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United States Of Newspeak – Obama Spins Executive Orders As "Presidential Memoranda" To Avoid Scrutiny
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
If there’s one thing we have learned about Barack Obama, it’s that he is a master of deception and absolutely loves to lie to the public. He seems to enjoy conning the plebs to such a degree, I think he actually receives blasts of dopamine every time he does it. The bigger the lie, the better the rush.
The latest example relates to his issuance of executive orders, or lack thereof, something that Obama Inc. has actively attempted to portray as evidence of his restraint when it comes to executive power. Here are a few examples from a USA Today article published earlier today.
First, from the man himself:
“The truth is, even with all the actions I’ve taken this year, I’m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years,” Obama said in a speech in Austin last July. “So it’s not clear how it is that Republicans didn’t seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did.”
Harry Reid also proudly chimed in:
In a Senate floor speech in July, Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “While Republicans accuse President Obama of executive overreach, they neglect the fact that he has issued far fewer executive orders than any two-term president in the last 50 years.”
Finally, the message wouldn’t be complete without some words from Bootlicker in Chief Jay Carney:
“There is no question that this president has been judicious in his use of executive action, executive orders, and I think those numbers thus far have come in below what President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton did,” said Jay Carney, then the White House press secretary, in February.
Nice spin, but what’s the truth? Also from USA Today:
WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders.
Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don’t require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.
The Office of Legal Counsel — which is responsible for advising the president on executive orders and memoranda — says there’s no difference between the two.
With that in mind, how does Obama’s record stand up when you combine his issuance of executive orders and executive memoranda? Well, here you go:
Oh, and let’s not forget this guy still has two years left to further separate himself from the pack.
More from USA Today:
WASHINGTON — President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history — using it to take unilateral action even as he has signed fewer executive orders.
Obama has issued executive orders to give federal employees the day after Christmas off, to impose economic sanctions and to determine how national secrets are classified. He’s used presidential memoranda to make policy on gun control, immigration and labor regulations. Tuesday, he used a memorandum to declare Bristol Bay, Alaska, off-limits to oil and gas exploration.
Like executive orders, presidential memoranda don’t require action by Congress. They have the same force of law as executive orders and often have consequences just as far-reaching. And some of the most significant actions of the Obama presidency have come not by executive order but by presidential memoranda.
Obama has made prolific use of memoranda despite his own claims that he’s used his executive power less than other presidents. “The truth is, even with all the actions I’ve taken this year, I’m issuing executive orders at the lowest rate in more than 100 years,” Obama said in a speech in Austin last July. “So it’s not clear how it is that Republicans didn’t seem to mind when President Bush took more executive actions than I did.”
Obama has issued 195 executive orders as of Tuesday. Published alongside them in the Federal Register are 198 presidential memoranda — all of which carry the same legal force as executive orders.
He’s already signed 33% more presidential memoranda in less than six years than Bush did in eight. He’s also issued 45% more than the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who assertively used memoranda to signal what kinds of regulations he wanted federal agencies to adopt.
Obama is not the first president to use memoranda to accomplish policy aims. But at this point in his presidency, he’s the first to use them more often than executive orders.
So even as he’s quietly used memoranda to signal policy changes to federal agencies, Obama and his allies have claimed he’s been more restrained in his use of that power.
In a Senate floor speech in July, Majority Leader Harry Reid said, “While Republicans accuse President Obama of executive overreach, they neglect the fact that he has issued far fewer executive orders than any two-term president in the last 50 years.”
“There is no question that this president has been judicious in his use of executive action, executive orders, and I think those numbers thus far have come in below what President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton did,” said Jay Carney, then the White House press secretary, in February.
Executive orders are numbered — the most recent, Executive Order 13683, modified three previous executive orders. Memoranda are not numbered, not indexed and, until recently, difficult to quantify.
That’s precisely why Obama is utilizing them at a record clip.
Indeed, many of Obama’s memoranda do the kinds of things previous presidents did by executive order.
• In 1970, President Nixon issued an executive order on unneeded federal properties. Forty years later, Obama issued a similar policy by memorandum.
Presidential scholar Phillip Cooper calls presidential memoranda “executive orders by another name, and yet unique.”
The law does not define the difference between an executive order and a memorandum, but it does say that the president should publish in the Federal Register executive orders and other documents that “have general applicability and legal effect.”
There are subtle differences. Executive orders are numbered; memoranda are not. Memoranda are always published in the Federal Register after proclamations and executive orders. And under Executive Order 11030, signed by President Kennedy in 1962, an executive order must contain a “citation of authority,” saying what law it’s based on. Memoranda have no such requirement.
Whatever they’re called, those executive actions are binding on future administrations unless explicitly revoked by a future president, according to legal opinion from the Justice Department.
The Office of Legal Counsel — which is responsible for advising the president on executive orders and memoranda — says there’s no difference between the two.
Even the White House sometimes gets tripped up on the distinction. Explaining Obama’s memoranda on immigration last month, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said the president would happily “tear up his own executive order” if Congress passes an immigration bill.
Obama had issued no such executive order. Earnest later corrected himself. “I must have misspoke. I meant executive actions. So I apologize,” he said.
Not to fear, we just found out that Jeb Bush will be running for President in 2016. There’s always something to look forward to. For example:
Here’s your American “democracy.”
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I'm saving that picture....
Most.transparent.administration.ever
All of this is meaningless.
Those running government are the rulers and they do what they want to do, and those not running government are the ruled and they get to do what they are allowed to do.
It's been that way for 10,000 years and has not changed, dupes.
President Obama has issued a form of executive action known as the presidential memorandum more often than any other president in history
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I can't believe we're discussing this symantic bullshit.
Only the MSM-mind-numbed sheeple educated by the Lib public education system will buy this weasel-word crap.
Unconstitutional acts are just that...
Whatever one wants to label them.
"absolutely loves to lie to the public"
Please stop picking on the christian american heterosexual progun peace-loving constitutional scholar who did not run for office to help fat cat bankers in Wall Street.
"I can't believe we're discussing this symantic bullshit."
Depends on what the definition of "is" is!!
Wait til Barry comes out with the truth that he likes White Men that go down... but then it's not 'sex'...it's 'oral - whatever that is, is.'
What? No unicorn, sinking suckers!! Pensil head!
Use this link to post the chart on other websites comment sections http://imgur.com/OtypSQN
The NAALMOFOS (National Association for the Advancement of Lying MoFos) will be nominating POTUS for a Trophy at their annual Christmas Awards partee.
Obviously you are not old enough to remember.
well, I'm old enough to remember that this endless discussion on the "imperial US presidency" is even older then what I am
your system is exceptional, in comparison with most of the world, and puts exceptional powers in the hands of one single man
seen from afar, you like it. otherwise you would change it. but you also seem to like moaning about it
perish the thought even one American stands up and proposes a constitutional amendment. this is out of the question altogether. you are stuck with version 1.26 of your gov boot software, and have forgotten how to update or upgrade
which is funny, if you think how old version 1.0 is, or how fast the same people that wrote it upgraded it to 1.10
There is no need for a constitutional amendment.The constitution clearly defines the enumerated powers of the executive and they do NOT include the power to make law. ALL executive orders or memoranda are null and void.
What we need to understand is the SCOTUS has no power of judicial review either, thus has not the power to change the constitution when it wills it.
Our government, as it presently operates, is contrary to the constitution and represents a breaking of the social contract, thus making IT null and void. Not that it matters much as the bankruptcy of 1933 effectively allowed the foreclosure on America by its' creditors. Now, it is all a convenient fantasy as us slaves work off an ever growing debt.
And they say feudalism ended.
Well said, It would be good to see an article (sourced) that shows what happened, a timeline of events before and after the bankrupcy and what powers it took away and granted.
oh, and if you think it's too difficult, or unprecedented
President George Washington himself discussed a different proposition, then: to have, Roman style, two Consuls
the first past the post and the second past the post. With each the power to fully veto the other one
meaning you can have two Republicans or two Democrats or one each or... scary... one of them and one not of them
Washington liked the idea so much that he offered the VP to his first opponent, if remember correctly
The Constitution was a coup d'tat from the originally approved will of the people: the Artilcles of Confederation. Washington belongs in the deepest hole in hell. Along with his cohorts, see the Cincinnati Club.
The subjects are always more powerful than the ruling class since the ruling class is dependent upon the subjects productivity for its survival. Therefore the ruling class relies upon deception to fool the productive class into thinking that subjugation is better than alternatives. Communications like this are just all part of this eternal game.
Robotics changes that equation and so does AI. We really need to watch those technologies.
Racist bastards.. why does the obama graph have to be more black than the others..
I like how they argue that this party or that party has issued less or more executive actions than the other in such n' such a time frame as if that justifies using rule by decree on any number of issues against the peoples wishes.
Oh well, time to move to the north pole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0GDcA-gqY4
My name is Mud, but call me Alowishus Devadander Abercrombie
That's long for Mud so I've been told
Told that by this sonsabitch that lies before me bloated blue and cold
I've got my pride, I drink my wine
I'd drink the finest except I haven't earned a dime in several months
Or were it years
The breath on that fat bastard could bring any man to tears
We had our words, a common spat
So I kissed him upside the cranium with an aluminum baseball bat
My name is Mud
Primus...
Wonderful song....instantly started singing that verse reading this article. haha.
Saw them twice. They rule.
INCORRECT. PRIMUS SUCKS.
My bad :)
send nypd to the white house...... arrest............. jail.................. impeach............... for treason
Oh, what if he resists?
FDR holds the record at 3,522.
Next runner up, Woodrow Wilson at 1,803.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order
Seems the progressive democrats are the ones who really enjoy ruling by decree!!
That's not a statement made to give tacit approval to republicans either, to those of you about to tell me about both sides of the same coin....blah....blah....blah.
The republicans are dead.......stick a fork in them.
The number is irrelevant. It is the scope and depth of the memorandum and executive orders that is concerning.
Exactly! It only takes one to declare yourself emperor.
Is there anyway I can get my children shackles in a nice purple or pink? I want them to be slaves in style!
If you live in America your children are all ready dead , you just don't know it yet.
Easy if you're okay with them being furry, harder if not.
"Presidential memoranda" soon to be followed by "Imperial Suggestions".
Since when can a President unilaterally and single handed "normalize relations" with a country we nearly went to nuclear war over?
"Since when can a President unilaterally and single handed "normalize relations" with a country we nearly went to nuclear war over?"
Since, and as long as, people allow them to continue breathing....
Since we now let presidents be elected "kings". Congress is too busy bickering with itself to stop him, and the sheep are too busy fantasizing about Kim Kardashians ass. And we wonder how the Germans let Hitler rise to power.
German women do not have asses that ugly. Not even Merkel.
Don't get to comfortable counting the hours down.
Cuba is a good exchange point so the American gov't can give Russia a re up on bullets for when they invade us . Why else do you think they got so many bullets.
BTW Kennedy was wacked because of Cuba relations! Does history repeats it self? I sure hope so!
Obama is doing exactly what he is supposed to do. He is safe.
In the latest presidential memorandum, Obama decreed that all patriots must watch lil' black Annie over the unXmas period.
He's one mouse click from the grave, as are you.
Adolf Hitler had the same - called "Fuehrererlass" or "Fuehrerverordnung" and extended in 1942: - „Im Kampf des deutschen Volkes um Sein und Nichtsein […] muss der Führer […] – ohne an bestehende Rechtsvorschriften gebunden zu sein – in seiner Eigenschaft als Führer der Nation, als oberster Befehlshaber der Wehrmacht, als Regierungschef und oberster Inhaber der vollziehenden Gewalt, als oberster Gerichtsherr und als Führer der Partei jederzeit in der Lage sein, nötigenfalls jeden Deutschen […] bei Pflichtverletzung nach gewissenhafter Prüfung ohne Rücksicht auf sogenannte wohlerworbene Rechte mit der ihm gebührenden Sühne zu belegen und ihn im besonderen ohne Einleitung vorgeschriebener Verfahren aus seinem Amte, aus seinem Rang und seiner Stellung zu entfernen.“
As Commander-in-Chief he ruled by decree. The US is quite amazing how it has modelled its modernday presidency on Hitler's Germany and the US miliary on the Wehrmacht with Luftwaffe for close air support and free-ranging non-Army units like the USMC analogous to the Waffen-SS as self-contained fighting force with own artillery, armour
Since the United States Marine Corps was formed on November 10, 1775 and adopted the motto "Semper Fidelis", it is of course possible that the Waffen-SS "Mein Ehre ist Treue" was modelled after the ferocious Devil Dogs of the 5th and 6th Marine Regiments that tore up the Kaiser's boys in WWI. It seems highly unlikely however that the opposite is true.
But I encourage you to test out your hypothesis on some modern jarheads the next time you're in a bar.
"But I encourage you to test out your hypothesis on some modern jarheads the next time you're in a bar. "
Because we all know they are there to protect our "freedoms"......
/sarc
Well, personally, I'd share a foxhole with a Marine. God willing, the need may never arise. But I know where their hearts lie.
Germans fought Romans.
It is of course possible neither knew of any united states.
I seriously doubt that Hermann the German (real dude) was a member of the SS.
The Romans might have known about the United States had they bought all of the Sibylline Books rather than just the last one.
Hermann was Luffewaffe, a knight (although heavily fucked up).
As for the sybil books, who knows what they were, gone and burned.
Better to read the cuniform version of how the world turns.
But wait, there is more.
The US homeowner will be bent over the barrel, again.....
http://www.newsmax.com/finance/energy-stockman-housing-bubble/2014/12/17...
Republicans are spineless and Obama knows it. He'll do whatever he wants to do and they won't do a fucking thing to stop him. Who the hell are we supposed to vote for to change this, they are all pricks and we are getting so screwed by them.
< Ballot Box
< Cartridge Box
What stage are we at?
Still watching TV?
Yes, Marco Polo on Netflix, currently trying to capture the image of the impaled ones for my screen-saver.
Republicans are spineless and Obama knows it.
Not quite. Leadership Republicans are complicit with Obama. Republicans with spines (eg, Cruz & Lee) are demonized by leadership Republicans.
"Are I doin it right, boss man?" "Yes, you are, Mr. Speaker." "I yam! I yam! Hot pig! I'm overwhelmed, boss man". "Yes, you are, Mr. Speaker. This weekend you get extra chitlins and watermelon for your efforts to be Obama Junior". "I yam! I mean, I will! Hot boar! I'm gonna drip melon juice and chitlin juice like I was some hick yokel." "Yes, you are, Mr. Speaker."
True enough the GOP leadership sort of keeps Cruz on the margins, but that's because he's playing a designed role. Don't believe for a second he is the real deal (aka Ron Paul). Just watch.....if by some miracle Cruz ever gets to a position of leadership (speaker, major committee chair, etc).....watch how fast he does NOTHING of real significance to upset the status quo.
Don't get snookered by Teddy Cruz. If I had to pick one name I might give some credibility to in the Con-gress, I would submit maybe Justin Amash. But honestly, I think we lost the last great true citizen statesman when Ron Paul retired.
Ted Cruz wife is CFR/Ex Goldman.
He recommended Joe Lieberman for secretary of War.
Ted Cruz is a ZWO shill, end of story.
Ace,
You're right about Cruz. He's slim pickin's, and thin gruel. Besides which, he's not electable as President. Neither is Lee. Forgettable, too, are Romney, Ryan, and Rubio. Scott Walker is Hillary without her charisma. Christie is a one-trick pony. Etc.
Don't Republicans realize that boldness wins the game? It's as if Republicans are ahead 2-0 after the Democrat's first play from scrimmage resulted in a safety after 32 seconds of the 1st quarter, so the Republicans decided to play prevent defense the rest of the game, with both safeties 50 years downfield. Fuck that shit. If a Republican with half the charisma of Reagan boldly proclaimed her/is unabashed, unapologetic conservatism, the country would embrace that candidate just as fiercely as they embraced Obama.
Rand Paul ain't it. He's not Presidential. Politics is visceral. Paul's attrractiveness is cerebral.
How is this tale any different than when the President said he would not sign the NDAA into law only to find out after the fact that he had in the 11th hour on the last day of the year in 2011?...
What has this President done that hasn't been the opposite of everything he rode in on since January of 2009?
And the American people just keep coming back with plate in hand for more!
Oh for sure. He's like Bush 43 on steroids, yet the D's love Obama even more than they hated Bush. He's like Bush cubed.
"Presidential Memoranda"
Didn't find that term in my copy of the Constituion either.
However, I do keep coming back to Article 3, Section 3.
The banksters need to repay us.
Jesus. That graph says Truman was a cunt. No wonder his popularity was shit at the end.
Jeb will be the next president. Guaranteed.
Not that it matters.... we're officially a Banana Republic with the ruling families taking turns as El Presidente. Let the peasants get riled up and 'throw the rat bastards out' - as long as the replacements keep the system running as it always was. Keep the electorate distracted with 'God, Gays and Guns' while serving the only people that matter - the 0.01% that own 90% of everything (hey, the 7 Walton heirs alone are worth more than 40% of the US combined).
We've gone from Republic to Empire to collapse and bankrupt oligachy (albeit one with nukes).
Isn't it pretty blatant when you have the same families taking turns in the Oval Office? And funny how every ex-President ends up on the Board of the Carlyle Group - and worth 100 time smore in 'retiremnet' than they were before being elected. They're well compensated for filling the figurehead role and following orders. The REAL wealth and power is in the shadows - those people don't ever 'run for office' - too visible - much easier pulling the strings.
This 'Left/Right', 'Democrat/Republican'. 'Red/Blue', 'Liberal/Conservative' dichotomy is pure theater. Even a cartoon show like the Simpsons makes it clear - Kang or Kodos - you have a choice!
We;re given the ILLUSION of 'choice' - and thrown a bone now and then to keep the masses from rioting in the street. Can't have them knowing they're in an oligarchy that serves only the wealthy. Anything that keeps TPTB running things. God forbid you EVER get anyone running for office that actually might change things - odds are they won't get elected (much easier to insure now with program the results ahead of time Diebold voting machines) and if they DO get elected, odds are they'll die in a plane crash.
Obama is a Manchurian Kandidate (MK) and an actor,
"Like most recent presidents, BO is also a well-trained actor. He rarely deviates from his scripted lines and maintains theatrical poise, especially with his trusty teleprompter to guide him. A salesman, his toughest job is to sell a very bad product: US government deception, chiefly the enormous imperial debt and secrecy amassed over the past fifty years. Lastly, BO is a puppet, a pretender to the throne rather than a natural heir. His slogan, "Hope & Change" deceived millions of simple and naïve people on promises he cannot really deliver, much as the pizza delivery boy cannot give you the winning lotto ticket."
US Presidents - Actor, Chauffeur, Salesman, PuppetNice to see the President can write law that the plebes must follow which is in DIRECT VIOLATION of the Constitution. NOWHERE within the Constitution does it permit exective order (or law by dictate).
Silly boy... you still think the Constitution matters..... I bet you still think there's a Bill of Rights too.....
Yes and yes.
As long as there are American boys with American guns in their hands, our cause is not lost.
"Then out spake brave Horatius, the captain of the gate
To each man on this earth, death cometh soon or late
And how can man die better than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers and the temples of his gods."
Charles Biderman
he and bush his immediate predecessor were tied for worst all around president ever and now obama is starting to pull away.
I don't give a shit what the memo says - come and make me!
<-- Obama dies a violent death
<-- Obama dies in his bed at an old age, chuckling
<-- Dies a violent death in bed
<-- Reggie is involved either way
updated
So is the unicorn gay? And did he fuck Obama, or the other way around? It's just so complex I don't understand.
Hope and Rainbows
Is all we need to bellyfeel.
A lawyer only respects the laws that he makes. To me, he is not much different to Stephen in Django Unchained.
Presidential Memoranda: http://www.translegal.com/legal-english-dictionary/memorandum
It's a complete worthless document signed by Obama wiping his ass as a signature!
Let him continue to administer, he's breaking the law and will be convicted under the Patriot Act/ Constitutional Laws bound by the United Stated of America.
United States Of Newspeak is another day of Obama Ass Itch.
Korn - Ass Itch
Just set me free for a 17 day taxpayer funded vacation.
To say we are awash in scandals is an understatement. It is fortunate that the American people have the attention span of a gnat, this will help them through these troubled times. It is almost guaranteed that all the scandals and all the revelations that emerge from the nations capital will come to naught. A polarized America has become unable to react with any real outrage.
It appears that in its current form our Government has simply become to big to obtain the degree of over-site necessary to keep its agencies in line. These scandals are becoming to many to count, but to small to have much meaning to many people. Even when the law is broken the Presidents supporters often try to argue it away as political nitpicking. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2013/05/scandal-upon-scandal-upon-scandal...
Yesterday, local news, young reporter in field explaining how great Cuba thing was and cited that many Cubans live in Florida. Older anchor person says something about how the Cubans in Florida fled Castro's Cuba for freedom. Young reporter, deer in headlight look. I choked on my drink.
Young Americans are the most dangerous people on the planet. They have been trained to go on feelings but these feelings aren't their own feelings as they have no ability to assess anything on their own. Truly scary. If they are told to be happy or sad or mad about something they just switch on that feeling.
insanelysane, you described young Americans very well.
PS Any link to that local news report would be greatly appreciated. I could use a good laugh this morning.
Everybody loves to point fingers and assign blame, but this is the plan, from a long time ago:
"Henry Edmondson describes his book, John Dewey and the Decline of American Education, as “a simple exegesis of Dewey’s writing, with commentary suggesting how his thought finds expression in contemporary American education.” He reminds us that ideas have consequences, and Dewey’s ideas have had disastrous consequences for American education over the past 50 years.
Throughout the book, Edmonson highlights Dewey’s disdain for religion, tradition, and inherited values. Dewey claimed that such beliefs are at least signs of unintelligent thinking and, at worst, outright oppression by the wealthy and powerful.
Philosophically, Dewey argued that, because human nature is always in flux, fixed values and beliefs are inimical to progress. Consequently, he declared that schools should no longer be a venue for teaching traditional religious and moral values. Instead, Dewey believed that schools should be places where the child’s impulse and whim rule—insofar as those impulses and whims are consistent with the values of Progressivism.
Within the classroom Dewey insisted that teachers should not impose abstract aims or external standards on their students. Instead, he endorsed learning through play and hands-on activities, and defended an ad hoc curriculum that favored neither vocational nor academic subjects. Dewey maintained that socialization was just as important as teaching essential skills like reading. Edmondson concludes that our current confusion over standards and goals is a “natural consequence of Dewey’s insistence on such fluid educational standards.”
At times, Dewey insisted that he was heir apparent to Jefferson, but Edmondson shows that Dewey departed from both Jefferson and Franklin by repudiating those Founders’ shared belief that a vibrant republic requires an education designed to cultivate personal virtue. Dewey’s radicalism is nowhere more apparent than in his rejection of the Founders’ educational ideals."
http://fee.org/freeman/detail/john-dewey-and-the-decline-of-american-edu...
Jeb Bush? No surprise. And truthfully there's gona be a shitload of people that vote for him too. Not that I would be anymore happy with whatever loser the dems come up with. God forbid if it's Hillary and we have to listen to that cunt disorderment squawk for months on end. When both of them continually call each other a liar it's safe to say both of them are. But what difference does it matter? LOL.
Only fake ones.
Conservatives are becoming highly suspicious of the GOP leadersip.
It has become obvious that the only difference between the GOP and the DEMS are which lies they tell to which people.
Both clearly want an authoritarian, oligarchical feudal state.
Very interesting article, but it seems to me the real blow-you-away headline is the reasonable adjacent position of these two phrases:
"but what’s the truth? Also from USA Today:"
Really, how could that be?
Recall when inaugurated the feckless alien parasite swore his oath of allegience to the United States of America, then swore another secret oath.
The invasion continues.
No patriots in the Capital Police, SS, or Marines?