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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 359
approval, our system is not much different from that of the Communists, which
allegedly threatens our existence.
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Senator Church later expressed: “These powers, if exercised, would confer upon the
President total authority to do anything he pleased.”
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Congress expressed the concern that this almost unlimited power that rests in the hands of
one man, the President of the United States cannot be reversed. The only way our system of
government can be reverted back to the way it was designed by our founding fathers would be if
the President surrendered this power. As of yet there has been no President willing to do this.
The Congress stated:
Furthermore, it would be largely futile task unless we have the President's
active collaboration. Having delegated this authority to the President—in ways
that permit him to determine how long it shall continue, simply through the device
of keeping emergency declarations alive—we now find ourselves in a position
where we cannot reclaim the power without the President's acquiescence. We are
unable to terminate these declarations without the President's signature, so we
need a large measure of Presidential cooperation.
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Illegitimate Power?
To be fair, much of the government agency functions relating to the above Executive
Orders is legitimate. I am glad that my government is planning for the national emergencies.
They should plan; they should provide defense of our nation, its national resources, our energy
supply, industry and communications; they should stockpile food and strategic resources; and
they should provide training and resources for our state governments and civilians. But is this
what they are doing?
The evidence convinces me they are not. Our nations military was on the decline through
the eight years of the Clinton administration. At the same time that the military was being
downsized, they were being deployed over seas in greater numbers. Even under the George Bush
Jr. administration we didn’t have enough active troops to fight Iraq. Tens of thousands of
reserves were called up to active duty. Prior to the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US already
had over 250,000 troops deployed oversees.
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While our military is overseas, who is left to
defend the nation?
Rather than storing up food for a national disaster or war, the Clinton administration has
disposed of our food reserves. “For decades our nation maintained a standing reserve of cheese,
butter, grains and other foodstuffs available to us in time of crises. No longer. Several years ago,
President Clinton either sold at less than market prices or gave away those reserves to foreign
countries. America has on hand at any given time at best 30 days of food supplies.”
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Clinton’s
actions were in accordance with rules set up by the World trade Organization (WTO) according
to John G. Gordon. Writing in the Veritas newspaper Gordon states:
…rules enforced by WTO made it illegal for the U.S. to retain sufficient
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