Executive Order Grants US Gov't New Powers Over Communication Systems

An anonymous reader writes "President Obama has issued a new executive order: 'Assignment of National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications Functions.' EPIC reports: 'The Executive Order grants new powers to the Department of Homeland Security, including the ability to collect certain public communications information. Under the Executive Order the White House has also granted the Department the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications.' A few key excerpts from the exec order: 'The views of all levels of government, the private and nonprofit sectors, and the public must inform the development of national security and emergency preparedness (NS/EP) [National Security/Emergency Preparedness] communications policies, programs, and capabilities. ... Sec. 5.2. The Secretary of Homeland Security shall: (a) oversee the development, testing, implementation, and sustainment of NS/EP communications, including: communications that support Continuity of Government; Federal, State, local, territorial, and tribal emergency preparedness and response communications; non-military executive branch communications systems; critical infrastructure protection networks; and non-military communications networks, particularly with respect to prioritization and restoration; .... (e) satisfy priority communications requirements through the use of commercial, Government, and privately owned communications resources, when appropriate."

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Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours

[Anonymous Coward]

All you Bamsters had enough yet?

Your guy has sure screwed the pooch.

Re:When Egypt or Libya does it, it's bad, of cours

[jmorris42]

> Unless Obama really is Satan incarnate (or a socialist Kenyan Muslim terrorist,
> I'm not sure which is worse), then there's not too much to worry about

I'd say from the available evidence that Obama is most likely a communist/socialist with Muslim roots in much the way that most American socialists have Christian roots. But communism is a religion (albiet a godless one) so you can't really be one AND a theist. Not a terrorist but sympathetic to their goals and like most of the professional left seem enamored with violent anti-liberal thugs to the point of making excuses for their violent means of achieving their ends. Because in their secret hearts they lack only the public support to use violent means themselves.

He wasn't born in Kenya but unless the reason for hiding the birth cert is to hide a dark family secret, he is not a Natural Born Citizen in the sense of the requirement to be POTUS. Being born in HI makes him an American Citizen but it requires both parents to be a citizen at the time of birth to qualify as Natural Born and BHO Sr. was not and was never known to have even contemplated naturalization.

The natural born requirement was designed to prevent people with divided loyalty from being entrusted with the fairly unrestrained powers of POTUS. Due to his 'imteresting' biography Mr. Obama can rightly claim Kenyan, British, Indonesian or American Citizenship and or travel papers. What part of that implies 'undivided loyalty' to you?