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FE. M.A. FE. M.A. It is the most powerful organisation in the United States and most people don’t even know it exists! ernment in case of a major emergency, foreign or domestic” and to build prisons and "holding facilties" under the designation of "refugee facilities" (which have never been used for holding refugees of any sort). Executive Order #12656 appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase domestic surveil- lance of US citizens and restrict freedom of movement within the United States, granting to the government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National Guard may be used to-seal all borders and take control of US air space and all ports of entry. The following orders are written but not implemented and could be implemented at any time, suspending the Constitution of the United States and using FEMA to do it: Executive Order #10990—allows the government to take ¢ over all modes of transportation and to control all highways and sea- narte ports. Executive Order #10995—allows the government to seize and control the communication media. Executive Order #10997—allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuel and minerals. Executive Order #10998—allows the government to take over all food resources and farms. Executive Order #11000—allows the government to mobilise civilians into work brigades under government supervision. Executive Order #11001—allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions. Executive Order #1 1002—designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons. Executive Order #11003—allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft. Executive Order #11004—allows the housing and finance authorities to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned and establish new areas for populations. Executive Order #11005—allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities. Executive Order #11051—specifies the responsibilities of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorisation to put all executive orders into effect in times of increased international ten- sions and economic or financial crisis. Executive Order #11310—grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans sct out in executive orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions and to advise and assist the President. Executive Order #11049—assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative executive orders issued over a 15-year period. Executive Order #11921—allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of moncy in US financial insti- lutions in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. eo FEMA stands for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. It isn't an elected body, it has a quasi-secrct budget in the billions of dollars, and it has more power than the President of the United States. It is the most powerful organisation in the United States and most people don’ even know it exists! It was originally created to ensure the survival of the US gov- emment in the event of a nuclear attack. It was also provided the task of being a federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes. But it wasn't created under constitutional law or an act of Congress; it was created by EXECUTIVE ORDER. There was an act, called the Emergency Management Act, that was passed in 1935. This act says that the President can issue executive orders in times of national emergency. Since that time, we have always had a declared state of “National Emergency” in the United States, even though you didn’t know it. You can find these “declarations of National Emergency” in the Combined Federal Register and the records of Congress. We are in one right now. Many executive orders have been issued since then. The order enacting FEMA is one of them. Since only Congress has the authority to appropriate funds, the executive order creating this agency is unconstitutional or, at best, it should have remained unfunded. An executive order, whether constitutional or not, becomes effective upon publication in the Federal Register. Congress is bypassed. General Richard Secord and Lt. Col. Oliver North who orches- trated the Iran-Contra operation that smuggled in weapons and cocaine to this country, using our CIA and US Air Force to do it, were in charge of FEMA for several years during which it grew into the monster it is today. Some of the black helicopter traffic reported throughout the United States are flown by FEMA personnel, FEMA has been given responsibility for many new disasters in addition to floods, hurricanes, and earthquakes, including urban forest fires, home heating emergencies, refugee situations, urban riots, and emer- gency planning for nuclear and toxic incidences. In the West, FEMA works "in conjunction with” the 6th Army. FEMA has only spent about 6% of its budget on national emer- gencies. The bulk of their funding has been used for the construc- tion of secret underground facilities to “assure continuity of gov- 16*NEXUS BY LINDA THOMPSON FEBRUARY - MARCH 1994