Can someone please tell me what this means

[libnnc]

Should we be concerned? Has anyone in the MSM addressed this yet?



National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive


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NATIONAL SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/NSPD 51

HOMELAND SECURITY PRESIDENTIAL DIRECTIVE/HSPD-20

Subject: National Continuity Policy

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. This policy establishes "National Essential Functions," prescribes continuity requirements for all executive departments and agencies, and provides guidance for State, local, territorial, and tribal governments, and private sector organizations in order to ensure a comprehensive and integrated national continuity program that will enhance the credibility of our national security posture and enable a more rapid and effective response to and recovery from a national emergency.


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

[Edweird]

1. It's the chimp declaring himself king.

[Bobbieo]

13. And you really think that getting rid of the Chimp

will be easy?

[Edweird]

18. Bush Grants Self Permission To Grant More Power To Self - (the onion)

I posted this a long time ago, but it is relevant again.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/51140

WASHINGTON, DC—In a decisive 1–0 decision Monday, President Bush voted to grant the president the constitutional power to grant himself additional powers.
"As president, I strongly believe that my first duty as president is to support and serve the president," Bush said during a televised address from the East Room of the White House shortly after signing his executive order. "I promise the American people that
I will not abuse this new power, unless it becomes necessary to grant myself the power to do so at a later time."
The Presidential Empowerment Act, which the president hand-drafted on his own Oval Office stationery and promptly signed into law, provides Bush with full authority to permit himself to authorize increased jurisdiction over the three branches of the federal government, provided that the president considers it in his best interest to do so.

"In a time of war, the president must have the power he needs to make the tough decisions, including, if need be, the decision to grant himself even more power," Bush said. "To do otherwise would be playing into the hands of our enemies."

Added Bush: "And it's all under due process of the law as I see it."
In addition, the president reserves the right to overturn any decision to allow himself to increase his power by using a line-item veto, which in turn may only be overruled by the president.

Senior administration officials lauded Bush's decision, saying that current presidential powers over presidential power were "far too limited."

"Previously, the president only had the power to petition Congress to allow him to grant himself the power to grant more power to himself," Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said shortly after the ceremony. "Now, the president can grant himself the power to interpret new laws however he sees fit, then use that power to interpret a law in such a manner that in turn grants him increased power."

In addition, a proviso in the 12th provision of the new law permits Bush the authority to waive the need for any presidential authorization of power in a case concerning national security, although legal experts suggest it would be little exercised.

Despite the president's new powers, the role of Congress and the Supreme Court has not been overlooked. Under the new law, both enjoy the newly broadened ability to grant the president the authority to increase his presidential powers.
"This gives the president the tools he needs to ensure that the president has all the necessary tools to expedite what needs to be done, unfettered by presidential restrictions on himself," said Rep. John Cornyn (R-TX). "It's long overdue."

Though public response to the new law has been limited, there has been an unfavorable reaction among Democrats, who are calling for restrictions on Bush's power to allow himself to grant the president more powers that would restrict the powers of Congress.

"This is a clear case of President Bush having carte blanche to grant himself complete discretion to enact laws to increase his power," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said. "The only thing we can do now is withhold our ability to grant him more authority to grant himself more power."

"Unless he authorizes himself to strip us of that power," Reid added.

Despite criticism, Bush took his first official action under the new law Tuesday, signing an executive order ordering that the chief executive be able to order more executive orders.

In addition, Republicans fearful that the president's new power undermines their ability to grant him power have proposed a new law that would allow senators to permit him to grant himself power, with or without presidential approval.



I love the onion. These guys are psychic.

[Subdivisions]

2. Second Reply #1 and, no, no coverage in the MSM...n/t

[sam sarrha]

3. it probably means the Bombers are headed to NUKE IRAN.. the internet will go down and martial law

will be declared, everything will collapse and you will lose your home and anything being purchased on credit they can reposes.. homelessness will be a crime and you will be shipped to a distribution center.. probably to Uganda to earn some credits in a copper mine..... there may be a period of pause with russia and china to see if we can do something about it .. but i doubt it will last long

I BULLSHIT YOU NOT... they plan to NUKE IRAN.. this is martial law talk, we need to take these fools seriously.. but we may soon lose the ability to organize anything at all to do anything about it.

ch*ney has been running around DC trying to gather up a coup to take over and nuke Iran.. it may just be bunker buster Mikes, but if we detonate anything nuclear it will be war for ever with Islamic extremists and anyone on the fringes will immediately join up to destroy us..

we are too close in our investigations to shutting them down, they are not going to let that happen

[libnnc]

4. That's what I thought.

But for some reason, this little factoid isn't exactly burning up the boards here.

[seemslikeadream]

6. It's here

just gets lost in the crowd

[sam sarrha]

11. cant download the picture, i get a white box witha little red x in the upper left corner, what is it

[Nay]

9. I've read it here several times over the past week. Many comments.

But again, with caving Dems in power (just barely), few of us have much hope that we can affect much. We can keep ourselves informed, keep cash on hand, and keep our bags packed. I certainly don't expect many of my sedentary, chicken-nugget-eating neighbors to do anything but knuckle under and say they "want to be safe." If their TV still works, they're happy.

[Madspirit]

5. This Is Scary Stuff...n/t

[BrklynLiberal]

7. I have a sickening feeling it is NOT good news for the country.

[rasputin1952]

8. Considering that nothing these boneheads have done yet...

has benefitted the nation, your feeling queezy about this is well justified...

[sam sarrha]

10. is it called cognitive dissonance. too fearful to even pray it isnt true, prayr might acknowledge it

[MGKrebs]

12. Bush* is setting up yet another person to blame for when

he takes the next step in his coup and it, like all his other ill-conceived adventures, goes awry.

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. The National Continuity Coordinator, in coordination with the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), without exercising directive authority, shall coordinate the development and implementation of continuity policy for executive departments and agencies. The Continuity Policy Coordination Committee (CPCC), chaired by a Senior Director from the Homeland Security Council staff, designated by the National Continuity Coordinator, shall be the main day-to-day forum for such policy coordination.

This job is currently held by Frances Fragos Townsend, who would essentially become something like an Executive Director of the USA if/when the Prez decides we've suffered some "catastrophic emergency" sufficient to allow him to decide whether or not there will be any role for the other branches of government. Poor Ms. Townsend will take the fall for screwing up the ensuing chaos, retire to Dubai, and W will eventually make to the ranch in Paraguay, where he will feel comfortable amidst the rich fugitive Nazi heritage there.

[sam sarrha]

14. next time he surrounds himself with little children as human shields, kiss your ass good by

[Bobbieo]

16. Is Bush going to bring troops home to set up a system for martial law?

When I mention martial Law I get the DU shaft and the question,"who is going to impose it? All the troops are in Iraq and Afghanistan," they laughingly proclaim.

[Mind_your_head]

21. Blackwater mercs would do the job I would think

getting paid with our own tax dollars too. (But I guess you realize this already, it's some of the other DU'ers who don't apparently).

[scarletwoman]

22. No. They don't need the troops, they have Blackwater.

That's part of the beauty of the whole thing. Keep our volunteer military -- our sons and daughters, our husbands and wives, brothers and sisters -- tied up on the other side of the world in endless war, and hand over domestic "security" operations to the corporate mercenaries.

All the correctly connected people get richer, and you avoid the danger of sentimental ties to their communities that might interfere with, say, a national guardsman following orders to round up his aunt and uncle and all their neighbors for relocation.

sw

[sam sarrha]

23. there delusional, they thought the whole middle east would join or righteous democracy war, and they

still believe whatever shit the NeoCons feed them with a spoon..

not that it would actually work.. but it will crash the country's economy and create chaos, maybe that is what needs to happen to get rid of them... what ever it takes.

there is a chance for civil upheaval.. i guess i need to upgrade the caliber of my home security system..

[MGKrebs]

24. Oh right, like people would get up off their sofas to oppose martial law.

I mean, please.

The only reason there may be a tiny possibility of resistance is that all the reality shows have finished up for the season except for 'Sheer Genius'.

[Cleita]

15. Yes, we should be worried.n/t

[libnnc]

17. And there's this written by Lee Rogers at Global Research

Bush To Be Dictator In A Catastrophic Emergency

by Lee Rogers

Global Research, May 21, 2007
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The Bush administration has released a directive called the National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive. The directive released on May 9th, 2007 has gone almost unnoticed by the mainstream and alternative media. This is understandable considering the huge Ron Paul and immigration news but this story is equally as huge. In this directive, Bush declares that in the event of a “Catastrophic Emergency”, the President will be entrusted with leading the activities to ensure constitutional government. The language in this directive would in effect make the President a dictator in the case of such an emergency.

The directive defines a “Catastrophic Emergency” as the following.

"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;

So what does this mean? This is entirely subjective and doesn’t provide any real concrete definition of what such an emergency would entail. Assuming that it means a disaster on the scale of the 9/11 attacks or Katrina, there is no question that the United States at some point in time will experience an emergency on par with either of those events. When one of those events takes place, the President will be a dictator in charge of ensuring a working constitutional government.

The language written in the directive is disturbing because it doesn’t say that the President will work with the other branches of government equally to ensure a constitutional government is protected. It says clearly that there will be a cooperative effort among the three branches that will be coordinated by the President. If the President is coordinating these efforts it effectively puts him in charge of every branch. The language in the directive is entirely Orwellian in nature making it seem that it is a cooperative effort between all three branches but than it says that the President is in charge of the cooperative effort. <snip>

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ROG20070521&articleId=5721

[Bobbieo]

19. libnnc and the hurricane season has not yet begun. Will this be catastrophic enough for the Chimp?

[BrklynLiberal]

20. That is scary as Hell, and once again brings to mind the happenings in pre-Nazi Germany

http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html
But Then It Was Too Late

"What no one seemed to notice," said a colleague of mine, a philologist, "was the ever widening gap, after 1933,between the government and the people. Just think how very wide this gap was to begin with, here in Germany. And it became always wider. You know it doesn't make people close to their government to be told that this is a people's government, a true democracy, or to be enrolled in civilian defense, or even to vote. All this has little, really nothing to do with knowing one is governing.

What happened here was the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by surprise; to receiving decisions deliberated in secret; to believing that the situation was so complicated that the government had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so dangerous that, even if he people could understand it, it could not be released because of national security. And their sense of identification with Hitler, their trust in him, made it easier to widen this gap and reassured those who would otherwise have worried about it.

<snip>

"To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it - please try to believe me - unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, "regretted," that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these "little measures" that no "patriotic German" could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

<snip>

[libnnc]

25. Kick 'cause this is kinda sorta important

just a little...


:kick: