Subj : Hurricane recovery
To   : Frank Reid
From : Newborn
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 23:24:00

  Re: Hurricane recovery
  By: Frank Reid to Frank on Sat Sep 03 2005 01:44 pm

 >   Re: Hurricane recovery
 >   By: Frank to Angus McLeod on Sat Sep 03 2005 12:33:00
 > 
 >  >    Yes, thats what she was saying. I'm starting to wonder if the overseas
 >  >    deployment of our military forces migh be a HUGE contributing factor.
 >  >    I think perhaps we have the best of our military equipment overseas an
 >  >    old mothballed gear here at home. This would account for the slow
 >  >    response. The added time getting this old gear out and up to speed for
 >  >    use.
 > 
 > The forward deployment of our military in Iraq, Afghanistan and dozens of ot
 > areas had *nothing* to do with the speed of response to the Katrina disaster
 > That is *entirely* the result of established, legal processes which we put i
 > place in our Constitution for dispatching military troops to take control of
 > civilian locales.
 > 
   I believe their is a constitutional prohitation against the Federal
   government using the Army to take over policing duties in the states without
   the consent of local officials (posse-cominatius statue).  This is one 
   of the reasons the Army could not just take over the police functions
   within the localities effected by the storm.  The biggest problem in this
   storm was State-Federal conflicts resulting in time delaying buracricy.
   An example is that all the people going into the affected areas to voluntair
   to help were subjected to searches under the homeland security act and there
   weren't enough federal agents to provide those searches.

Newborn
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