This relates to pizzagate as it give legal authority to arrest anyone involved with serious human rights abuses INCLUDING HUMAN TRAFFICKING...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-blocking-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-corruption/
This Executive Order declares a "state of national emergency"...
"I therefore determine that serious human rights abuse and corruption around the world constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States, and I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
What does this mean?
"During states of emergency, such as natural disasters or periods of civil unrest, the government can use implied powers to formally declare a State of Emergency. Such a declaration allows suspension or change in functions of any branch of government, and gives the government the power to suspend certain rights or freedoms normally guaranteed by the Constitution."
What does it allow? A ton..in particular the seizure of assets from Soros and the Clinton Foundation among many others..including the CIA's assets...
Further..apparently some names listed in "the Annex" to the executive order..worth a dig for an aspiring anon..but please PUBLISH them if you find them!
"I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the United States of America, find that the prevalence and severity of human rights abuse and corruption that have their source, in whole or in substantial part, outside the United States, such as those committed or directed by persons listed in the Annex to this order, have reached such scope and gravity that they threaten the stability of international political and economic systems. "
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carmencita ago
Will this also allow our Govt. to seize our assets? There are people that are still in power to do that. The Deep State is still up and running underground. This also includes Martial Law. That will scare the heck out of many people. May create panic. Idk, I certainly hope this works out OK.
ESOTERICshade ago
YES
therealkrispy ago
It only authorizes action if a person is even slightly involved in human rights violations or corruption. So not "our" assets, even though the precedent is kinda scary.
Are_we_sure ago
This is completely false.
What this law and executive order is about is denying bad actors the safety of the US banking system. Their assets in the US can be seized and banks around the world who knowingly do business with sanctioned individuals.
The executive order is because of the Global Magnitsky Act which is a wider version of 2012 the Magnitsky Act.
Magnitsky uncovered a $230 tax scam where high level officials were stealing from the Russian Treasury. The government thieves were not arrested Magnitsky was. He was imprisoned, beaten and denied medical care. He died after 11 months. This stolen money was tracked and ended up helping to expose a much, much bigger money laundering scheme, the Russian Laundromat. It was also discovered that some of the $230 from the Magnitsky case was laundered into the US including New York real estate.
It's these assets that the Magnitsky Act goes after. It's seizing of US assets of non-Americans who can't be prosecuted in American courts for the original crime. The 2012 law was only about Russia. The Global Magnitsky Act extends this beyond Russia.
Americans are not on this list and the list is not easy to get onto.
The list of the sanctioned goes after
Govermental human rights violations and Terrorism in Gambia
Governmental corruption in Nicaraugua.
Corrupt mining and oil deals in the Congo. An Israeli was sanctioned for this.
Arms dealing in the Balkans
The Burmese Army's treatment of the Rohingya
Governmental corruption in South Sudan
Trafficking in human organs in Pakistan
Organized crime in Uzbekistan
Corruption in the Dominican Republic
Governmental corruption in Russian. In this one, Russia equivalent of Jeff Session's son was sanctioned. This plays in to the Don Jr's meeting in Trump Tower by the way.
Human Rights violations in Beijing
The head of the Ukainian police unit who shot protesters during the Maiden uprising in Ukraine. This guy fled to Moscow.
A Guatemalan politician who ordered two journalists killed.
therealkrispy ago
I think you're looking at the surface of it, the functions of this EO as advertised, and I'm looking at the intended use of the precedents therein. 'Human rights violations' and 'corruption' are both rather broad terms. This EO, if interpreted broadly, affords the President the ability to lock up corrupt American politicians, to crack down on American human traffickers. It doesn't name them because that would be a warning. It names people that are aware of their impending incarceration, people who's number was already called. But the tools it provides the President and his cabinet with are robust in application.
Are_we_sure ago
It does not do this in anyway.
The President does not have dictatorial powers. The President doesn't have the ability to lock anyone up. The laws are already on the books to prosecute Americans for those crimes, but that would go through federal or local DAs.
No. It doesn't name them, because the law doesn't apply to them.
No. These people are not being incarcerated because most of them are cannot be touched by US justice without an extradition. This sanctions them, not incarcerates them. You need to read up on Treasury Sanctions and how they work.
The original list of names starts in Congress.