Bush Enabling Act: The Big Story That Never Was

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Bush Enabling Act: The Big Story That Never Was
by Stephen Pizzo | May 25 2007


Why wasn't this on every front page earlier this month? I mean it isn't like it was kept secret. It appeared on May 10th on the White House's own web page:

President Signs National Security/Homeland Security Presidential Directive

Purpose

(1) This directive establishes a comprehensive national policy on the continuity of Federal Government structures and operations and a single National Continuity Coordinator responsible for coordinating the development and implementation of Federal continuity policies..... 6) The President shall lead the activities of the Federal Government for ensuring constitutional government. In order to advise and assist the President in that function, the Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism (APHS/CT) is hereby designated as the National Continuity Coordinator.

-- "Catastrophic Emergency" means 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;

Full order here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070509-12.html

Breathtaking. Simply breathtaking. It's the kind of sweeping authority that only a banana republic could love. It's the kind of authority Fidel Castro operates under and which Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is working day and night to get for himself. The Mullahs in Iran already have it and, as of May 9th, George W. Bush is just a single "incident" away from having it too.

Is this just more liberal hand-wringing and whining? Well, don't take my word for it. The link to the unadulterated goods is right there above this paragraph. Take your own lying eyes there and read it yourself. And read it all. Then contact your favorite newspaper editor and ask him/her just how far up their ass their had to be to miss this? How did they miss it and fail to see the clear and present danger it poses to everything this country is supposed to stand for?

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1. "Catastrophic Emergency"

now where have I heard those words before?

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2. Using a RW source

to draw attention to this "law" might be merely a way to promulgate and announce it to show there was no protest and no secrecy and lessen any shock at its implementation. As with the iraq invasion the left learns all the facts and the outreaching, testing the ability of the commons to get a grip and stop it. Nothing much happens politically though it is mostly out there, so they move on and on and on and repeat.

Notice the media at most just notes it and there is hardly an outcry to quash. Suspiciously on one call-in(the immediate first) to the Bill press show there was one "erudite" fellow all ready to defend this crap complete with historical argumentation! Thankfully the somewhat naive Press hung up on him. Someone on the Bush team is awake to the promulgation of this story. Not as much can be said about anyone else.