Executive Tyranny

Obama is at it again with his Executive orders. If he wasn't such a nice guy who loves his country, and not a would be dictator it would be alarming. You might think Obama was getting his Plan B ready just in case the election didn't go his way: declare a national emergency and martial law. Gee that would make him *America's dictator*, and it would all be legal. Remember when Hitler rose to power in Nazi Germany everything was legal. But that could *never* happen here. Or could it?

Alan Caruba wrote this article and he has a daily blog called Warning Signs.

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Bruce

'The Executive Order signed on June 25 is titled “Russian Highly Enriched Uranium” and offers as its justification the fact that “the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federal continues to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.”

A national emergency? Over Russian nuclear material?
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A previous Executive Order issued on March 16th evoked an even stronger response from those paying attention to what the President is doing. On March 22nd, Jeffrey T. Kuhner, a columnist for The Washington Times, wrote:

“President Obama has given himself the powers to declare martial law—especially in the event of a war with Iran. It is a sweeping power grab that should worry every American.”

“On March 16th, the White House released an executive order, ‘National Defense Resources Preparedness.’ The document is stunning in its audacity and a flagrant violation of the Constitution. It states that, in the case of a war or national emergency, the federal government has the authority to take over almost every aspect of American society.“'