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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door illwill
Hier gaan we weer!!!!
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Moet hij weer bewijzen dat deze mensen bestaan???
Net zoals Norad, Stanley Hilton, Gary Webb enz..?
Of verwacht je dat dit nieuws op CNN of in de Washington Post gaat verschijnen.
De mainstreammedia maakt zelfs geen melding meer van wetsveranderingen die door Bush worden doorgevoerd. Telkens moeten we zoeken in plaatselijke kranten of op het net.
Hier nog een voorbeeldje. Bush heeft na 9/11 wat te veel weerstand gehad van Senaat en Congres om z'n dictaoriale plannen doorzetten. Nu is hij dus bezig zich op voorhand in te dekken.
Congress Passes `Doomsday' Plan
Boston Herald
1.9.2005
WASHINGTON -
With no fanfare, the U.S. House has passed a controversial doomsday provision that would allow
a handful of lawmakers to run Congress if a
terrorist attack or major disaster killed or incapacitated
large numbers of congressmen.
Poetin achterna dus die ook al een wet heeft gestemd die ervoorzorgt dat overheidmensen niet meer worden verkozen maar aangeduid.EEn regelrechte dictatuur! De mensen van het Congres zijn gewaarschuwd. De volgende terroristische aanslag zal niet enkel Amerikaanse burgers viseren maar ook Congresleden.
``I think (the new rule) is terrible in a whole host of ways - first, I think it's
unconstitutional,'' said Norm Ornstein, a counselor to the independent Continuity of Government Commission, a bipartisan panel created to study the issue.
``It's a very foolish thing to do, I believe, and the way in which it was done was more foolish.''
But supporters say the rule provides a stopgap measure to allow the government to continue functioning at a time of national crisis.
GOP House leaders pushed the provision as part of a larger rules package that drew attention instead for its proposed ethics changes, most of which were dropped.
Usually,
218 lawmakers - a majority of the 435 members of Congress - are required to conduct House business, such as passing laws or declaring war.
But under the new rule, a majority of living congressmen
no longer will be needed to do business under ``catastrophic circumstances.''
Instead, a majority of the congressmen able to show up at the House would be enough to conduct business, conceivably a dozen lawmakers or less.
The House speaker would announce the number after a report by the House Sergeant at Arms. Any lawmaker unable to make it to the chamber would effectively not be counted as a congressman.
The circumstances include ``natural disaster, attack, contagion or similar calamity rendering Representatives incapable of attending the proceedings of the House.''
The House could be run by a small number of lawmakers for months, because House vacancies must be filled by special elections. Governors can make temporary appointments to the Senate.
Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.), one of few lawmakers active on the issue, argued the rule change contradicts the U.S. Constitution, which states that ``a majority of each (House) shall constitute a quorum to do business.
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Changing what constitutes a quorum in this way would allow less than a dozen lawmakers to declare war on another nation,'' Baird said.
Iets hiervan gehoord op CNN? WP? Zelfs de AP heeft geen aandacht besteed aan de wetswijziging!