Scary Stuff
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
The URL takes you to a July 17 Executive Order. Check out Section 5. If the Feds think you are opposed to their efforts in Iraq they can seize what you got.
Normally in law there's a requirement that opposition, action, inaction, lead directly to harm for the opposition, action or inaction to be subject to, well, legal action. This executive order leaves out the causation element of the the crime.
Having written this, there isn't a Republican or Democrat running for President that I want to vote for. Is there no national figure that has a lick of sense? Why isn't a Senator or Representative, obviously aware of this order raising holy hell?
Finally, I was referred to the site by Kvatch at Blognonomous.com. He's in the Recommended sidebar. He isn't seeming as left-wing as I sometimes think him to be, these days.
3 comments:
I guess few people care to opine about legalese of the most inscrutable order...but I will.
This executive order is so loose that Bush could impound all my money because I wrote a blog decrying the Iraqi government, and you could not represent me because that would be "helping me". Besides, there's no court to appeal the impoundment to, nor a requirement for the president to publish the names of the impoundees and why their money was frozen.
The National Socialist Party would have been proud of such an order, but I think it disgraces America.
He isn't seeming as left-wing as I sometimes think him to be, these days.
Hey, thanks for the mention, but them's fightin' words, amigo.
I'm so far to the left that Castro is to the right of me. ;-)
Gee what are they going to take from me? They took my son, physically injured his brain, threw him away after his honorable discharge and said Not Our Problem.
I have NEVER been more ashamed of the government that runs this country or of any other president in my life.
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