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Executive Order Signed By Bush On July 17

Here’s a link to it.

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

The language, of course, is highly convoluted. But here’s what it boils down to. The Executive branch has now created and claimed the power to sieze the property of anyone who:

(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...

So, if anyone speaks out against our occupation of Iraq, or even threatens to speak out against it, can have their land seized.

Does anyone believe me yet that we now live in a fascist state?
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