Subj : Re: Hurricane recovery
To   : Newborn
From : richardw
Date : Fri Sep 09 2005 10:36 am

  Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
  By: Newborn to richardw on Fri Sep 09 2005 01:00 am

 >  >  >  > Perhaps local law enforcement might not have been so warn-out if GI
 >  >  >  > standing along side of him. Police handleing the law and the milita
 >  >  >  > him up. Sounds good to me.
 >  >  >
 >  >  >   Utimately this is what happened, it just took the bureacy (local, st
 >  >  >   federal) a while to figure it out.  I really think 'lumping' FEMA in
 >  >  >   basket as Homeland security is a griveous error.  FEMA should be a s
 >  >  >   agency responsibile for NATURAL disaster ONLY.  With a separate budg
 >  >  >   a leader that has experience with coping with natural disasters.
 >  >
 >  > I disagree.  We need one response team capable of dealing with whatever
 >  > disaster comes along.  The response is similiar *irregardless* of the
 >  > cause.  Provide a means of evacuation, food, medicine, shelter, and
 >  > apparently some baby-sitting at gun-point may be required as well.
 >  >
 >  > I don't see the need to fund 2 seperate agencies.  Everybody today seems
 >  > to think we need a BIGGER government than the monolith we have now!
 >  > ugh!
 >
 >    FEMA doesn't have to be concerned with ongoing acts of terrorism, such
 >    as radioaactive (atomic) or chemical acts that homeland security would
 >    have to handle.  Natural disasters are quite different and require people
 >    experienced in handling the problems they present.  It may not require a
 >    different agency, but, each department should  have it's own  leadership
 >    structure.  Just my personal opinion....

We're talking about _response_ teams.  FEMA should be concerned with 
responding to an act of terrorism, be it evacuation or whatever.
Intelligence agencies should be concerned with _preventing_ acts of 
terrorism.  As I said above, the response to an act of terrorism is going 
to be very similiar to the response for a natural disaster.  The same 
basic needs will apply.

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