Yeah I think this is the real key, basically the emergency powers are all or nothing. They're designed for an absolute emergency, so it's perfectly reasonable t

Yeah I think this is the real key, basically the emergency powers are all or nothing. They're designed for an absolute emergency, so it's perfectly reasonable to have the ability to freeze accounts and do all sorts of extreme stuff. It's not like the emergency provisions were designed specifically for this process, they're designed for everything from a natural disaster to a long term pattern of terror attacks or act of war. So the question isn't "Is it reasonable to have the power to do this in this specific case". The question really should be, are the powers actually being exercised in this way. It seems pretty clear that they aren't. So all this outrage about freezing accounts for donating to a political course are outrage over something that doesn't seem to have actually happened.