal Registry. Congress is
bypassed. Here are just a few Executive Orders 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:
- EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of 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 11000 allows the govenment 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 lo 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 responsibilily 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.
Without Congressional approval, the President now has the power to
transfer whole populations to any part of the country, the power to
suspend the Press and to force a national registration of all persons.
The President, in essence, has dictatorial powers never provided to him
under the Constitution. The President has the power to suspend the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights in a real or perceived emergency.
Since the President and the Senate approved the U N. Constitution, many
laws have been created in this nation under the guise of Executive
Orders or, for example, the Crime Bill of 1991, allowing more power to
the President in time of domestic or international emergency. Senate
Report 93-549 states: 'Under the powers delegated by these statutes,
the President may; seize property; organize and control the means of
production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute
martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication;
regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and in a
plethora or particular ways, control the lives of all American
cilizens.'"