Daily I check the internet for news of the world, and of the USA.  I go to several sites known for news, but I did not see any news about an executive signed by Mr. Obama on March 16, 2012, until a few days ago, when Husband saw it referenced in another news story. This order is of such importance that I would think that the Communist Party in America would be holding celebrations everywhere.  I would think the Press would herald it as a triumph of “progressive thinking,” “liberalism,” or even of “the new world order.”  I would have expected the “alternate” media, sometimes known as “conservative” or “right wing” to herald this news with alarm, protest, and calls for impeachment.  I would have expected the “radicals” of the country to protest vehemently.  In fact, NOTHING!  Only now, a month later, are we getting bits and pieces of this momentous  step in the progress toward complete communism in the USA.  I wonder how soon Mr. Obama will declare himself “Leader for Life.”

You may read for yourself the whole text of this and other executive orders at

whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness

It is quite “wordy” but the essence of it, as I read it, is that the President now is in charge of all industry, agriculture, and technology and may use the products of these at will.  Various secretaries are in charge of various departments.

Please compare the Communist Manifesto,  1848, by Marx and Engels:  They give a list of ten points of which #7 is

” Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the state; the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.”

Here is the introductory paragraph of Mr. Obama’s order:

“Sec. 102.  Policy.  The United States must have an industrial and technological base capable of meeting national defense requirements and capable of contributing to the technological superiority of its national defense equipment in peacetime and in times of national emergency.  The domestic industrial and technological base is the foundation for national defense preparedness.  The authorities provided in the Act shall be used to strengthen this base and to ensure it is capable of responding to the national defense needs of the United States.”

It sounds benign, of course, but the rest of this order details that from now on, the federal government will supervise EVERYTHING.

So, why is it such a SECRET?   Julia wonders.