Declaration of a National State of Terrorny

The Difference between this President and the Last?

Well, the old one wasn't eligible for re-election...

"Hmm, unprecedented executive power seized in secrecy and fear, you say?"

As I said in Standing With Your Back to the Front:

"What kind of government did we get," they asked Franklin as he walked out of those great halls, and I'm sorry to say, he did not answer "I'm sorry, thats classified."

Don't know if this one is supposed to be a secret, as it is definitely, not classified, but I only found the following in the Federal Register, buried, after it left the desk of the same President who stated at the beginning of his term that (paraphrase) "Every Executive Order I sign, will be posted on the WhiteHouse web page, for public review, within hours of my receiving signature"

Well, let me know if you see what I found on an obscure government page, between thousands of pages of bureaucratic notices and assorted federal minutia, on the White House page, where it was promised. Ill even give you the link. http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing_room/PresidentialActions/

No? then I'll paste it here for you, at the bottom of this post, from the President who promised you transparency, and a "radical departure from the policies of the previous administration."

And as I wrote last October:

[...I]f he was willing, he would have drug these skeletons out in to the open and painted himself as a hero setting off to slay an abusive totalitarian state. But he hasn't, and he continually dismisses any mention of it. And why? Because that leviathan state is what he voted for, It's secrecy and shadows are what he needs, and its abusive totalitarian power is what he craves.

He entered this campaign with a smoking gun, and all he could think of is how many bullets might be left in the magazine.

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Sometimes I hate it when I'm right...
Tempus Fugit.

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Notice of September 10, 2009-- 

Continuation of the National Emergency  
With Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks                           

Presidential Documents      
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Title 3-- The President  [[Page 46883]]                  

Notice of September 10, 2009                    

Continuation of the National Emergency With                  
Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks 
                 
Consistent with section 202(d) of the National                 
Emergencies Act, 50 U.S.C. 1622(d), I am continuing for                  
1 year the national emergency declared on September 14,                  
2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the                  
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the                  
continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on                  
the United States.                  

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national                  
emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the                  
powers and authorities adopted to deal with that                  
emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14,                  
2009. Therefore, I am continuing in effect for an                  
additional year the national emergency the former                  
President declared on September 14, 2001, with respect                  
to the terrorist threat.                  

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register                  
and transmitted to the Congress.  
                                                     
(Presidential Sig.)                  
THE WHITE HOUSE,                     
September 10, 2009.  

[FR Doc. E9-22119 Filed 9-10-09; 11:15 am]  
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