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I want to say I'd love to be wearing the ass ears over this theory when all is said and done
Dianec
Well I looked through this trying to find someone who would cut it up so much it would no longer be a concern for me. Hasn't happened - it is in fact always a possibility that this can take place.
I actually felt deep saddness (throat tightening like before you cry and all), while reading it - because I'm able to imagine too easily what it would be like to be a foreigner in your home country. Why it resonated with me that strongly I attribute to loss of faith in the government.
What would we all do? How would this affect the mental health of most citizens? I imagine major stress disorders, anger, depression....I mean truly - what 'could' we do and how would the masses respond? Look at how helpless and vulnerable people have become after 9/11. This is one incident. Imagine part of the country no longer belonging to us.
On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war or emergency.
The National Defense Resources Preparedness order gives the Executive Branch the power to control and allocate energy, production, transportation, food, and even water resources by decree under the auspices of national defense and national security. The order is not limited to wartime implementation, as one of the order's functions includes the command and control of resources in peacetime determinations.
Additionally, each cabinet under the Executive Branch has been given specific powers when the order is executed, and include the absolute control over food, water, and other resource distributions.
ezwip
The op has no legit sources regarding eminent domain only an article that "hints" at it. Also in such a scenario they'd still have to give me a fair price on my home if they took it.
woodsmom
reply to post by Zarniwoop
I live near a huge chunk of federal land that also happens to have natural gas wells on it. There is a private company who has been allowed to drill for and remove the gas for market. It makes me wonder how many other national wildlife refuges have valuable resources in or on them.
I truly hope you are right, because I am surrounded. There are some of these lands that are more than holes in the ground and geysers though.
khimbar
This is what I like about ATS. Every so often, amongst all the dross, their are diamond threads that make me think 'Wow, that could be true'.
If it were though, I really don't see how they could enforce their claims? I'm reminded of a line from the film The Crow. 'I see you've made your decision. Now let's see you enforce it' (itself borrowed from Andrew Jackson).
What would Americans do?
mistersmith
The Chinese will need to protect their investment, which will obviously entail building military bases all over the USA.
They will take a keen interest in the local and national politics, and find ingenious ways to help some candidates for public office, and discourage any of whom they disapprove.
Oh - and they will probably dump cheap food to put local growers out of business. This is called " International Aid."
And just as here in England there are places owned by America, heavily defended, and barred to me --
Americans will be told where they can, and can't go, by a goon with a gun.
The Chinese are a delightful people, with a long and varied history behind them.
Soon they may be as widely scattered and as well represented throughout the world as our American friends. Perhaps their influence will bring a little balance, an improvement even - since it would be hard to defend our current system in the light of the damage it does to our only planet.