From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: FEMA
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 00:13:26 GMT

From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Plotting to Rewrite the U.S. Constitution
Date: 14 Feb 92 00:07:36 GMT
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL

In article <1992Feb8.070109.8915@mont.cs.missouri.edu> C551534@umcvmb.missouri.edu writes:
>
>      I like the CONSTITUTION just as it is.  Any convention right now
>would be a disaster.  They might affect the Bill of Rights which is the
>foundation of this country.  No convention for me, thank you.
>
>Charles Stanford

You guys must have missed it when Bush FLAUNTED this in your faces during
the "State of the Dis-union" message..he said that he _already_ HAD 30
states "following the plan"..
 
Newstates is to be a reality. You'd BEST keep your eyes and ears open
to all the movements of the FEMA droids...or have you not heard of
the concentration camps throughout the US that are already _prepared_?
 
Texas,Arizona,Alaska,and Florida just to name a few..it's a good deal
later than you think.
 
Wake up Sheeple!
 
Don



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From: lpb@STRATUS.SWDC.STRATUS.COM (Len Bucuvalas x5363)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: GVT IMPLEMENTS NEXT STEP IN PLAN TO REPLACE CONSTITUTION
Date: 13 Mar 92 23:11:25 GMT

I know I know ... here's another damnable conspiracy theorist with his head up 
his ass.  But that still doesn't obviate the obvious (allitaration on purpose).

This morning on CNN I Heard a report of 2 hooded men who entered a NY City
resteraunt. One stood by the door while the other one went to a table
put a gun to a man's head, and fired two rounds killing him.  Then the two hoods
left.  CNN wraps it up by postulating that it may have been the Medillin (sp?)
Cartel in this country on a terrorist run in revenge for the damage  our country
has inflicted on their drug trade.

Granted that
	1) The Medellin Cartel has spent money combating the US BUT the figures
	   point to the opposite: They are making more money because narcotic
	   use has increased.

	2) Because of this country's high profile in the 
	   international arena, there are many, I am sure, who would wish
	   to strike back in any way possible BUT with our technology and 
	   constant security on all borders and the airports this doesn't
	   seem plausible.....don't forget the heightened sensitivity of
	   all metal detectors since the Iraqui Massacre.

It seems odd to me that this would happen in this time period where so many
differing documents, which have in the past tried to forecast future 
events in terms of probabilities, are all coalescing in the same time period, 
with the same statements, pointing the finger at the same political areas.

For Example: The Newstates Constitution.  This document was written some 20
years ago.  It's functionality is really based on how insecure we as a
population feel.  Witness the inroads: due process has been effectively 
removed via the RICO statutes; habeus corpus went with it. What about
the news reporter who was recently fired for asking pointed questions to 
King George at the summit in San Antonio...there goes your Freedom of Speech.

At the same time there is a growing movement to disarm the lawabiding American.
We all know that removing our ability to purchase arms WILL NOT remove the
ability of the black market to supply arms to the criminal.

It is quite obvious that the government simply cannot go in and say, "Goodbye
Constitution". This would create a furor.  But what they could do is engineer
.. using a long-term plan.... a series of events structured to convince 
the primary voting bloc (which seems to be republican) that 

	1) Your life is at stake from internal terrorists and crazies
	   (recall the prozac killer in Stockton CA)

	2) We can't protect you because our hands are bound by law

So what *could* they do? They *could* declare a state of national emergency.
Then while in that state, they could declare martial law.  While everyone
is distracted they *could* convene a constitutional convention while
King George is on TV pounding his rhetoric for a safer America, we need
more disciplne, we need this martial law because only criminals would disobey
this ruling, and we can protect you BUT you have to sacrifice some things IF
you really want us to take care of this siuation.  Yes. Sounds like an
Agatha Christie nightmare BUT ..... it could happen.

I dont believe the Medillin Cartel was at the root of those shootings.  I see
no way they could get in here without being id'ed. 

I urge you to read the Newstates COnstitution and call your representative
telling him 1) you know about it and 2) if this happens he the representative 
will be the first to fall .... politically of course.

Stand up for your rights ... get out and start researching and dont forget
to vote.  If you dont do it, Uncle Sam will. And Uncle Sam doesnt like us
anymore......

Samurai_Writer


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From: fcrary@ocf.berkeley.edu (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.conspiracy,misc.legal,talk.politics.guns
Subject: Re: Nuclear Terrorist Threat to the U.S.  Would Martial Law be Invok
Date: 23 Mar 92 19:04:11 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: locusts.berkeley.edu

In article <9Va2HB2w164w@pismo.UUCP> wood@pismo.UUCP (Ken Wood) writes:
>     Check out Executive Order 11490 signed Oct 20,1969 by Richard M Nixon.
>It's almost as good as martial law, sounds better, and the President alone 
>can activate it.  

I have... Personally, I think it is clearly a plan to overthrow the 
Constitutional government of the United States (though only if a "emergency"
justifies it). As such, the President and all government employes working
for or with FEMA are (technically) conspiring to overthrow the government of
the United States, in violation of their oaths of office. If Congress were 
willing to push it, this is probably an impeachable offense...

					     Frank Crary
					     UC Berkeley
From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald)
Newsgroups: alt.drugs,talk.politics.drugs,alt.society.civil-liberty
Subject: Re: 60 Minutes piece on the Forfeiture Law
Date: 18 Apr 92 02:41:20 GMT
Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA

feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:

> We're pretty far gone at this point. I fully expect Bush or his
> successor to take over the communications facilities of the country
> and effectively dismantle the government within ten years.

"Fully expect?"  You imply that this isn't already being done.  Considering
that, these days, most "news" is prepackaged press reports, broadcast
as-is, and that radio and TV broadcasters must self-censor themselves to
avoid endangering their FCC licenses, and that Congress is considering laws
to require the phone companies to make phone lines easier to tap, I think
you're already too late.

But it's not like there'll be proclamations from a new junta and front-
page headlines in the London Times when it's complete.  Everything will
appear exactly the same.  But only the right candidates will appear on the
ballots (all the others will have been challenged for being "frivolous" and
excluded); the most outrageous acts of repression will simply never be
reported in the press, and people will lose all their posessions for
attempting to discuss forbidden topics on a phone-company-owned BBS (all
the others will have been driven out of operation).

---
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1-508-967-5278   Lowell MA, USA   ...!uunet!wang!fitz
From: kamchar@ibm.cl.msu.edu (SunCat)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: More songs about buildings and ftp.uu.net
Date: 28 Apr 92 02:17:19 GMT
Organization: here

In article <RFS.92Apr24100255@kepler.unh.edu>, rfs@kepler.unh.edu (rfs) writes:
> 
> In article <1992Apr23.095719.10609@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> owsl_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (--<<[...]>>--) writes:
[MATERIAL DELETED]
> It says they're logging host name and mail address.  With this as a minimum
> level of logging, they can attempt to trace the propogation of documents.
> Perhaps they wish to trace copyrighted works moving in the net.
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>    But now that I think of it, if I have nothing to hide, then, well, who cares
>    who's keeping logs on me, I have nothing to hide.
> 
> They must love to hear this sort of thing.
> 
> --
> Robert Spence			rfs@cs.unh.edu
> 
> 
Or how about this?  They want to gain the ability to "burn libraries" in order
to prevent the outbreak of participatory democracy, thwart the power that some 
see in hypertext.  Some political types see social change as a threat to 
stability and thus an invitation to Communism.  Some have policy-making power 
and IMHO not inclined to throw out a lifetime's worth of belief just because
a *new* boogie man requires a leap of faith.  Recall that Oliver North created
a plan for concentration camps for dissidents under the auspices of the Federal
Emergency Management Administration (FEMA).


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From: 00dclefevre@bsu-ucs.uucp
Newsgroups: alt.censorship
Subject: The "emergency powers" and press pooling
Date: 4 May 92 21:51:03 GMT

There was a question on whether or not the power to censor and limit access to
information, etc. was given expressily by the constitution..  The answer is yes
_and_ no.

The power being claimed by the president could be claimed under two areas.  It
could be claimed by the "commander and chief" clause, but, more likely, it is
claimed as what some call an "emergency power."  Presidents claim the emergency
powers (which simply means a power that breaks the constitution in order to
defend it) come from their oath of office.  "To serve and protect the
constitution."  The first president who claimed the oath of office as a grant
of "emergency" power was Abe Lincoln, who, during the civil war, broke the
constitution on numerous occasions to help preserve the United States union.

Today, some of the "emergency powers" are used commonplace by presidents.  This
is why, today, I basicaly see them as unconstitutional, although this is a
highly argued point.  Yes, the press pooling during the gulf war was
unconstitutional taken as itself.  The debate is whether the war was enough of
an "emergency" to allow the powers to be used.  Some contend that it was, some
contend that it wasn't, and some even contend that in today's world we are in
a constant state of emergency and that every time the president violates the
constitution in order to "preserve the constitution" (another one of those 
constitutional interpretation points) it is acceptable.  I think, especially
after the Rodney King fiasco, that we had better make sure that NO part of our
government, epecially the Presidency, has too much power over the people.                                                                  
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Newsgroups: alt.rodney-king
From: hoza@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (HOZA MARK R)
Subject: Executive Order -- Threat to our Constitutional Freedom
Summary: HR4079 is a direct threat to our Constitutional Freedom
Keywords: Constitution Freedom Executive Order
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Sun, 10 May 1992 22:25:13 GMT


This post is from a booklet distributed by America West Publishers on the 
"Piracy of the U.S. Constitution."  I am enclosing only a letter to citizens
of the U.S. that talks about the ramifications of the GINGRICH ANTI-CRIME
BILL HR4079.

Direct questions to the publisher, please.

Mark
=========================================================

America West Publishers
P.O. Box 986
Tehachapi, CA  93581
(805)822-9655
FAX 822-9658

Dear Citizen,

On July 11, 1990, the U.S. Senate passed the "Omnibus Anti-Crime Bill", part
of which is contained in the GINGRICH ANTI-CRIME BILL HR4079.  If this bill is
enacted, it will NULLIFY THE BILL OF RIGHTS, AND BY USE OF Executive Orders
already written and signed into law, would completely suspend all American
Constitutional rights and liberties.

These Executive Orders by the President would be instantly used without 
question:

EO10995 provides for control of communication media.
EO10997 provides for control of all power, fuels and minerals.
EO10998 provides for control of all food and farms.

EO10999 provides for control of all transportation, highways, seaports, etc.
EO11000 provides for the mobilization of all civilians into work brigades under
government supervision.
EO11001 provides for control of all Health, Education and Welfare.
EO11002 designates the Postmaster to operate a national registration of all 
persons.
EO11003 provides for control of all airports and aircraft.
EO11004 provides for relocation of any populations.
EO11005 provides for control of railroads, waterways and public storage
facilities.
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL USE THE NATIONAL GUARD TO INSURE COMPLIANCE.  THIS
WILL COME ON YOU ALL AT ONCE AS A SURPRISE TO THE CITIZENS AND THE NATIONAL 
GUARD PERSONNEL.

All those Executive Orders listed above were combined by President Nixon under
one Executive Order No. 11490 which puts all of them listed into use if a
NATIONAL Emergency is declared.

The Gingrich Anti-Crime Bill HR4079 calls for "A Declaration of NATIONAL drug
and Crime Emergency".  Since the friends of President Bush wrote the Bill,
IT WOULD BE SIGNED INTO LAW IF IT PASSES.  IT WOULD BE IN EFFECT FOR 5 YEARS.

This Bill, HR4079, has been referred to the House Committees on Judiciary,
Energy and Commerce, Public Works, Transportation, Education and Labor and
Armed Services.

The passage of the Gingrich Anti-Crime Bill HR4079 ends Constitutional
Freedom in the U.S.  When Freedom dies, it is replaced with tyranny and 
dictatorship.  Period.

Please call or write to your elected representative and STOP THE PASSAGE OF 
HR4079.

IF YOU DO NOT, YOU WILL BE A SLAVE WITH NO FREEDOMS.

=======================================================

End of enclosed article.


From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Newsgroups: misc.legal,alt.society.civil-liberty
Subject: A Brief Primer on FEMA
Date: 31 May 92 14:38:33 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting

To the Editor(of my local paper):

Several  Presidents   have   signed   the   following   Executive
Orders(EOs) which  can be  put  into  effect  by  President  Bush
without  Congressional  approval  in  the  event  of  a  national
emergency:

EO10995 provides  for government  control of  all  communications media.

EO10997 provides  for government  control of all power, fuels and minerals.
 
EO10998 provides for government control of all food and farms.

EO10999 provides  for government  control of  all transportation,
highways, seaports, etc.

EO11000 provides  for the mobilization of all civilians into work
brigades under government supervision.
 
EO11001 provides  for government control of all Health, Education
and Welfare activities.

EO11002 authorizes  the Postmaster  General to operate a national
registration of all persons.

EO11003 provides  for government  control  of  all  airports  and aircraft.

EO11004 provides for relocation of any populations.

EO11005 provides  for government  control of railroads, waterways
and public storage facilities.

E011490 combined  all of  the above Executive Orders and puts all
of them  into use  simultaneously  if  a  NATIONAL  Emergency  is
declared.

On July  11, 1990, the U.S. Senate passed the "Omnibus Anti-Crime
Bill", part of which is contained in the GINGRICH ANTI-CRIME BILL
HR4079. This  bill, if  enacted, would  permit use  of the above-
listed previously  signed Executive  Orders to  establish nation-
wide martial  law, completely suspending all rights and liberties
guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The Gingrich  Anti-Crime Bill HR4079 called for "A Declaration of
NATIONAL Drug  and Crime  Emergency". It would be in effect for 5
years. The  federal government  would use  the National  Guard to
force compliance  with the  activated EOs.  This would  come as a
complete surprise  to almost  all citizens and the National Guard
personnel.

This Bill,  HR4079, has  been referred to the House Committees on
Judiciary, Energy  and Commerce,  Public  Works,  Transportation,
Education and  Labor and  Armed  Services.  The  passage  of  the
Gingrich Anti-Crime  Bill HR4079  would permit  the suspension of
Constitutional government  in the  U.S. with  one stroke  of  the
President's pen.

This kind of legislation is what the War on Drugs has led to. The
Drug Threat is considered so severe that the Constitution must be
suspended to deal with it. Does anyone think that these Draconian
measures can  be justified  by anything less than a meteor impact
on the  North American  continent? Does  anyone think that such a
state of  emergency, once  declared,  would  ever  be  completely
repealed? Individual  rights as  we know them today will cease to
exist after  such an  event. "The living", as Krushchev once said
about the survivors of nuclear war, "will envy the dead".

Do you  trust President Bush (or any President) with that kind of
power? Call  or write your Congressperson and Senators and demand
the defeat  of any legislation containing ideas from HR4079. Also
insist on  the repeal  of all  of the  above Executive  Orders to
prevent the  establishment of  a totalitarian  government in  the
United States on the whim of a President.
-- 
"The entire thrust of the Republican Whitehouse for the past 12 years
has been to ignore laws passed by Congress and to break secretly whatever
laws impede the implementation of Whitehouse policy. Dan Quayle is the
latest example." - me
Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-liberty,talk.politics.drugs,talk.politics.guns,bit.listserv.politics,alt.politics.elections
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: A Primer on Executive Orders and FEMA
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 92 14:11:25 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting


 
                         What Is an EO?
 
Under  the   Constitution,  the  President  is  vested  with  the
executive power  of the government (Article II, Section 1, clause
1), the  power to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution"
(Art. II,  Sect. 1, clause 7), and the power to see that the laws
are faithfully  executed (Art. II, Sect. 3). From these powers is
implied the authority to issue "executive orders."
 
The President must have the authority to issue directives to keep
control  of  the  executive  branch  and  to  provide  detail  to
legislation. Neither  Congress  nor  the  courts  have  right  to
prohibit  the   executive  branch   from  adding  or  subtracting
authority from one government agency to another, for example.
 
However, this  presidential power  has been abused in the form of
executive orders  that impinge  across legislative concerns which
are properly the province of Congress.
 
The validity  of executive  orders (EOs) has been questioned many
times dating  at least  to the Civil War. However, a ruling as to
the extent  or limit  to which  they may  be used  has never been
determined by the courts or by Congress.
 
The Federal  Register contains  the text  of EOs  issued  by  the
presidents. There is no congressional authorization required, nor
is there  any review by the judiciary. All EOs are "laws" made by
a singale man - the President of the United States.
 
Several Presidents have signed the following EOs which can be put
into effect  by the  President without  Congressional approval in
the event of a national emergency:
 
EO10995 provides  for government  control of  all  communications
media.
 
EO10997 provides  for government  control of all power, fuels and
minerals.
 
EO10998 provides for government control of all food and farms.
 
EO10999 provides  for government  control of  all transportation,
highways, seaports, etc.
 
EO11000 provides  for the mobilization of all civilians into work
brigades under government supervision.
 
EO11001 provides  for government control of all Health, Education
and Welfare activities.
 
EO11002 authorizes  the Postmaster  General to operate a national
registration of all persons.
EO11003 provides  for government  control  of  all  airports  and
aircraft.
 
EO11004 provides for relocation of any populations.
 
EO11005 provides  for government  control of railroads, waterways
and public storage facilities.
 
E011490 combined  all of  the above Executive Orders and puts all
of them  into use  simultaneously  if  a  NATIONAL  Emergency  is
declared.
 
EO12148 created  FEMA. This  order allows  a president  to assume
dictatorial powers  during a presidentially-proclaimed emergency.
These powers remain with the president until specifically revoked
by Congress.
 
                          What Is FEMA?
 
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was originally planned as
an  umbrella   administration  consisting  of  the  disaster  and
emergency response  arms of  nearly  a  dozen  scattered  federal
agencies. Questions  have existed  about  FEMA's  role  from  its
creation. Veteran  Washington watchers  have long been puzzled by
its secretive nature(Much of its budget is "black").
 
It has  been learned that the Reagan administration, for example,
had  plans  for  using  FEMA  to  arrest  tens  of  thousands  of
"potentially subversive"  suspects aliens,  critics and dissenter
in the wake of an undefined national emergency.
 
During the first Drug Summit in Cartagena, Columbia, FEMA went to
work on  an emergency program in case the presidential plane were
hit  by   a  Stinger  missile  somewhere  over  Colombia.  FEMA's
emergency measures  included preparations  to round  up more than
10,000 Americans  "redlined" in  FEMA's computers  as "activists,
supporters or sympathizers of terrorism in the United States".
 
In August 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, FEMA got ready to deal
with "terrorist  emergencies" in  the US  by preparing a computer
compilation of  "terrorist supporters  and sympathizers,"  adding
thousands of  names to  it and  alerting the  US Army  to set  up
detention camps to hold potentially massive numbers of detainees.
 
During  the   two  natural   disasters(Hurricane  Hugo   and  the
California earthquake  in 1989)  that  FEMA  responded  to,  FEMA
officials seemed  uninterested and  negligent in  their  disaster
response.  The   reason  for  that  appears  to  be  that  FEMA's
leadership has  more concerns  than just developing programs that
will not  merely ensure  the continuity of the federal government
in any national emergency. FEMA appears to be developing plans to
permanently  replace   the  nation's   Constitutional  system  of
government with a totally centralized command system.
Does FEMA pose a danger to lawful government?
 
     You Bet!
 
Is there  the possibliity  of  a  dictatorial  overthrow  of  the
Constitution with the president seizing all power?
 
     Absolutely!
 
When could it happen?
 
     It's already  almost happened  at least  once: in  the early
70's: President  Nixon made  contingency  plans  to  continue  as
President in case the 1972 elections were cancelled. How badly do
you think  President Bush  wants to  remain  in  control  of  the
government even if he loses the election in November?
 
Stay tuned.
 
                           - CREDITS-
 
Much of  this information  is taken  from a supplement to the May
1992 issue  of The  SPOTLIGHT. The  supplement has  the title "In
case of  Emergency... FEMA  vs Your Constitutional Rights" Copies
of this  supplement can be obtained by sending $6 for 8 copies to
SPOTLIGHT, 300  Independence Ave.  SE,  Washington,  D.C.  20003.
Subscriptions to The SPOTLIGHT($36/yr(52 issues)) can be obtained
by calling  1-800-522-6292. The SPOTLIGHT will be publishing more
material on FEMA.
 
I subscribed to the SPOTLIGHT in the early 80's. I eventually let
my subscription lapse in part because SPOTLIGHT had such a strong
anti-semitic content.  Be prepared  for this  if  you  decide  to
subscribe to  this publication(which will be publishing more info
on FEMA.

-- 
"The entire thrust of the Republican Whitehouse for the past 12 years
has been to ignore laws passed by Congress and to break secretly whatever
laws impede the implementation of Whitehouse policy. Dan Quayle is the
latest example." - me
Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-disob
From: alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Alexander)
Subject: Americans Computerized by FEMA
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 22:49:50 GMT


The following is from a right wing tabloid called the Spotlight. While I
disagree with most of what they stand for, I do believe this is important.

-- Alex --

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                     AMERICANS `COMPUTERIZED' BY FEMA

                      By Warren Hough and Martin Mann
                        Exclusive to The Spotlight


Washington, DC -- Fort Meade, Maryland is the government's most tightly
guarded installation (it houses, among others, the secret National Security
Agency).  In an unmarked, windowless office building on the grounds of Fort
Meade, hundreds of thousands of American citizens are being "computerized"
by technicians on the payroll of the Federal Emergency Management Agency
(FEMA).

     "Administratively, this place is the equivalent of an unlisted
telephone," explained a former senior official of FEMA, who agreed to an
interview on condition that his identity be protected.  "It has no official
existence.  There is no listing for it, no traceable designation.  But it's
there, idling quietly, like a doomsday bomb waiting for its moment in
history."

     The task of FEMA's secret data control annex at Fort Meade is to
develop so-called CAPs -- the term stands for "crisis action programs" --
to be implemented in national emergencies.  The term was originally used to
denote disaster relief plans at the Federal Preparedness Agency, once a
department of the General Services Administration, now merged into FEMA.

     But the computerized action plans instrumented at Fort Meade have
nothing to do with aiding victims of hurricanes or other natural disasters.
They are blueprints for taking over the U.S. government and converting it
into a command system under the "emergency management" of federal
bureaucrats.

     Privately, congressional investigators, intelligence analysts and
veteran Washington newsmen familiar with the inner machinery of the vast
federal bureaucracy have long expressed concern and anxiety about FEMA.  An
"umbrella administration" born in 1978 when President Jimmy Carter combined
the disaster and emergency response functions of nearly a dozen scattered
federal outposts into a single agency, FEMA has always been known as an
"activist" and secretive fraternity.

     Under Louis Giuffrida, appointed FEMA director by President Ronald
Reagan in 1981, the agency developed a top-secret project for arresting
tens of thousands of "suspect aliens" along with troublesome critics and
dissenters whom the White House found annoying enough to be labeled
"potentially subversive."

     Tagged Operation Rex 84, these un-Constitutional plans were first
discovered and revealed by this populist newspaper in a series of exclusive
investigative reports in the April 23 and May 14, 1984 issues.

     But although The SPOTLIGHT's expose wrecked FEMA's plans for setting
up mass "emergency detention centers" -- and cost Giuffrida his post as
director -- secret preparations for "[ensuring] the continuity of the
federal government" in ill-defined "emergencies" remained the major concern
of FEMA's senior officials.

     "Those words, enunciated by President Gerald Ford in Executive Order
11921, were understood by FEMA to mean that one day they would be in charge
of the country," explained Dr. Henry Kliemann, a political scientist at
Boston University.  "As these bureaucrats saw it, FEMA's real mission was
to wait, prepare and then take over when some `situation' seemed serious
enough to turn the United States into a police state."

     To illustrate FEMA's conspiratorial core, knowledgeable Washington
intelligence sources cited the instance of the 1989 visit by President
George Bush to Cartagena, Colombia, to attend a so-called regional drug
summit with three Latin American presidents.

     "There wee rumors of a terrorist threat against Bush by Colombian drug
hit squads," recounted Monroe H. Brown, a former federal security officer
with long years of service in Miami.  "Teams of Secret Service, FBI and CIA
agents were mobilized to find out how serious the threat was, while back in
Washington, FEMA went to work on an emergency program in case the
presidential plane was hit by a Stinger missile somewhere over Colombia."

     FEMA's emergency measures included preparations to round up more than
10,000 Americans "redlined" in the agency's computers as "activists,
supporters or sympathizers of terrorism in the United States," explained
Brown.

     In August 1990, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, FEMA got ready to deal with
"terrorist emergencies" in the United States by churning up the same old
discredited computer compilation of "terrorist supporters and
sympathizers," adding thousands of names to it and alerting the U.S. Army
to set up detention camps to hold these innocent victims of its
bureaucratic brutality.

-----------------

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003


Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-disob
From: alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Alexander)
Subject: Dictatorship Possible Here
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 23:14:41 GMT


The following is from a right wing tabloid called the Spotlight. While I
disagree with most of what they stand for, I do believe this is important.

-- Alex --

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                       DICTATORSHIP POSSIBLE HERE

                    By Lawrence Wilmot and Martin Mann
                        Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT


Washington, DC -- Hidden in the bureaucratic maze Washington politicians
call "our Constitutional system of government," a little-known federal
agency is quietly making plans to turn the United States into a
dictatorship.

     There are "stacks of blueprints" in the top-secret safe of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) designed to convert American society
into a "command system," a former deputy administrator of the agency has
told The SPOTLIGHT's investigative team.

     In a private interview, allowing him to remain anonymous, this highly
placed source confirmed that the procedures developed by FEMA to "suspend"
the Constitution and to round up thousands of dissenters nationwide can be
activated by a simple phone call from the White House.

     "Even people who have become aware of FEMA's existence and know
something about its activities -- not many do -- think the word `Emergency'
in its designation means it will go into action only in case of a natural
disaster or perhaps a surprise nuclear attack," related this expert.

     "In reality, however, this outfit can be mobilized whenever the
politicians occupying the White House decide they need special -- and
extra-Constitutional -- powers to impose their will on the nation."

     As Liberty Lobby first revealed, FEMA's bureaucrats can then proceed
to:

   * Take over all farms, ranches or timberland in order to "utilize them
     more effectively" as decreed in Executive Order (EO) 11490, the so-
     called omnibus emergency preparedness decree promulgated by President
     Richard Nixon on October 28, 1969.

   * Seize all sources of public power:  electric, nuclear, petroleum, etc.

   * Freeze all wages, prices and bank accounts.

   * Take over all communications media.

                         A FORCE OF FACELESS FEDS

     Such totalitarian measures can be imposed by bureaucrats under FEMA's
direction, not just in the face of a cataclysmic upheaval, but "[w]henever
necessary for assuring the continuity of the federal government in any
national emergency type situation," decreed a subsequent White House ukase,
EO 11921, issued by President Gerald Ford in April 1976.

     Can such a blueprint for tyranny be clamped on the United States by a
force of faceless federal officials?  It is the role of FEMA has been
preparing for most intensively, says the former high agency administrator.

     "In recent years, despite talk of spending cuts, FEMA's budget has
been steadily increasing," revealed this knowledgeable source.  "It now
stands at somewhere around $3 billion annually.  I say `somewhere' because
part of this agency's funding is appropriated under so-called black
programs, submitted to Congress with the defense budget without an
explanation of its purpose, aping the secret CIA appropriation."

     FEMA can draw on the defense budget and on the protection of the
secrecy reserved for national security projects because it came into being
under President Jimmy Carter in a move that merged the civil defense and
disaster relief responsibilities formerly shared by the Pentagon, the
Commerce Department and the General Services Administration under a single
powerful agency.

                         WHAT'S FEMA REALLY UP TO?

     But FEMA's real focus is not on disaster relief, knowledgeable sources
say.  An investigation of this little-known agency, conducted earlier this
year by the General Accounting Office (GAO), the congressional watchdog
unit, has found that less than 10 percent of FEMA's staff -- 230
bureaucrats out of an estimated 2,600 -- are assigned full-time to
preparing for and dealing with major natural disasters such as storms or
earthquakes.

     What, then, is FEMA really up to?  The SPOTLIGHT's investigative team
has obtained an advance copy of the GAO report on this secretive agency.

     The study's surprising findings have been reviewed with the help of
well-placed confidential sources, in order to bring into full view, for the
first time, the federal bureaucracy's secret blueprint for tyranny in
America.


-----------------

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003

Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-disob
From: alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Alexander)
Subject: FEMA Bungling
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 23:31:46 GMT


The following is from a right wing tabloid called the Spotlight. While I
disagree with most of what they stand for, I do believe this is important.

-- Alex --

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       HELP BUNGLED AND DISORGANIZED

                    By Martin Mann and George Nicholas
                        Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT


Washington, DC -- One after another, two violent, cataclysmic disasters
struck the United States in the fall of 1989.  Hurricane Hugo roared
through the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Carolinas in September.
Within weeks, northern California was shaken by the Loma Prieta earthquake
that left hundreds of thousands of victims and billions of dollars in
damage in its wake.

     Having spent "over $25 billion on setting up FEMA," American taxpayers
were entitled to expect "quick and efficient help" from it in the face of
such shattering calamities.  But the response by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) to these upheavals was "bungled" and
"disorganized," says Ray Groover, who reported on the hurricane for a San
Juan, Puerto Rico, newspaper and is now studying for a graduate degree in
journalism at Columbia University in New York.

     Since the Disaster Relief Act of 1988, FEMA has been responsible for
coordinating the "[disaster] preparedness, response and recovery actions of
state and local governments."  Unable to live up to these responsibilities
during the 1989 crisis, the agency drew sharp criticism from the press and
from Congress, whose leaders assigned the General Accounting Office (GAO)
to conduct the first-ever detailed investigation of FEMA.

     For a year, GAO field examiners interviewed hundreds of disaster
victims, state and local relief workers, journalists and other witnesses.
The agency has assembled a 71-page report on U.S. relief operations.

                        WATCHDOG AGENCY RATES FEMA

     Having obtained an advance copy of that survey, a team of SPOTLIGHT
reporters found that the congressional watchdog agency rated FEMA's ability
to deal with natural disasters as being "inefficient," "weak" and
"dilatory."

     Noting that "emergency management includes  three phases:
preparedness, response and recovery," GAO probers warned that FEMA failed
to operate "as efficiently as possible" in all these areas.

     There was evidence of "inadequate planning ... inadequate or no
standard operating procedures ... [and a] lack of coordination" wherever
FEMA's bureaucrats intervened, the GAO report concluded.  Among the results
of these botched relief attempts were "delays in providing disaster
assistance and duplicate payments for some [of FEMA's] activities," the
congressional overseers discovered.

     One example of FEMA's failure cited by the GAO survey team involved
4,000 low-income units wholly destroyed in California's devastating October
1989 earthquake.  "Thirteen months later, only 114 units had been processed
and approved for [rehabilitation] funding," the report reveals.  Similarly,
10 months after Hurricane Hugo, most of the families left homeless "had not
yet been provided with housing assistance from FEMA."

                           DIRECTORS SHELL GAME

     Warned that the GAO report will expose FEMA as incompetent and
wasteful, President George Bush fired agency Director Julius Becton, an
elderly three-star general, whose principal qualifications for flag rank
was Henry Kissinger's wish to promote "minority" officers, Defense
Department sources say.

     Becton was replace by Wallace Stickney, a former New Hampshire state
official whose colorless and low-profile reputation is expected to dampen
the fireworks the GAO report might otherwise touch off about the inadequacy
of federal relief operations.

     But simply shifting directors "does not answer the real question:  If
[FEMA officials] seem uninterested and negligent when it comes to disaster
response, what are FEMA's thousands of bureaucrats working on?" asked
Groover.

     The answer, a SPOTLIGHT investigation has found, is that FEMA's
leadership is developing programs that will not merely "[ensure] the
continuity of the federal government in any national emergency-type
situation," as decreed by President Gerald Ford in Executive Order 11921,
but REPLACE the nation's Constitutional statecraft with a centralized
"command system."


-----------------

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003


From: alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Alexander)
Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-disob
Subject: Individual Rights Are at Risk
Date: 24 Jun 92 23:04:40 GMT
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN


The following is from a right wing tabloid called the Spotlight. While I
disagree with most of what they stand for, I do believe this is important.

-- Alex --

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     BLUEPRINT FOR U.S. DICTATORSHIP PLACES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AT RISK

                               By Mike Blair
                        Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT


Washington, DC -- During the Persian Gulf war and the military buildup
leading to it, President George Bush began using the term "New World
Order," often suggesting that the commitment of so-called multinational
forces involved in the military effort was the beginning of this alleged
worldwide utopia.

     Supposedly using the vehicle of the United Nations, Bush's New World
Order would be the arbitrator of all world problems and the apparatus to
enforce globalist dictates through the use of armed forces combined from
the armies of member nations.  The UN law would be, regardless of the
nationalist interests of individual countries, the final word.

     Actually, even the mention of a New World Order would normally be
anathema to thinking Americans and, in particular, conservative political
leaders and civil libertarians.

                            SINISTER TECHNOLOGY

     It is also surprising to many critics of the move toward one-world
government that Bush would even dare choose the term "New World Order" to
define his globalist schemes.  However, most Americans alive today were
born after World War II, when propaganda of the so-called Allied powers
used the terms of "New Order" or "New World Order" to describe in a
sinister way the military efforts of Japan and, in particular, Germany
under Adolf Hitler.

     Few, it seems, have taken the time to analyze just what Bush has in
mind for his New World Order, of which America is to become an integral
part, starting with supplying about 90 percent of the muscle, and young
lives, that tackled and defeated Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein's Arab
legions.

     However, patriotic Constitutional scholars know that Bush's New World
Order is the worst attack ever on America as a sovereign, independent and
free nation.

                             BEGAN WITH WILSON

     Efforts to form a global government are certainly nothing new.
American political leaders, who were concerned with America first, were
able to overcome the internationalist, one-world government machinations of
President Woodrow Wilson following World War I.  Wilson was prevented from
realizing his visions of a New World Order, through the League of Nations,
by a powerful Senate opposition, which refused to rubber-stamp for Wilson
U.S. membership in the world body.

     A few decades later, however, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
near the end of World War II, was able to get his one-world plans under way
by laying the groundwork for today's United Nations, which was completed
under his successor, Harry S. Truman.

     A few years later, that membership in an UN-mandated war in Korea cost
America 35,000 young lives.

     The problem that one-worlders have always encountered, of course, is
the U.S. Constitution, which has stood as a bulwark against any globalist
schemes.

     Nevertheless, American presidents since Roosevelt have insidiously
chipped away at the great powers of the people, written into the
Constitution by America's immortal Founding Fathers, with the use of so-
called executive orders.

                              CAUSE FOR ALARM

     Americans should be deeply alarmed that those presidents have signed a
series of executive orders (EOs) which, under the guise of any national
emergency declared by the president serving at the time, can virtually
suspend the Constitution and convert the nation into a virtual
dictatorship.  Dissent, peaceful or otherwise, is eliminated.

     Those backing efforts to circumvent the Constitution may have gotten
the idea from President Abraham Lincoln, whose use of various extraordinary
powers of his office -- which many Constitutional scholars still insist was
illegal -- suspended various civil rights to curb such problems as draft
riots during the Civil War.

     In 1862, Congress enacted the Enrollment Act to allow the drafting of
young men for the Union Army.  The act was rife with inequities, such as
the provision which allowed a man to pay $300 or hire a substitute to take
his place.  This hated "Rich Man's Exemption," as it was called, angered
the average American of military age and in particular young Irish
immigrants in New York City.

     A riot erupted in New York in 1863, and it resulted in Lincoln using
some extraordinary powers of his office to keep the Union from falling
apart from within.

     But over the years, presidents have used these powers for purposes
never intended by the Founding Fathers.

                            INDIANS VICTIMIZED

     President John Tyler used such powers in 1842 to round up Seminole
Indians in Georgia and Florida and force-march them -- men, women and
children -- to Arkansas.  This was probably the first use of internment in
America to deal with unpopular minorities.  It was not the last.

     In 1886, the Geronimo Chiricahua Apache Indians surrendered to U.S.
troops in the West, were rounded up by order of President Grover Cleveland,
and shipped to internment in Florida and Alabama.

     Earlier, during the War Between the States, Sioux Indians in
Minnesota, when there was a delay in paying them their yearly allowance,
began attacking nearby white settlements.  Lincoln sent in a hastily raised
force of volunteers under Col. H. H. Sibley.  Little Crow, leader of the
Kaposia band, was decisively defeated by the Union troops on September 23,
1862, and more than 2,000 Sioux were taken captive, although Little Crow
himself and a few followers escaped.

     Through the process of a military tribunal, sanctioned by Lincoln, 36
Sioux leaders were  publicly hanged.  Whether the Sioux executed were
innocent or guilty was apparently immaterial.  The revolt was quelled, and
the Minnesota Sioux were all moved to reservations in Dakota.

     These instances of the nation's executive branch taking extraordinary
measures to confine, or intern, American Indians are just a few of many
examples.

     More recent examples of interning minorities by executive order
occurred during World War I and World War II.

     During World War I, an unknown number of German-Americans were rounded
up by federal authorities and interned until after the war.  In addition,
regardless of the First Amendment of the Constitution, which guarantees
freedom of speech and of the press.  German-language newspapers, published
within German-American communities in the United States, were banned.

                             WW II INTERNMENTS

     After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, within
days the FBI rounded up tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans, guilty
only of being of Japanese ancestry, under the authority of an executive
order issued by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  The lists of those to
be apprehended had been drawn up months earlier, before the war.

     Held in concentration camps, the perimeters guarded by U.S. soldiers
armed with machine guns, the mostly innocent and patriotic Japanese-
Americans were not released until after the war.

     Congress has recently passed legislation extending the nation's
apologies to the Japanese-Americans and extending them compensation for
their years of confinement.

     However, no apology or compensation has ever been extended to the more
than 8,000 German-Americans who were confined in dozens of jails and camps
across the United States, also by order of Roosevelt.

     Many were not released until 1947, a full two years after the end of
the war, in total violation of the Geneva Conventions.

     "What happened to me and thousands of others is old history," said
Eberhard Fuhr of Cincinnati, who was interned at 17 years of age, "but the
next time it could be any other group, which is then not politically
correct, or out of favor for any other reason (SPOTLIGHT, May 20, 1991).

     Fuhr's warning, of course, had already been proved correct just
several months earlier when, under orders of Bush, the FBI hounded
thousands of innocent Arab-Americans as the U.S. prepared for the Persian
Gulf conflict.

     Only the efforts of a handful of irate U.S. Congressmen halted the
harassment but not until after a number of U.S. military bases were
selected as sites of internment camps for Arab-Americans and war
dissenters.

-----------------

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
From: alexa@county.lmt.mn.org (Dave Alexander)
Subject: What is an Executive Order?
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 92 23:47:44 GMT


The following is from a right wing tabloid called the Spotlight. While I
disagree with most of what they stand for, I do believe this is important.

-- Alex --

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       WHAT IS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER?

Under the Constitution, the president is vested with the executive power of
the government (Article II, Section 1, clause 1), the power to "preserve,
protect and defend the Constitution" (Art. II, Sec. 1, clause 7), and the
power to see that the laws are faithfully executed (Art. II, Sec. 3). From
these powers is implied the authority to issue "executive orders."

The president must have the authority to issue directives to keep control
of the executive branch and to provide detail to legislation. Neither
Congress nor the courts have the right to prohibit the executive branch
from adding or subtracting authority from one government agency to another,
for example.

However, this presidential power has been abused in the form of executive
orders that impinge across legislative concerns which are properly the 
province of Congress.

The validity of executive orders has been questioned many times dating at
least to the Civil War. However, a ruling as to the extent or limit to which
they may be used has never been determined by the courts or by Congress.

The _Federal Register_ contains the text of executive orders issued by the
presidents. There is no congressional authorization required, nor is there
any review by the judiciary. All executive orders are "laws" made by a
single man -- the president of the United States.


-----------------

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003


Newsgroups: alt.society.civil-disob
From: feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel)
Subject: Re: Americans Computerized by FEMA
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 92 23:43:25 GMT
Organization: DAFCO: OS/2 Software Support & Consulting


Latest Executive order info:
-------
EOs Relevant to FEMA
EO #	Description

10222	Poviding for Certain Transfer to FCDA
11490	*** Revoked by EO 12656 ***
11179	Providing for National Defense Executive Reserve
11795	Delegating disaster relief functins pursuant to DRA of 1974
12127	FEMA
12148	FEMA(has been amended by EOs 12155,12156,12319,12536,12379,12381)
12241	National Contingency Plan
12656	Assignment of Emergency Preparation Responsibilities
12657	FEMA Assistance in Emergency Preparation Planning at Com NPP
12658	Presidential Committee on Cataclysmic Nuclar Accidents
12673	Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance delegation
12742	National Security Ind. Responsiveness

EO Sources of Information

GPO Publications available from:
Superintendent of Documents(1-202-783-3238) 
US Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C. 20402

Codification of Presidential Proclamations and
  Executive Orders, April 1945-January 20, 1989
069-000-00018-5	32.00
	(EOs to 12553)

Code of federal regulations, 1989
[no stock number or price found]
	(EOs 12623 to 12662)
Code of federal regulations, 1990
869-011-00002-9	11.00
	(EOs 12663 to 12698)
Code of federal regulations, 1991
869-013-00002-1	14.00
	(EOs 12699 to 12741)
Code of federal regulations, 1992
869-017-00002-7	17.00
	(EOs 12742 to 12787)

INFOTRAC:	Many newspaper articles found under keywords FEMA
		and EXECUTIVE ORDERS

-- 
=======================================================================
To Date Casualties of The Government's latest Jihad (the War on Drugs):

	4th, 5th, 6th, 8th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

Expected Casualties:

	1st, 2nd, 7th, 9th & 10th Amendments.

Newsgroups: alt.activism
From: plains!lmt.mn.org!county!alexa@uunet.UU.NET (Dave Alexander)
Subject: FEMA Bungling
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: LaserMaster Technologies, Minneapolis, MN
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1992 03:01:03 GMT

The following is from a right wing tabloid called the Spotlight. While I
disagree with most of what they stand for, I do believe this is important.

-- Alex --

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       HELP BUNGLED AND DISORGANIZED

                    By Martin Mann and George Nicholas
                        Exclusive to The SPOTLIGHT


Washington, DC -- One after another, two violent, cataclysmic disasters
struck the United States in the fall of 1989.  Hurricane Hugo roared
through the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the Carolinas in September.
Within weeks, northern California was shaken by the Loma Prieta earthquake
that left hundreds of thousands of victims and billions of dollars in
damage in its wake.

     Having spent "over $25 billion on setting up FEMA," American taxpayers
were entitled to expect "quick and efficient help" from it in the face of
such shattering calamities.  But the response by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) to these upheavals was "bungled" and
"disorganized," says Ray Groover, who reported on the hurricane for a San
Juan, Puerto Rico, newspaper and is now studying for a graduate degree in
journalism at Columbia University in New York.

     Since the Disaster Relief Act of 1988, FEMA has been responsible for
coordinating the "[disaster] preparedness, response and recovery actions of
state and local governments."  Unable to live up to these responsibilities
during the 1989 crisis, the agency drew sharp criticism from the press and
from Congress, whose leaders assigned the General Accounting Office (GAO)
to conduct the first-ever detailed investigation of FEMA.

     For a year, GAO field examiners interviewed hundreds of disaster
victims, state and local relief workers, journalists and other witnesses.
The agency has assembled a 71-page report on U.S. relief operations.

                        WATCHDOG AGENCY RATES FEMA

     Having obtained an advance copy of that survey, a team of SPOTLIGHT
reporters found that the congressional watchdog agency rated FEMA's ability
to deal with natural disasters as being "inefficient," "weak" and
"dilatory."

     Noting that "emergency management includes  three phases:
preparedness, response and recovery," GAO probers warned that FEMA failed
to operate "as efficiently as possible" in all these areas.

     There was evidence of "inadequate planning ... inadequate or no
standard operating procedures ... [and a] lack of coordination" wherever
FEMA's bureaucrats intervened, the GAO report concluded.  Among the results
of these botched relief attempts were "delays in providing disaster
assistance and duplicate payments for some [of FEMA's] activities," the
congressional overseers discovered.

     One example of FEMA's failure cited by the GAO survey team involved
4,000 low-income units wholly destroyed in California's devastating October
1989 earthquake.  "Thirteen months later, only 114 units had been processed
and approved for [rehabilitation] funding," the report reveals.  Similarly,
10 months after Hurricane Hugo, most of the families left homeless "had not
yet been provided with housing assistance from FEMA."

                           DIRECTORS SHELL GAME

     Warned that the GAO report will expose FEMA as incompetent and
wasteful, President George Bush fired agency Director Julius Becton, an
elderly three-star general, whose principal qualifications for flag rank
was Henry Kissinger's wish to promote "minority" officers, Defense
Department sources say.

     Becton was replace by Wallace Stickney, a former New Hampshire state
official whose colorless and low-profile reputation is expected to dampen
the fireworks the GAO report might otherwise touch off about the inadequacy
of federal relief operations.

     But simply shifting directors "does not answer the real question:  If
[FEMA officials] seem uninterested and negligent when it comes to disaster
response, what are FEMA's thousands of bureaucrats working on?" asked
Groover.

     The answer, a SPOTLIGHT investigation has found, is that FEMA's
leadership is developing programs that will not merely "[ensure] the
continuity of the federal government in any national emergency-type
situation," as decreed by President Gerald Ford in Executive Order 11921,
but REPLACE the nation's Constitutional statecraft with a centralized
"command system."


-----------------

Reproduced with permission from a special supplement to _The Spotlight_,
May 25, 1992. This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement
to The Spotlight appears, including this address:

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003
Newsgroups: alt.politics.usa.constitution