State of Emergency and the acts that define them.
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The subject came up about the Patriot Act provisions, so I scanned the Patriot Act again and War and Emergency Powers Act of 1933. Since the War and Emergency Powers Act, every president has usurped lawmaking powers. Their ‘laws’ are called Executive Orders (EOs). These EOs, not our Constitution, are what is governing America today. The War and Emergency Powers Act enables … the president to declare a national emergency, and thereby become a dictator.” (Wiki) http://epic.org/privacy/terro...

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The National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive (National Security Presidential Directive/NSPD 51 and Homeland Security Presidential Directive/HSPD-20)” also known as the “National Continuity Policy” was signed May 9, 2007, by President George W. Bush. This assigns all power to the executive branch in the case of a catastrophic emergency.

Once a state of emergency is declared by Congress, the Constitution is effectively thrown out the window. The bad part is, we have state of emergency declarations that are still in effect from 1971. The state of emergency of 1933 was not ended by Congress until ~1952. As long as there is a state of emergency in effect, no matter how old, the president can effectively bypass Congress whenever he wants. At the point the Congress issues a state of emergency, we effectively live in a dictatorship.

Lovely thought, no?

TOUGH LUV 4U

Instead of posting thoughts none of the congresisonal royalty will ever read...how about FAXing your public servants about oil-energy???I just did...at 11:50amCST to Alexander-Landrieu-Vitter...you can get their Fax # online...so get to it and have an impact instead of type-type yak yak to each other...get off the bench and get in the game!

They are your public servants...you probably eagerly voted for them...now you let your servants go uninformed...you are part of the problem (sad to say)...
FAX today and every month at least. There are no excuses!

MY WINDFALL (TAXES) PROPOSAL

Trying to find a middle ground between the strident control-freak socialists (national democrats) and the rest of us has spawned a personal idea. Since the oil companies are paying megabillions (record levels) of taxes (something like 12-20 billion a year!) to the federal gov-ment…why not simply write one bill that puts (say any tax revenues over a billion a year) into an Energy Savings Fund that is used to promote energy conservation? Tax credits would be for programmable house thermostats, 4 cylinder (30+mpg EPA) cars, solar panels, R22+ insulation, solar water heaters, special energy saving windows, bicycles, wind farms and recycling oil.
This would require putting the “political ego knives” away and writing one bill based upon common sense, not political advantage…like reasonable limits on the above such as 2 bikes per tax filer, 2 cars, 10 windows or just a tax rebate allowance per item… like a $100 credit for a thermostat or a bicycle, $500 for a car or windows or insulation. You get the idea. We had a similiar measure under Carter but they made sure that did not last long. Thanks a yahoo congress.
Now for the down side. We have an arrogant royalty in congress that you can bet could never get together for a real bill for real people in the real world. Reason? This concept would take away some billions from the congress…billions lost to buying votes for the next election. Billions they could easily free up IF they cut pork way back and made some minor reforms in fiscal management. Do you trust your royal congress to do this? Now you know why they are the 9% congress.

Thanks for inviting me Jerry!