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FEMA'S PURPOSE IS TO PROTECT GOV'T / NOT PEOPLE.
The primary job of the military, FEMA, and Homeland Security is not to protect the American people in times of emergency but to protect the government in times of emergency and keep it functioning: G. Edward Griffin
Hurricane Katrina not only uncovered America's soft underbelly of the poor and disenfranchised but it gave us a glimpse of the real purpose of FEMA and the department of Homeland Security ~ which is to protect the United states government at any cost even at the expense of massive civilian casualties.
This is why the Cheney/Bush administration wants to investigate itself ~ it can't afford to let this cat out of the bag with an independent investigation.
Remember, to the Cheney/Bush administration ~ the real threat to America is not the terrorists ~ the real threat is the American people who just might catch on to the fact that their government has been highjacked by a small group of neocon fanatics whose mission has nothing to do with what the majority of Americans want.
Sound like Germany in the late 1930's ~ well, guess what , it is and, like the majority of the German people who watched with amazement as their freedoms were slowly whittled away ~ the majority of Americans are doing the same thing.
We have seen the future and it should be very unsettling to all Americans ~ particularly in light of the preemptive nuclear strategies of the Cheney/Bush administration and their well documented tendency to adhere only to their own ambitious global Neocon agenda at the expense of not only our national security but the economic well being of all Americans.
Be forewarned ~ The next six months is their window of opportunity, before the mid-term elections, and they will attempt to make the most of it .
Robert Burns , AP, calls it A CREEPING COUP and writes that congress is about to abet this potential doomsday scenario by loosening the legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil.
Allen L Roland
THE CREEPING COUP
PENTAGON, GOP LOOKING TO DUMP RESTRICTIONS ON MILITARY DOMESTIC ACTIVITIES
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CM6FB00.html
ROBERT BURNS AP - President Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil. Pentagon officials are reviewing that possibility, and some in Congress agree it needs to be considered. . .
At question is how far to push the military role, which by law may not include actions that can be defined as law enforcement , stopping traffic, searching people, seizing property or making arrests. That prohibition is spelled out in the Posse Comitatus Act of enacted after the Civil War mainly to prevent federal troops from supervising elections in former Confederate states.
Speaking on the Senate floor Thursday, Sen. John Warner, R-Va., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, said, "I believe the time has come that we reflect on the Posse Comitatus Act." He advocated giving the president and the secretary of defense "correct standby authorities" to manage disasters.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld is reviewing a wide range of possible changes in the way the military could be used in domestic emergencies, spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said Friday. He said these included possible changes in the relationship between federal and state military authorities.
Under the existing relationship, a state's governor is chiefly responsible for disaster preparedness and response. . .
Rumsfeld has not made recommendations to Bush, but among the issues he is examining is the viability of the Posse Comitatus Act. Di Rita called it one of the "very archaic laws" from a different era in U.S. history that limits the Pentagon's flexibility in responding to 21st century domestic crises.
Another such law, Di Rita said, is the Civil War-era Insurrection Act, which Bush could have invoked to waive the law enforcement restrictions of the Posse Comitatus Act. That would have enabled him to use either National Guard soldiers or active-duty troops ~ or both ~ to quell the looting and other lawlessness that broke out in New Orleans.
The Insurrection Act lets the president call troops into federal action inside the United States whenever "unlawful obstructions, combinations or assemblages or rebellion against the authority of the United States make it impracticable to enforce the laws" in any state.
The political problem in Katrina was that Bush would have had to impose federal command over the wishes of two governors Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana and Haley Barbour of Mississippi who made it clear they wanted to retain state control.
The last time the Insurrection Act was invoked was in 1992 when it was requested by California Gov. Pete Wilson after the outbreak of race riots in Los Angeles. President George H.W. Bush dispatched about 4,000 soldiers and Marines.
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