Burundi, Belarus & Border Walls
58 National emergencies have so far been declared since the National Emergency Act of 1976 was signed into law by Gerald Ford.
Photo: David H. Kennerly
There are 31 in effect today. And no one is suing anyone over the 12 by Obama, including one for Swine Flu, and countless others he extended to be in effect until today. We are in a state of 4 decades of State of Emergencies and as far as I know, no hysteria has broken out until last week. Last week – nothing to do with TDS, of course, God forbid. What would drug & human trafficking, rapes, deaths, 7,000 people (at one time) storming the border consisting of MS-13 gangsters have on the Swine Flu…?
All the scare tactics by Nancy and her cult suggesting that Trump declaring a State of Emergency (SOE) sets a precedent for future Democratic President to do the same is simply laughable. The precedents have been set long ago starting with the very first, their very own useless Jimmy Carter, and ending with SOE-Happy Obama who had extended SOEs blocking property of persons undermining democratic process of Belarus! Re-read: the US has a SOE in effect against persons undermining Belarus! And Lebanon! But this is only the beginning.
Here they are; all the SEOs you’re currently living with.
From Jimmy Carter
1979: The National Emergency With Respect to Iran, in response to the Iran hostage crisis.
From Billy Clinton
1994: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, that combined two previous national emergencies focused on weapons of mass destruction. Could this be Iraq …? Hmmmm…..
1995: Prohibiting Transactions with Terrorists Who Threaten to Disrupt the Middle East Peace Process.
1995: Prohibiting Certain Transactions wrt the Development of Iranian Petroleum Resources, an effort to prevent potential deals between oil companies
1995: Blocking Assets and Prohibiting Transactions with Significant Narcotics Traffickers Centered in Colombia
1996: Regulations of the Anchorage and Movement of Vessels with Respect to Cuba
1997: Blocking Sudanese Government Property and Prohibiting Transactions with Sudan
From George W. Bush
2001: Blocking Property of Persons Who Threaten Stabilization in the Balkans
2001: Export Control Regulations renewed presidential power to control exports in a national emergency since the Export Administration Act of 1979 lapsed.
2001: The National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks was in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.
2001: Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism was in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
2003: Blocking Property of Persons Undermining Democratic Processes in Zimbabwe
2003: Protecting the Development Fund for Iraq
2004: Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting the Export of Certain Goods to Syria
2006: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Undermining Democratic Processes or Institutions in Belarus
2006: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2007: Blocking Property of Persons Undermining the Sovereignty of Lebanon
2008: Continuing Certain Restrictions with Respect to North Korea cited the risk of proliferation of weapons-usable fissile material. President Trump renewed this on June 23, 2018.
From Barack Obama
Renewed almost all of previously existing States of Emergency above.
2009: Swine Flu
2010: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in Somalia
2011: Blocking Property and Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related to Libya
2011: Blocking Property of Transnational Criminals was in response to the rise in crime by specific organizations: Los Zetas (Mexico), The Brothers’ Circle (former Soviet Union countries), the Yakuza (Japan), and the Camorra (Italy).
2012: Blocking Property of Persons Threatening the Peace, Security, or Stability of Yemen
2014: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine.
2014: Blocking Property of Certain Persons With Respect to South Sudan.
2014: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Conflict in the Central African Republic.
2015: Blocking Property and Suspending Entry of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Venezuela
2015: Blocking the Property of Certain Persons Engaging in Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities (in response to Chinese cyber attacks on the U.S.)
2015: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Burundi was declared after a failed coup. Burundi …???? Where the hell is Burundi? Who is Burundi?
From Donald Trump
2017: Blocking the Property of Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights Abuse or Corruption imposed sanctions on the Myanmar general for his role persecuting Rohingya Muslims.
2018: Imposing Certain Sanctions in the Event of Foreign Interference in a United States Election attempted to prevent any meddling with the 2018 midterm elections amid the ongoing investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Doesn’t seem like any democrats minded this one.
2018: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Nicaragua was declared by President Trump in response to violence and the Ortega regime’s “systematic dismantling and undermining of democratic institutions and the rule of law” that constitutes an “unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States.”
2019: Border Wall funding to prevent millions of unvented migrants from penetrating US sovereignty illegally.
Tell me again what Botoxic Nancy threatened …?! Tell me again what convictions-light, quick-to-jump-of-the-wagon conservatives repeat out of both sides of their mouth…?!
Burundi, Balkans, Belorus – we’re cool. Border Wall – we crap our pants and lose our doughnuts as Nancy threatens future State of Emergencies…because we’ve never ever seen them before.
Valerie Sobel
