FEMA being destroyed.

[reprobate]

I believe this is important enough to be in "Latest Breaking News" but the rules forbid as it's from an opinion piece in the Washington Post. So here it is and spread the word.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901445.html

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Which makes it all the more difficult to understand why, at this moment, the country's premier agency for dealing with such events -- FEMA -- is being, in effect, systematically downgraded and all but dismantled by the Department of Homeland Security.
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Apparently homeland security now consists almost entirely of protection against terrorist acts. How else to explain why the Federal Emergency Management Agency will no longer be responsible for disaster preparedness? Given our country's long record of natural disasters, how much sense does this make?

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Indeed, the advent of the Bush administration in January 2001 signaled the beginning of the end for FEMA. The newly appointed leadership of the agency showed little interest in its work or in the missions pursued by the departed Witt. Then came the Sept. 11 attacks and the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. Soon FEMA was being absorbed into the "homeland security borg."

This year it was announced that FEMA is to "officially" lose the disaster preparedness function that it has had since its creation. The move is a death blow to an agency that was already on life support. In fact, FEMA employees have been directed not to become involved in disaster preparedness functions, since a new directorate (yet to be established) will have that mission.

The writer is director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.


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It is now apparent to me that Bush is intentionally set out to destroy this nation. And the media hasn't said a word about this.

[RevCheesehead]

1. It really is his "private little war," isn't it?

Except he's using the rest of us to make it happen. :(

[ClintonTyree]

2. It's their contention that "private enterprise" can handle it better.....

the government. So, they're going about the "piratization" of FEMA as well as every other government program. It's been their plan all along. Shrink government to a size where the can "drown it in a bathtub". :eyes: Rat bastards. :grr:
This is a perfect example of how well that privatization is working. It's not. At all.