[FL4RonPaul] Sit down before you read this... (fwd)

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Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:00:12 -0400
From: Steven Talcott Smith <stalcottsmith@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: FL4RonPaul@yahoogroups.com
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Subject: [FL4RonPaul] Sit down before you read this...

If you protest the war in any manner that could be construed as
violent, the President can now freeze most of your assets, and it
seems, the assets of almost anyone you deal with...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html

Am I reading this wrong? What if this were amended down the line to
include non-violent acts that might also "undermine efforts to
promote economic reconstruction and political reform in Iraq?" i.e.,
normal political opposition

Merely striking the phrase, "of violence," in two places would do it.

Steven Talcott Smith

Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten
Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

 Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding
International Emergency Economic Powers Act
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and
the laws of the United States of America, including the International
Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)
(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)(NEA),
and section 301 of title 3, United States Code,

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find
that, due to the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national
security and foreign policy of the United States posed by acts of
violence threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and undermining
efforts to promote economic reconstruction and political reform in
Iraq and to provide humanitarian assistance to the Iraqi people, it
is in the interests of the United States to take additional steps
with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order
13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in Executive Order 13315 of
August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional steps taken in
Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order 13364 of
November 29, 2004. I hereby order:

Section 1. (a) Except to the extent provided in section 203(b)(1),
(3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in
regulations, orders, directives, or licenses that may be issued
pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding any contract entered into
or any license or permit granted prior to the date of this order, all
property and interests in property of the following persons, that are
in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States,
or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of
United States persons, are blocked and may not be transferred, paid,
exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by
the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of
State and the Secretary of Defense,

(i) to have committed, or to pose a significant risk of committing,
an act or acts of violence that have the purpose or effect of:

(A) threatening the peace or stability of Iraq or the Government of
Iraq; or

(B) undermining efforts to promote economic reconstruction and
political reform in Iraq or to provide humanitarian assistance to the
Iraqi people;

(ii) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial,
material, logistical, or technical support for, or goods or services
in support of, such an act or acts of violence or any person whose
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order; or

(iii) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to
act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order.

(b) The prohibitions in subsection (a) of this section include, but
are not limited to, (i) the making of any contribution or provision
of funds, goods, or services by, to, or for the benefit of any person
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this
order, and (ii) the

receipt of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services
from any such person.

Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within the
United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose

of evading or avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the
prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited.

(b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the prohibitions set
forth in this order is prohibited.

Sec. 3. For purposes of this order:

(a) the term "person" means an individual or entity;

(b) the term "entity" means a partnership, association, trust, joint
venture, corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and

(c) the term "United States person" 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.

Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of donations of the type
specified in section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by,
to, or for the benefit of, any person whose property and interests in
property are blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my
ability to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive
Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby
prohibit such donations as provided by section 1 of this order.

Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and interests in property
are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a constitutional
presence in the United States, I find that, because of the ability to
transfer funds or other assets

instantaneously, prior notice to such persons of measures to be taken
pursuant to this order would render these measures ineffectual. I
therefore determine that for these measures to be effective in
addressing the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303
and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior notice
of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this
order.

Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized
to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and
regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by
IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this order.
The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions
to other officers and agencies of the United States Government,
consistent with applicable law. All agencies of the United States
Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate measures
within their authority to carry out the provisions of this order and,
where appropriate, to advise the Secretary of the Treasury in a
timely manner of the measures taken.

Sec. 7. Nothing in this order is intended to affect the continued
effectiveness of any rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other
forms of administrative action issued, taken, or continued in effect
heretofore or hereafter under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as
expressly terminated, modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this
order.

Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any
right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable
at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its
departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers
or employees, or any other person.

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

July 17, 2007.