Mixed Misdirection from FEMA - again

[Coastie for Truth]

From: [e-mail]

Subject: Citizen Corps support for response to Hurricane Katrina

To: All State and Local Citizen Corps Councils
Citizen Corps Program Partners and Affiliates
Regional Citizen Corps Program Managers

Thank you all for your compassion and your interest in helping those in need
following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. To those of you in the
affected area, we send our deepest concern.

At this time, the National Office of Citizen Corps IS NOT conducting a
national call out as was done for the Florida hurricanes last year. Current
activities and plans for next steps are as follows:

FEMA DEPLOYMENTS

* At present, FEMA is deploying ONLY THOSE WHO ALREADY RECEIVED FEMA
SECURITY CLEARANCES AND CREDIT CARDS from their 2004 employment. FEMA has
determined that no recruits can travel or enter into employment without a
satisfactory background investigation. This security check takes
approximately 3 weeks to complete. As such, only recruits hired last year
may be called by FEMA at this time.

* In anticipation of Hurricane Dennis in July 2005, state Citizen
Corps points of contact reviewed and vetted the list of 2700 people who
deployed for the Florida hurricanes in 2004. As a result, 1900 people were
identified as potential recruits for future disasters.

* The FEMA Automated Disaster Deployment (ADD) staff are now calling
ONLY these 1900 pre-identified people to check on their availability for
Hurricane Katrina. NOTE: This means that not everyone who participated in
2004 will be called. If you have any questions about who may be on this
list, please contact your state Citizen Corps point of contact.

* If you receive questions from anyone who was deployed in 2004 or for
Hurricane Dennis, please tell them they SHOULD NOT call the FEMA ADD phone
number or the FEMA Regional Offices. Calling the ADD phone number distracts
operators from the deployment process. Please tell them to simply wait for
their official ADD deployment call and follow instructions. We know this
may be frustrating and it may take awhile for everyone to be contacted, but
THIS IS THE ONLY WAY FOR THEM TO BE DEPLOYED THROUGH FEMA.

THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR'S HURRICANE SEASON -- REDUCING THE POOL OF VOLUNTEERS

[bleever]

1. Like firefighters directed to put kinks in the hoses.

Nominated.

[Spazito]

2. More proof of FEMA and Homeland Security's FUBAR

Thanks for posting it. Here is a thread that is collecting FEMA's refusals, etc. Could you please post this there as well? Thanks!

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001054595

[izzybeans]

3. WTF, security clearance? doublespeak?

[nosmokes]

4. hey now, we can't have no life-saving happening in a

cesspool by people without a security clearance. not in post 9/11 amerika.

[DELUSIONAL]

5. I wonder in all their game playing scenarios of Hurricane "Pam"

they allowed for Homeland Insecurity wanting security clearance for EVERYONE?

So people are dying because of mind numbing fuck-ups from Homeland insecurity --

Put these bastards on trial, Convict them and hang them. Nice and legal. They should be tossed in the middle of the Atlantic and told to swim.

And I am opposed to capital punishment.

So apparently NO SECURITY CHECKS WERE DONE IN 2005!

And these M***er f**kers were told by the scientists that this hurricane season would probably be the worst on record??

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

6. Call me paranoid

But I'm beginning to truly believe that what FEMA is doing is trying to control any news and to suppress the truth of the situation. Is the so-called security clearance to check to see if any of the potential volunteers participated in war protests, have anti-shrub bumper stickers, volunteered for get-out-the-vote efforts, volunteered for the Kerry campaign? I think first and foremost FEMA believes they must protect their reputations and the reputation of the Shrub, saving people is a distant second priority. They are trying to control the body counts. I predict they will say that the majority of deaths happened on Tuesday during the initial flooding. Truth is being "handled".

[MadeinOhio]

7. You bet your ass it is. Its to keep all bad progrsv/liberal/conservatives

Out of the area alltogether, allow only Bushevik worshippers in. :grr: :grr:

Make sure this does not ever stand, the media WILL and can stand their ground and stand for DSM.