Reichstag Fire Forever – The US In A Constant State Of Emergency

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by Cheryl Pass

I was looking for information on Executive Orders to find out if there is a remedy to them. As usual what I thought would be simple became a maize of complications. I was side-tracked over to another facet of the issue. Actually, it should be simple, if only our government was working properly. But it isn’t …and you know it isn’t. I’ve been asking myself how the occupants of the White House are getting away with Executive Orders and why these orders are never challenged. I think I stumbled upon the answer.

According to Wikipedia, in 1976 a National Emergencies Act was passed to stop the possibility of never ending states of emergency. The Act supposedly set a limit of two years on any state of emergency declared by the POTUS. This also gave Congress the ability to require the POTUS to go through formalities to declare a National Emergency. Unfortunately, it did nothing to stop any POTUS from continuing a never ending state of emergency. It is an ultimate power grab by the Executive Branch. Here is the bad news:

The United States has been in a state of national emergency continuously for over 30 years, since the Carter administration invoked it premised on the “situation in Iran”. In November 2012, President Barack Obama informed Congress that the State of National Emergency in effect since November 14, 1979 will be extended another year. The National Emergencies Act grants various powers to the president during times of emergency, and was intended to prevent a president from declaring a state of emergency of indefinite duration.

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