Subj : Re: Hurricane recovery
To   : Finnigann
From : Richardw
Date : Mon Sep 12 2005 08:00 am

  Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
  By: Finnigann to richardw on Fri Sep 09 2005 09:02 pm

 > -=> richardw wrote to Newborn <=-
 > 
 >  ri>   Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
 >  ri>   By: Newborn to richardw on Fri Sep 09 2005 01:00 am
 > 
 >  >  >  >  > Perhaps local law enforcement might not have been so warn-out if
 >  >  >  >  > standing along side of him. Police handleing the law and the mil
 >  >  >  >  > him up. Sounds good to me.
 >  >  >  >
 >  >  >  >   Utimately this is what happened, it just took the bureacy (local,
 >  >  >  >   federal) a while to figure it out.  I really think 'lumping' FEMA
 >  >  >  >   basket as Homeland security is a griveous error.  FEMA should be 
 >  >  >  >   agency responsibile for NATURAL disaster ONLY.  With a separate b
 >  >  >  >   a leader that has experience with coping with natural disasters.
 >  >  >
 >  >  > I disagree.  We need one response team capable of dealing with whateve
 >  >  > 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 see
 >  >  > 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 peo
 >  >    experienced in handling the problems they present.  It may not require
 >  >    different agency, but, each department should  have it's own  leadersh
 >  >    structure.  Just my personal opinion....
 > 
 >  ri> We're talking about _response_ teams.  FEMA should be concerned with
 >  ri> responding to an act of terrorism, be it evacuation or whatever.
 >  ri> Intelligence agencies should be concerned with _preventing_ acts of
 >  ri> terrorism.  As I said above, the response to an act of terrorism is
 >  ri> going to be very similiar to the response for a natural disaster.  The
 >  ri> same basic needs will apply.
 > 
 > Like the WTC and Katrina are similar?
 > 
 > Besides they have to plan a national response which is no small task.

Yes.  They are both disasters.  The difference being, in the WTC, there were no
survivors to be rescued.

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