From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: [alt.society.civil-liberty et al] FEMA and Hurricane Andrew - Forwarded post
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 09:30:34 GMT

A repost from alt.politics.bush,alt.conspiracy,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.activism:

From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
Subject: FEMA and Hurricane Andrew - Forwarded post
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 04:41:27 GMT


I'm forwarding this article that I got from the Paranet conference. You
may find it interesting.

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Message #856 - P_PLOTS 
   Date : 28-Aug-92  2:01
   From : Clark Matthews
     To : All
Subject : FEMA's Florida Fiasco

The scope of the catastrophe in South Florida is only now becoming apparent to
folks in the rest of the country -- and amid the terror and the confusion,
angry complaints are being heard from Florida state and local emergency
authorities.

The complaints are about the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  FEMA --
remember them?  The $25 Billion agency with 20,000 employees -- only 260 of
whom coordinate disaster relief!???

Kate Hale, Dade County Commissioner of Health, called a press conference today
to warn that additional casualties due to dehydration and communicable
diseases are likely unless supplies of water, baby formula, and sanitation
equipment are dispatched to the Florida disaster zone.

Roger Peterson, FEMA's Deputy Director (and the only agency official to show
his face on camera) responded with the following:  FEMA has budgeted $50
Million in disaster relief for South Florida (total damage estimates:  $20
Billion).  The problem is being handled.  Local authorities are WRONG.

Off camera, Dade County officials said privately that FEMA's actual response
has been practically nonexistent.  The three agency officials who actually
DEAL with local Florida authorities basically told the Floridians to "Sit down
and shut up" in the best Bush Administration tradition.

With arrogance that is virtually unbelievable -- and with thinly veiled
threats of a direct takeover -- the FEMA commissars are providing stunning
example of what may be in store for the rest of us, each Region in its turn. 
Is this, then, to be the American New Class?  A nomenklatura of covert
operatives, central planners, National Security State types, and ambitious
local collaborators.

The agency has bigger fish to fry than getting water and food to the 250,000
homeless hurricane victims, of course.  Much closer to FEMAs real mission is
the media blackout and telecommunications/broadcasting/martial law shutdown of
Northern Idaho (to allow the off-camera "handling" of a cabin full of white
supremacist tax protesters).

Long-term, other important agency missions include: Implementing the new,
centrally directed Emergency Broadcast System (EBS) with the FCC [the last
sounds you hear as a free citizen of this republic will be these:  "We
interrupt this broadcast at the request of the White House."].  Also, the
creation of computer dossiers for all Americans through the good offices of
the National Security Agency at Ft. Mead, MD.  These dossiers [to support
asset seizures and internment of "radicals"] contain collated government and
private property records, gun registrations, census data, political data and
commercially available lifestyle info.

I hope everyone will consider writing their Congressman and/or Senators to
expose FEMA as a feckless sham when it comes to disaster relief -- and a SNAKE
IN THE CRADLE of our democracy.


I don't support everything Liberty Lobby stands for -- but they're the
"leakers of last resort" these days, and they got a draft copy of the GAO
report on FEMA two months ago.  It scares the sh*t out of me, and we're seeing
living proof in Florida that it's all true, and these guys really ARE Nazis.

Here's the little FEMA precis leaked to Liberty Lobby:


(539)   Tue 16 Jun 92 16:08
By: Clark Matthews
To: All
Re: In Case of Emergency ...
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@PID: XRS! 4.5+
What is FEMA?  What's it supposed to do?  And what does it do, REALLY?

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has been a hot topic among
government-watchers and conspiracy buffs for years.  Interest has been growing
ever since 1984 press leaks squelched FEMA's proposed OPERATION REX 84
(Readiness Exercise '84) -- which was planned by Lt. Col. Oliver North of the
National Security Council and delegated to the federal "emergency preparedness"
agency for implementation.  REX 84 included "subversive roundups", suspension
of Habeas Corpus, detention camps, media blackouts and telecommunications
monitoring, control and shutdowns.

Recent natural disasters and civil disorders have left Americans with even more
troubling questions about FEMA, as the heavily funded agency responded slowly
-- or not at all -- to devastating events around the U.S.  Since 1989,
Hurricane Hugo, California's Loma Prieta earthquake, severe costal storms in
the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states, the Chicago flood, and most recently
the Los Angeles riots have all come and gone.

In each of these crises, FEMA's behavior puzzled observers and dismayed
disaster victims.  The agency either avoided involvement in the disaster area
altogether -- instead sending a small, three- or four-person delegation to
present a large U.S. Treasury check to the state or city government).  Or FEMA
confined itself to assisting citizens and businesses with processing insurance
claims and SBA loans -- and by many accounts, even this paper-pushing was done
in a desultory, ineffective way, with many claims remaining unresolved and
unpaid years after the disaster.

But even though taxpayers, professional researchers and Congress have all
watched FEMA with growing curiosity and anxiety for almost 8 years, real
insights into the mysterious agency have been slow in coming and very
incomplete.  That's starting to change, however.

The reason?  Congress's General Accounting Office (GAO) is about to release a
report on FEMA.  It makes interesting reading -- even though its authors admit
that the report is *far from complete*.  And why is the GAO report incomplete?

Because a LARGE, UNKNOWN PORTION of FEMA's budget -- and up to 90% of its
personnel and their activities -- are concealed due to "National Security".

Why did FEMA stay away from American disasters?  Why was it caught flatfooted
by obvious threats like a California earthquake or an East-Coast hurricane,
over 10 years after the agency's inception?   BECAUSE ONLY 260 persons in the
entire agency (which has cost over $25 billion dollars in accountable public
funds since 1978) are assigned to disaster relief.

The rest of FEMA's employees are busy planning for the seizure and shutdown of
communications, transportation, highways, food stocks, manufacturing, shipping,
local law enforcement and many, many thousands of individual citizens.  They
are amply funded with BLACK-BUDGET APPROPRIATIONS from combined Defense
Appropriations Bills.  They are anonymous and concealed from public view by
high security clearances and "Top Secret" classifications of their work.  They
are assembling all governmental, private, and public data for every individual
in the United States, and keying that data to the individual's Social Security
Number.

Is FEMA a blueprint for tyranny?  The following articles provide the answer,
which I think is unquestionably YES.

The larger question, it seems to me, is whether FEMA already represents
tyranny, all by itself.

        Clark Matthews
        The Wrong Number BBS / Home of ParaNet<sm> Plots! Echo
        201-451-3063  24 hrs.


(C) 1992 Clark Matthews


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 * Origin: The Wrong Number BBS - ParaNet(sm) PI (201) 451-3063 (1:107/816)

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I agree with the original poster in that we need to investigate FEMA
and where it places it's priorities. Time to kick over a few rocks
and see what we find.

Don


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