The New Executive Order: The government can sieze all assets.

[Gulcasa]

Glad I'm Canadian and our politics are so dull I can't even remember who our Prime Minister is right now.

[SegNin]

I can't even remember who our Prime Minister is right now.

It's some dude named Stephen Harper.

Yeah, I've never heard of him either (I googled it)

[J]

The point is that there is no need for executive orders like this. The fact that it is being considered is ridiculous.

Well, this is not good... and to think that someone actually has considered this to pass it as a law.

[goosethemighty]

If you pose a threat to undermining (protesting of any form) the war effort.



Here's a link to why this is the last step in tyranny: http://www.ron-paul-business-directo...o-tyranny.html

Here's the link to the actual executive order: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/relea...0070717-3.html

Basically, the latest executive order, assuming congress doesn't kill it, will allow the Secretary of the Treasury to sieze all your money, deeds, and titles to vehicles if you pose a risk to undermine the war effort. The reason I think that this is absolute tyranny is because everything you own can be taken away from you if you even so much as complain about the war.

What is wrong is that if this is not shot down by congress, it will become law and all future presidents will be able to intimidate the American public into doing what it wants. Democracy as we know it will be dead.

Democracy never even existed.

[Evans]

Big government's response to that: If you have nothing to hide, what's the problem?

My response to that: Government should mind its own business.

Invasion of privacy?

If it can make it its own business, then you're screwed.

My response to that would be:
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

And the more control you have over us, the more absolute your power becomes.

LOL admins LOL

They have as much power over people as people let them have.

[Cookie Monster]

My response to that would be:
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

And the more control you have over us, the more absolute your power becomes.

LOL admins LOL

Good thing is it doesn't affect any of us

[Panda Man]

Good thing is it doesn't affect any of us

one would think so.


Ray_ can seize my assets. As for the government, I dare them.

[Cookie Monster]

one would think so.


Ray_ can seize my assets. As for the government, I dare them.

It does not, believe me, Panda, you can take my word for it

[Panda Man]

It does not, believe me, Panda, you can take my word for it

Would you be willing to bet 5 virgin chocolate chip cookies on that?

[Cookie Monster]

Would you be willing to bet 5 virgin chocolate chip cookies on that?

Of coure not! who do you think I am?

[Spiffyness]

I agree, and the fact that this could go through is kind of scary if you think about it. I for one truly believe that this will be shot down by Congress, but on the chance that the vote to stop the order is less than 2/3, then this order would be extremely bad news. As Melody and others have pointed out, the order itself is vague, and they don't really need any proof to take everything away from you. I try to stay away from politics, but when something as dumb as this is announced, and there is a chance that it will go through, I can't help but point out the obvious dangers this could have in the future. I'd hope that the order, if it did somehow make it through, would never be abused, but let's face facts here: this is the real world and orders like this, even if made in good faith, have the very real possibility of being abused. Agree with me or not, that's your right to your opinion, and personally, I'd like to be able to voice an opinion without worrying if doing so will cause me to lose everything.

That's about how I feel. I don't think that it's very likely that Congress WON'T kill the order, but I find the fact that Bush (and/or his administration) would even try to pull something like this appalling.

My response to that would be:
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Absolutely. As much as I still like to believe that President Bush has good intentions about this country, he never seems to think about the Constitutionality of his actions (or the morality for that matter). I'm not one of those conspiracy theorists that think the Bush administration is some grand scheme to turn the US into a dictatorship... but Bush seems to be just stupid enough to make it one on .