ROT [graffis-l] SHRUB AND EXECUTIVE ORDERS

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At 08:34 AM 7/22/07, you wrote:

>Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten S

>Posted by: " Mark Graffis " mgraffis mgraffis

>Sat Jul 21, 2007 7:57 pm (PST)

>Bottom line, if you protest the war the government can take everything you

>own:

>

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

>

>Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten

>Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

>

>White House News

>

>Message to the Congress of the United States Regarding International

>Emergency Economic Powers Act By the authority vested in me as President

>by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America,

>including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, as amended (50

>U.S.C. 1701 et seq.)(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601

>et seq.)(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, I, GEORGE

>W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, find that, due to the

>unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign

>policy of the United States posed by acts of violence threatening the

>peace and stability of Iraq and undermining efforts to promote economic

>reconstruction and political reform in Iraq and to provide humanitarian

>assistance to the Iraqi people, it is in the interests of the United

>States to take additional steps with respect to the national emergency

>declared in Executive Order 13303 of May 22, 2003, and expanded in

>Executive Order 13315 of August 28, 2003, and relied upon for additional

>steps taken in Executive Order 13350 of July 29, 2004, and Executive Order

>13364 of November 29, 2004. I hereby order: Section 1. (a) Except to the

>extent provided in section 203(b)(1), (3), and (4) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C.

>1702(b)(1), (3), and (4)), or in regulations, orders, directives, or

>licenses that may be issued pursuant to this order, and notwithstanding

>any contract entered into or any license or permit granted prior to the

>date of this order, all property and interests in property of the

>following persons, that are in the United States, that hereafter come

>within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the

>possession or control of United States persons, are blocked and may not be

>transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person

>determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the

>Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, (i) to have committed, or

>to pose a significant risk of committing, an ac[graffis-l] Digest Number

>3746.ems t 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; or (iii) to

>be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on

>behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests

>in property are blocked pursuant to this order. (b) The prohibitions in

>subsection (a) of this section include, but are not limited to, (i) the

>making of any contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services by,

>to, or for the benefit of any person whose property and interests in

>property are blocked pursuant to this order, and (ii) the receipt of any

>contribution or provision of funds, goods, or services from any such

>person. Sec. 2. (a) Any transaction by a United States person or within

>the United States that evades or avoids, has the purpose of evading or

>avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in this

>order is prohibited. (b) Any conspiracy formed to violate any of the

>prohibitions set forth in this order is prohibited. Sec. 3. For purposes

>of this order: (a) the term " person " means an individual or entity; (b)

>the term " entity " means a partnership, association, trust, joint venture,

>corporation, group, subgroup, or other organization; and © the term

> " United States person " means any United States citizen, permanent resident

>alien, entity organized under the laws of the United States or any

>jurisdiction within the United States (including foreign branches), or any

>person in the United States. Sec. 4. I hereby determine that the making of

>dona[graffis-l] Digest Number 3746.ems tions of the type specified in

>section 203(b)(2) of IEEPA (50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(2)) by, to, or for the

>benefit of, any person whose property and interests in property are

>blocked pursuant to this order would seriously impair my ability to deal

>with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13303 and expanded

>in Executive Order 13315, and I hereby prohibit such donations as provided

>by section 1 of this order. Sec. 5. For those persons whose property and

>interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order who might have a

>constitutional presence in the United States, I find that, because of the

>ability to transfer funds or other assets instantaneously, prior notice to

>such persons of measures to be taken pursuant to this order would render

>these measures ineffectual. I therefore determine that for these measures

>to be effective in addressing the national emergency declared in Executive

>Order 13303 and expanded in Executive Order 13315, there need be no prior

>notice of a listing or determination made pursuant to section 1(a) of this

>order. Sec. 6. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the

>Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, is hereby authorized to

>take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations,

>and to employ all powers granted to the President by IEEPA as may be

>necessary to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary of the

>Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to other officers and

>agencies of the United States Government, consistent with applicable law.

>All agencies of the United States Government are hereby directed to take

>all appropriate measures within their authority to carry out the

>provisions of this order and, where appropriate, to advise the Secretary

>of the Treasury in a timely manner of the measures taken. Sec. 7. Nothing

>in this order is intended to affect the continued effectiveness of any

>rules, regulations, orders, licenses, or other forms of administrative

>action issued, taken, or continued in effect heretofore or here[graffis-l]

>Digest Number 3746.ems after under 31 C.F.R. chapter V, except as

>expressly terminated, modified, or suspended by or pursuant to this order.

>Sec. 8. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right,

>benefit, or privilege, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in

>equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies,

>instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other

>person. GEORGE W. BUSH THE WHITE HOUSE, July 17, 2007

 

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