9/11 Yearly emergency declaration renewed again

Posted by Plastic-Bluebird2491@reddit | Libertarian | View on Reddit | 17 comments

for the 23rd year in a row...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/09/09/message-to-the-congress-on-the-continuation-of-the-national-emergency-with-respect-to-certain-terrorist-attacks/

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247world@reddit

Hasn't there been some sort of national emergency since the second world war? I've heard this for years and from several different sources and just assumed it was true. Does anybody know?

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The longest standing national emergency here is Jimmy Carter's from 1979 which was in response to the Iran Hostage Crisis. The hostages were relaxed in 1981 but they have kept it going. It allows the president to impose sanctions on Iranian assets.

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ThisIsMyCoffee@reddit

National emergency has lost its meaning. How can government neither solve the problem nor define the solution that would end the emergency?

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JimCaruso87@reddit

What even is the emergency?

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Intelligent-Book-227@reddit

Only god knows

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ARatOnATrain@reddit

The government doesn't want to solve the emergency. The government wants to use the emergency.

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Plastic-Bluebird2491@reddit (OP)

the populace is blissfully ignorant

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longsnapper53@reddit

The bliss in it is gone.

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canonmp11dx@reddit

But it has bipartisan support….

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shreddypilot@reddit

Guess Bin Laden must still be running around.

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im_intj@reddit

And now they do it with our medicine as well

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49Flyer@reddit

We seem to have forgotten that the root word of "emergency" is "emerge", as in an emerging condition. There is nothing emerging about 9/11 or terrorism in general.

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Mead_and_You@reddit

Yeah, now it's just an Ency.

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longsnapper53@reddit

State of emergency needs to end. 9/11 was terrible but it was 23 years ago. The wars that were propped up after by Darth Cheney are long over. We need to move on and focus inward.

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Samniss_Arandeen@reddit

Darth Cheney made me spit my drink

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ARatOnATrain@reddit

When legislatures grant extra powers to executives during an "emergency", executives will declare more "emergencies".

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jedipiper@reddit

I had no idea. WTH???