Subj : Re: Hurricane recovery
To   : Finnigann
From : Newborn
Date : Wed Sep 07 2005 23:06:00

  Re: Re: Hurricane recovery
  By: Finnigann to Newborn on Wed Sep 07 2005 03:31 am

 > -=> 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 overs
 >  >  >    deployment of our military forces migh be a HUGE contributing facto
 >  >  >    I think perhaps we have the best of our military equipment overseas
 >  >  >    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 
 >  >  >    use.
 >  >
 >  > The forward deployment of our military in Iraq, Afghanistan and dozens of
 >  > areas had *nothing* to do with the speed of response to the Katrina disas
 >  > That is *entirely* the result of established, legal processes which we pu
 >  > place in our Constitution for dispatching military troops to take control
 >  > 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 backin
 > him up. Sounds good to me.
 > 
 > ... Democracy isn't free, It's not even cheap!


  Utimately this is what happened, it just took the bureacy (local, state and
  federal) a while to figure it out.  I really think 'lumping' FEMA in the same
  basket as Homeland security is a griveous error.  FEMA should be a separate
  agency responsibile for NATURAL disaster ONLY.  With a separate budget and
  a leader that has experience with coping with natural disasters.

Newborn
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