I want to imitate Mike Myer's Linda Richmen, from SNL here and say: "I'm getting vaklempt, I'll give you a topic: FEMA stands for Federal Emergency Management Agency" who's job it is to prepare for a national emergency. FEMA neither manages nor prepares. Discuss." Well, thanks to this forum, I've found myself reading a whole lot more these days. I'm almost done with this page: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/uscconcentrationcamps28jun01.shtml Something hit me halfway through. If this information is true, (that FEMA is prepared beyond what we could even imagine for an eventual call of martial law) then how is it New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina) recieved help so late in the game for all those that were suffering, stuck on their roofs or in that stadium? Did FEMA bide their time purposely?
Great question. I can explain this. Like the case with the Iraq war, where many view the current situation to be the result of simple incompetence, the same is the case in the way people view the response to Katrina. They don't realize that the politicians and the bureaucrats seen on TV are little more than puppets for people behind the scenes, which these low-level minions must answer to. Nothing is as it seems, and this applies to every area of our lives. The people you see on TV are meant to seem incompetent, because they're just lackies used to take the fall and are completely expendable. They are merely frontmen used to implement the orders issued from behind the proverbial curtain. Nothing that happens is by accident, it is always planned that way. This is what FDR once said, and he should know. In order to bring about the desired outcome, you need to create the problem which triggers the needed reaction in the public. In the case of Katrina, the communications lines were deliberately cut off, so the local authorities had no communication with the federal authorities who completely took over from that point on. Supplies were also kept from reaching the people in need by FEMA. What this did was trigger the humanitarian crisis which was needed as the pretext for martial law to be declared, to bring in the military and confiscate people's guns. This was basically used as a test run for what's soon to come on a much greater scale. FEMA is the iron lady. Bush gave a speech in the week following Katrina, saying that the military would play a much larger role in the future for such disasters (natural or otherwise). Katrina was used to set the precedent for such military intervention in these types of situations -- real or contrived -- in the future.
I am at a loss as to how we could build, insure and mortgage homes at below sea level. How we could flatter ourselves that mere human effort could rescue such a folly from the forces of nature? mistrustfull of anyone who represents that a mere goverment agency can protect me the effects of a hurricane.
This went through my mind when composing my post. But from what I gather, isnt' it the Core of Engineers and the Federal government that are responisble for the caretaking of that section of the counrty? As far as I know, the COE monitors the movement of the Mississippi River and build where necessary to keep it's flow convenient for commerce. And given that, shouldn't they be concerned about the mouth of the Mississippi where the silt ends up filling in the wetlands? They only keep a "shoot" clear for ships to come in for commerce. Thus, ignoring the silt that spreads out (imagine a fan effect) and across the marshlands, filling them up. The marshlands are a natural deflector against hurricanes. Shouldn't the COE know that this could happen and should they not have helped prevent it? This is directly, the responsibility of the federal government.
This isn't about any government protecting anyone from anything, Piney. We know governments do not exist to protect anyone other than the people running it, and that's NOT the politicians. This is about FEMA's response, or deliberate lack of response in the wake of the hurricane. The government stood everything to gain from what resulted from this hurricane, so it makes sense they took no action in fixing the levees or protecting the marshlands before such a thing occurred, as they were telling us would occur for years. Now they can come in and reclaim all the land and build what they want to build with no-bid contracts from Halliburton. It works out perfectly for them.
So, you are saying that there will be no bid process, correct? The work, automatically goes to Halliburton? *shudders* I guess it's useless to muse on the fact that so many people were dying, miserable, dirty, and hungry for weeks while FEMA let their meat swing in the winds. If this was deliberate neglect of the situation, I shudder to think what would happen in the wake of an even larger catastrophe.
The entire government was letting the shit just get worse after Katrina. You could call it "incidental chaos", except that it was allowed to happen.
