Did you know that you assets may be seized if....?

Question

per President Bush you are guilty of

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



"the greatest concern to the American people are the underlying provisions of this new law, and which, they state, are written ‘so broadly’ as to outlaw all forms of protest against the war"


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

so, now what do we do?

I did not miss the point....anyone who can read understands what it means.....

Thank you ,coragryph, I stand corrected.

SweatPea, why do you always answer questions with some kind of clinton remark. There are people on here seriously trying to answer questions and help inform people. Your answer was a waste of your own time.......

zanthus

Do you suggest I start a typing and spelling class?

Answer 1

Yes, I've read that Executive Order of July 17, and it's so broad, it can be used against anyone who is protesting the war in Iraq. The order also states that property can be blocked if there is a significant risk of an act, so a violent act is not even required. And giving material support to someone whose property is blocked can cause that person's property to be blocked too.

Scary stuff, and these kinds of orders can build on each other. If there's really a national emergency, Bush can simply write a new order, and broaden the scope.

Answer 2

I just read your source and you completely missed the point. He is not talking about protesting, he is talking about people who try to sabatoge military craft from going to Iraq. Or try to provide supplies or $ to insurgents.

Good question for discussion though!!!


You said

"the greatest concern to the American people are the underlying provisions of this new law, and which, they state, are written ‘so broadly’ as to outlaw all forms of protest against the war"

Where is this quote from and where does it say anything about protesting.

Answer 3

No. Not seized. Frozen. Subtle legal distinction.

For your assets to be seized, you would need to be charged under the IEDPA (passed in the mid-1990s) and then convicted of doing that. Then your assets could be seized and forfeited.

Until then, Bush can only act unilaterally to freeze your assets.

And the underlying law (50 USC 1701) is about 3 years old.

Answer 4

IM Pam Toll I live in park forest il. my checking account was embezzled by a corrupt man who a secret service agent directed to wipe out my two checking accounts, including my daughters college fund , and later a foundation scholarship. They ruined all my credit with false bad debt reporting and denied me food stamps, public housing and anything at all to better my life.. because i reported the link to the 9-11 plotters. its 7 years later and i still never got my money back and no one in any of the US Govt offices that oversee these crimes will assist and prosecute. JAIMIE WILLIAMS from the US BANKS IN VERNON HILLS IL because he is a relative of an FBI agent in chicago. this is true and correct and i am indigent because of this.. and Donald Rumsfeld claimed he never ordered that. .and I believe it. but no one will help me get my money back!

Answer 5

You're right. But like many similar laws the decision to enforce those provisions are always poltical decisions, not legal decisions.

Answer 6

I think its time the cons and libs unite. We may all be in deep doo doo. I'm looking forward to some kind of formal explanation of exactly what this means.

Answer 7

No, it doesn't outlaw all forms of protest against the war. That's ridiculous.

Answer 8

Slap the republicans silly for voting Bush in office 2ce, and rename President Bush "King George"

We're screwed until '08.

Answer 9

I have never seen something so badly misquoted, and also, where are you getting the part you actually put in quotation marks..is this just something you made up?

Try getting a job or start doing something construvtive.

Answer 10

Do your homework, there are dozens of these types of laws on the books. Many of them signed by Clinton too. Education can be a wonderful thing.