Smells Like Martial Law...

[dionysusdevotee]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

If I'm reading this correctly the president just gave the military resource allocation, including labor, priority over pretty much everything, regardless of state of emergency.

"Upon such approval, the Secretary of the resource department

Comments

[samayam]

This executive order is just a refinement of an older one put in place under GWB: http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/pdf/12919.pdf

I have not done a detailed side-by-side analysis, but the section about the selective service, for instance, is largely unchanged.

[dionysusdevotee]

As I understand it, this OE extends the powers to beyond state of emergency. I don't really buy the "nothing to see here" argument. These guys might be incredible wasters of time, but I doubt they're in the practice of spending all the man-hours and research required to write one of these just for the sake of covering old ground.

Its a pretty huge deal to grant the president, and whoever he delegates the authority to to seize industry and press people into labor, just because its in the interests of the state. We've seen how well that works. North Korea comes to mind.

I remember when "Bush was Hitler" and people told me he was going to cancel elections and take over the planet. Now its "nothing to see here", even though the Obama admin is the Bush admin on 'roids.

Lulz.

[samayam]

Oh I'm not saying nothing to see here, I'm just saying put things in perspective

[dionysusdevotee]

See my above comments