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ttorney General William
French Smith recently
voiced his alarm at Fed
eral Emergency Management
Agency Director Loui3 Giufirida's
proposd to crown himself the
nation's "emergency czar" in the
event of war or natural disaster.
Jack Anderson h
Joseph Spear
Smith's ie:;il and constitutional
sensibilities were offended by the
thought of the civil defense agency
usurping the powers of Cabinet
level departments, emergency or
not.
But the attorney general will be
positively stunned when he learns
of Giuffrida's latest plan. It would
suspend the Constitution and give
the president as much arbitrary
power as Hitler or Stalin ever
exercised.
- This blueprint for autocracy is
in the form of "standby" legisla
tion drafted by FEMA's eager
empire-builders. That means it
wont be submitted to Congress
in advance when its drastic
provisions would certainly spark
debate and draw opposition from
conservatives and civil libertar
ians alike.
Instead, it is intended to be
held on "standby" until an emer
gency arises. Then a panicky
Congress will presumably be ready
to abdicate its responsibilities
under the Constitution and vote
for a dictatorship.
Our associates Donald Gold
berg and In Jy Badhwar have seen
the draft legislation, which would
be titled disingenuously the De
fense Resources Act. Here are
some of the specific outrages:
Private property would be
effectively abolished. Real estate
and personal belongings "that
shall be deemed necessary for
national defense purposes" would
be confiscated by the govern
ment And there'd be no haggling
or taking it to court.
"Upon or after filling the con
demnation petition" the standby
legislation reads, "immediate pos
session may be taken and the
property may be occupied." There
goes your house. There goes your
car. There goes the neighbor- friends sayshe is delighted by the
hood, size of the crowds she is drawing
The bureaucrats at FEMA across the country and by the
want to nationalize the means of warmth of their response.
'lJS Fcrraro's earlier troubles were
theTu j? Partly sclf-inCicted, but her friends
iden i1HtlP Put soiae cf the Name on
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The government would be cm- ?S'r comPlained
powered to set limits on the num- cnS"tSfJ: nnw tH
ber of employees in any type cf h Je"TS W
work, and In fact restrict vvorkers ?PCrZ7S J,
to "activities essential to the na- 5?ndlns hefp u .from th! Prcl3,
tional health, safety or interest"
.... , , giving more attention to the war
And if anyone lies to a federal and-peace bsue she feels is the
bureaucrat about the availability m0st important of all
of manpower, itH rate either a
$10,000 fine or a one-year hitch r-uu t. v a
in the gulag. The right to strike FZ?rJ?n VF1 Fr decI
will, of courte, be recked. Viola tfttJn'vf lv hrfed
tors will be declared felons in the f R011 orce Base
same class as those who try to in f hington, D.C., have man
overthrow the government. ? .f et along without door-
bell3. Visitors simply knocked. But
, , now the Air Force has decided to
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