When will Prez. Obama rescind/revoke NSPD-51 ?? Remember this??

[99th_Monkey]

Not that I'm particularly worried about Obama declaring martial law, but still ... at least hopefully DeFazio will be able to review the Directive's classified sections.

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NSPD-51: Bush prepares martial law
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Thu, 05/24/2007 - 18:01.

Every president since FDR has drawn up such plans. The most notorious were Nixon's "Operation Garden Plot" and Reagan's "REX 84 Alpha"—a legacy we recalled when the Homeland Security Act passed in 2002. This latest incarnation has gone unnoticed by the New York Times and other major media. Leave it to the editorial page of Tennessee's Chattanoogan, May 24:

Bush Makes Power Grab
President Bush, without so much as issuing a press statement, on May 9 signed a directive that granted near dictatorial powers to the office of the president in the event of a national emergency declared by the president.

The "National Security and Homeland Security Presidential Directive," with the dual designation of NSPD-51, as a National Security Presidential Directive, and HSPD-20, as a Homeland Security Presidential Directive, establishes under the office of president a new National Continuity Coordinator.

That job, as the document describes, is to make plans for "National Essential Functions" of all federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal governments, as well as private sector organizations to continue functioning under the president's directives in the event of a national emergency.

The directive loosely defines "catastrophic emergency" as "any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions."

When the President determines a catastrophic emergency has occurred, the President can take over all government functions and direct all private sector activities to ensure we will emerge from the emergency with an "enduring constitutional government."
http://www.ww4report.com/node/3940

This is the same presidential executive order that Bush had "Classified" huge sections of, and Congressman Peter DeFazio was trying to have a look-see at, which he was legally entitled to do as Homeland Security Committee member, but Bush still refused to allow Defazio ... and I think DeFazio just kind of gave up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrEcK1mVL_4