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People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security.
-- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

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Bush Invokes Executive Order for Emergency Appointments

December 17, 2003 | Bush just signed a Continuity of Government planning executive order, which allows him or a designated representaive (in this case the Secretary of Defense) to appoint officials (Judges - Officers -Generals) without congressional oversight.

This represents the continued construction of the framework of a military state. We are already in a "National State of Emergency" which gives the president enormous powers over American citizens. This is an exercise of the FEMA laws; see "FEMA laws" on this web site for more details.

This is all done in the guise of safety and protection of the people from the external threat of terrorism. See "External Threat" on this site for more details.

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
December 17, 2003

Executive Order Appointments During National Emergency

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to further respond to the national emergency I declared in Proclamation 7463 of September 14, 2001, I hereby order as follows:

Section 1. Emergency Appointments Authority. The emergency appointments authority at section 603 of title 10, United States Code, is invoked and made available to the Secretary of Defense in accordance with the terms of that statute and of Executive Order 12396 of December 9, 1982.

Sec. 2. Judicial Review. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by a party against the United States, its departments, agencies, entities, officers, employees or agents, or any person.

Sec. 3. Administration. This order shall be transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register.

GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE