III.   Fund

An Emergency Powers Executive is a type of Privy Council formed under the claim of some form of “State of Emergency” either via war or terrorism or some other impending crisis. The unique feature of an Emergency Powers Executive is its claim to suspend many forms of rights, privileges and liberties and to by-pass most of the checks and balances of good governance, due diligence and transparency. Since 1916, most Western countries have enacted laws enabling them to invoke or maintain ongoing “emergency powers” suspending the effective operation of constituting instruments and basic human rights.

In respect of the Privy Fund of an Emergency Powers Executive:

(i) Under the guise of World War I, the allied powers passed legislative to enable the Executive Government to suspend due process, any form of justice and right of appeal as a matter of “national emergency”. In the United Kingdom, this was done through the powers of the courts, the police and local government in the forms of Courts (Emergency Powers) Act 1914 c. 78, Police (Emergency Provisions) Act 1915 c. 41, Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act 1916 c. 12 and Local Government Emergency Provisions (No. 2) Act 1916 c. 55. In the United States, the suspension of any resemblance of Rule of Law was done through the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917, enabling the President to declare emergencies without limiting their scope of duration; and

(ii) In 1976, the United States enacted the National Emergencies Act and in 1977 the International Emergency Powers Act to end multiple and continuous “states of emergency” which had been renewed by the President to main constant emergencies suspending basic accountability, reporting and due process. However, successive Presidents have used these acts to maintain constant and false flag states of emergency such that the Iran Hostages crisis continues to be renewed as a “national emergency” more than thirty years after the event and more than one hundred national emergencies continue to be active at any one time, empowering the executive to do whatever it deems fit, without any proper or effective oversight.