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The SPOTLIGHT 
MAY 27, 1991

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS CAN EASILY DISAPPEAR
By Mike Blair

It is a frightening thought, but there are EOs on the books that make it possible for the president to ignore the Constitution and its cherished Bill of Rights, Congress, the judiciary and the very will of the American people. But it is a fact that a complete dictatorship can be imposed upon the people at any time, simply by the president declaring a national emergency.

During the 1950s and 1960s, it was believed that the best way to bring about one-world government was by disarming the United States. Those who feared for America's Constitutionally guaranteed liberties, are rightfully so, feared that America would be disarmed and would become easy prey for the ever-expanding military power of the Soviet Union and Red China. They feared and opposed the powers of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, established to disarm America.

Now, however, with the Soviet Union virtually falling apart at the seams (to date each and every one of the Soviets' 15 republics have declared their sovereignty and threaten to break away from the national union). Disarmament by both sides has become a necessity to cure U.S. and Soviet social ills. And while the Soviets have been caught cheating time and time again on their disarmament agreements, the general movement has been toward an easing of the arms race.

NEW 'FRIENDSHIP'

From this newfound "friendship" with the Soviet Union and in particular from the so-called multinational effort against Iraq in the Persian Gulf, President George Bush rarely gives a speech or holds a press conference in which he fails to mention his thoughts about a "New World Order."

A new method is needed now to nullify America's treasured Constitution, and the insidious EOs have gained a new and even more dangerous part to play in the plotting of the one worlders of the Trilateralist-Bilderberger ilk. The biggest danger of such schemes as those proposed by Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and Sen Phil Gramm (R-Texas) is that any declared "national emergencies" would allow the president to activate repressive EOs signed by presidents going back to World War II.

Here are some of the EOs involved:

* EO 10995, which provides for the takeover of the communications media. In other wards, forget about freedom of the press.
* EO 10997, which provides for the takeover of all electric power, petroleum, gas and other fuels and minerals.
* EO 10998, which provides for the takeover of all food resources and the nation's farms.
* EO 10999, which provide for the takeover of all modes of transportation, control of highways, sea ports etc.
* EO 11000, which provide for mobilization of all civilians into work brigades under government supervision. In other words, slave labor.
* EO 11001, which provides for government takeover of all health, education and welfare functions.
* EO 11002,designates the postmaster general to operate a national registration of all persons.
* EO 11003, which provides for the government to take over airports and aircraft.
* EO 11004, which provides for the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, designate areas to be abandoned and establish new locations for populations.
* EO 11005, which provides for the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.

All of the above orders were combined by President Richard Nixon into the notorious EO 11490 (pronounced "EO eleven-4-9-oh"), which allows all of these insidious things to take place if a national emergency is declared. Here are some direct quotes from the 40-page Nixon EO: "Develop plans and procedures for the Department of Defense utilization of non-industrial facilities in the event of an emergency in order to reduce requirements for new construction and to provide facilities in a minimum period of time ..." in other words, the confiscation of private property.

"develop plans and procedures for the provision of logistical support to members of foreign forces, their employees and dependents as may be present in the United States under terms of bilateral or multilateral agreement which authorized such support in the event of a national emergency.

In other words, prepare for the billeting of troops in your home contrary to the Third Amendment.

"Develop emergency plans for the control of alien enemies and other aliens within the United States . . . The location, restraint or custody of aliens . . ."

"The Secretary of Labor shall have primary responsibility for preparing national emergency plans and developing preparedness programs covering civilian manpower resources,"

Preparations can be undertaken to forced labor.

"Provision for regulation of money and credit in accordance with the needs of the economy, including the acquisition, decentralization and distribution of emergency supplies of currency; the collection of cash items and non-cash items; and the conduct of fiscal agency and foreign operations.

"Provision for the continued or resumed operation of banking, savings and loan, and farm credit institutions, including measures for the recreation of evidence of assets or liabilities destroyed or inaccessible.

"Regulation of the withdrawal of currency and the transfer of credits including deposit and share account balances.

There are those naive souls who believe that fears of the United States ever becoming a dictatorship are unwarranted. From the above EO signed by Nixon on October 28, 1969, the reader can judge for himself.

Then along came President Jimmy Carter and EO 12148, titled the Federal Emergency Management Act. All prior EOs having anything to do with emergency planning were incorporated into it. This EO gives the president absolute power during any "emergency." so declared by him.

From Carter's machinations emerged a totally new bureaucracy, the Federal Emergency management Agency (FEMA), which assumed control of a chain of older "emergency agencies," including the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, the Federal Insurance Administration, the National Weather Service, the Federal Emergency Broadcast Systems and about a dozen others.

In an "emergency." FEMA was, through EO 12148, to virtually take over the key functions of the national government by means of "senior representatives" and "liaison agents" now positioned in every major government agency. Incredibly, FEMA even has the power to assume the duties of the president himself.

FEMA, under its more innocent-appearing posture, is the organization of the federal government that rushes in to administer federal aid and assistance when a disaster strikes a community or state.

Those who want to know the complete truth about its not-so-innocent nature only need to peruse Carter's EO 12148, as it appeared on July 24, 1979, in the Federal Register, and as it was reprinted in the May 26 1990 issue of The SPOTLIGHT.

Finally, President Ronald Reagan updated this EO in his last full year of office on November 18, 1988, leaving his successor, Bush, the tools to create a dictatorship, his "New World Order."

 

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