Subj : Re: Hurricane recovery To : Newborn From : Finnigann Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 01:31:00 -=> Newborn wrote to Frank Reid <=- Ne> Re: Hurricane recovery Ne> By: Frank Reid to Frank on Ne> 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. > Ne> I believe their is a constitutional prohitation against the Federal Ne> government using the Army to take over policing duties in the states Ne> without Ne> the consent of local officials (posse-cominatius statue). This is Ne> one Ne> of the reasons the Army could not just take over the police Ne> functions Ne> within the localities effected by the storm. The biggest problem in Ne> this Ne> storm was State-Federal conflicts resulting in time delaying Ne> buracricy. Ne> An example is that all the people going into the affected areas to Ne> voluntair Ne> to help were subjected to searches under the homeland security act Ne> and there Ne> weren't enough federal agents to provide those searches. Perhaps local law enforcement might not have been so warn-out if GI JOE was standing along side of him. Police handleing the law and the military backing him up. Sounds good to me. .... Democracy isn't free, It's not even cheap! --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.46 .