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just one of the reasons we need to impeach bush.

NSPD-51: Bush prepares martial law
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 18:01.
Every president since FDR has drawn up such plans. The most notorious were Nixon's "Operation Garden Plot" and Reagan's "REX 84 Alpha"—a legacy we recalled when the Homeland Security Act passed in 2002. This latest incarnation has gone unnoticed by the New York Times and other major media. Leave it to the editorial page of Tennessee's Chattanoogan, May 24:

Bush Makes Power Grab
President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

When the President determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the President can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."

Translated into layman's terms, when the President determines a national emergency has occurred, the President can declare to the office of the presidency powers usually assumed by dictators to direct any and all government and business activities until the emergency is declared over.

Ironically, the directive sees no contradiction in the assumption of dictatorial powers by the President with the goal of maintaining constitutional continuity through an emergency.

The directive specifies that the assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism will be designated as the National Continuity Coordinator. Further established is a Continuity Policy Coordination Committee, chaired by a senior director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, to be "the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination."

Currently, the assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism is Frances Fragos Townsend. Townsend spent 13 years at the Justice Department before moving to the U.S. Coast Guard where she served as assistant commandant for intelligence. She is a White House staff member in the executive office of the president who also chairs the Homeland Security Council, which as a counterpart to the National Security Council reports directly to the president.

The directive issued May 9 makes no attempt to reconcile the powers created there for the National Continuity Coordinator with the National Emergency Act. As specified by U.S. Code Title 50, Chapter 34, Subchapter II, Section 1621, the National Emergency Act allows that the president may declare a national emergency but requires that such proclamation "shall immediately be transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register."

A Congressional Research Service study notes that under the National Emergency Act, 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 variety of ways, control the lives of United States citizens."

The CRS study notes that the National Emergency Act sets up congress as a balance empowered to "modify, rescind, or render dormant such delegated emergency authority," if Congress believes the president has acted inappropriately.

NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 appears to supersede the National Emergency Act by creating the new position of National Continuity Coordinator without any specific act of Congress authorizing the position.

NSPD-51/ HSPD-20 also makes no reference whatsoever to Congress. The language of the May 9 directive appears to negate any a requirement that the President submit to Congress a determination that a national emergency exists, suggesting instead that the powers of the executive order can be implemented without any congressional approval or oversight.

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  • Would love to see bush in some handcuffs,he's the one who should be tried for treason.

  • Traitors should die a Traitors death....:)

  • we live in a free country..omfg..are you jokin!! hey moron ..why dont you research all the laws that have been passed!! im more american then you'll ever been fuckboy!! at least we fight for our freedoms..you lay down like a little bitch!! ohhh thats right..when martial law comes..and they break down your door to put u in a camp..dont be calling for your mommy..she'll be there with your lame fucking ass!! do YOUR GOD DAME HOME WORK OLD MAN..and u been on ty for a yr and got 1 friend..LOSER !!

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  • yes no plan hit WTC building 7 just a million tones of falling derby from the other two towers

  • Is not about Bush,Chenny, or Obama.They work for their masters, the Evil Jews and their lord Satan.Iran is in their agenda.Remember every 10 years they are going to open one seal.The firts was the 9-11,the second is Iran 2011,and their last one is going to be in 2071+5 years tribulation=2077 or 300 years after US indepemdence=Armagedom day.Remember the movie 300 spartan,they stop Persians,but loose the battle agains the inmortals(Jesus and his army).We are in the last days.

  • Other than spying on citizens without a warrant, torture, secret prisons, rendition, starting a war against a country that hadn't attacked us on at best highly questionable pretexts....

  • Kucinich of Ohio has been doing his best to impeach Bush and Cheney and congress, and has brilliantly collected the evidence...kind of hard to impeach these bastards when the judicial system is on their private council.

  • What?! THATS BULLSHIT THERE ARE A TON OF REASONS TO IMPEACH BUSH!

  • when the American citizen becomes like a Palestinian living like a rat then you will understand you fucking red neck

  • treason is the repression of free speech...the Patriot Acts, FISA, TORTURE, illegal wars, misleading an entire country into an illegal war...you have no idea what you are talking about...so shut up

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