The Winds states:
In the event of a national emergency declared by the President of the United States, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), would be invested with the power to suspend the U.S. Constitution and is positioned to take control of the United States government and its citizens. ... The authority of eleven preceding Presidential Executive Orders (1939 through 1991) has been consolidated into Order #12919. This concentration of executive authority invests FEMA with absolute power over:
- All United States communications facilities (EO 10995)
- Electrical power, petroleum, gas, fuels and minerals, public and private (10997)
- Food supplies, agricultural lands and facilities (10998)
- Transportation of any kind, including private, and control of seaports, waterways and highways (10999)
- Civilian labor forces without regard to financial remuneration as authorized under the Defense Production Act of 1950 (11000)
- Health, education and welfare institutions (11001)
- All airport and air transportation, public, private and commercial (11003)
- Railroads, inland waterways, and public storage facilities (11005)