# What's your opinion on Executive Order 13528? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 7, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118 "2012-04-07T21:38:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Nikko3111](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/839c29/32.png) [@Nikko3111](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nikko3111)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/1 "2012-04-07T21:38:40Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nF7QxWSDR00) ---
**Author:** ![Bemused](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/46a35a/32.png) [@Bemused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bemused)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/2 "2012-04-07T21:45:15Z")
What idiocy. Not the putative executive order, but the specified You Tube cite. Sheer idiocy. I know nothing about the putative executive order. However, given that this President - like all his predecessors - is constrained by the constitution (whether or not he wants to be), I’m sure that the executive order, if it exists, is far less draconian than the You Tube story is trying to indicate. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/3 "2012-04-07T21:45:49Z")
Do you mean [the executive order establishing a Council of Governors](http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-signs-executive-order-establishing-council-governors)? It seems fine to me – what’s your opinion? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/4 "2012-04-07T21:46:23Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Do you mean [the executive order establishing a Council of Governors](http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-signs-executive-order-establishing-council-governors)? It seems fine to me – what’s your opinion? “Da JOOZ”, most likely. ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/5 "2012-04-07T21:49:18Z")
I think this is the wrong wrong forum this. You might want to request a change to IMHO or Great Debates. I think EO 13528 isn’t as good as EO 13527 but I have never been a big fan of sequels. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2012, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/6 "2012-04-07T22:08:06Z")
Certainly not a General Question. Let’s move to IMHO first. **samclem** , MOderator ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/7 "2012-04-08T05:34:21Z")
I’d barely even call it an executive order. It’s something he’s required to do by a law passed in 2008. He’s not really ordering anything of his own accord. As the bottom of the linked press release states: > [@](#): > > The formation of the Council of Governors was required by the Fiscal Year 2008 National Defense Authorization Act which stated, “The President shall establish a bipartisan Council of Governors to advise the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the White House Homeland Security Council on matters related to the National Guard and civil support missions.” ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/8 "2012-04-08T06:49:14Z")
It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it. I give it an 85. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/9 "2012-04-08T06:55:30Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > It’s got a good beat and you can dance to it. … Only if you’re black like the president (or black and white like a zebra). White folk can’t dance, even to this executive order. ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2012, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/10 "2012-04-08T07:33:16Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Do you mean [the executive order establishing a Council of Governors](http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-signs-executive-order-establishing-council-governors)? It seems fine to me – what’s your opinion? No, obviously not. That was EO 13528 of 2010. [EO 13528 of 2012](http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/03/16/executive-order-national-defense-resources-preparedness) is the executive action enabling the The Defense Production Act of 1950, which is periodically reauthorized by Congress. Every administration issues policies for how they perform these tasks. [QUOTE=Wikipedia] The Act contains three major sections. The first authorizes the President to require businesses to sign contracts or fulfill orders deemed necessary for national defense. The second authorizes the President to establish mechanisms (such as regulations, orders or agencies) to allocate materials, services and facilities to promote national defense. The third section authorizes the President to control the civilian economy so that scarce and/or critical materials necessary to the national defense effort are available for defense needs. The Act also authorizes the President to requisition property, force industry to expand production and the supply of basic resources, impose wage and price controls, settle labor disputes, control consumer and real estate credit, establish contractual priorities, and allocate raw materials to aid the national defense. [/QUOTE] The Executive Order, on the other hand, just delegates authority to various cabinet Secretaries to assess what’s needed and what’s available, and authorize funding to produce and procure what’s needed for defense readiness. The other powers are still reserved to the President. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/11 "2012-04-09T15:59:41Z")
Is “youtu.be” a safe site? It looks like something set up to take advantage of errors or the unwary. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/12 "2012-04-09T16:39:27Z")
It is YouTube’s official URL shortener. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/13 "2012-04-09T20:52:35Z")
Ignorance fought. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2012, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-opinion-on-executive-order-13528/618118/14 "2012-04-09T22:34:38Z")
A bunch of paranoid nonsense. And now, at the risk of offending the non-snark-loving Illuminati, I will make a joke that it is much less alarming than Order 66.