Bush grants presidency extraordinary powers
Read the white house document, forget the article.
This strips power from FEMA and gives it to the president. Who controls when he has power? One of his lackeys of course.... Congress isn't even mentioned in the document.
The broad definition of "catastrophic emergency" is the most disturbing part of this.
Let's say the existence of aliens visiting our planet is announced. Bush could use this situation to assume total control of all governmental operations, suspending the other 2 branches of government and extending his term well beyond his maximum term.
I remember this from somewhere... Oh yeah, it was in Star Wars: Episode III. Except the senate doesn't even get a vote.
Read the white house document, forget the article.
This strips power from FEMA and gives it to the president. Who controls when he has power? One of his lackeys of course.... Congress isn't even mentioned in the document.
The broad definition of "catastrophic emergency" is the most disturbing part of this.
Let's say the existence of aliens visiting our planet is announced. Bush could use this situation to assume total control of all governmental operations, suspending the other 2 branches of government and extending his term well beyond his maximum term.
I remember this from somewhere... Oh yeah, it was in Star Wars: Episode III. Except the senate doesn't even get a vote.