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drduffy Donating Member (739 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 12:27 PM
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A Bigger, Better FEMA? Beware of what you ask for...
GREEKS BEARING GIFTS By Michael C. Ruppert

........ Beware America. Beware....If we’re to follow the current media line, the litany of errors and deliberate, callous decision making which has cost so many lives with Katrina is to be blamed solely upon the White House. It is now a virtual certainty that a Democrat will be placed there in 2008 (I did not say elected and will not until we have verifiable paper ballots returned to us). What we now see emerging clearly is that the Democrats will make it a major plank in their platform that FEMA’s budget will be enormously expanded, along with its authority to act independently in a “crisis.” The poor, dispossessed and fearful will likely cheer for and demand these steps without having the slightest clue what they are asking for. Already I have heard Jesse Jackson pointing at FEMA and calling for hearings. The Democrats have found their sheet music.

Intelligent critics from both left and right have for years painstakingly documented FEMA’s paramount leadership role in Continuity of Government (COG) operations and planning. Better described, COG is what will happen if Congress is nuked, if a major catastrophe makes “normal” government operations impossible, or if there is major civil unrest (or total economic collapse). Much of FEMA’s infrastructure is really dedicated to this task and not to disaster relief. The COG function and authority has been greatly expanded since 9/11. At FTW we have written about FEMA many times and discussed it at length in my book Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil.

There is no shortage of verifiable government records confirming all this including about two score Executive Orders, The Patriot Act, The Homeland Security Bill, and a couple of pieces of legislation having to do with biological warfare enacted in the post-9/11 climate. COG work was initially begun way back in the late 1970s, and involved early input from the likes of Iran-Contra criminal Oliver North. That’s where FEMA actually came from.

If this thinking is not curtailed, then as the economic collapse of the United States becomes ever harder to conceal, FEMA will have been given a green light to impose the most draconian and heartless of measures in our country. FEMA will have the ability to divide the US up into ten autonomous regions, independently governed. Denver will be key to that decentralization and I note with irony that the CIA recently announced it was moving its National Resources (formerly Domestic Operations) Division to Denver (Washington Post, May 5, 2005) . FEMA will have the authority to confiscate any private property, food, medicine, personal vehicles, water supplies and even to impress citizens into forced labor and relocation as needed. FEMA will be able to override all local governments in a declared national emergency, quarantine neighborhoods and compel people to receive untested (for efficacy) vaccinations of drugs which may be dangerous (remember the smallpox vaccines?) and which will only enrich the pharmaceutical companies. FEMA will have the authority to confiscate firearms and gold held by private individuals. The government records proving what I say here are available in abundance and have been widely circulated over the internet for years. The little that remains of our Bill of Rights will simply cease to exist with a Code Red terror alert or another Katrina. And global warming makes another Katrina somewhere inevitable.

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I hope I have done this correctly. These are four paragraphs from an introduction by Michael Ruppert to an article on FEMA: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/090605_greeks_gifts.shtml

Notice in the news that Bush has declared an additional 9 states disaster areas simply because refugee/evacuees have been sent to them. I am getting pretty scared of where all this is going, being pushed, as it were, by politicians on both sides.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 12:48 PM
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1. Clinton elevated FEMA to cabinet level status
and put someone in charge (James Lee Witt)who had experience and was competant. He obviously thought emergency preparedness was important. * fired Witt, cut the funding, hired political cronies with no experience, added several layers of bureaucracy, and shifted the focus to terrorism. Is ANYONE surprised they were caught with their pants down?
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political_invader Donating Member (575 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 12:55 PM
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3. No I'm not surprised


However I am getting worried that America will take a long time to rebound from this. The KOOL ADE is getting stronger from the Jim Jones clones.
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drduffy Donating Member (739 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 12:54 PM
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2. that is true but
what I am afraid of is that FEMA will be used, ultimately, to further fascism in the US. The rules for declaring disasters and then martial law are becoming very loose. The constitution and Bill of Rights -- and our freedoms will go right down the tube.
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louis-t Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 01:36 PM
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4. I think FEMA has been marginalized
on purpose, of course, but it's really DHS and Patriot act that we need to fear.
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