REX-84 Revisited

[jporter]

	If you believe the corporate media, FEMA is simply a bungling and
	inept emergency management agency and its director, Michael Brown,
	according to the Washington Post, is simply an "accidental director"  
and
	"the failed head of an Arabian horse sporting group who was plucked
	from obscurity to become President Bush's point man for the worst
	natural disaster in U.S. history"(...)  But this does not explain the  
following:

	FEMA refused evacuation help from Amtrak; it turned away experienced
	fire fighters and first responders; it turned back Wal-Mart supply  
trucks;
	refused to allow the Red Cross to deliver food; blocked a 500-boat  
citizen
	flotilla from delivering aid; turned away generators and other  
equipment
	(see this page with links to news stories). In other words, FEMA went  
out
	of its way to deny aid and allow people to die from dehydration,  
starvation,
	and lack of medicine and medical help. In addition to denying aid, and  
thus
	killing an as of yet (and possibly forever) unknown number of people,  
FEMA
	is attempting to control media access to the worst natural disaster in
	American history (see Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of
	Dead). Moreover, journalists and photographers have been assaulted by
	troops and had their notebooks and cameras confiscated (see The Eye of
	the Hurricane by Matthias Gebauer).

	Regardless of all the corporate media hype, FEMA was not created to
	respond to natural disasters and help American citizens....

Continues at:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php? 
context=viewArticle&code=NIM20050911&articleId=929

[Attacks on democratic rights, breaching legal barriers: FEMA and  
Katrina: REX-84 Revisited
The "Black Curtain" around FEMA's Operations

by Kurt Nimmo]


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