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Executive Order Gives Obama Authority To Seize Your Assets If You Criticize US Policy In Ukraine
44 29(Daniel McAdams)Do you, like 56 percent of the US population, believe that the US should “not get too involved” in the Ukraine situation?
Do you think that the US administration putting us on a war footing with Russia is a bad idea? Are you concerned that the new, US-backed leaders of Ukraine — not being elected — might lack democratic legitimacy?
Are you tempted to speak out against US policy in Ukraine; are you tempted to criticize the new Ukrainian regime?
Be careful what you say. Be careful what you write. President Obama has just given himself the authority to seize your assets.
According to the president’s recent Executive Order, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine” (first reported by WND’s Aaron Klein), the provisions for seizure of property extend to “any United States person.”
According to the president’s recent Executive Order, “Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine” (first reported by WND’s Aaron Klein), the provisions for seizure of property extend to “any United States person.”
That means “any United States citizen, permanent resident alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any person in the United States.”
Declaring a “national emergency” over the planned referendum in Crimea to determine whether or not to join Russia, the US president asserts that asset seizure is possible for any US person “determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State”:
(i) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly or indirectly, any of the following:(A) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in Ukraine;
(B) actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine; or
(C) misappropriation of state assets of Ukraine or of an economically significant entity in Ukraine;
The Executive Order is, as usual, so broadly written that it leaves nearly everything open to interpretation.
For example, what are “direct or indirect…actions or policies that threaten the peace, security, stability, sovereignty, or territorial integrity of Ukraine”? Could that be someone writing an article that takes issue with the US policy that the Crimea referendum is illegal and illegitimate?
Could it be standing up in a public meeting and expressing the view that Ukraine would be better off with nationwide referenda to determine whether other regions should become autonomous or joined to neighboring countries?
What if a Polish-American appears on a radio or television program suggesting that parts of Poland incorporated into Ukraine after WWII should be returned to Polish authority?
Probably the president will not seize the assets of Americans in the scenarios above. But he says he can.
As the US government moves ever-closer to war with Russia, it is reasonable to expect these attempts to squash dissent and to remove “threats” to the administration’s position. The historical pattern is clear.
Recall Eugene V. Debs sentenced to ten years in prison for his opposition to US involvement in WWI. Recall Japanese-Americans interned in camps during WWII because their loyalty to the United States was deemed suspect.
The stage is being set to silence dissent. It sounds alarmist to read this, agreed.
Probably the president will not use his Executive Order to seize the assets of Americans who disagree with his Ukraine policy. But he says he can.
Careful what you say.
Careful what you say.
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MY COMMENTS
And where does this leave our Congressmen and Senators who are deeply concerned for America's future safety over the potential for the US to provoke Russia and her allies to war over US policies in the Ukraine? What will happen to them if they dare to voice their concern on behalf of the safety of the American people?
What about concerned Americans all across this nation who are rightfully worried about where the US involvement with the Ukraine will take our nation someday?
No true American or Christian wants war, and the prospects of war with Russian and CHINA are frightening. Yet our policies in dealing with the Ukraine can lead to exactly that. Americans must be concerned and they must speak out about policies that can lead to deadly war and the destruction of OUR nation and OUR people collectively.
You see, Obama and his tiny minority ruling elite do not have to worry if war or WWIII breaks out. They have their underground military bases, nuclear fallout shelters, 10 years supply of survival food stockpiled in their underground facilities.
"We the people" however do not. The US government has made NO provision for the safety of her citizens in the event of nuclear war. Only those individuals who can afford to purchase and install their nuclear fallout shelters on their property have any sort of real protection from mass destruction in the event of WW III.
American people have the right to be deeply concerned over US foreign policies, and to voice their dissent over an issue that can lead ultimately to WW III and the mass slaughter of millions of innocent victims in North America. This is OUR nation and OUR future in this nation. Why should we not be concerned at this time?
Well, as Christians at least we can pray about these issues, and that I why I am now traveling to pray across our nation to meet with other intercessors.
Speaking out publicly against foreign policies can't really change what these people in power in Washington DC want to do, and US history has proved this repeatedly. They are determined to press on with their hidden agendas regardless of how "WE THE PEOPLE" feel.
Speaking out publicly against foreign policies can't really change what these people in power in Washington DC want to do, and US history has proved this repeatedly. They are determined to press on with their hidden agendas regardless of how "WE THE PEOPLE" feel.
BUT PRAYER CAN CHANGE WORLD EVENTS and shape the destiny of nations.
So let's focus on what really works to change world events, and let us all seek God for His grace at this time, to restrain the forces of greed and darkness that clamor for WW III, and to protect God's elect from all potential dangers at this time in our nation.-Pamela Rae Schuffert
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Okay..............Something must be up for him to be doing this.I remember on the day of Pres Obama's Inauguration back in January 2009 ...I was sitting in a tea shop having my tea waiting to see my chiro and as I was looking at the newspaper here in Canada I heard as clear as crystal TWO sentences,not audible but CLEAR enough in my being that I DIDN'T make this up,not how it was spoken and OUT OF NOWHERE....as I was looking at Pres Obama's picture with his family......"".....This man is different then all others--(( other Presidents ))---and is in for the rest of time on this earth...""THAT is still with me 5 + years later.IT came OUT OF NOWHERE .
ReplyDeleteI knew he was empowered by Satan when I saw women fainting while he spoke. Slain by an evil spirit from an evil man. Then my fellow American's voted him in. He will be the demise of America!
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