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2021-04-21 -Land of the Free
Constitution Cancelled - Yes, They Are Coming For You
[AmericanThinker via Lucianne] On April 15, Preident Biden signed an Executive Order on Blocking Property with Respect to Specified Harmful Foreign Activities of the Government of the Russian Federation. Contrary to its title, this EO is not about Russia. It is designed to allow the Biden administration to deprive American citizens and organizations of their rights and property by arbitrarily linking those persons to real, imagined, or vaguely defined activities of the Russian government.

The Biden administration unilaterally makes the determination and requires neither criminal acts nor intent. The punishment is blocking assets and a prohibition on any dealing with the accused person. Spouses and adult children of individuals found guilty by accusation under this EO are punished, too.

Section 1 of the EO enumerates prohibited activities and defines guilty persons as those "determined" by the Secretary of Treasury and/or Secretary of State in consultation with the Attorney General to be:

(a)(ii) responsible for or complicit in, or to have directly or indirectly engaged or attempted to engage in, any of the following for or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, directly or indirectly, the Government of the Russian Federation:

(A) malicious cyber-enabled activities;

(B) interference in a United States or other foreign government election;

(C) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad;

(D) transnational corruption;
Posted by Mercutio 2021-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11131 views ]  Top
 File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats 

#1 (B) interference in a United States or other foreign government election;
Did he just declare the actions of the State Department, and the "3-Letter Alphabet Agencies", against the law? Of course there is always the proviso that such actions are "okay when we do it".
Posted by magpie 2021-04-21 00:43||   2021-04-21 00:43|| Front Page Top

#2  I think what (C) means is, actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad;
Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-21 01:05||   2021-04-21 01:05|| Front Page Top

#3 It starts slowly, and then it speeds up?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-21 01:30||   2021-04-21 01:30|| Front Page Top

#4 

So won't this affect the Social Media Giants more so?

It seems to clearly address the Social Medias acceptance of $$$$ and help to/from Russian fronted cyber groups to skew our recent elections and other economic/industry activities.
Posted by NN2N1 2021-04-21 05:30||   2021-04-21 05:30|| Front Page Top

#5 /\ Selective Enforcement of (C), NN2N1. It only applies to non-Leftists.
Posted by magpie 2021-04-21 07:53||   2021-04-21 07:53|| Front Page Top

#6 (C) actions or policies that undermine democratic processes or institutions in the United States or abroad;

Article 58 of the Russian SFSR Penal Code was put in force on 25 February 1927

  • 58-1: Definition of counter-revolutionary activity:
    A counter-revolutionary action is any action aimed at overthrowing, undermining or weakening of the power of workers' and peasants' Soviets... and governments of the USSR and Soviet and autonomous republics, or at the undermining or weakening of the external security of the USSR and main economical, political and national achievements of the proletarial revolution

    • Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-21 08:06||   2021-04-21 08:06|| Front Page Top

    #7 They could use that criteria against republicans at a Trump rally.
    Posted by 49 Pan 2021-04-21 10:31||   2021-04-21 10:31|| Front Page Top

    #8 And still not a word about China.
    Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-04-21 12:23||   2021-04-21 12:23|| Front Page Top

    #9 Did the Chinese write this?
    Posted by These Forkbeard7574 2021-04-21 13:23||   2021-04-21 13:23|| Front Page Top

    #10  Executive Orders are not laws and should be challenged according to the Washington Times.
    Posted by JohnQC 2021-04-21 14:38||   2021-04-21 14:38|| Front Page Top

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