<div dir="auto">Congress is smarter than that, even with it's Trumpian sycophants.  <br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 5:26 AM Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Hungary's authoritarian leader Orban wants to get indefinite emergency powers to fight the Virus.</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-21/hungary-s-orban-seeks-indefinite-emergency-powers-in-virus-bill" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-21/hungary-s-orban-seeks-indefinite-emergency-powers-in-virus-bill</a><div dir="auto"></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">It reminds Germans of the "enabling act" 1933 which Hitler used to grab power. This law granted the leader <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">the power to enact laws without the involvement of the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_(Weimar_Republic)" title="Reichstag (Weimar Republic)" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Lato,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;background:none rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(107,75,161)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">p</a>arliament<font color="#222222" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">, and made him a dictator. </span></font></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Trump will try something similar - a bill or amendment to the constitution that grants him indefinite and unlimited powers. Officially to fight the disease and to protect Americans. In reality to protect himself. Once he has this emergency powers, he will never give them back.</div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/21/doj-coronavirus-emergency-powers-140023</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-J.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div>============================================================<br>
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