Reagan issued one barring the use of federal money for advocating abortion. Congress can overturn an executive order, although it requires a supermajority vote to do so.
A president can sign an executive order rescinding an executive order of his predecessor. And the courts can overturn an executive order, although they have done so only twice. Louis and a constitutional law expert.
The courts tend to be especially deferential to the government in wartime, he added. But he finds it hard to imagine a scenario whereby a president could declare martial law and imprison innocent citizens.
Historically, martial law has been declared only where there is widespread violence, and the response has been localized, Magarian says. He cites school integration as an example. The National Guard was called out in some cases, but only in communities were there was widespread racial strife. But websites like that run by a conspiracy-mongering group called Friends of Liberty are thick with worries about executive orders. Only one of the alleged orders actually mentions FEMA.
Another, related conspiracy is supposedly the brainchild of U. Alcee Hastings D-Fla. John Kerry after he became the Democratic Party nominee for president in Corsi has also insisted without proof that President Obama posted a fake birth certificate on his website in order to address groundless claims that he is not an American citizen. Curious and Curiouser For all their talk about civilian detention camps, the conspiracy theorists are woefully vague on specifics.
Their list of detention sites often gives the name of a military base or other facility and nothing more. When there is more information, it can be wildly speculative. In Pensacola, Fla. Another reputed current or future detention camp is at Fort Chaffee, Ark. The former Army base was transferred to the Arkansas Army National Guard in and is now a training facility. Even so, the conspiracy theorists believe Fort Chafee has a new runway and a new camp facility that can hold 40, prisoners. Chris Heathscott, state public affairs officer for the Arkansas National Guard.
A federal prison camp at Allenwood, Pa. The FEMA camp list says it has only inmates, but has the capacity to hold more than 15, people on acres. By , a system for quickly gathering and storing important data was also emerging. The systems had preprogrammed crisis scenarios, each of which had clearly delineated steps and notified each stakeholder in turn as their role became critical; for the time, it was very advanced networking technology, containing early versions of what later generations would recognize as email, bulletin boards, and chat functionality.
OEP and its successor, FEMA, carefully collected data, including latitude and longitude, on more than more 2 million structures across the country that it planned to monitor in the event of a nuclear attack—everything from 10, grain silos to 8, hospitals, not to mention the mines and caves it had scouted over the preceding decades that could be used to house industrial manufacturing and processes in the wake of a nuclear war.
If there were a nuclear war, FEMA would be the first to know. And it had a chillingly rational plan for responding. Through the Cold War, its watch center in Olney, Maryland, ran daily drills of its radio and telephone systems at pm and at pm. The authentication codewords for the system were distributed in a red envelope every three months to all the users of the emergency broadcast system; codewords were generally two- or three-syllable words, two for every day of the year—one for the activation of a warning, one for the termination of a warning.
This is the National Warning Center. This is an Attack Warning. The FEMA watch officers would also activate a separate system to announce the attack to the national media, radio, and television broadcast networks—breaking into national programming with the alert. They work closely with a special team of Air Force helicopter pilots who practice in the skies over Washington daily, ready to drop onto helipads, well-groomed lawns, the National Mall, and even sports fields if necessary, to ensure the survival of those chosen few.
When such gatherings seemed imminent, FEMA was to notify the White House and the assistant to the president for national security affairs would recommend to the president which successor should skip the event and serve as the designated survivor.
The Central Locator System tracked the whereabouts of the successors daily, and once a month, after the fact, audited a single day to determine whether it had correctly known where each Cabinet member was. Project saw FBI agents, working effectively undercover for FEMA, detailing large warehouses, automobile facilities, Masonic temples, Elks lodges, casinos, camp sites, Coca-Cola bottling plants, Indian bingo halls, country inns, furniture stores, and other potential relocation facilities.
Lengthy addendums to the contracts outlined required utility and infrastructure upgrades needed to support crisis operations, the costs of which were fully paid by the government, as were separate telephone lines installed at each facility. During an emergency, the FBI would also pay a daily fee for each day it occupied the facility. Copies of the film were distributed in advance to civil defense officials and some television stations, and 15 prewritten newspaper articles distributed by FEMA covered much of the same ground.
The low-tech film featured only illustrations and animations of stick figures—no live action—because by the s civil defense planners had grown tired of retaping propaganda films every time fashion or car styles changed.
So why not just give up, lie down, and die? That idea could bring senseless and useless death to many, for protection is possible. And your own chances of survival will be much greater if you remember these facts about Protection in the Nuclear Age. Then would come detailed evacuation instructions: FEMA would distribute millions of preprinted brochures, perhaps going door to door or perhaps by distributing it with local newspapers.
They also took out ads in local telephone books. Together, FEMA estimated the multimedia campaign would boost survival rates by 8 to 12 percent. Even the evacuation of major cities like New York City were carefully planned.
However impractical in reality, there was no faulting the level of detail of the page plan for evacuating New York, which included both a primary plan and 11 alternatives. Each of the five boroughs would rely on different transit modes to evacuate over the course of precisely 3. The per-hour capacity of each road out of New York had been carefully calculated; prepositioned bulldozers would help ensure smooth travel, quickly removing disabled automobiles.
More than 4. Some 75, Manhattan residents would travel up the Hudson to Saratoga using three round-trips of five requisitioned Staten Island ferries. Another , Manhattan residents would travel by subway to Hoboken and be loaded into boxcars for the trip to upstate New York near Syracuse.
Each host area was expected to absorb five times its normal peacetime population in evacuees and, after registering, all evacuees would be directed to and housed in the various government, community, or commercial buildings identified by the FBI in Project Many local leaders were understandingly dubious of the FEMA plans—even on paper they seemed difficult to coordinate and implement. In October , as the autumn foliage began to turn in the Green Mountains, local officials from Connecticut journeyed north to Vermont to familiarize themselves with the locations where , residents of the Nutmeg State would evacuate if plans were activated.
Across the state line in New Hampshire, locals in Barrington looked at the pitched roof of their congregational church, some 40 feet off the ground, and wondered exactly how Washington bureaucrats expected them to bury the church under a foot of dirt to provide the adequate fallout protection required for a portion of the 8, residents of Monroe, Connecticut, who would be housed in the small town in an emergency.
And what happened if the nuclear attack came during the roughly one-third of the year when the ground was frozen solid? The facility had meeting rooms for the House and the Senate, a cafeteria, medical facilities, and dormitories so elaborately stocked that they even included the prescription eyeglasses for members of Congress.
When one Greenbrier executive asked why they were taking away the weapons cache, the head of Forsythe explained that FEMA feared congressional officials would descend on the facility to inspect it—and then raise the obvious question about how FEMA intended to use such weaponry on US soil.
For the Cold War, it had created a special mobile command centers, known as Mobile Emergency Response Support MERS units—eventually building some special vehicles and stationing them across the country at its regional facilities. It tried to repurpose them for natural disasters. The containers were being stored in Madison, but these claims surrounding them are false. And while conspiracy theories about the COVID pandemic having been "planned" have raged for more than a year, there is no evidence that this is the case.
The vaults are meant to protect interred caskets. In , Madison-based newspaper the Morgan County Citizen, debunked the claim and stated that Vantage leased the land and used it to store burial vaults.
She also noted that there were 50, vaults stored on the property — far fewer than the hundreds of thousands that Jones had described in the video.
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