REX-84 Revisited

[rich]

hi ya Jody--glad you're back
 notice mr bush wants to increase the power of the military in future 
disasters in his speech last night
 rich

 On 9/14/05, jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote: 
> 
> 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]
> 
> 
> jody
> 
>
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