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Has the termination of the national emergency ever been considered? In Public Law 94412, September
14, 1976 (Exhibit 70), we find that Congress had finally finished their exhaustive study on the national
emergencies, and the words of their findings were that they would terminate the existing national
emergencies. We should be able to heave a sigh of relief at this decision, for with the termination of the
national emergencies will come the corresponding termination of extraordinary Presidential power, won't
it? But yet we have learned two difficult lessons: that we are still in the national emergency, and that
power, once grasped, is difficult to let go. And so now it should come as no surprise when we read, in the
last section of the Act, Section 502 (Exhibit 71), the following words:
"(a): The provisions of this act shall not apply to the following provisions of law, the powers
and authorities conferred thereby and actions taken thereunder (1) Section 5(b) of the Act of
October 6, 1917, as amended (12 U. S. C. 95a; 50 U. S. C. App. 5b)"
The bleak reality is, the situation has not changed at all.
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We can see now that we have come full circle to the situation which existed in 1774, but with one crucial
difference. In 1774, Americans were protesting against a colonial power which sought to bind and control
its colony by wartime powers in a time of peace. In 1994, it is our own government which has sought,
successfully to date, to bind its own people by the same subtle, insidious method.