President Obama signs executive order allowing control over all US resources

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29. Another example of someone twisting facts to suit their agenda

and gullible DUers accepting the claims made without question. Seriously, sometimes this place can be embarrassing.

Here are some of the claims made by the author of the story linked by the OP:

That this executive order "expands upon a prior order issued in 1950"
Uh, no. It updates and supersedes an executive order (EO 12919) adopted by President Clinton in June 1994; the Clinton EO itself was an update, consolidation and restatement of a series of policies adopted in Executive Orders dating back to 1939. (Source: Section 803 of the new Executive Order; Section 904 of the 1994 EO).


That this Executive Order changes prior policy by being applicable to "peacetime."
Uh, no. Here's a link to the 1994 EO. http://www.disastercenter.com/laworder/12919.htm
Compare Section 102 and 103 of that EO to the language quoted in the article. See the references to "peacetime" in both.

That this Executive Order changes prior policy by assigning each cabinet office "specific powers when the order is executed, and include the absolute control over food, water, and other resource distributions."
Uh, no. Compare section 201 of the 1994 EO to section 201 of the new EO -- virtually nothing has changed (although, terrifyingly, the Secretary of Agriculture now has specific authority with respect to the allocation of veterinary services).

Finally, according the author of the linked article, EOs relating to national preparedness are nothing new, but every time one is issued it provokes a "Constitutional crisis."
Uh, anyone remember the Constitutional Crisis" of June 1994, when the previous version of this EO was issued? Probably not, since it would only exist in the imagination of the lying idiot who wrote the article linked in the OP.

So, you ask, if this is nothing new, why did the President issue a new version of the old EO? Well, for one thing, a number of things have changed since 1994, such as the consolidation of a number of government agencies under the Dept. of Homeland Security. The old EO makes no reference to DHS, so the new one updates several parts of the old one to reflect the current organizational structure of the government. There are other changes as well, but none are nefarious and none justify the lying bullshit foisted on us by the author of the article linked in the OP.