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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCan we please stop with the rightwing hysteria over Obama ordering martial law?
The wingnuts went crazy about a recent Excutive Order.
Here's an example:
http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2012/03/19/obamas-executive-order-authorizes-peacetime-martial-law
Of course, this is pure dishonest bullshit combined with a dose of the crazy. The Obama EO merely updates a Clinton EO by accounting for the existence of DHS and other changes to the Cabinet.
Compare for yourself:
Obama EO #
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness
Clinton EO:
http://www.archives.gov/federal-register/executive-orders/pdf/12919.pdf
Yet we see this stupid bullshit hysteria making the rec list here.
Despite the fact that Snopes has debunked it:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/ndrp.asp
Please stop promoting right wing lies.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Better Believe It
(18,630 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)you spread them anyways.
The Progressive peddles lies to get attention. Always a market for paranoid white people afraid Obama is gonna lock them up.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)threatened by Henry Paulson after Congress first voted not to bail out Wall Street. And unless Democratic Congress members are also Right Wing in your view, it is most certainly something that people need to be concerned about. You may do as you please and simply trust that your team can be trusted with powers you would freak out over and probably did, when the other team had them. But most people, regardless of party affiliation, are very concerned about anyone have powers that could be used against the people.
It is the duty of citizens to be aware of what their elected officials are up to and to let them know when they are not happy with what they are doing.
You may do as you please, but we are Democrats, unlike Republicans we do not cheer for everything if our Party does just because they are our Party. That is what is known as Right Wing.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)I'm talking about the rw lie that the recent executive order was a power grab intended to establish martial law or a permanent war economy.
It's been officially debunked.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)Got a mouse in your pocket?
So....why do you hate America?
Have you stopped kicking your dog?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Whether you like it or not, DU stands for equality in marital law, and asking people not to talk about it is out of place here.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)The Obama EO did not do anything but change an existing Clinton EO to account for changes in the federal bureaucracy.
It does not create martial law. Only the FEMA camp right and their allies on the right spread that myth.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Going back and blaming the Clinton administration is no excuse for Obama's "evolving" position on marital law.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)FarPoint
(12,462 posts)Go Google the issue....its been updated for the past 200 years....It's national security ...Thomas Jefferson started it.
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)think
(11,641 posts)FarPoint
(12,462 posts)it's bad enough on this Board lately as it is ...what, you never had a typo before? I prefer to treat others with respect.
FarPoint
(12,462 posts)It's ALL right wing freeper born spin. Glad your putting out this fire.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)one_voice
(20,043 posts)SpartanDem
(4,533 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Where's my socialist paradise?
Obama didn't promise that, but Rush and Beck said he would.
I'm waiting...
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)ProfessionalLeftist
(4,982 posts)Zalatix
(8,994 posts)Tennessee Gal
(6,160 posts)George W. Bush did it.
It is common practice for each President to update this.