Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach
We’ve just seen, up close and personal, the huge problems with the declaration of a State of Emergency by some potentate from City Mayor to US President.
Legislators, this is a total usurpation of your legitimate power as specified in the Constitution, which defines the responsibilities and authority of the three branches of government.
Basically, any elected official can say:
“I now personally declare that I have Emergency Powers because of the State of Emergency that I just personally declared to be a real authentic Emergency! Bow before me, mere mortals!”
We’ve just seen this being done by the US President in order to give him power to do things like write the biggest check in US history to student debtors.
How can that be? Legislators, the President is taking the power of the purse away from the Senate and the House and claiming the authority to write a check of any amount to anyone he pleases! That’s totally wrong!
Not to mention Governors claiming the power to keep people in their homes, to force them to take medicines, to close down their businesses, and a host of other restrictions because of the COVID emergency.
And my own fear?
My fear is that these jerkwagons will declare a “climate emergency” that will authorize them to take any “climate” action they want—close down industries, ban cars, require heat pumps, the possibilities are endless.
So … how can we fix this badly broken system?
Here are my proposals:
First, we need to define what an emergency actually is. The dictionary definition is good:
e·mer·gen·cy
/əˈmərjənsē/
noun
a serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
“your quick response in an emergency could be a lifesaver”
This is a useful definition. For example, they’ve been warning us about the impending climate Thermageddon™ for fifty years. None of their warnings of catastrophe have come true.
And for 50 years they’ve been claiming that we need “immediate action”, right away … and despite us basically doing zip, no climate calamities have happened.
So by definition, the situation with the climate is not an emergency. Not unexpected, doesn’t require immediate action.
In any case, we need clear legislation at both the State and Federal level specifying things like:
• What constitutes an emergency.
• Who can declare an emergency.
• How long does the declaration last.
• What emergency powers the government can legally take.
• What emergency powers the government can not legally take.
With that as prologue, if I ran the circus I’d make the rules like this.
• Adopt the definition of “emergency” given above.
• Only allow a State of Emergency to be declared by a vote of 2/3 of the Legislature. If you can’t get 2/3 thirds of the Legislature to agree it’s an emergency, it’s not an emergency.
• Any State of Emergency expires 14 days after it is voted in. It can be extended twice, but only for 14 days each time, by a new 2/3 vote of the Legislature. After that, pass regular laws in a regular manner.
• No Legislator eligible to vote for the State of Emergency can be granted any emergency powers.
• No Emergency Order can contravene either the State or Federal Constitution.
• Members of the Executive Branch cannot use the State of Emergency to spend money without the approval of the Legislature.
• All Emergency Orders expire when the State of Emergency expires.
Yes, I know that’s just a rough first cut on what we need, subject to “a hundred visions and revisions before the taking of a toast and tea” … but it’s clear that we need something like that.
Because I don’t want someone from either political party empowered to say I can’t leave my home for months on end based on some bogus Chicken Little claim that “The sky is falling! EVERYONE PANIC!”.
And the current system, where the same person declaring the emergency assumes extraordinary emergency powers with no specifications or limits, that’s bull goose looney. Nothing good will come of that.
Regards to all,
w.
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Excellent. (but cognitive dissonance will prevent action, sadly)
If all puppets listen to the same puppet master who can print all it needs to corrupt the system how do we think to achieve this ?
Follow The Yellow Brick Road
On Saturday morning while sipping coffee I happened onto the Bloomberg Channel 353 on DirecTV while they were on what they call Bloomberg Green.
A CEO from Kliner-Perkins was being interview about his new book (I’m not sure that’s what it is) entitled
“SPEED & SCALE” outlining what the author, John Doerr claims what we need is a PLAN.
It was clear after his hyperbole that he like others haven’t a clue or any CV to support his diatribe Sorry to say an engineer like him gives us all a bad name.
https://www.amazon.com/Speed-Scale-Action-Solving-Climate/dp/0593420470
Someone with time needs to dispute his meanderings https://t.co/ZjdazwqyLz
All good ideas for a better function system, Willis, except that they will interfere with the natural proclivities of
potentatespublic officials. Personally, I am just going to vote hard against one of the two major parties — I won’t care if Mr. Ed the horse is the other candidate.No, emergency powers need to be altogether removed. Along with a general reduction in the size, scope, and power of government.
In the case of the Federal government back to what it was before the lawless FDR, and preferably before the first “progressive” Wilson.
Amen! Society got along perfectly fine before emergency powers. WW II took a day to declare after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Locals have consistently gotten emergency supplies to disaster areas before FEMA even fired up their word processors, and could have done even more if governments didn’t make “price gouging” illegals.
Government is incompetent, period.
Roosevelt had a declared a National Emergency well before Pearl harbour ( May27 1941)
‘Proclaiming That an Unlimited National Emergency Confronts This Country, Which Requires That Its Military, Naval, Air and Civilian Defenses Be Put on the Basis of Readiness to Repel Any and All Acts or Threats of Aggression Directed Toward Any Part of the Western Hemisphere’
“Government is incompetent, period.”
Felix,
What you’re witnessing/experiencing is decidedly not incompetence. There’s a reason ANY government program you can name, did not actually help the people that the sugary title said it would. If you understand that our present government, at almost all levels, is really just a money laundering scheme, then all the events you witness and experience at the hands of said government become crystal clear. Persons elected and appointed to government, with very few exceptions (and largely regardless of affiliation), spend their entire time in their jobs continually building a bigger and bigger pipe to carry stolen taxpayer earned dollars to the feeding troughs of their donors, their benefactors, occasionally down to their supporters, but in the end with a pretty large kickback/cut to themselves. All one has to do is chart the financial net worth of anyone in the US Congress, and look at the profitability of the industries with the largest lobbies (e.g. pharma), as proof. I leave that to the reader.
I believe wholeheartedly in the federal government defined in the US Constitution and as functionally described in detail in the Federalist Papers (Madison, Hamilton, Jay). I took an oath, to which I still hold myself, to protect and defend it. The US federal government should be small and reluctant; not the abomination we have today. Hopefully the Convention of States Project will be successful and we can get the US federal government back in the box (of course we also need to forcibly take back the education system to really get the country back on track).
Who needs taxpayer if you have a (not)Federal Reserve. A cancer can only grow if it has a unlimited blood supply.
Agreed, that the Federal Reserve is a significant part of the problem that contributes to the money laundering operation.
As Mark Twain once said: “We have the best government that money can buy.”
And, the parties starts training them early. As Stacy Selleck said in her article at termlimits.com (April 26, 2016): “Fundraising is big business in Washington, D.C. So big, in fact, that your newly elected Congressional representative is expected to spend half of his or her working hours dialing for dollars at a secret phone bank near Capitol Hill.”
If it were incompetence it would have positive results on average half the time. Nay, what we are witnessing is pure intent.
Incompetence is not random. It is incompetence.
The 1976 National Emergencies Act implemented various legal requirements regarding emergencies declared by the President of the United States. As of April 2022, 79 emergencies have been declared; 37 have expired and another 42 are currently in effect, each having been renewed annually by the president.
emergency – nouna serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action
Seems rather misnamed at best – 20+ years doesn’t really seem to fit that definition. Neither do the descriptions of most of those “emergencies”
Prohibiting Trade and Certain Other Transactions Involving Nicaragua (Executive Order 12513)[22] – The United States embargo against Nicaragua,[24] followed the victory by Sandinista candidate Daniel Ortega in the 1984 Nicaraguan general election over the U.S.-backed Contras
Isn’t this how V Lenin did it? Provisional this and provisional that: Emergency powers continued for about 70 years. About 80 million citizens died un-natural deaths as a result. This became an example for power-mad tyrants, not some isolated incident. And, now we see this exact poisonous weed developing a very deep tap root here!
Hitler and the rest too “we need emergency powers to save the Republic”
Hitlers Enabling Act was passed by the Reichstag, which in the election of March 33 (89% turnout) after Hitler was appointed Chancellor they didnt have a majority
A very “legalist” dictator of my country (Salazar, Portugal), legalized the military coup d’etat that started the dictatorship in 1926 with the approval of a constitution (in 1933) whose Article 8 gave to each and every Portuguese citizen the widest democratic rights and freedom.
… But soon after that approval, that very Article 8 was suspended (indefinitely) by law democratically passed whose justification was … emergency, enemies of state, etc.
FDR got his power through the constitutional amendments for direct election of senators (17th Amendment 1913) and income tax of individuals and businesses (16th Amendment 2013).
He was elected to fix a depression caused by the other problem created in the 1913, the Federal Reserve.
Wow, a lot of damage done to the citizens of the United States in 1913.
BTW, the Federal Reserve was the THIRD US national bank, the previous 2 were repealed.
Apparently by 2013 we were finally screwed.
The Wizards behind the curtain.
Any emergency action taken should have immediate mandatory review and constant re-evaluation by the supreme court
Amen.
Yes. But there are two levels at which it has to be fixed. First, at the federal level. The federal government needs to be reined in. The biggest impact way to do this is for the Supreme Court to do it’s job and slap down the abuse of the interstate commerce clause. Maybe to go one step further, and require a review of every existing piece of legislation that invokes that as justification.
This would rear down almost every piece of abusive legislation passed in the past 60 years.
Sure, Philip – let’s hack down ICC..but where do you stand on Ollie’s Barbeque? Or, where would you be allowed to sit?
The issue would be who decides what is “abusive” legislation and what isn’t. The only question at the federal level must be does it comply with the powers we the people give to the government via the Constitution. Remember, the power to run the Country is vested in the Congress, to be administered by the Executive branch.
The first issue, and in my opinion the most important, is to repeal the 17th Amendment. This amendment took away the power of the state legislatures to appoint Senators to represent the state at the federal level. In doing so, the federal government removed one of the biggest checks on itself. Now, via a popular vote, Senators are beholding to their monetary backers not to the state they represent.
It would be interesting to see the current Supreme Court’s take on the original intent of the Interstate Commerce Clause. It seems to me that it was intended to keep individual States from putting up tariffs, discriminatory taxes and regulations & etc. It wasn’t to deny some schmuck the right grow his own marijuana, as a prior Court ruled.
They did it because they could. People let them because they were scared witless by the MSM and the experts.
None of the experts have yet to understand Covid-19 has a 99.5%+ survival rate.
That may be true now, but was not true at the beginning of the pandemic. It was much more lethal to the elderly and the obese. COVID-19 mutated over time in accordance with ‘Smith’s law’, which states that the most favored evolutionary pathway for any pathogen is to become less pathogenic and more transmissible. There are of course always special circumstance exceptions. COVID-19 is simply becoming the fifth known common cold corona virus. It no longer causes ‘ground glass’ deep lung infection. It is mostly now just a nasty URI.
Not totally true – most people who had it didn’t even know they had it, no symptoms, so how can you say anything concrete about it. I’m willing to accept the first version might be more lethal, but beyond masks and hand washing it was a panic attack sh!t show.
Wrong . its was more like 1/3 had mild or no symptoms.
The excess deaths, not based on those who died and had positive test, show that around 1 mill more people died during the covid period and almost 1/2 mill of those before the vaccines became available
I agree, most people who died were mistreated in hospitals. They were also not in good general health having comorbidities. The very efficient early treatment protocols were ignored. The statistics were also gamed (PCR tests with well over 20 cycles, adding deaths with covid to from covid) by the biurocracy to push the covid narrative. All that gave impression that covid was very lethal dissease. The truth is covid was/is similar to flu. It can be deadly to old people and those with compromised immune system.
Not the case . It was far more deadly than flu (maybe 10x more died than a very bad flu season like they had in 60s before vaccines) and caused much more severe illness in those who became ill, sure a small proportion but of course when a disease is very very widespread the health system was overwhelmed
As for saying those who died were mistreated in hospital is absurd. A large proportion died away from hospital, maybe they saw their GP or didnt get any medical treatment
In the longer beginning most people in hospitals d1ed because of wrong ventiltion.
The worst part was that most people should NEVER have been in a hospital. Initially when a patient exhibited symptoms, the SOP was to send them home and tell them to come back in a week.
At that point they were PCR tested positive for Covid and were hospitalized with a Federal billing code worth $32K and put on a ventilator, where most succumbed and were of course labeled as “Covid” deaths.
Other early treatments were being used but suppressed in the health care industry as well as the press.
The Zelenko Protocol was used to treat thousands of infected patients with less than 1% ever admitted to a hospital.
Influenza comes in many strains. The lethality varies a great deal. Since influenza morbidity and mortality virtually disappeared during the first two years of the “pandemic” since treatment did not pay like that for Covid did, you have no valid morbidity or mortality data to back your bull!
You have no clue what you are taking about. I work in hospital and I have much broader access to relevant information than you. Some drugs were actively banned from being used on covid sick patients. Sick people were told to wait (do nothing) until they were “blue-in-face” and only then to come to hospital. Early treatment with cheap repurposed drugs could save them. The only drug approve was remdesivir – drug that can damage patients kidneys. In Africa during ebola scare remdesivir was withdrawn from treatment after over 50% ratio of kidney damage to patients. The list of mismanagement’s of covid crisis is very loooong.
I wasn’t aware of Smith’s law, but truth in wisdom.
My grannie used to say a good guest to his host gets invited more often.
Ban Mein Kampf and have compulsory reeducation using The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich as a textbook.
Hey! Just using the watermelons playbook as an example.
When everything is a crisis, nothing is.
YES!
Trump proclaimed 11 emergencies in his 4 years
Including one to allow him to divert military funds for his wall
His big emergency was for the Covid pandemic of course
‘Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Outbreak’
One might call this Fascist behavior, or a threat to democracy.
The leftist, totalitarian, one-Party uber alles Democrats are DESPERATE to permanently alter Americas Representative REPUBLIC into a tyranny of THE MAJORITY. That … is what they mean by “Democracy” … they want to permanently remove any all opposition from the fly-over States, and concentrate ALL POWER on the coasts. They are desperate to turn America into a Supermajority ONE-Party rule … like California
“ alter Americas Representative REPUBLIC into a tyranny of THE MAJORITY.”
Agreed.
But it’s worse. With the the 4th estate as they are today, I do not assume they even have a majority with which to base rules of Tyranny.
The current ruling situation is dreadfully bad.
Biden won 5.25 mill votes in Texas to Trumps 5.8 mill
Only a few % difference
The tyranny of majority gave all 38 electoral votes to Trump
Trump actually got more votes in California , 6 mill, than he did in Texas
This idea of flyover and coastal states is absurd both Trump and Biden had strong support through most states
You do not understand Presidential elections. You do not vote for the candidate. You vote for a slate of Electors. The slate with the most votes gets to vote for which ever candidate they choose to. In most cases Republican Electors will vote for the Republican candidate and the Democrat Electors will vote for the Democrat candidate.
You do vote for the candidate , Bidens and Trumps names were on the ballot. Sure its the electors who vote in the Electoral College but thats a formality….. except for faithless electors , which you mention, are very tiny number and many states prohibit them from doing so
No, the candidate is representative of the slate of electors. The popular vote for a candidate has no meaning and is not used to elect the president.
All US spending bills must originate in the House. But that didn’t stop the Senate from replacing a bill that originated in the House with an amendment that completely replaced the language of the House bill. See Obamacare.
And our feckless Chief Justice agreed that this was constitutional. What a disappointment he has been.
No, Roberts declared the fine as a tax and took the position that the Supreme Court does not have the power to change tax law. He threw it back to the Congress to change the fine which they finally did years later. So while you may debate the decision to declare the fine as a tax, but you should not have any disagreement with the Supreme Court not interfering with taxing authority.
Rober5s rewrote the law when he deemed a fine to be a tax. I have a problem with that.
As I said, that is a different debate. While he deemed it a tax, a legal interpretation, he did not rewrite the law. And having done that, it was a simple matter for the Congress to remove the tax or make it zero. It just took them too long to do it.
Robert ruled the fine to be a tax when the Government attorneys arguing the case NEVER used that argument, and in fact called the penalty a fee ONLY.
Roberts made his ruling up out of whole cloth, with no legal justification because his ruling was never argued before the court.
A really bad nomination by Bush, but better than the first person he nominated which the Republicans of the Senate refused.
The saying that hydrogen and stupidity are the 2 most common elements in the universe comes to mind. When it comes down to is that stupidity is the most common element among politicians and the green blob. They never look at things objectively and are incapable of investigating and critical thinking.
Time to take back control from the elites. Two parties, alike in corrupt arrogance , monetising every law for their cronies, working for the moneyed elites not the people they simply tax and regulate up the wazoo, is not a democracy. Not for or by the people.Just another version of Putins gangster democracy, but dissengers and truth tellers to power are simply unable to find a platform for the truth or a job to support themselves. When the people you elect are not focussed on what the majority want, and contrive instead to defraud them by law, to prefer their interests and ideology, American democracy as created is probably dead. Happened in Canada already, WEF government under Trudeau, and in NZ, also happening now in the UK. Carl Sagan’s charlatans have come ambling along.
Time to take back control from the elites.
Way beyond time.
Some of us would suggest that there really is an emergency.
But, it’s the classic ‘frog in a pan of water‘ emergency – it’s been building for some time, decades in fact.
However, The Pan is now close to boiling and when it does, is going to boil over and make one hideous mess.
The Emergency is a Health Emergency.
Not just of the physical being, ($4 Trillion per year is reasonably serious) it is a real emergency problem with the mental health of vaaaaaaast numbers of people
We didn’t dodge Ehrlich’s bullet – in a very true sense, it hit us right between the eyes. We starved, or especially, our brains, minds and souls have all died.
Yes, folks appear to be moving around and doing things, but,
They Know Not What They Do.
They are heartless and absolutely scared shitless – because they simply don’t, and in fact can not, understand. And that frightens them even more.
Folks who point and laugh at Ehrlich are the very same sorts who made up The German Delegation – that laughed at Orange Man. It’s a nervous laugh because, in your heart-of-hearts, you know it’s true.
Sadly, it seems the ‘conspiracy theorists’ of 2+ years ago were far more correct than most of us believed.
Every country with or without a written constitution has seen their laws and precedents swept aside for the sake of a case of the flu.
The problem is though, it’s 99.999999% certain it was a Wuhan laboratory produced, gain of function flu. Personally, I think it escaped accidentally although I’m now open to the possibility it would have been released deliberately some time later.
The problem is, when it escaped no government had a clue how destructive is was because the research hadn’t concluded so they hit the panic button because, of course, every meaningful nation is doing this type of research and they know damn fine the possibilities.
Despite all the evidence to the contrary countries were locked down for two years+, and restrictions like masking and hysterical jabbing continues.
Even moderate governments suddenly discovered what despots have known for thousands of years, mass fear can make people extraordinarily compliant.
So, here we go again, Fear Porn, the sequel – an energy crisis which inevitably means a food crisis.
Shock, Horror……No government was prepared for this!
Bollox. Governments run over these scenarios as a matter of course and have contingencies (perhaps not good ones) in place. We had an energy crisis in the UK in the 1970’s, we are not strangers to this, and yet somehow our government wasn’t prepared?
I don’t buy it for a second.
I mean, seriously. This kind of thing has been discussed for decades now on WUWT and we don’t have the resources nor the geopolitical intelligence available to western governments.
Whilst the UK and Europe are at the mercy of Russian gas supplies, America never was, and Trump warned the Germans directly about their folly. He did it safe in the knowledge America was self sufficient enough not to go down with Europe if the worst happened.
Then even worse than Trump anticipated happened, Biden was installed as POTUS and he choked off America’s energy security. Then, somehow, Russia and Ukraine went from a fragile but largely peaceful coexistence to a state of war.
So, here we are again, in a state of fear which those with gummy bears for brains contend it’s all Russia, Russia, Russia’s fault agin.
I’m not convinced the mid terms will change anything because if Trump can lose an election with more additional votes than any other sitting POTUS in history, I don’t see the mid terms being any better.
What more damage can Biden do between November 2022 and the 2024 election, and what chance is there of anyone other than the Democrat’s rinsing and repeating with another insane candidate.
I’m not convinced any fiddling about with laws or the Constitution will be enough as nothing has stopped Biden so far.
I sure hope I’m wrong about November because the alternatives are unthinkable.
“The problem is, when it escaped no government had a clue how destructive is was…”
It’s worse than that. So our government inflated the fear and the numbers by way of changing how C19 is written on cause of death, paying more money for that outcome, and removing people’s ability to go to a hospital for numerous other maladies.
That tells us they knew it was not bad enough for this yet another Tyrannical act.
I need to add, …and they outright censured normal and known low-cost health knowledge that would alleviate C19 and other RNA viruses –including the FLU.
The current administration has wittingly and unwittingly committed crimes against humanity.
Not at all , excess deaths which dont count the actual reason on death certificate, show around 1 mill more deaths than usual in the 2 years of the covid period. 1/2 mill of those were before the vaccines
Remember too it was Trump who initiated the covid national emergency- which was still in force when Biden was inaugurated
@Duker: I do not understand why you wrote: “Not at all” Please state part of what I wrote was wrong? If you want to get into statistics, you will first need to understand what I wrote. And then you can understand that there are huge unexpected increases of non-covid deaths, which seem to point to vaccine related.
Regardless, Trump did not mandate vaccines, which is something I would not have forgiven him for.
Anyone who thinks there is an “obvious” relationship between “Vaccination Rates” and “Excess Deaths” in America hasn’t actually looked at the data (from the CDC).
Yes there have been (a lot !) more deaths than “usual” since January 2020.
The only “correlation”, and it’s a tenuous one at that, might be between the spike due to “third / booster shots” in the last 3 or 4 months of 2021 and the spike in (all-cause) deaths at the beginning of 2022.
NB : People advancing that conjecture then need to explain how the “Doses 1 + 2” during the first half of 2021 managed to “cause” a spike in deaths before they were administered …
More analysis of “confounding factors” needs to be performed, instead of people just jumping to conclusions based on “I read it on the Internet ! … and therefore it must be true ! ! !”.
There are monthly figures for non-covid deaths up to 15% above the “expected” deaths. And interestingly, sadly, the die off from people who did not survive covid should have led to fewer deaths in 2022 in the study, but there were significant increases. So there is a tell in the data… not proof.
Further, if you look at the people who lie to you for answers, then you may not find the truth.
Look carefully at the FDA document releases and see the results of the vaccines. Not good right away, and then look at how data is collected and not collected for the adverse reactions including death and extrapolate.
Finally, try to understand what the so called vaccine does within the body, how it changes the cells’ function to produce harmful spike proteins from the medical literature.
The Supreme Court made it clear to Brandon that the Executive Branch of the Federal government has no Congressionally authorized power to mandate workplace vaccines for the general public. Since the Congressionally approved law relating to Federal funds for Medicare and Medicaid healthcare providers, however, stated the Secretary had the authority generally to require such measures for healthcare workers, SCOTUS went along with that mandate.
Brandon’s attempts to circumvent Congresses’ purgatories by claiming obscure sections of laws gave him power to significantly regulate items that were never previously so interpretated, in the above case that OSHA could regulate businesses based on general health reasons. SCOTUS has slapped him down over that habit in other cases, including EPA’s regulation of CO2 beyond powerplant point sources.
Now this is an emergency involving CO2 but not the usual way
Brace for the coming beer shortage
Driving the news: A CO2 production hub in Jackson, Mississippi, became contaminated by an extinct volcano, which cut down on an already limited supply of the gas.
Not the beer! God save us:)
Thats industrial source of CO2, the Jackson Dome .
Beer and soft drinks CO2 is food grade which comes as a by product of processes which use natural gas as the source material mostly refinerys and such of which there are dozens in US
Brilliant Willis. BTW … how many know that we are STILL under. “Emergency (COVID) Orders” … renewed by the multiple COVID victim in The White House. Yes, Bidinh RENEWED the Emergency Status this past Spring … long after the REAL threat (which never REALLY existed) and the REAL vaccines proved to be worthless. Bidinh is STILL acting supra-Constitutionally … as Dictator in Chief … and has “Deputized” the entire Deep State to act supra-Constitionally.
So my friendly amendment to your proposals, Willis? Prevent ANY renewal of Emergency Orders by The Executive without another 2/3 vote of the full Legislature (no abstentions allowed). And prevent ALL Departments, and Agencies of the Federal and State Governments from imposing EMERGENCY orders unilaterally.
Gov. Jay Inslee (WA State) announced the upcoming rescission** of all remaining COVID-19 emergency proclamations and state of emergency by Oct. 31.
Up here in the Great Left Coast State of WA we are still working to flatten the curve — or something.
**The termination of a contract by mutual agreement or as a result of fraud or some legal defect.
I wonder if the Gov — being a lawyer and all — selected the word for a good reason, or whether he is just a dumb schist?
Seen it, lived it, hated it. Will bet any sum you choose that the trend will be expanded.
Trudeau’s little “Emergency” last winter was a wakeup call for a lot of Canadians. The threat of freezing of bank accounts of donors to the truckers led to a serious run on banks. We withdrew as much as we could first thing next morning.
Our new Conservative leader (Pierre Poilievre elected on the first ballot with 68%) has stated that his Cabinet will exclude anyone participating in any WEF activities. Maybe there is hope if he wins the next election,
Along with having some sensible approach as to what is justifiable as an emergency, there is also the point that laws made following an emergency declaration shouldn’t be *retroactive*, as in, say,
https://ablawg.ca/2020/04/06/covid-19-and-retroactive-law-making-in-the-public-health-emergency-powers-amendment-act-alberta/?amp=1
Quoting the summation of the above link,
“Retroactive lawmaking is like getting into Dr. Brown’s DeLorean and travelling back in time to change the past, and then returning to present day. The Alberta legislature has done just this by going back to March 17 when cabinet declared a public health emergency and changing the law governing the exercise of emergency powers under the Public Health Act. Measures such as this which stretch the rule of law to its breaking point must be used sparingly, clearly articulated, and thoroughly justified, if these powers are to be seen as legitimate.”
Equally, an “emergency” as interpreted in practical situations such as powers of extraordinary expenditures of owners’ funds by Strata Councils, requires that something calamitous HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
In other words, expenditures can’t be made IN ANTICIPATION OF SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HAPPEN.
An excerpt from typical Strata Corporation laws –
Mr. President, show us how your “emergency expenditures” will be required to REPAIR OR REPLACE climates in the USA and around the world.
Your proposals are good, but pointless.
If our legislators/oppressors were interested in logical argument and doing the right thing, then your article would make sense. But they are not – they are solely interested in acquiring more power, and thay have a cadre of complient ‘scientists’ willing to provide any ‘data’ they may require to justify any action.
It really is as bad as that.
No government is going to outlaw itself.
Criminals don’t obey laws that are already written, so new laws
can be just as easily ignored. Since politicians & bureaucrats
behave like criminals, they’ll continue ignoring things that
get in the way of what they want to do anyway.
Gov’t crimes are prosecuted in the DC Circuit, where most of
the jury pool is quite woke. It’s almost impossible to get a
conviction even though the jury forewoman admitted the defendant
committed the crime, like in the Sussman case. Unfortunately for
Michael Flynn, his judge wouldn’t dismiss his case, even after
new evidence convinced prosecutors to withdraw the charge.
Our Constitution, despite its shortcomings, did a good enough
job to point us in the right direction. Unfortunately, people
used those flaws to advance their cause, making those flaws
harder to correct. It always goes back to the character of the
people & those we choose to represent us That’s why elections
need to be hard to steal.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/jury-forewoman-michael-sussmann-case-speaks-out
Stick to climate Eschenbach because you suck at law/politics/medicine.
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“We’ve just seen this being done by the US President in order to give him power to do things like write the biggest check in US history to student debtors. ”
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Congress gave him that specific authority.
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https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/leg/foia/secretarys-legal-authority-for-debt-cancellation.pdf
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Unless of course thing a global pandemic is not an “emergency.”
Nice try, Greg, but all that said is “It’s only legal because there is a declaration of a State of Emergency”. Which is what I said.
And please, dial back on the ugliness.
As to the pandemic being a global emergency, yeah … it was an emergency in 2020, for a short while. Overall, no … and despite life having gone back to normal, the gentleman in the White House keeps extending the now totally bogus COVID State Of Emergency.
About 6.5 million people worldwide died WITH a positive COVID test. The number who died FROM COVID is undoubtedly smaller. But even using that number, it’s only eight HUNDREDTHS of one lousy percent (0.08%) of the population. Sorry, not impressed.
So no, Greg, it’s no longer an emergency. Hilariously, a few weeks ago the Biden Administration was arguing that they could end Title 42 deportations based on the illegal alien testing positive for COVID.
The Administration’s reason to terminate Title 42?
They said there was no longer a COVID emergency.
This is the nonsense I’m arguing against.
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“ dial back on the ugliness.”
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Practice what you preach.
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“ ….that these jerkwagons will declare….”
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Mr. Jerkwagon
The difference is that you directly applied some insult to someone in particular in the thread while he insulted no one in particular.
Wrong Tommy, “…Legislators, the President is taking the power of the purse away….”
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That is a pretty particular person in his “insult” is directed towards.
“Not to mention Governors claiming the power to keep people in their homes, to force them to take medicines, to close down their businesses, and a host of other restrictions because of the COVID emergency.”
0 for forever.
Shoulda quit @ur momisugly 0-0.
Actually, the States do have powers (10th Amendment) that the Federal government lacks, especially when Congress has not enacted specific legislation allowing the Executive Branch to do something.
Again, no name was given…… which is why it isn’t personal.
“The Supreme Court has repeatedly found that President Biden has
violated the Constitution and overreached in his use of unilateral
executive authority. Biden has, arguably, the worst record of court
losses in the first two years of any recent presidential administration.”
(emphasis mine)
Nice try! The head of the Biden Crime Family will say & do anything
to claim authority. Turley has a much better track record & is a lot more trustworthy & neutral.
https://jonathanturley.org/2022/09/02/college-loan-forgiveness-plan-reveals-bidens-constitutional-cynicism/
Damn Greg, Willis really hit home with you on the posting! Maybe you have an emergency with your panties twisting! If there’s anything that I can say to trigger you PLEASE let me know! LOL
The HEROES Act of 2003 is being claimed to be the authority for the current cancellation of student loans. It is absurd to apply that Act to the fake emergency of COVID. It will eventually fail in the courts.
But Brandon is counting on it taking some time such that he can get the money out the door before the courts can stop him. Additionally, given the convoluted reasoning of our Judicial system it may be that no citizen has the “standing” to sue!
Data from the Worldometers site for global COVID-19 cases and deaths.
NB : The “consensus” view is that the Case Fatality Rate for the influenza family of viruses is approximately 0.1.
I will take the completely arbitrary criterion (some posters may disagree …) that when the CFR dropped below 1, i.e. “ten times as bad as the flu”, in January COVID-19 stopped being “an emergency”.
Few people would agree with you, however, that “two to three times the flu” counts as “an emergency”.
Passing large spending laws in August or September using a “COVID-19 emergency ! ! !” excuse isn’t justified (or justifiable).
Greg, I believe the Congressional authority to forgive student loan debt was related to military emergencies and affected only service members. It is clear that the continuing COVID19 “emergency” is just a fig-leaf to see if he can get away with it. We’ll see if this is another Brandon overreach that must be slapped down by the SCOTUS.
It is amazing that Leftist members of Congress are cheering for Brandon’s usurpation of their Constitutional prerogatives.
https://youtu.be/QGgJPmOUmDU?t=1
With COVID-19, we have just lived thru another example of Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. And climate change induced renewables investments bear a strong resemblance to the South Seas bubble and the Dutch tulip mania described in his book.
Even kooky New Zealand has dropped mask and vax mandates.
Now that the elections are getting close, New York has decided to end sanctions.
Yeah, but try getting on a train in Canada. Or a plane.
Travelling across the country by rail? Enjoy wearing a mask for 3 days straight.
One more catagory needed on the scale: The real emergency is calling every lert-wing idea an emergency!