The War Powers of Government: America is Under Emergency Rule

Jim1cor13 · August 5, 2016

I know Tim. He is one of the most informed I know of when it comes to these matters. His research and documentation

are excellent and it will help explain a lot to those who take the time to read it. This information will be surprising to

most, and some will continue to deny it, but it is truth that we need to understand. Things are rarely the way they appear...

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This country went under the War Powers for the last time on March 9, 1933, and we have been under emergency rule ever since.

America the Battlefield
June 3, 2014
by Timothy A. Pope

This information is going to turn many of you on your ear. Its going to make you mad, as it should — as I hope it does.

"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Let me ask you a question. Why do you think our president, the Congress, the courts and the federal government as a whole are descending into unlawful dictatorial usurpation of power with no hint of accountability or recompense? Why is the Executive office of a man of lawlessness able to fundamentally change our nation from a Constitutional Republic into a Marxist/Communist dictatorship? Why can he and his handlers transform our once just nation under the Rule of Law into a nation of lawlessness and rebellion, unrestrained?

I'll tell you why. And no, it assuredly didn't start with the current Obama regime, or even the Bush, Clinton or Reagan regimes. No, it started way, way before.

It started with the War Powers.

Let's take a trip down the memory hole of history to discover — some of you for the very first time — the foundational pieces set in place in a giant game of chess in order to check mate the American people and subject us and our future posterity to a life of indentured servitude. In this article I will attempt to lay out the actions taken by our government which define all American citizens as enemy combatants under the federal system known as the UNITED STATES CORPORATION.

Our nation has been bankrupt since 1867 with the Reconstruction Acts, and the bankruptcy has been renewed ever since. Following that, the Organic Act of 1871, "an Act to Provide a Government for the District of Columbia," effectively made our federal government into a corporation, and that was the first sweeping violation of the Constitution of the United States of America, and an open act of treason by our federal government against the People. However, we're going to focus on more recent events, and connect the dots of the present to the past.

Emergency Powers Statutes

Senate Report 93-549, entitled EMERGENCY POWERS STATUTES: Provisions of Federal Law Now In Effect Delegating To The Executive Extraordinary Authority In Time of National Emergency, was issued on November 19, 1973, by the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 9 — 93rd Congress, 1st Session.

From the foreword of Senate Report 93-549:

"Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971. These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners."

From the introduction of Senate Report 93-549, Section A - A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGINS OF EMERGENCY POWERS NOW IN FORCE:

"A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency . . . in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have — from, at least, the Civil War — in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency."

Again from the Foreword:

"This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."

These treasonous words, which levy war upon the American people, come directly from our government's own document. James Madison said that, "War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits." Where did we go wrong? I'll tell you where.

Dr. Eugene Schroder, the preeminent expert on this subject, found the key to why our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights are violated on a daily basis with no adherence to the law. It is the insidious use of "Emergency Powers" meant to be used only in time of invasion or rebellion. His landmark research is documented in three books: Constitution: Fact or Fiction; War and Emergency Powers Special Report; and War, Central Planning and Corporations - The Corporate State.

Watch Dr. Eugene Schroeder's speech on the War and Emergency Powers Act before the Wallace Institute at Santa Clara, California, in June of 1998: Part 1, and Part 2; also, his unforgettable May 3, 1995 broadcast on The Hour of the Time regarding the War Powers of Government.

Dr. Schroder proved with the government's own documents that the Constitution has been set aside since 1933, and thereby effectively nullified. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have used emergency powers for the last 81 years — through Executive Orders, Presidential Proclamations, or through their many federal agencies — to regulate our daily lives without the inconvenience of Congressional approval. The definition of "emergencies" has been stretched to include economic problems, social imbalances, and perceived threats to the United States by any foreign nation's actions, even those on other continents far removed from our own.

American People Declared Enemies of the State

The cited report began on March 9, 1933, when our country was placed under a declared state of national emergency by the United States Congress. All 48 states approved the War and Emergency Powers Act based on a financial crisis. In order to do that, the Congress amended an Act of October 6, 1917, called the Trading With the Enemy Act.

Upon the amending of that act, the American people and all of their financial transactions were declared to effectively be enemy transactions. And under this act the office of the President of the United States was granted total authoritarian control over every aspect of our economy.

Simply put, this act illegally transformed the presidency into a dictatorship.

It is critically important that we all understand this. What is even more critical to understand is to go back in history and find out specifically where the Trading With the Enemy Act came from.

Alien and Sedition Acts

The Trading With the Enemy Act of October 6, 1917, originated in an act of 1798. That act was called the Alien and Sedition Acts, which was the product of the northern Federalist industrialists (who were allied with Great Britain) declaring economic warfare on the Anti-Federalist agrarian southerners (who were allied with France).

This Act said amongst other things that the French were enemies of the United States, and declared that any Frenchman who was doing business within the United States was an enemy of the State, and that the president would assume legal control over those transactions.

It also went so far as to say that any person who gave aid and support to a Frenchman was also an enemy of the United States. So it was due to the passing of the Alien and Sedition Acts that many of the Anti-Federalist agrarian southerners were retroactively made to fall under the parameters of enemies of the United States, and were placed under the executive war powers that were under the pretense of the war between France and Great Britain.

So you see, very early on in the United States, even shortly after the signing of the Constitution, these Acts were implemented which — at the stroke of a pen — criminalized otherwise law-abiding American citizens by association, and forfeit their private property for federal seizure by illegitimate retroactive legalization. It is extremely perilous when a governing body can declare an ethos, race, or nationality an enemy of the State with no due process of law.

The U.S. Supreme Court did this in the 1857 case, Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393, when it declared that negroes were not human beings. And its even worse when the same governing body levies war upon its own citizens who have done business with whatever group it deems to be dangerous to its foreign and domestic policy.

It is dangerous when a president acting under executive War Powers can execute total authoritarian control over a people, and write criminal statutes defining what they can and can't do financially, and if they have violated these statutes whatsoever, punish them criminally under those acts.

And it was because of this treason that our country nearly went into a civil war directly following these Acts which were installed right after the passage of the Constitution.

The Kentucky Resolutions

Thomas Jefferson's writings in the Kentucky Resolutions, which were written in November of 1798, dealt specifically with the emergency War Powers that were implemented for the very first time in this country via the Alien and Sedition Acts.

The following excerpt of the Resolutions were proposed to the Kentucky Legislature, and this version was adopted on November 10, 1798, as a protest against the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Congress. Thomas Jefferson did not make known to the public the fact that he authored them until years later.

This represents one of the clearest expressions of his views on how the Constitution was supposed to be interpreted.

Resolutions 1 and 2:

1. Resolved, That the several States composing, the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes — delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral part, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.

2. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States, having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations, and no other crimes, whatsoever; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, not prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” therefore the act of Congress, passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and intituled “An Act in addition to the act intituled An Act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States,” as also the act passed by them on the — day of June, 1798, intituled “An Act to punish frauds committed on the bank of the United States,” (and all their other acts which assume to create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitution,) are altogether void, and of no force; and that the power to create, define, and punish such other crimes is reserved, and, of right, appertains solely and exclusively to the respective States, each within its own territory.

Read the full text here.

Analyzing what Jefferson was saying on behalf of the state of Kentucky in these resolutions was that the fundamental basis for the federal government passing the Alien and Sedition Acts was the defining of crimes against the United States, punished by the executive branch of the federal government. These crimes identified by the federal government were not included in the four crimes in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the United States. Because, you see, every single criminal power over which is granted to the federal government is defined in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.

As a further check and balance, the Tenth Amendment clarifies: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." The Tenth Amendment, the great high wall built around a central government, was known to the Constitutional Convention as the "Quarantine Amendment." The state of Massachusetts, whose delegates felt that the restraint of the federal government was paramount, would not join the United States unless the Tenth Amendment was accepted as part of the Bill of Rights.

Legal Federal Criminal Powers

This is precisely what Jefferson and the state of Kentucky were talking about when they issued these Resolutions. They enumerated that the federal government can only legally preside over four criminal powers. And those are:

1. The power to punish treason.

2. Counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.

3. Piracies and felonies committed on the high seas.

4. Offenses against the laws of nations.

And they have no other criminal power whatsoever under the Constitution. So therefore, when the federal government implemented these acts and granted itself new jurisdictional powers over other actions it declared to thenceforth be illegal, was essentially the initiation of a dictatorship at the highest office of the federal government of the United States: the Executive office.

It goes without saying, then, that any federal crime that is outside the scope of the four enumerated powers listed above, which are the ONLY crimes granted the federal government to preside over — Article I, Section 8, which has never been amended nor repealed — are totally outside the authority of the Constitution and are being implemented under the Trading With the Enemy Act of March the 9th of 1933.

And that law is now permanently codified in 12 U.S. Code § 95b - Ratification of acts of President and Secretary of the Treasury, under which the president was granted the power to issue any executive order he wished, and those executive orders would be automatically approved and confirmed by the Congress.

So, with the amending of the Trading With the Enemy Act, the president was given broad executive power to wage war on the American people, and that brings us to May the 18th, 1934. On that date, the President of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, issued a message to the Senate on the perceived menace of the uncontrolled manufacture of arms and munitions. And in this message, Roosevelt told the Senate that they had to have the power to create crimes against certain predetermined federal organizations and agencies as a pretext for what he did next.

Theft of the Legal Money System

Also on March 9, 1933, FDR presided over the introduction of the treasonous Emergency Banking Relief Act, which declared a four-day bank holiday that shut down the banking system of the nation using economic stabilization as a ruse to steal America's wealth through fraud. Passed during the fallout of the Great Depression — which was engineered by the Federal Reserve's private shareholders — the Act broadened the powers of the President and greatly expanded presidential authority during just about any cobceivable crisis.

Not even one month later, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6102 on April 5, 1933, which retroactively criminalized the possession of monetary gold by any individual, partnership, association or corporation, "forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States," and "Requiring Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates to Be Delivered to the Government." Remember that whoever owns the gold makes the rules.

Contrary to this illegal act, the Constitution, in Article I, Section 10, states explicitly that, "No state shall . . . emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts."

On May 18, 1934, the same day on which he wrote the Senate, Roosevelt also issued Statement 88 on Signing the Crime Bill, which the need to sign a bill that would empower the federal government to wage a war on organized crime and gangsters.

The War on Crime

That's right, on May 18, 1934, under the newly-granted executive power of the war powers, the president declared war on crime. And it was under this war on crime that the federal statutes began to infiltrate the states, identifying sweeping new lists of federal crimes.

Here are a few:

1. An amendment to the federal kidnapping statute to provide for the death penalty in the event of the injury of the victim.

2. A statute punishing the transmission of extortion threats in any form of interstate communications.

3. A statute making it a federal offense for a person to flee from one state to another to avoid prosecution of certain felonies.

4. A statute punishing the receipt of stolen goods.

5. An Act punishing the robbery of national banks, which is among the crimes written about in the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts.

6. A statute requiring registration of all rifles, machine guns, and sawed-off shotguns. Here we see that it was now declared a federal crime unless law-abiding American citizens registered their firearms.

Recall the Ruby Ridge incident at the Weaver family's home. That siege and subsequent murder of Randy Weaver's 13-year-old son Sammy and wife Vicki, who was holding their 10-month-old baby daughter Elisheba, began with an alleged sawed-off shotgun that was supposedly one quarter of an inch too short to fall under federal regulations and federal criminal statutes.

Also, if we recall the Waco massacre, we remember that the Branch Davidians were initially being investigated because they allegedly had machine guns and machine guns parts on the premises that were not registered, even though their county sheriff had personally inspected and verified that no illegal weapons were on the premises.

Both of those federal violations originated from the war on crime under the War Powers of 1933, and were implemented in May of 1934.

7. A statute and an Act making it a federal offense to assault a federal officer.

8. An Act authorizing agents of the Department of Justice to carry firearms.

Here we see the state criminal police power relinquishing to the federal criminal police power, all under the war on crime.

9. An Act to protect certain types of trade and commerce against intimidation and racketeering.

10. Various statutes for improving the outworn and archaic federal criminal procedures.

Here we see the statutes being passed, which allow for the federal criminal jurisdiction to come within the states. But also very important is a statute, "...granting congressional consent to any two or more states that enter into agreements or compacts for the prevention of crime."

This whole war on crime and this whole federal criminal jurisdiction is critically important under the War Powers, because most of the citizens across the country are beginning to realize that the People and the states are being treated as if they were regions or territories of the federal government. Its almost as though they were corporations of the District of Columbia, and the federal government is using its declared executive War Powers to restrict the liberties of the people within the states, criminalizing natural human behavior with hundreds — if not thousands — of new criminal federal statutes.

And just as Jefferson reminded everyone in the Kentucky Resolutions, there were — and currently are — only FOUR criminal actions that the federal government can legally punish.

Yet, today we see that under the so-called "war on crime" and the War Powers, the beginning of a long list that defines many, many new federal crimes, and making it now possible for the federal agents who act as the federal police force to carry firearms and ammunition, in order to enforce these new criminal statutes.

I'm going to tie this whole thing together now.

The Pretext for Implementation

In speaking of the three key points, the War Powers, the war on crime, and the federal criminal jurisdiction, it is imperative to acknowledge what the federal government used as a pretext to bring it all in.

It is now important to understand the interstate compact agreements and the interstate compact acts. If we go to those acts, we have to go to June 6, 1934. We also have to go to our Constitution at Article I, Section 10, which is the prohibition against the states:

No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.

No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.

The exceptionary clause would come into effect only if we were invaded, or if we were in imminent dangers as would not admit of delay. We also must realize that on March the 4th of 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated as President of the United States, in his inaugural address he said he would ask for the War Powers that would be given to him, which would be just as great as if our nation were in fact invaded by a foreign enemy. And, as requested, on March the 9th of 1933 — only five days after FDR's inauguration — via Chapter 1, Title 1, Section 48, Statute 1, Congress delegated those powers to him under the Trading with the Enemy Act, or what was known earlier as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

Section 48, Statute 1 of this Act of March 9, 1933 is the exact same wording as Title 12, USC 95(b) quoted earlier, proving that we are still under emergency rule in a declared state of national emergency.

Sovereign States Become Federal Corporations

With this wartime decree, states could now enter into compacts with other states. And if we go back now to this war on crime, one of the federal statutes that was granted to do this was the authority from Congress for the states to enter into compacts for the prevention of crime, and for other purposes. As a result, the states began to enter into interstate compacts, all under the authority of the federal government. Once that happened — first to prevent crime, then later to do anything and everything, down to and including the uniform motor vehicle safety codes, environmental river basin water agreements, and every other code and compact that completely permeates the federal and state governments — they were now no longer individual sovereign states. They were now regions comprised of compacts of states that fell under the authority of federal statutes.

They were in essence federal corporations. And once they entered into the federal corporate status, then immediately the federal criminal statutes came over those states, and the jurisdiction of the federal police power was installed within the states. The exact same thing happened in 1798 when the Alien and Sedition Acts were imposed by the federal government and all those federal criminal statutes were passed onto the states in exactly the same condition.

As Mark Twain rightly observed, history may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

The reason that all of this is so critically important is because it is these very issues that caused in this country the Revolutionary War. It was this very same issue that caused the Civil War. It was this very same issue that caused the war levied against the People in 1933, which imposed this War Power government over us, and has ruled over us ever since.

And if We the People cannot ultimately resolve these issues — the issues which spark wars and revolutions — then we ultimately do not deserve to be under any other system.

That is why it is so important that all of us and our children acknowledge and understand these critical concepts as to how this federal government truly operates and what we the American people specifically must do to begin to overcome it.

In closing, as Jefferson stated so vividly in the Kentucky Resolves:

"...the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress."

So you see, under the law of nations, each party has the right to judge for itself what the right and wrong of the situation is. With that in mind, the people if this United States have for decades petitioned the states to begin to answer these questions and to begin to restore the Constitution of the United States to its rightful place as the Supreme Law of the Land.

Redress of Grievances?

Up until now the states have done nothing in terms of answering these questions or reconciling the grievances of the people. The people have time and time again petitioned the President; they have petitioned the Congress; they have petitioned the Courts — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — to answer these questions, to answer for their actions outside of law, and to redress the grievances we have regarding this form of wartime government that was imposed upon us without our contract or consent.

But so far, none of those institutions have done anything to publicly come forth to even attempt to answer or redress the grievances, or to resolve the crisis that we have in this country.

With that in mind, there is only one party left that can now make the judgement, and that is We the People ourselves, for all other institutions of government are dysfunctional, rogue, lawless, and have granted themselves a monopoly on fear, intimidation, rulership and violence, via gross usurpations under assumed War Powers that were not delegated to it by the authority of the Constitution, nor by the People or the States respectively.

So now you know why the federal government can operate as an effective dictatorship outside of law, ignore your unalienable rights, steal your wealth and prosperity, establish corporate monopolies, engage in fraud and racketeering, illegally invade sovereign nations, seize privately-owned property, land and resources, and murder with impunity, all with little to no consequences, and sometimes even even rewards.

And it's nothing new. For instance, 18 Congressional Medals of Honor for bravery were awarded to the U.S. Army soldiers of the 7th Cavalry who participated in the heinous murder of 300 unarmed men, women, and children of the Lacota Nation at Wounded Knee Creek, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890.

This is from a letter to the White House from Chief Wahweve Black Eagle, leader of the Walpapi Paiute, who is known for being the head war chief in the final Indian War of the North-West, known as the Sheepeater War in America:

"The Massacre of Wounded Knee became a symbol for my people, the Lakota Nation, of the lies and deceit of the 'Great White Father in Washington' and the U.S. Government. Their words of encouragement and promises of help and peace were seen for the malevolent intent hidden behind the facade. As more and more land promised to us forever was taken away on the whims of Congress, our place to live became smaller and our pain and confusion grew. The mass graves at Wounded Knee became a symbol to us to never forget and never to trust again. The voices of our slain relatives can still be heard, crying out from soil, the waters, the air, and we vow time and time again to never forget, to be strong, to help our nation heal and live well again."

Tell me, what has changed?

None of this treason was committed in secret. None of it is a conspiracy. No, it was all done out in the open, perpetrated in the halls of the House and Senate, introduced and voted for on the congressional floor, read into the congressional record, and is documented in the law, the congressional record and the federal register. The perpetrators are hiding their crimes in plain sight, but it is all only hidden from those who are too busy, apathetic and indifferent to spend the time to understand what edicts have been declared on their behalf without their knowledge and consent.

However, apathy and ignorance are no defense of Liberty, nor are they any hint of deterrent against the onslaught of tyranny.

German Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was a participant in the German Resistance movement against Nazism, said:

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act."

President Abraham Lincoln said:

"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."

And Thomas Jefferson, our third President, wrote in his Resolutions Relative to the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798:

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow was correct in his assumption that:

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."

And indeed it has.

Even More Proof

You want more proof? Go into any civilian court house, state house, police station, military command headquarters, or even the lobby of the Walt Disney Corporation. Look at the American flag on display. Is it wreathed in gold fringe? Then that institution is under the jurisdiction of Maritime/Admiralty law, and is therefore not subject to the Supreme Law of the Land, the Constitution for the United States of America.

It’s not to make the flag look more regal, but to make sure that those who are governed by the law of that institution are NOT governed by the Constitution, but by the bylaws of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CORPORATION.

Speaking of the Constitution, I recently got back from a family trip up to Washington, D.C. for Memorial Day weekend. We visited the National Archives to see the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. Guess what I saw? The original documents of the "Charters of Freedom" are flanked by two Maritime Admiralty flags, signifying that the federal government is not operating under the only legally recognized law of the nation. It is operating under a foreign power.

See for yourself:

Not only that, but to deface or desecrate our national flag is a crime under U.S. Department of Justice Official Opinions of the Attorneys General, Volume 34, (1926, pp. 483-487) - Military Flags; U.S. Code Title 4, Chapter 1 - THE FLAG; and U.S. Code Title 18, Part I, Chapter 33, § 700 - Desecration of the flag of the United States; penalties.

This is even more undeniable proof that our country has been under martial law — a state of national emergency declared by the president — probably since the Civil War, but unquestionably since 1933.

Are you sure your flag is still there? Is this really still the land of the free and the home of the brave? Is it?

So now you know the true reasons behind why the president can rule as a Pharaoh with impunity; why the federal government can install openly communist ideology as the majority of its foreign and domestic policy in accordance with the promise and vision of the UN's founders [Look up Alger Hiss, the convicted communist agent and Soviet spy who penned the United Nations Charter, a document which mirrored nearly word-for-word the constitution of the Soviet Union]; why the Bureau of Land Management (which is funded by a private foreign trust) can aim sniper rifles at unarmed civilians in Nevada in a standoff over the illegal federal seizure of public state lands to be handed over to the ENN Group, a Chinese energy corporation; why the president can arrange for the release of one U.S. military deserter in exchange for five top Taliban terror operatives who are collectively responsible for the deaths of thousands of Shiite Muslims; why 42 Democratic "so-called" representatives of the people have just signed on to repeal the First Amendment of the Constitution, which is our power of the pen.

For a more in-depth study of this and more information, watch the following documentary by James Rink of supersoldiertalk.com, entitled, Change is on the Horizon - Dawn of the Golden Age (2:56:46)

For those who can see the writing on the wall, it’s all starting to make sense. All signs point to the fact that We the People, through creeping incrementalism, have become enemies of the State.

This is an excerpt from The Counselor, January 4, 1974, p. 243:

Senator declared that people would have acted if truth known.

(Washington) Senator George Malone, Republican of Nevada, was a thorn in the side of United States leftists, and they despised him. According to research by Omni Publications, Malone once commented:

"I believe — I actually believe this — that if the people of this nation suddenly, fully understood what the Congress has done to them over the years, they would move on Washington. They would not wait for an election. It all adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States."

For those of you who can't see the writing on the wall, nor discern the signs and the times, then I fear that it may be too late for you. And if you are still putting your hopes in our fallen political system to turn this around in the next election, then you are living in the land of OZ and haven't yet seen the man behind the curtain who is really pulling the levers of power. It is time to remove the scales from your eyes and from your heart.

I still have hope, however, that the sleeping giant will soon awaken. If you do not wake up soon to the realities of which we face, then our children and grandchildren will surely live as slaves to a system of world-wide totalitarian socialist government, from cradle to grave, and they will never know the blessings of peace.

What is it going to take for the American citizenry to awaken from our long slumber and to embrace Thomas Paine's requirement for the freedom of our future posterity, that "if there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace?"

They are depending on us. May God have mercy on us if we fail them.

Edited August 5, 2016 by Jim1cor13

nstoolman1 · August 5, 2016

http://www.teamlaw.net/Government/usmap.htm

http://www.teamlaw.net/HistoryOutline.htm

The second one is very interesting.

George Hayduke · August 5, 2016

1 hour ago, Jim1cor13 said:

That is why it is so important that all of us and our children acknowledge and understand these critical concepts as to how this federal government truly operates and what we the American people specifically must do to begin to overcome it.

Long on despair and criminality - short on solution.

Where within the article are listed the specific actions we Americans must initiate and complete in order to restore the present day tyranny to a Constitutional Republic?

SgtFuryUSCZ · August 6, 2016

24 minutes ago, George Hayduke said:

Long on despair and criminality - short on solution.

Where within the article are listed the specific actions we Americans must initiate and complete in order to restore the present day tyranny to a Constitutional Republic?

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We're glad we're old and gonna die... :facepalm3:

seriously, to see what's comin' down the pike as a result of a severe breach of Trust betwixt

Americans and their government is something we don't want to witness.... <_<

Our hearts are already breaking... we don't want our heads to explode, too.

We hope like hell there are enough capable Patriots left to make it right. :facepalm:

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Jim1cor13 · August 6, 2016

1 hour ago, George Hayduke said:

Long on despair and criminality - short on solution.

Where within the article are listed the specific actions we Americans must initiate and complete in order to restore the present day tyranny to a Constitutional Republic?

This is the problem George that continually presents itself to all of us. This is the reason I posted it so there could be dialogue about it instead of delusion.

What do YOU propose? Did you read it all? I communicate with a lot of folks, trying to find out what we can do as "we the people" and although I know a lot of brilliant minds who understand and have much experience in these issues, there have been NO solid solutions to what we face other than trying to divest ourselves from all of it, and no one knows how to go about that. Clever cliche's don't work, they only keep us apathetic, always looking for someone else to "fix it". This is part of our problem also, we must get involved deeper than casting a vote which is merely giving consent for this system to continue to rule over us which isn't working out too well. How are we supposed to find solutions if we are not aware of how the system has worked?

At least someone put the effort in to detail it to help us become aware instead of in denial and blind.

At least someone took the time to offer more than just clever slogans or arguing.

Everything is "short on solution". That is the very problem. We can try and dismiss the info so that we can continue in denial, OR we

can actually work together to help find some answers to address these matters outside of any political agenda's. No use to continue to blame, whine and complain as so far that hasn't fixed anything right?

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Jim1cor13 · August 6, 2016

2 hours ago, nstoolman1 said:

http://www.teamlaw.net/Government/usmap.htm

http://www.teamlaw.net/HistoryOutline.htm

The second one is very interesting.

Thanks much for the info. Interesting indeed.

"Further, it is very important that we stop trying to fix them; instead, hold them accountable to the law that already exists [see: “Call to Action”). Even more important we must reseat our original jurisdiction government and spread the word about the truth. By reseating our State and national governments in their original jurisdiction nature, we gain the capacity to hold these private foreign corporations accountable. They owe us a lot of money, in fact they owe us more money than there is available in the world. In fact, it is impossible for them to pay and that gives us the leverage we need to take back our nation and put things right. The process is a simple one. The difficulty is in getting our people to wake up to the truth. That’s why we ask you to prove the truth for yourself and contact us with your discovery."

That is a start...

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Jim1cor13 · August 6, 2016

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This is an excerpt from The Counselor, January 4, 1974, p. 243:

Senator declared that people would have acted if truth known.

(Washington) Senator George Malone, Republican of Nevada, was a thorn in the side of United States leftists, and they despised him. According to research by Omni Publications, Malone once commented:

"I believe — I actually believe this — that if the people of this nation suddenly, fully understood what the Congress has done to them over the years, they would move on Washington. They would not wait for an election. It all adds up to a preconceived plan to destroy the economic and social independence of the United States."

Would we? Would we move on Washington if we fully understood what congress has done? How much detailed info do we need before we

actually move to hold them accountable? Think of what it would take to accomplish it. This quote above is from 1974...did anyone understand it?

SnowGlobe7 · August 6, 2016

We're glad we're old and gonna die... :facepalm3:

I am not....We need more like you two!!!!!

:wub:

umbertino · August 6, 2016

Jim....Grazie for sharing...Interesting indeed.

George Hayduke · August 7, 2016

On 8/5/2016 at 6:09 PM, Jim1cor13 said:

This is the problem George that continually presents itself to all of us. This is the reason I posted it so there could be dialogue about it instead of delusion.

What do YOU propose? Did you read it all? I communicate with a lot of folks, trying to find out what we can do as "we the people" and although I know a lot of brilliant minds who understand and have much experience in these issues, there have been NO solid solutions to what we face other than trying to divest ourselves from all of it, and no one knows how to go about that. Clever cliche's don't work, they only keep us apathetic, always looking for someone else to "fix it". This is part of our problem also, we must get involved deeper than casting a vote which is merely giving consent for this system to continue to rule over us which isn't working out too well. How are we supposed to find solutions if we are not aware of how the system has worked?

At least someone put the effort in to detail it to help us become aware instead of in denial and blind.

At least someone took the time to offer more than just clever slogans or arguing.

Everything is "short on solution". That is the very problem. We can try and dismiss the info so that we can continue in denial, OR we

can actually work together to help find some answers to address these matters outside of any political agenda's. No use to continue to blame, whine and complain as so far that hasn't fixed anything right?

JIm - The delusion that you refer to is always going to exist to some degree as long as men pursue evil but to assume the article in question is 100 percent correct in its assertions is being short sighted.

You present the article as if it's assertions have been tested and have been found to be factually cohesive. It very well may be, but where is the counter argument or objection? Legitimate scholarship allows for both sides to be presented and challenged... again and again and again if need be.

In this modern world it is too easy for some to string together a series of facts and attempt to stand them up on the wobbly legs of opinion and scowl at those who dare challenge or offer another possibility.

The assertions of the article are serious and disturbing... more the reason for review and verification.

Those challenges and other possibilities do not necessarily equate to an automatic dismissal of the information in order to remain in denial but instead it is the actual opposite as being a step out of ignorance toward clarity and understanding.

At least someone put the effort in to detail it to help us become aware instead of in denial and blind.
At least someone took the time to offer more than just clever slogans or arguing.

I can appreciate that and I'm sure the author would look forward to a closer examination or rebuttal of his work. If not, it's just another dogmatic opinion piece supported with out-of-context historical events.

The author claims we live under Martial Law. "This is even more undeniable proof that our country has been under martial law — a state of national emergency declared by the president — probably since the Civil War, but unquestionably since 1933."

If that is the case why did individual Governors declare Martial Law if their state was already under Martial Law?

1914 Colorado Gov. Ammons
1934 California Gov Merriam
1941 Hawaii Territory Gov. Poindexter

The author did not provide clarification for the obvious omission of facts which leads to an obvious error.

The author also did not address the Supreme Court decision and opinion of the un-Constitutionality of Martial Law in the Lambden Milligan case during the Civil War and President Lincoln's declaration of Martial Law.

I could go on and on and research all of the author's claims but I've already seen enough to know any counter argument would be futile. He believes what he believes and hopes others believe exactly as he.

As for me, what do I think is the solution? Men's hearts have to be changed first in order for government to change. When that occurs, men will stand proudly together proclaiming truth and justice and will readily rebuke dogmatic opinion pieces.

Jim1cor13 · August 8, 2016

I could go on and on and research all of the author's claims but I've already seen enough to know any counter argument would be futile.  He believes what he believes and hopes others believe exactly as he.

Certainly not true at all. We are all learning George, and you have made your assumptions. Funny how no one else is offering dialogue, which

is the point of the post and I am not naive to think it was error free. It was well done research that is ongoing, and definitely worth looking

deeper into rather than the attempt at discrediting it. Nothing dogmatic about it, Tim is a humble man who is able to handle arguments and

questions quite well without tearing others apart. I don't agree with everything he or anyone says. I have a mind of my own and so do you.

It is a worthy topic, I will add more to it as I am able, and I will share your questions with him. The documents available are not "dogmatic opinion

pieces". He gives his opinion on some things indeed, just like everyone does. I have had no problems with communicating with him, and reminding him

to be careful who and what he believes and have shared my own thoughts about these matters. He and many others I have discussions with have yet

to make me think they are close minded or dogmatic, the goal is to uncover worthy topics and actually dig into them, with no delusion they are "perfect"

or that any of them are deluded to think they "have all the answers". Answers and solutions only come via working together and seeking truth, and being willing

to accept it wherever it leads. I have found few that are actually willing to do that in reality, especially in dealing with either politics or religion.

I do appreciate your response George, but the assumptions you made are simply wrong in this case and far from futile OR dogmatic as you put it.

Jim1cor13 · August 8, 2016

Hi George or anyone

To me, my main concern has been about the Constitution and how it has been ignored and violated in so many ways, especially since 1933.

Dr. Eugene Schroder appears to have some interesting conclusions as to how this could be and quite qualified in his research.

IF the constitution had been set aside since 1933, it would make sense as to the current scenario we see formed over the last 83 years. What are your thoughts on this documentation, in regards to our Constitution? Thank you

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The committee's investigation found that while some declared emergencies had been explicitly terminated, others had not. These were:

Roosevelt's 1933 declaration under the Trading with the Enemy Act, which he used to block gold and silver transactions
Truman's 1950 declaration in relation to the Korean War (then known as the Korean Conflict)
Richard Nixon's 1970 declaration in response to a postal strike
Nixon's further 1971 declaration in connection with floating the dollar

Aside from these particular examples, the committee noted a trend since Roosevelt of transferring broad authority to the President in times of crisis and leaving it in place. The practical effect was to enable the President, as much as Congress, to make laws. The committee found that these longstanding grants of authority were not merely theoretical, but that executive agencies actively used them to justify various programs such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation's domestic surveillance program.^[7] The report recommended that Congress should act to terminate the standing emergencies and to regulate the President's use of emergency authority. [As far as I can tell, the status has not changed?]

Senate Report 93-549, entitled EMERGENCY POWERS STATUTES: Provisions of Federal Law Now In Effect Delegating To The Executive Extraordinary Authority In Time of National Emergency, was issued on November 19, 1973, by the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency pursuant to Senate Resolution No. 9 — 93rd Congress, 1st Session.

Here is the html version of this senate report in case anyone wants to review it:

http://famguardian.org/Subjects/LawAndGovt/Articles/SenateReport93-549.htm

From the foreword of Senate Report 93-549:

"Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency. In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially-proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971. These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by the Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners."

From the introduction of Senate Report 93-549, Section A - A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE ORIGINS OF EMERGENCY POWERS NOW IN FORCE:

"A majority of the people of the United States have lived all of their lives under emergency rule. For 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought into force by states of national emergency . . . in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have — from, at least, the Civil War — in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency."

Again from the Foreword:

"This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule the country without reference to normal Constitutional processes. Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."

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Dr. Eugene Schroder, the preeminent expert on this subject, found the key to why our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights are violated on a daily basis with no adherence to the law. It is the insidious use of "Emergency Powers" meant to be used only in time of invasion or rebellion. His landmark research is documented in three books: Constitution: Fact or Fiction; War and Emergency Powers Special Report; and War, Central Planning and Corporations - The Corporate State.

Watch Dr. Eugene Schroeder's speech on the War and Emergency Powers Act before the Wallace Institute at Santa Clara, California, in June of 1998: Part 1, and Part 2; also, his unforgettable May 3, 1995 broadcast on The Hour of the Time regarding the War Powers of Government.

Dr. Schroder proved with the government's own documents that the Constitution has been set aside since 1933, and thereby effectively nullified. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have used emergency powers for the last 81 years — through Executive Orders, Presidential Proclamations, or through their many federal agencies — to regulate our daily lives without the inconvenience of Congressional approval. The definition of "emergencies" has been stretched to include economic problems, social imbalances, and perceived threats to the United States by any foreign nation's actions, even those on other continents far removed from our own.

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What are the implications if this is indeed so and it appears to be so? Reduction of liberties, endless wars, domestic privacy violations and loss of rights? Would appreciate ANY thoughts as we try and determine what has actually happened aside from opinions. Thank you

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Jim1cor13 · August 8, 2016

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WAR AND EMERGENCY POWERS

A SPECIAL REPORT ON THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY
IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

"War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits." ~James Madison

Introduction to Dr. Schroder's Work

Dr. Eugene Schroder has found the key to why our Constitutionally guaranteed rights are violated daily. It's the insidious use of "emergency powers" meant to be used only in time of invasion of rebellion.

Dr. Schroder proves with the government's own documents that the Constitution has been effectively set aside since 1933. Eleven presidents, both Democrat and Republican, have used emergency powers for the last 80+ years to regulate our daily lives without the inconvenience of Congressional approval. The definition of "emergencies" has been stretched to include economic problems, social imbalances, and perceived threats to the US by any foreign country's actions, even those on other continents.

Senate Report 93-549, written in 1973, says "Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency...Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the president may: seize property;...seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication;...restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens."

The president can act through Executive Order, Presidential Proclamation, or through his many agencies, which include most of the alphabet agencies.

The framers of the Constitution asserted that Americans have certain inalienable, God-given rights. But under emergency rule, all these rights are declared null and void. The government charges us for these rights by requiring licenses and excessive paperwork, with strings attached, as long as restrictive and ill-defined requirements are met.

Dr. Schroder's landmark research is documented in three books: Constitution: Fact or Fiction; War and Emergency Powers Special Report; and War, Central Planning and Corporations - The Corporate State. These may be obtained from Buffalo Creek Press

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In the Act of March 9, 1933, it further states in Title 1, Section 1:

"The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President of the United States or the Secretary of the Treasury since March the 4th, 1933, pursuant to the authority conferred by subdivision (b) of Section 5 of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are hereby approved and confirmed."

Where have we read those words before?

This is the exact same wording as is found today in Title 12, USC 95 (b). The language in Title 12, USC 95 (b) is exactly the same as that found in the Act of March 9, 1933, Chapter 1, Title 1, Section 48, Statute 1. The Act of March 9, 1933, is still in full force and effect today. We are still under the Rule of Necessity. We are still in a declared state of national emergency, a state of emergency which has existed, uninterrupted, since 1933, or for over 80 years.

As you may remember, the authority to do this is conferred by Subsection (b) of Section 5 of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended. What was the authority which was used to declare and enact the emergency in this Act? If we look at the Act of October 6, 1917, we see that at the top right-hand part of the page, it states that this was:

"An Act To define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes."

By the year 1917, the United States was involved in World War 1; at that point, it was recognized that there were probably enemies of the United States, or allies of enemies of the United States, living within the continental borders of our nation in a time of war.

Therefore, Congress passed this act which identified who could be declared enemies of the United States, and, in this act, we gave the government total authority over those enemies to do with as it saw fit. We also see, however, in Section 2, Subdivision (c) in the middle, and again at the bottom of the page:

"other than citizens of the United States."

The act specifically excluded citizens of the United States, because we realized in 1917 that the citizens of the United States were not enemies. Thus, we were excluded from the war powers over enemies in this act.

Section 5 (b) of the same act, states:

"That the President may investigate, regulate, or prohibit, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, by means of licenses or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, export or ear markings of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency, transfers of credit in any form (other than credits relating solely to transactions to be executed wholly within the United States)".

Again, we see here that citizens, and the transactions of citizens made wholly within the United States, were specifically excluded from the war powers of this act. "We the People", were not enemies of our country; therefore, the government did not have total authority over us as they were given over our enemies.

It is important to draw attention again to the fact that citizens of the United States in October, 1917, were not called enemies. Consequently the government, under the war powers of this act, did not have authority over us; we were still protected by the Constitution. Granted, over enemies of this nation, the government was empowered to do anything it deemed necessary, but not over us. The distinction made between enemies of the United States and citizens of the United States will become crucial later on.

In Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933:

"Subdivision (b) of Section 5 of the Act of October 6, 1917 (40 Stat. L. 411), as amended, is hereby amended to read as follows;"

So we see that they are now going to amend Section 5 (b). Now let's see how it reads after it's amended. The amended version of Section 5 (b) reads (emphasis added):

"During time of war or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President, the President may, through any agency that be may designate, or otherwise, investigate, regulate, or prohibit, under such rules and regulations as be may prescribe, by means of licenses or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit between or payments by banking institutions as defined by the President and export, hoarding, melting, or earmarkings of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency, by any person within the United States or anyplace subject to the jurisdiction thereof".

What just happened? At as far as commercial, monetary or business transactions were concerned, the people of the United States were no longer differentiated from any other enemy of the United States. We had lost that crucial distinction. We can see that the phrase which excluded transactions executed wholly within the United States has been removed from the amended version of Section 5 (b) of the Act of March 9, 1933, Section 2, and replaced with "by any person within the United States or anyplace subject to the jurisdiction thereof'. All monetary transactions, whether domestic or international in scope, were now placed at the whim of the President of the United States through the authority given to him by the Trading with the Enemy Act.

To summarize this critical point: On October the 6th of 1917, at the beginning of America's involvement in World War 1, Congress passed a Trading with the Enemy Act empowering the government to take control over any and all commercial, monetary or business transactions conducted by enemies or allies of enemies within our continental borders. That act also defined the term "enemy" and excluded from that definition citizens of the United States.

In Section 5 (b) of this act, we see that the President was given unlimited authority to control the commercial transactions of defined enemies, but we see that credits relating solely to transactions executed wholly within the United States were excluded from that controlling authority. As transactions wholly domestic in nature were excluded from authority, the government had no extraordinary control over the daily business conducted by the citizens of the United States, because we were certainly not enemies.

Citizens of the United States were not enemies of their country in 1917, and the transactions conducted by citizens within this country were not considered to be enemy transactions. But in looking again at Section 2 of the Act of March 9, 1933, we can see that the phrase excluding wholly domestic transactions has been removed from the amended version and replaced with "by any person within the United States or anyplace subject to the jurisdiction thereof'.

The people of the United States were now subject to the power of the Trading with the Enemy Act of October 6,1917, as amended. For the purposes of all commercial, monetary, and, in effect, all business transactions. "We the People", became the same as the enemy, and were treated no differently. There was no longer any distinction.

It is important here to note that, in the Acts of October 6, 1917 and March 9, 1933, it states: "during times of war or during any other national emergency declared by the President...". So we now see that the war powers not only included a period of war, but also a period of "national emergency" as defined by the President of the United States. When either of these two situations occur, the President may:

"through any agency that he may designate, or otherwise, investigate, regulate or prohibit under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe by means of licenses or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit between or payments by banking institutions as defined by the President and export, boarding, melting or earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency by any person within the United States or anyplace subject to the jurisdiction thereof."

What can the President do now to the We, the People, under this Section? He can do anything he wants to do. It's purely at his discretion, and he can use any agency or any license that he desires to control it. This is called a constitutional dictatorship.

Article 3, Section 3, of our Constitution states:

"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."

Is the Act of March 9, 1933, treason? That would be for the common law courts to decide. At this point in our nation's history, the point is moot, for common law, and indeed the Constitution itself, do not operate or exist at present. Whether governmental acts of theft of the nation's money, the citizens' property, and American liberty as an ideal and a reality which have occurred since 1933 is treason against the people of the United States, as the term is defined by the Constitution of the United States cannot even be determined or argued in the legal sense until the Constitution itself is reestablished. For our part, however, we firmly believe that, "by their fruits ye shall know them", and on that authority we rest our case.

CONCLUSION As you have just witnessed, the United States of America continues to exist in a governmentally ordained state of national emergency. Under such a state of emergency, our Constitution has been set aside, ostensibly for the public good, until the emergency is canceled.

But, as experience painfully shows, it has not been to the public's good that our government has used its unrestricted power, unhampered by the Constitution's restraining force. The governmental edicts and actions over the past eight decades have led us to the desperate state in which we find ourselves today. Besieged on every side, corroding from within, frightened and in despair, we as a nation are being torn asunder.

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Food for thought:

Until this "emergency rule" is cancelled, which apparently it has not been, how can 'we the people' honestly have any say if the restraining force of our constitution no longer applies? How may we 'take back our power' if we have had our voice removed and are considered as enemies to this day? What is the remedy or recourse? Do you throw up your hands, totally give up and continue submitting to our enemy, "the State" by licensure, remain in banking and all the attendant snares that entrap you, or do you finally "draw your line in the sand ?"

balkanbob · August 8, 2016

Is there anyone on your side to fund this ?

Jim1cor13 · August 8, 2016

I ask anyone's help to assist me in debunking what the senate report above and other reference to these issues

state as fact. The more I dig the deeper it goes, and so far what was enacted in 1933 appears to be still in effect.

ANY documented details you can find that point to the above report as being a fraud, please share it

so we can determine the truth. Otherwise, we have much to consider about our future as a country and who is controlling

'we the people'. I am targeting the actual act from 1933 to present and what it means for us now after over eight decades.

Is this the smoking gun as to why and how we have watched government become what it is today?

Thank you

Jim1cor13 · August 8, 2016

8 minutes ago, balkanbob said:

Is there anyone on your side to fund this ?

Hi Bob

Not sure of your question, what funding are you referring to?

Jim1cor13 · August 8, 2016

Link

From the site:

Don’t worry about martial law being declared anytime soon. The fact is, American’s have been living under a permanent state of emergency since 1933 and the Roosevelt administration. Actually, many states of emergencies.

Every President since Roosevelt has used these proclamations for the sole purpose of maintaining and extending their own unconstitutional, Caesar-like powers, and those Executive powers continue to increase. In fact, since 1976, every President has either proclaimed new, or reaffirmed an existing state of national emergency.

If you want to know why nothing ever seems to change in Washington, no matter which political party is currently in power, I recommend starting here.

The Admissions of the Ninety-Third Congress

In the United States at the present time… [p]ractically all the sovereign rights and powers of the smaller political units — all of them that are significant enough to be worth absorbing — have been absorbed by the federal unit; nor is this all. State power has not only been thus concentrated at Washington, but it has been so far concentrated into the hands of the Executive that the existing regime is a regime of personal government. It is nominally republican, but actually monocratic; a curious anomaly, but highly characteristic of a people little gifted with intellectual integrity….
This regime was established by a coup d’Etat of a new and unusual kind, practicable only in a rich country. It was effected, not by violence, like Louis-Napoleon’s, or by terrorism, like Mussolini’s, but by purchase. It therefore presents what might be called an American variant of the coup d’Etat. Our national legislature was not suppressed by force of arms, like the French Assembly in 1851, but was bought out of its functions with public money…. This is a most remarkable phenomenon; possibly nothing quite like it ever took place; and its character and implications deserve the most careful attention.⁽¹⁾

One does not have to rely upon conjecture or specious conspiracy theories to substantiate the assertions contained in the above quote. Indeed, the subjugation of the American people by their leaders “for filthy lucre’s sake” is a matter of public record. It is also clear that those in positions of authority know exactly what they are doing and how they have come to possess the power to do it. For example, in late 1973, the Ninety-Third Congress formed the Special Committee on the Termination of the National Emergency.⁽²⁾ Co-chaired by Senators Charles Mathias Jr. and Frank Church, the purpose of the Committee, as stated in its report entitled Emergency Powers Statutes — otherwise known as Senate Report 93-549 — was “to examine the consequences of terminating the declared states of national emergency that now prevail; to recommend what steps the Congress should take to ensure that the termination can be accomplished without adverse effect upon the necessary tasks of governing; and, also, to recommend ways in which the United States can meet future emergency situations with speed and effectiveness but without relinquishment of congressional oversight and control.”⁽³⁾ Furthermore, the Committee was charged with the task of determining “the most reasonable ways to restore normalcy to the operations of our Government.”⁽⁴⁾
What was this national emergency which required termination in 1973 before the normal operations of the U.S. Government could be restored? The very first sentence in the “Foreword” of Senate Report 93-549 provided the answer: “Since March 9, 1933, the United States has been in a state of declared national emergency.”⁽⁵⁾ What the Senate Special Committee was admitting was that the national emergency of the Great Depression, in which the American people lost what was left of their constitutional liberties to Roosevelt’s socialist “New Deal” democracy, was still active forty years later, long after the economic crisis had ended. Even more astonishing are the following admissions:

In fact, there are now in effect four presidentially proclaimed states of national emergency: In addition to the national emergency declared by President Roosevelt in 1933, there are also the national emergency proclaimed by President Truman on December 16, 1950, during the Korean conflict, and the states of national emergency declared by President Nixon on March 23, 1970, and August 15, 1971.
These proclamations give force to 470 provisions of Federal law. These hundreds of statutes delegate to the President extraordinary powers, ordinarily exercised by Congress, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing manners. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule this country without reference to normal constitutional processes.
Under the powers delegated by these statutes, the President may: seize property; organize and control the means of production; seize commodities; assign military forces abroad; institute martial law; seize and control all transportation and communication; regulate the operation of private enterprise; restrict travel; and, in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all American citizens.⁽⁶⁾

When compared with the limited confederated system chartered by our forefathers in the Constitution of 1787, the Government described above appears much like an Orwellian nightmare of centralized despotism. This means that while the country’s young men were overseas supposedly fighting to “make the world safe for democracy” in the second World War, in the Korean War, and in the Vietnam War, Americans themselves were being deprived of the most basic constitutional liberties by their own Government. In its “Introduction,” Senate Report 93-549 went on to state:

A majority of the people of the United States have lived all their lives under emergency rule. For almost 40 years, freedoms and governmental procedures guaranteed by the Constitution have, in varying degrees, been abridged by laws brought in force by states of national emergency. The problem of how a constitutional democracy reacts to great crises, however, far antedates the Great Depression. As a philosophical issue, its origins reach back to the Greek city-states and the Roman Republic. And, in the United States, actions taken by the Government in times of great crises have — from, at least, the Civil War — in important ways shaped the present phenomenon of a permanent state of national emergency….⁽⁷⁾

Over the next two pages, the report briefly discussed Woodrow Wilson’s efforts to “expand executive emergency powers enormously” during the first World War. As mentioned in Chapter Twenty, it was declared at that time that a national emergency could only be met by the President acting as “supreme dictator.” The astute reader should not be surprised to read the observation that “this expansion of powers in wartime was based on precedents set by Lincoln decades earlier.”⁽⁸⁾ The report continued:

Over the course of at least the last 40 years, then, Presidents have had available an enormous — seemingly expanding and never-ending — range of emergency powers. Indeed, at their fullest extent and during the height of a crisis, these “prerogative” powers appear to be virtually unlimited…. Because Congress and the public are unaware of the extent of emergency powers, there has never been any notable congressional or public objection made to this state of affairs. Nor have the courts imposed significant limitations.
During the New Deal, the Supreme Court initially struck down much of Roosevelt’s emergency economic legislation [citation omitted]. However, political pressures, a change in personnel, and presidential threats of court-packing, soon altered this course of decisions [citation omitted]. Since 1937, the Court has been extremely reluctant to invalidate any congressional delegation of economic powers to the President. It appears that this will not change in the foreseeable future.⁽⁹⁾

In other words, not only had Congress abdicated its responsibilities into the hands of the President, but the Supreme Court had also been failing to do its job since 1937. In these few paragraphs, the Senate Special Committee had indicted all three branches of the Government for dereliction of their constitutional duties. However, since the attention of the American people was being diverted at the time by the war in Vietnam and a looming energy crisis, the shocking admissions contained in Senate Report 93-549 went largely unnoticed. Consequently, the situation remained in which “too few are aware of the existence of emergency powers and their extent, and the problem has never been squarely faced.”⁽¹⁰⁾

A year later, the same Senate, in its second session, produced a working paper entitled A Brief History of Emergency Powers in the United States which elaborated on the previous report:

…t has been Congress’ habit to delegate extensive emergency authority — which continues even when the emergency has passed — and not to set a terminating date. The United States thus has on the books at least 470 significant emergency powers statutes without time limitations delegating to the Executive extensive discretionary powers, which affect the lives of American citizens in a host of all-encompassing ways. This vast range of powers, taken together, confer enough authority to rule this country without reference to normal constitutional processes. These laws make no provision for congressional oversight nor do they reserve to Congress a means for terminating the “temporary” emergencies which trigger them into use. No wonder the distinguished political scientist, the late Clinton Rossiter, entitled his post-World War II study on modern democratic states, “Constitutional Dictatorship.” Emergency government has become the norm….⁽¹¹⁾

National Emergencies Declared a Necessity

In the “Foreword” to Senate Report 93-549, Senators Mathias and Church wrote, “[T]here is no present need for the United States Government to continue to function under emergency conditions.” Later, in the body of the report, they added, “In the view of the Special Committee, an emergency does not now exist. Congress, therefore, should act in the near future to terminate officially the states of national emergency now in effect.”⁽¹²⁾The U.S. Attorney General, however, was of a different opinion:

The Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917 has been amended frequently, and in the process its original purpose and effect have been altered significantly. The Act was originally intended to “define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy.” 40 Stat. 415. Directed primarily to meeting the exigencies of World War I, its drafters intended the Act to remain on the books for future war situations. 55 Cong. Rec. 4908. Accordingly, when other war powers were terminated in 1921 an exception was made for the Act and it remained valid law. 41 Stat. 1359.
On March 5, 1933, President Roosevelt relied on Sec. 5(b) of the Trading With the Enemy Act as authority for his Proclamation 2039 which closed all banks for five days. This was clearly a time of financial crisis, not of war, and hence was not within the literal terms and purposes of the Act. Congress rectified the situation five days later when it ratified the President’s proclamation and amended Sec. 5(b) to give the President the broad wartime powers of that section in times of declared national emergency as well. 48 Stat. 1. The desperate economic circumstances of the time dictated the passage of this sweeping change….

Another declaration of national emergency was made in Proclamation 2914 of December 16, 1950 during the Korean War. Trading With the Enemy Act powers were exercised pursuant to this proclamation throughout the war. Because the state of emergency so declared has never been terminated, however, this proclamation has continued to serve as the basis for invocation of powers under the Act. Most notably, President Johnson used Sec. 5(b) as authority for Executive Order 11837 of January 1, 1968, imposing controls over transfers of private capital to foreign countries….
On August 15, 1971, President Nixon, in Proclamation 4074, declared an emergency concerning America’s declining worldwide economic position. He imposed an import surcharge and devalued the dollar, among other things. One year later, when the Export Control Act lapsed for a month, he invoked Sec. 5(b) to regulate exports, basing his authority to do so both on his Proclamation 4074 and on President Truman’s proclamation of 1950.
The current law, which has thus accreted over a period of 50 years, gives the President a wide range of powers, but only in time of war or declared national emergency. Although the Korean war has ended, those powers are being exercised solely on the basis of the 1950 emergency; or, on the basis of the President’s unilaterally designating as “emergencies” situations which have only the most tenuous relationship to the serious national crises for which the Trading With the Enemy Act was originally intended. The President, with the approval of Congress,⁽¹³⁾ has thus used as authority for extraordinary actions laws which have no real relationship whatsoever to existing circumstances. As a consequence, a “national emergency” is now a practical necessity in order to carry out what has become the regular and normal method of governmental action. What were intended by Congress as delegations of power to be used only in the most extreme situations and for the most limited durations have become everyday powers; and a state of “emergency” has become a permanent condition [emphasis in original].⁽¹⁴⁾

The importance of the above words must not be missed. What the Attorney General was saying is that the Government has operated for so long under the auspices of a national emergency, that an attempt to terminate that emergency status would itself inaugurate a crisis of monumental proportions. For example, most, if not all, of the welfare programs upon which millions of Americans depend for their sustenance — the most notable of which is Social Security — would cease to exist without the emergency powers which gave them life. More importantly, the entire credit-based economy is also firmly rooted in emergency powers and would instantly collapse should the Government be “restored to normalcy.” Americans have become accustomed to using Federal Reserve Notes in their everyday transactions, and since gold and silver have long ago gone out of circulation, nearly every business in the country would have to close its doors should paper money lose its emergency “legal tender” status. Unemployment on a much larger scale than during the Great Depression would also result, because employers would no longer have a way to pay their employees. It may seem fantastic to some that nearly the entire social, political, and economic structure of the country is balanced precariously on a single subsection of an obsolete Act from the first World War — but it is true nonetheless. Because of the unchecked wickedness of their late leaders, Americans are caught on the horns of a dilemma very much like that which the institution of slavery presented to Southerners in the Nineteenth Century; to quote Thomas Jefferson, “We have the wolf by the ears and can neither hold him nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.”

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Apparently, it continues to be added to by every president and has never been cancelled, until we see today the result.

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George Hayduke · August 9, 2016

2 hours ago, Jim1cor13 said:

I ask anyone's help to assist me in debunking what the senate report above and other reference to these issues

state as fact. The more I dig the deeper it goes, and so far what was enacted in 1933 appears to be still in effect.

ANY documented details you can find that point to the above report as being a fraud, please share it

so we can determine the truth. Otherwise, we have much to consider about our future as a country and who is controlling

'we the people'. I am targeting the actual act from 1933 to present and what it means for us now after over eight decades.

Is this the smoking gun as to why and how we have watched government become what it is today?

Thank you

Jim - The following is for your late night reading - no charge.

PS. I don't think there is a smoking gun.

52 minutes ago, Jim1cor13 said:

Don’t worry about martial law being declared anytime soon. The fact is, American’s have been living under a permanent state of emergency since 1933 and the Roosevelt administration. Actually, many states of emergencies.

Every President since Roosevelt has used these proclamations for the sole purpose of maintaining and extending their own unconstitutional, Caesar-like powers, and those Executive powers continue to increase. In fact, since 1976, every President has either proclaimed new, or reaffirmed an existing state of national emergency.

Sorry, but that does not appear to be the case.

You may have to go to a Congressional Law library to verify the footnotes or you can just trust me and Ackerman.

Maybe if we had a You-Tube Channel we'd be taken seriously.

Prolly knot but this is just about all I can do for you. It should keep you busy for awhile and hopefully you and your friends will prayerfully consider whether or not we actually live under Martial Law (as the author emphatically proclaimed) and/or the so called 1933 War Powers Act.

CRS Report for Congress
Received through the CRS Web
Presidential Emergency Powers: The So-Called
"War Powers Act of 1933"

David M. Ackerman
Legislative Attorney
American Law Division

Summary
The "War Powers Act of 1933" is a name given by some members of the militia and
patriot movement to emergency banking legislation passed in 1933 five days after
President Roosevelt came into office.¹ The legislation did not, in fact, have the title
attributed to it. It has apparently been so labelled by some because the banking
legislation amended the "Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917" in order to give legal
underpinning to President Roosevelt's efforts to cope with the banking crisis. It is
alleged by its modern-day critics that by that amendment the government in effect
declared war on the American people and began a reign of unconstitutional rule through Presidential emergency powers. These allegations overlook the facts that the amendment of the Trading with the Enemy Act has subsequently been repealed, that President Roosevelt's proclamation of national emergency has been effectively terminated, and that any President's exercise of emergency powers is now regulated under the "National Emergencies Act."

Background
President Roosevelt came into office on March 5, 1933, during the most severe economic depression in the Nation's history. On his first day in office, he summoned Congress to a special session beginning on March 9 "to receive such communication as may be made by the Executive."² On the second day he declared that massive withdrawals of gold and currency from the banks had created a "national emergency" and ordered that the banks be closed from March 6-9 "in order to prevent the export, hoarding, or³ earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency ...." As the legal authority for this proclamation, he cited the portion of § 5(b) of the "Trading with the Enemy Act"⁴ providing that the President may investigate, regulate, or prohibit, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, by means of licenses or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, export, hoarding, melting or earmarking’s of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency.

40 Stat. 411, 415 (1917), as amended by 40 Stat. 965, 966 (1918).

The Trading with the Enemy Act had been enacted in 1917 to give the President authority to regulate all economic and other transactions between persons in the United States and foreign countries during World War I. By its terms, however, the Act seemed intended for use only in time of war.

On March 9 Congress convened and promptly enacted the President's emergency banking legislation.⁵ Recognizing the limitations of the legal authority the President had cited for his declaration of a national bank holiday, the legislation amended § 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act to allow it to be used not only in time of war but also "during⁶ any other period of national emergency declared by the President." The banking legislation also declared that "a serious emergency exists," conferred extensive discretionary powers over the banking and currency systems on the President and the Federal Reserve Board, and gave both retroactive and prospective congressional approval⁷ to any and all actions taken by the President pursuant to the authority of § 5(b).

On the basis of this expansive statutory authority, the President in Proclamation No. 2040 on March 9 extended the national emergency and the bank holiday he had declared on March 6 "until further proclamation by the President"⁸; and subsequently he issued a number of executive orders regulating the banking and currency systems, including one barring the private ownership of gold coins and bullion.

⁹ The part of the emergency banking statute quoted above giving retroactive and
prospective approval to the actions of the President taken pursuant to § 5(b) of the
Trading with the Enemy Act has not been repealed, and that has led some to assert that the U.S. is still under emergency rule. But in fact President Roosevelt's declaration of national emergency has been terminated, the amendment of § 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act has been repealed, and the Presidential proclamations and executive orders issued pursuant to that authority have been eliminated. In addition, Congress has enacted legislation regulating future declarations of national emergency by the President.

Most of these actions occurred during the 1970s. In the middle of that decade the
Senate created a Special Committee on National Emergencies and Delegated Emergency Powers to conduct an investigation into Presidential use and abuse of emergency powers.

On the basis of that Committee's findings and recommendations,¹⁰ Congress in 1976¹¹ enacted the "National Emergencies Act." The Act repealed several statutory delegations of emergency powers and, in addition, imposed a number of controls on the President's exercise of emergency powers, as follows:

(1) With one pertinent exception, it terminated "all powers and
authorities possessed by the President, any other officer or employee
of the Federal Government, or any executive agency, ... as a result of
the existence of any declaration of national emergency in effect on¹²
September 14, 1976." The Senate Special Committee had found
that not only President Roosevelt's 1933 proclamation of a national
emergency but also a proclamation by President Truman and two by
President Nixon were still extant. Technically, the National
Emergencies Act did not repeal or terminate those four declarations
of national emergency, but with the exception noted below, this
section of the Act did render them hollow shells.

(2) The Act provided that any standby emergency authority
provided to the President by statute (the Senate Special Committee
had found 470 such statutes) could be activated in the future only by
a new Presidential declaration of national emergency that was
transmitted to Congress and published in the Federal Register.¹³

(3) The Act required that in any future declared national
emergency, the President could only use those standby statutory
authorities which he specifically identified and communicated to
Congress and the public.¹⁴ That is, a declaration of national
emergency would no longer automatically activate all of the standby
authorities which the Special Committee had identified in its study or
which Congress enacted in the future but only those specified and
publicized by the President as pertinent to the crisis at hand.

(4) The Act provided that any future declaration of national
emergency by the President would terminate automatically one year
after its declaration unless the President explicitly renewed it each
year, and could also be terminated at any time by joint resolution of¹⁵
Congress or a Presidential proclamation.

(5) The Act required the President to make periodic reports to
Congress on all actions taken with respect to a declared emergency.¹⁶
In sum, the National Emergencies Act now subjects any Presidential exercise of
Congressionally delegated emergency powers to the requirements of public declaration, specification of powers to be used, periodic reporting, Congressional oversight, and automatic termination.

The one initial exception to the foregoing framework for national emergencies concerned the Trading with the Enemy Act. As first adopted in 1976, the National Emergencies Act excluded from its purview Section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act. As noted above, that is the provision of law under which President Roosevelt issued his declaration of national emergency with respect to the banking crisis. But with the advent of the Cold War that section had also been used by the executive branch as the legal basis for imposing economic sanctions on the communist nations of North Korea, Cuba, China, and North Vietnam; and at the time the National Emergencies Act was enacted, there was no other legal basis for continuing the sanctions against those countries.

As a consequence, the State Department asked that Section 5(b) be excluded from the
National Emergencies Act until other legislation providing a basis for the continuation of economic sanctions against those countries could be enacted.

In 1977 in the "International Emergency Economic Powers Act" (IEEPA) Congress
enacted that alternative basis for economic sanctions against foreign countries. ¹⁷

IEEPA gives the President broad discretionary authority to impose economic sanctions on foreign countries to deal with any unusual and extraordinary threat, which has its source in whole or substantial part outside the United States, to the
national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States, if the President declares a national emergency with respect to such threat.¹⁸

With this alternative legal basis for economic sanctions in place, Congress eliminated the former exclusion of § 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act from the National Emergencies Act and also amended § 5(b) so that it could no longer be triggered by a declaration of national emergency. The amendment of § 5(b) provided that the Act can¹⁹ only be invoked "(d) during the time of war." The elimination of the exclusion made clear that any and all emergency powers that might have previously been available pursuant to a national emergency declared under § 5(b) (including President Roosevelt's 1933 Proclamation No. 2040) were terminated.²⁰ As with the other pre-existing Presidential declarations of national emergency, Congress did not formally terminate the one declared by President Roosevelt (apparently believing that only the President could do so). But it did render it toothless.

Finally, in 1982 the Treasury Department formally eliminated the Presidential proclamations and executive orders pertaining to the 1933 banking crisis. Citing Congress' restriction of § 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act and the enactment of IEEPA, and terming the various proclamations and executive orders to have been "obsolete for many²¹ years," the Department issued a regulation specifically terminating them. The measures eliminated included President Roosevelt's Proclamations 2039 and 2040. His executive order barring the private ownership of gold had previously been overturned by statute.²²

Conclusion:

The continuation of any economic sanctions that were the result of a Presidential declaration of national emergency and were in effect on July 1, 1977, subject to automatic termination unless they were renewed annually. This provision allowed the sanctions regimes against Cuba, North Korea, China, and North Vietnam to continue without the President having to declare a new national emergency under IEEPA. See 50 U.S.C.A. App. 5, note.

The issue of Presidential emergency powers is necessarily a matter of continuing concern in a democracy, because the potential for the concentration and abuse of power is ever-present. The emergency banking legislation of 1933, denominated by some as the "War Powers Act of 1933," conferred extraordinary powers on the President with respect to the banking and currency systems as an initial step in trying to cope with the Depression. It also made the powers conferred by § 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act available in times of national emergency as well as in times of war. Subsequently, § 5(b) was used as the basis for certain actions unrelated to the Depression, most notably the imposition of economic sanctions on certain foreign countries. But President Roosevelt's 1933 declaration of national emergency and the various measures taken pursuant to that declaration have been terminated. Moreover, Section 5(b) of the Trading with the Enemy Act is now explicitly restricted to use only in time of war and is no longer available for use in a national emergency. Finally, the National Emergencies Act subjects any future exercise of emergency power by the President to the constraints of public declaration of the emergency, specific designation of the statutory authorities to be used during the emergency, Congressional oversight, and automatic termination. Whether those constraints are sufficient may be debatable. But the so-called "War Powers Act of 1933" is no longer a source of Presidential emergency power.

SOURCES & REFERENCES:

¹It should also be noted that this legislation has nothing to do with the "War Powers Resolution of 1973." See P.L. 93-148 (Nov. 7, 1973); 87 Stat. 555; 15 U.S.C. 1541 et seq. The War Powers Resolution imposes responsibilities on the President relating to the commitment of U.S. military forces into "hostilities or situations where imminent involvement in hostilities is clearly indicated by the circumstances." Like the exercise of Presidential emergency powers, the issue of Presidential and Congressional war powers is a subject of continuing debate. But the so- called "War Powers Act of 1933" should not be confused with the War Powers Resolution. Congressional Research Service ˜ The Library of Congress.

²Proclamation No. 2038 (March 5, 1933); 48 Stat. 1689.
³Proclamation No. 2039 (March 6, 1933); 48 Stat. 1690.
⁴40 Stat. 415.
⁵Ch. 1, 73d Cong., 1^st Sess. (March 9, 1933); 48 Stat. 1.
⁶Ch. 1, Title I, § 2 (March 9, 1933); 48 Stat. 1; 12 U.S.C. 95a and 50 U.S.C. App. 5(b).
As amended, § 5(b) read in pertinent part as follows:
During time of war or during any other period of national emergency declared by the President, the President may, through any agency he may designate, or otherwise, investigate, regulate, or prohibit, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, by means of licenses or otherwise, any transactions in foreign exchange, transfers of credit between or payments by banking institutions as defined by the President, and export, hoarding, melting, or earmarking of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency, by any person within the United States or any place subject to the jurisdiction thereof .
⁷The latter provision stated as follows:
The actions, regulations, rules, licenses, orders, and proclamations heretofore or hereafter taken, promulgated, made, or issued by the President ... since March 4, 1933, pursuant to the authority ⁷ conferred by subdivision (b) of section 5 of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, are hereby approved and confirmed. Act of March 9, 1933, supra, § 1; 12 U.S.C. 95b.
⁸Proclamation No. 2040 (March 9, 1933); 48 Stat. 1691.
⁹E.O. 6260 (Aug. 28, 1933).
¹⁰SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON NATIONAL EMERGENCIES AND
DELEGATED EMERGENCY POWERS, FINAL REPORT: NATIONAL EMERGENCIES
AND DELEGATED EMERGENCY POWERS, S. Rept. No. 94-922, 94^th Cong., 2d Sess. (1976).
¹¹P.L. 94-412 (Sept. 14, 1976); 90 Stat. 1255; 50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.
¹²Id., § 1601(a).

¹³Id., § 1621(a).

¹⁴Id., § 1631.
¹⁵Id., § 1622.
¹⁶Id., § 1641.

¹⁷P.L. 95-223, 95^th Cong., 1^st Sess. (Dec. 28, 1977); 91 Stat. 1626; 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.

¹⁸Id., § 1701(a).
¹⁹50 U.S.C. App. 5(b); 12 U.S.C. 95a.

²⁰P.L. 95-223, supra, § 101(d); 50 U.S.C. 1651(a)(1).
²¹47 Fed. Reg. 56351-54 (Dec. 16, 1982).
²²P.L. 93-110 (Sept. 21, 1973), 87 Stat. 352, as amended by P.L. 93-373 (Aug. 14, 1974), 88 Stat. 445.

Hope the above helps, it's been fun.

Thanks for the invite. GH

Jim1cor13 · August 9, 2016

Awesome, Thanks George especially for making the effort to assist me with some of this.

Good Information and I will share this with those I discuss these matters with. Strange thing is some folk in washington seem to agree the act is still in force, some do not, the guys I deal with are certainly not all in agreement so this will at least also give them some good info to dig into and verify including the law library. The more data the better and I know they too will appreciate your contribution. This is the whole idea of working together, and not as adversaries.

The guys I know involved in some of this are both military background and political backgrounds, all of them much more versed in these matters than I am, but it caught my interest for sure.

As I have been trying to learn more, I have seen a little of what you shared, and this is a big help in my info gathering. I have also seen the other side, who states it is indeed still in force, no question. So this data should be quite useful in further getting to the bottom of this and whether it is or it isn't. The discussion of what we see today in government though is still far from over and there is still much to question about these very matters.

I will share more here after I share your material and after I can get responses from the both sides crowd of

who i am dealing with on this. it has been a very interesting topic indeed, but the discussion is far from over.

Edited August 9, 2016 by Jim1cor13

George Hayduke · August 9, 2016

:twothumbs:

coorslite21 · August 9, 2016

Great thread !

SgtFuryUSCZ · August 9, 2016

On ‎8‎/‎6‎/‎2016 at 3:14 PM, SnowGlobe7 said:

We're glad we're old and gonna die...

I am not....We need more like you two!!!!!

***///

Train your little Patriots well fellow Americans.... We're doing what we can, but sadly too many are

being lost to the dark side... at our advanced stage of decay, it's hard to get through to the young 'uns...

We creep 'em out.... :mellow:

Jim1cor13 · August 10, 2016

As I have time, I will be adding relevant items that should concern us all, related to the wars we have seen, including presidential abuses often due to the lack of congressional restraints no matter what "act" appears to be in force, and taking a look at who benefits from these endless wars. There is great truth to the saying "All wars are banker wars". Many deny this, but it has become reality and perhaps has always been accurate to some degree. War is profitable, and when greed is involved, it becomes a ripe area for massive abuse and fraud, too often ending in needless destruction and loss of soldiers lives not to mention millions of innocent lives.

As we continue to try and find out how to approach how "we the people" can gain back our voices and a constitutional republic, here is more food for thought...and thoughtful discussion:

It is one thing to conduct what is called a "just" war in order to defend our homes, borders and people, it is an entirely different thing to conduct war based upon aggressive geo-political engineering and threat fabrications with the main goal of profit which falls into its own category called "unjust" war. In my humble opinion, a "just" war is when all avenues of seeking terms of peace are exhausted, and the use of force is necessary to bring about a peaceful resolution as quickly as possible. An "unjust" war is when the use of force and deployment of our soldiers into harms way is promoted based upon threat fabrications/manipulations in order to incite conflict for the main purpose of profit and military expansion. In these cases of course, seeking a peaceful resolution is deemed "unprofitable" to those who plan and to those who fund them. To be clear, I am only talking about the definition of the terms, NOT cases of special circumstances where we must defend our land and people before we are able to even seek a peaceful end to a legitimate hostility.

A sobering thought: Too many parties now benefit from perpetual warmaking for the U.S. to ever conclude its military conflicts. It is a factual statement that too many Americans benefit from unending wars. World War II was the last time Congress officially declared war. Since then, the conflicts we’ve called “wars” — from Vietnam through to the second Iraq War — have actually been congressional “authorizations of military force.” And more recently, beginning with the War Powers Act of 1973, presidential war powers have expanded so much that, according to the Congressional Research Service, it’s no longer clear whether a president requires congressional authorization at all.

The Constitution of the United States divides the war powers of the federal government between the Executive and Legislative branches: the President is the Commander in Chief of the armed forces (Article II, section 2), while Congress has the power to make declarations of war, and to raise and support the armed forces (Article I, section 8). Over time, questions arose as to the extent of the President's authority to deploy U.S. armed forces into hostile situations abroad without a declaration of war or some other form of Congressional approval. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution in the aftermath of the Vietnam War to address these concerns and provide a set of procedures for both the President and Congress to follow in situations where the introduction of U.S. forces abroad could lead to their involvement in armed conflict.

Conceptually, the War Powers Resolution can be broken down into several distinct parts. The first part states the policy behind the law, namely to "insure that the collective judgment of both the Congress and the President will apply to the introduction of United States Armed Forces into hostilities," and that the President's powers as Commander in Chief are exercised only pursuant to a declaration of war, specific statutory authorization from Congress, or a national emergency created by an attack upon the United States (50 USC Sec. 1541). (Personally, it appears to me that our congress has been seriously lacking in its duties and restraints which has contributed to decades of presidential abuses, not to mention what the last 3 or 4 admins have got away with in the name of "national security" and how "we the people" have had our rights, liberties and freedoms trampled in a supposed exchange for "security". Where were the outcries from the people? Where the hell was our congress?)

Ok for now, let's move on to...

Who benefits?

Corporations, according to the Supreme Court, are legally equivalent to "natural persons." These "patriotic corporate citizens" are normally satisfied with the day-to-day political influence which brings them little (or no) taxes, subsidies ($1.5 billion to Big Oil) and immunity from criminal prosecution for damaging us. But when it's wartime for the troops it's showtime for the elite. A War For Freedom has to be financed, so the banks' profits jump. We need equipment, so armaments makes a bundle. And Big Oil pumps up its profits with high octane. United They Stand, The Sky's The Limit. Let all the casualties be on the battlefield, not on Wall Street, because not all natural persons are created equal. So the Pentagon starts deploying troops and writing 'corporate welfare' checks to benefit corporations. Too often, we make war to make profits. It's a rich man's war and a poor man's fight, and corporations plus their congressional friends are behind it all. Think of it as War, Inc.

Here are the 10 companies that profit the most from war:

1. Lockheed Martin (LMT) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
Arm sales:$36.3 billion, total sales: $46.5 billion
Gross profit: $2.7 billion, total workforce, 123,000
Lockheed Martin notched $36.3 billion in sales in 2011, slightly higher than the $35.7 billion the company sold in 2010. The arms sales comprised 78% of the company's total 2011 sales. Lockheed makes a wide range of products, including aircraft, missiles, unmanned systems and radar systems. The company and its employees have been concerned about the effects of the "fiscal cliff" and sequestration, the latter of which includes significant cuts to the U.S. Department of Defense. In the fall of 2012, the company planned on issuing layoff notices to all employees before backing down at the White House's request.

2. Boeing (BA) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, space
Arm sales: $31.8 billion, total sales: $68.7 billion
Gross profit: $4 billion, total workforce: 171,700
Boeing was the second-largest U.S. government contractor in 2011, with about $21.5 billion worth of goods contracted. The Chicago-based company makes a wide range of arms, including strategic missile systems, laser and electro-optical systems and global positioning systems. Despite all these technologies, just 46% of the company's total sales of $68.7 billion in 2011 came from arms. Boeing is the largest commercial airplane manufacturer in the world, making planes such as the 747, 757 and recently, the 787 Dreamliner. The company is also known for its space technology — Boeing had $1 billion worth of contracts with NASA in 2011.

3. BAE Systems -- aircraft, artillery, electronics, vehicles, missiles, ships
Arm sales: $29.2 billion, total sales: $30.7 billion
Gross profit: $2.3 billion, total workforce: 93,500
BAE Systems was the largest non-U.S. company based on arms sales. Arms sales represented 95% of the company's total sales in 2011 even though they were lower as a total of overall sales compared to the prior year. The products BAE sells include the L-ROD Bar Armor System that shields defense vehicles and the Hawk Advanced Jet Trainer that provides sophisticated simulation training for military pilots. In 2013, the company said its growth would likely come from outside the U.S. and Great Britain — its home market. BAE noted that its outlook for those two countries was "constrained," likely due to the diminished presence in international conflicts and government budget cuts.

4. General Dynamics (GD) -- artillery, electronics, vehicles, small arms, ships
Arm sales: $23.8 billion, total sales: $32.7 billion
Gross profit: $2.5 billion, total workforce: 95,100
With 18,000 transactions in 2011, General Dynamics was the third-largest contractor to the U.S. government. Of those contracts, approximately $12.9 billion worth went to the Navy, while an additional $4.6 billion went to the Army. The company's arms sales in 2011 comprised 73% of total sales. Arms sales in 2011 were slightly below 2010 levels. The company makes a host of products, including electric boats, tracked and wheeled military vehicles, and battle tanks. The company announced layoffs in early March, blaming mandated federal budget cuts.

5. Raytheon (RTN) -- electronics, missiles
Arm sales: $22.5 billion, total sales: $24.9 billion
Gross profit: $1.9 billion, total workforce: 71,000
Raytheon, based in Waltham, Mass., is one of the largest defense contractors in the U.S. The company makes the Tomahawk Cruise Missile, among others. Arms sales comprised about 90% of the company's sales in 2011 though they as a total they were lower than in the prior year. The slide hasn't let up. Total sales in 2012 fell 1.5%, and Raytheon is expecting sales to fall 3% in 2013, a projection which doesn't take into account the effects of mandated budget cuts. The company can rely on overseas customers to somewhat offset weak sales at home. As of January, approximately 40% of the company's backlog was booked overseas. The company expects approximately a 5% increase in international sales in 2013.

6. Northrop Grumman (NOC) -- aircraft, electronics, missiles, ships, space
Arm sales: $21.4 billion, total sales: $26.4 billion
Gross profit: $2.1 billion, total workforce: 72,500
Northrop Grumman's 2011 arms sales comprised about 81% of total sales even after a sharp decline in arms sales year over year. The company attributed the decline to reduced government spending on defense projects. Nevertheless, the company was more profitable than in the prior year.

7. EADS -- aircraft, electronics, missiles and space
Arm sales: $16.4 billion, total sales: $68.3 billion
Gross profit: $1.4 billion, total workforce: 133,120
The European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company (EADS), based in the Netherlands, had sales in 2011 roughly in line with the prior year. Arms sales comprised just 24% of the company's revenue. EADS and BAE Systems unsuccessfully attempted to merge for $45 billion in 2012, which would have created the world's largest aerospace company. The deal collapsed in October after German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed concerns about the merger.

8. Finmeccanica -- aircraft, artillery, engines, electronics, vehicles and missiles
Arms sales, $14.6 billion, total sales: $24.1 billion
Gross profit: $ -3.2 billion, total workforce: 70,470
Italian company Finmeccanica makes a wide range of arms, including helicopters and security electronics. Nearly 60% of the company's sales in 2011 were in arms. Finmeccanica lost $3.2 billion in 2011. The Italian company is currently fending off allegation that it paid bribes to win an approximately $750 million contract to provide 12 military helicopters to the Indian government in 2010. The then-head of the company, Giuseppe Orsi, was arrested in February but has denied wrongdoing. Other executives, including the head of the company's helicopter unit, have been replaced, and the company has delayed the release of recent financial results.

9. L-3 Communications (LLL) -- electronics
Arm sales: $12.5 billion, total sales: $15.2 billion
Gross profit: $956 million, total workforce: 61,000
Some 83% of L-3 Communications sales in 2011 came from arms sales, but this was down from what it sold the prior year. The company has four business segments: electronic systems; aircraft modernization and maintenance; national security solutions; and command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. Among many products manufactured, the company has become a major provider of unmanned aircraft systems.

10. United Technologies ( UTX) -- aircraft, electronics, engines
Arm sales: $11.6 billion, total sales: $58.2 billion
Gross profit: $5.3 billion, total workforce: 199,900
United Technologies makes a wide range of arms — notably military helicopters, including the Black Hawk helicopter for the U.S. Army and the Seahawk helicopter for the U.S. Navy. The company was the biggest employer in the top 10 though arms sales accounted for just 20% of revenue. UTX also produces elevators, escalators, air-conditioners and refrigerators. International sales comprised 60% of the company's revenue in 2012.
-- Based on a SIPRI report reviewd by 24/7 Wall St. and reported by USAToday.

Edited August 10, 2016 by Jim1cor13

Jim1cor13 · August 13, 2016

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