Subj : Re: Um...no comment?
To   : Finnigann
From : Frank Reid
Date : Sat Sep 03 2005 12:48:00

  Re: Re: Um...no comment?
  By: Finnigann to sn0w0wl on Sat Sep 03 2005 07:05:00

 > But FEMA has been defunded and assigned additional tasks (after it's inclusi
 > into homeland security)
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > "If we can't respond faster than this to an event we saw coming across the G
 > for days, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a nuclear or
 > biological attack?" asked former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a Republican.
 > 
 > Says it all.
 > 
 > Our safety is not a priority with 'w'

Oh, jeez... do you really want the Commander-in-Chief usurping all authority
under the Constitution and sending in his armed military at his will?  There
are established mechanisms for the local, county (parish) and state governments
to prepare for emergencies, to execute emergency plans and to petition to the
federal government for emergency assistance.  The administration did everything
within its power -- including declaration of disaster prior to the catastrophe
even occuring -- to help these states deal with their problems.

Alabama and Mississippi seem to have done fine operating under the established
procedures.  New Orleans, Orleans parish and the Louisiana state government did
abominably, and those elected representatives need to be held accountable.  The
fact is that the military is now (that it's been declared a federal emergency)
in complete control and will have the situation stabilized very soon.  However,
I doubt that you want to hear the clack of jackboots every time there's a local
crisis in your hometown in the future!

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