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To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5247)	4/4/1999 4:06:00 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 9818

Russians won't confirm halt in Y2K cooperation with U.S. cnn.com - - - - - - - In my opinion, it would be foolish for Russia to not accept help from the western world for it's Y2K problems. And I personally believe Russia knows that too.

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5247)	4/4/1999 6:06:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

More on Y2K and troops preparing: y2kculture.com Just the beginning....just the beginning....

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5247)	4/4/1999 6:17:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

RE: Martial Law. <<If the computer failures are sufficiently widespread, urban society will collapse. Without banks, water, sewers, communications, and electrical power, cities will become nightmares. Under such conditions, the Federal government would have to declare martial law. The question is: Could the Army carry out its assignments? It, too, is noncompliant. Its systems are vulnerable to y2k. There are indications that the U.S. government is preparing for martial law. Under the cover of the phrases "critical infrastructure protection" and "cyberterrorism," the government is setting up rapid deployment forces designed to provide order in American cities. The two politically convenient facts about about cyberterrorism are these: (1) the timing is not specific; (2) the target is not specific. This keeps panic from occurring. "It's the other guy's statisically remote problem." Or: "I'm prtobably OK; you're probably OK." This is why "cyberterrorism" serves as a code work for "Year 2000 breakdown." The problems with y2k are the reverse: (1) it is date-specific; (2) it hits everywhere at once. No cyberterrorist or hacker could dream of doing what y2k has been programmed to do. >>> Plans to impose martial law have been in effect since late 1997. The training is the same, so the public will not be alarmed. The Army has created special emergency response divisions made up of National Guard units and Reserve units. But the plans seem to have begun with an Executive Order signed by President Clinton in July, 1996, which set up the Presidential Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection (PCCIP). A series of executive orders that go back over three decades are in reserve, ready to be announced and enforced by the President. For a list of links to a dozen of the most comprehensive of these orders, click here. In a y2k crisis, the public will call for emergency actions. Congress will not object. >>>>

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (5247)	4/4/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Ken	Respond to of 9818

This is the missing link in my post #5251: Martial Law. Executive Orders And Laws relating to National Emergencies Laws (I can't insert the link, so am reproducing the page) Note particularly Exec Order 13074- expect that one to be the key EO activated. United States Code TITLE 50 - WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE CHAPTER 34 - NATIONAL EMERGENCIES Executive Orders Executive Order 10995 Assigning Telecommunications Management Functions Executive Order 10997 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of The Interior: electric power, petroleum and gas, solid fuels, and minerals Executive Order 10998 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Agriculture Food resources, farm equipment, fertilizer, and food resource facilities Executive Order 10999 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Commerce transportation, the production and distribution of all materials Executive Order 11000 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Labor Manpower management employment stabilization Executive Order 11001 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Secretary Of Health, Education, And Welfare health services, civilian health manpower, health resources, welfare services, and educational programs Executive Order 11002 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Postmaster General national emergency registration system Executive Order 11003 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Administrator Of The Federal Aviation Agency emergency management of the Nation's airports, operating facilities Executive Order 11004 Assigning Certain Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Housing And Home Finance Administrator all aspects of lodging or housing and community facilities Executive Order 11005 Assigning Emergency Preparedness Functions To The Interstate Commerce Commission railroad utilization, motor carrier utilization, inland waterway utilization Executive Order 11051 Prescribing Responsibilities Of The Office Of Emergency Planning In The Executive Office Of The President Advise and assist the President, make possible the mobilization of the human, natural and industrial resources of the nation to meet all conditions of national emergency Executive Order 12472 Executive Order 12472--Assignment of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions In order to provide for the consolidation of assignment and responsibility for improved execution of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications functions, it is hereby ordered as follows: Executive Order 12656 Executive Order 12656 Assigmment of Emergency Preparedness Responsibilities National Security Emergency Preparedness Policy: Continuity of Government Executive Order 12919 National Defense Industrial Resources Preparedness (a) Identify requirements for national emergencies, including military, industrial, and essential civilian demand (b) Assess continually the capability of the domestic industrial and technological base to satisfy requirements in peacetime and times of national emergency, specifically evaluating the availability of adequate industrial resource and production sources, including subcontractors and suppliers, materials, skilled labor, and professional and technical personnel; (c) Be prepared, in the event of a potential threat to the security of the United States, to take actions necessary to ensure the availability of adequate industrial resources and production capability, including services and critical technology for national defense requirements; (d) Improve the efficiency and responsiveness, to defense requirements, of the domestic industrial base; and (e) Foster cooperation between the defense and commercial sectors for research and development and for acquisition of materials, components, and equipment to enhance industrial base efficiency and responsiveness. Executive Order 12938 Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction weapons of mass destruction constitutes an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat. Executive Order 13074 Amends Executive Order 12656 adding a new section 501(16) regarding Noncombatant Evacuation Operations "The President has the power to seize property, organize and control the means of production, seize commodities, assign military forces abroad, call reserve forces amounting to 2 1/2 million men to duty, institute martial law, seize and control all menas of transportation, regulate all private enterprise, restrict travel, and in a plethora of particular ways, control the lives of all Americans... Most [of these laws] remain a a potential source of virtually unlimited power for a President should he choose to activate them. It is possible that some future President could exercise this vast authority in an attempt to place the United States under authoritarian rule. While the danger of a dictatorship arising through legal means may seem remote to us today, recent history records Hitler seizing control through the use of the emergency powers provisions contained in the laws of the Weimar Republic." --Joint Statement, Sens. Frank Church (D-ID) and Charles McMathias (R-MD) September 30, 1973 The Disaster Center Year 2000 Page Executive Orders and Laws relating to National Emergencies