Obama ALMIGHTY- A new Bill Granting Obama More Executive Power than Ever Through FEMA
H.R.1174
H.R.1174 : To establish the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a cabinet-level independent agency in the executive branch, and for other purposes.
Here's a new kicker bill to get your teeth grinding. I don't know how many of you know how much power FEMA already has, but if our country was ever declared to be in a state of martial law, they can pretty much suspend the Constitution and take over. This bill would create an "ADMINISTRATOR" TO BE APPOINTED BY OBAMA and be directly under him. It allows for transfer of powers from all previous laws passed for FEMA etc. It's super scary. Read it for yourself.
FEMA
H.R. 1174 seems harmless when you first read the text. It’s a bill that acts to reinstate FEMA as a full cabinet position. However, when combined with the history of FEMA's power and in conjunction with H.R. 645, we need to do everything we can to stop this bill and H.R. 645 from passing. H. R. 645 seeks to establish “National Security Centers”, again this sounds like a reasonable request on the surface, but what could these centers be used for?
FEMA and their immense authority was established by a series of Executive Orders which by-passed the approval of Congress. Below is a PARTIAL list of the Executive Orders and the power the orders transferred to FEMA:
· 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 government 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 to 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 responsibility 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.
· EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.
· EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis."
We MUST contact our Representatives in Washington and fight against H.R. 1174 and H.R. 645. Right now FEMA is being managed by the Department of Homeland Security. H.R. 1174 gives Pres. Obama too much power. At any moment without any checks, President Obama could declare an emergency and authorize FEMA to take over the US without Congressional support. This is a frightening scenario. We would lose ALL CHECKS and BALANCES.
This link has videos showing disarming American's during Katrina, and video of Congressional questioning about REX 84
FEMA: It’s Not About Floods, It’s About Martial Law
This link shows more supporting documentation
CRS Report for Congress
FEMA Concentration Camps:
Locations and Executive Orders
Go to Thomas to search Bills in the House and Senate that have Passed in past Congresses
Write your Representatives Here now to OPPOSE THIS BILL. It grants Obama more power than he already has.
During a congressional hearing Wednesday, Congressman Joseph Cao asked FEMA's Assistant Director Jim Stark about a number of allegations made against upper management at the New Orleans office – among them, nepotism, cronyism, and sexual harassment – some of which Cao says his investigation reveals has been ongoing for nearly a year.
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