National Emergency

Michael Froomkin posted to the cyberia list a pointer to the Clinton
administration's new export policy.  He has a copy on his web site at:
<URL: http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/nov96-regs.htm >.  The thing
I found interesting is that it refers to the fact that we are currently
living under a state of national emergency!  I searched on the whitehouse
web site and couldn't find the executive order referred to (maybe it was
classified) but did find this one:

	For Immediate Release                             June 30, 1994 


			  Executive Order 
			      #12923 
			   - - - - - - - 

	     Continuation Of Export Control Regulations 


	  By the authority vested in me as President by the  
	Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,  
	including but not limited to section 203 of the International  
	Emergency Economic Powers Act ("Act") (50 U.S.C. 1702), I, William  
	J. Clinton, President of the United States of America, findthat  
	the unrestricted access of foreign parties to U.S. goods,  
	technology, and technical data and the existence of certain  
	boycott practices of foreign nations, in light of the expiration  
	of the Export Administration Act of 1979, as amended (50 U.S.C.  
	App. 2401 et seq.), constitute an unusual and extraordinarythreat  
	to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the  
	United States and hereby declare a national emergency with respect  
	to that threat. 

Apparently this state of emergency is still in effect.  This is what
gives the President the power to unilaterally make changes in the export
policy.  It would be nice if our congresspeople would take some
responsibility in this matter.

Hal

At 5:23 PM -0800 11/15/96, Hal Finney wrote:
>Michael Froomkin posted to the cyberia list a pointer to the Clinton
>administration's new export policy.  He has a copy on his web site at:
><URL: http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/nov96-regs.htm >.  The thing
>I found interesting is that it refers to the fact that we are currently
>living under a state of national emergency!  I searched on the whitehouse
>web site and couldn't find the executive order referred to (maybe it was
>classified) but did find this one:

Use the source, young Hal! While the White House Web site may not have it
online, Alta Vista turns up 113 hits (though not all valid) to it.

Basically, this was one of the alphabet soup of Emergency Orders, National
Security Decision Directives, and Executive Decisions passed or enacted
(sometimes in secrecy) during the last 30 years of the Continuing Emergency.

(Nixon's wage-price freezes, the oil embargo actions, the strategic
reserves, the anti-inflation measures, various Carter emergencies, and
various Reagan emergency orders, including NSDD-145, which directly affects
control of communicaitons, cryptography, etc.)

FEMA, the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency, took over several of these
emergency orders (the running of them) in the late 70s.

Standard stuff for we conspiracy buffs. One doesn't need to invoke
historical groups like the Illuminati to see that the levers of power are
pulled by strange folks.

One of the things that most people don't appreciate is that these emergency
orders are essentially never repealed. (Not too surprising--if I was in
government, I wouldn't voluntarily give back any additional powers, either.
And the only consituency for rolling them back is the membership of the
evil militias, so nothing happens.)

--Tim May

"The government announcement is disastrous," said Jim Bidzos,.."We warned IBM
that the National Security Agency would try to twist their technology."
[NYT, 1996-10-02]
We got computers, we're tapping phone lines, I know that that ain't allowed.
---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
Higher Power: 2^1,257,787-1 | black markets, collapse of governments.
"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

In <199611160123.RAA00315@crypt.hfinney.com>, on 11/15/96 
   at 05:23 PM, Hal Finney <hal@rain.org> said:

-:  [snip]  The thing
:I found interesting is that it refers to the fact that we are currently
:living under a state of national emergency!  I searched on the whitehouse
:web site and couldn't find the executive order referred to (maybe it was
:classified) 
:
:  [snip]

        I remember, sometime ago, stumbling across a reference  that an 
    Executive Order for a State of National Emergency at the request of 
    James Stanton from Lincoln has never been withdrawn.  

        does not make a lot of difference anyway --Slick Willie would: 

            a) ignore any restrictions not to his liking; or,

            b) write a new one.

        actually, the ones to worry about are the various interlocking
    Executive Orders for FEMA --that is a pure police state with total
    property condemnation without process or compensation.

        that, and the even more ominous "survey" given to all USMC 
    spec-op/recon units (including my oldest boy) and all Navy Seals:
    
        46. The U.S. government declares a ban on the possession, sale,
            transportation, and transfer of all non-sporting firearms. 
            ...Consider the following statement:
      
                I would fire upon U.S. citizens who refuse or resist 
                confiscation of firearms banned by the U.S. government." 

                        --The USMC 29 Palms Combat Arms Survey

    one last parting shot:

          without arms they do not resist; 
            without communication they know not what to resist.
                    --attila
 

--
    Cyberspace and Information are Freedom!  
        FUCK your WIPO, too. 
                -attila