[Peace-discuss] USG plans for Iraq and Iran -- and protesters?

[C. G. Estabrook]

What the USG is saying, continued:


[3] EXECUTIVE ORDER --

Bush signed an executive order while the Senate Democrats were playing 
please-don't-throw-me-into-that-filibuster-briar-patch.  It's about 
United States citizens who act against the war in Iraq:

	July 17, 2007
	Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons
	Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq

	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exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: any person determined by the 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 
act 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...

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

Will we see federal police (FBI, Treasury) going after the property of 
anti-war groups on the grounds that their activities "pose a significant 
risk of ... an act or acts of violence that have the purpose *or effect* 
[good intentions don't matter] of ... threatening the ... stability of 
... the Government of Iraq [by withdrawing US troops?] or undermining 
efforts to promote ... political reform in Iraq" [guess whose efforts]?

--CGE