What happens to us when the next disaster hits?

[DoYouEverWonder]

We can't not afford to wait three more years under BushCo to find out.

The Federal Government has failed miserably to perform their one, most important job, keeping Americans safe.


"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."


What is worse is that this was not just a failure because of incompetence and/or insurmountable circumstances. It was a deliberate failure. It was planned at the highest levels and this plan for the most part has been kept secret from the American Public.


http://www.newamericancentury.org/defensenationalsecurity.htm


Anyone who would implement a plan that deliberately withholds aid and assistance during a major catastrophe, obviously is not acting in the best interest of the American People. Only monsters could treat their fellow Americans in such a deadly way.

If this is how they treated us, imagine what it has been like in Iraq for the last 3 years. There is a reason why in a country the size of Texas, with about the same population about 25 mil, BushCo can not maintain law and order. Because they don't want to. It is not in their best interest. Just like it was not in their best interest to bring food and water to 1000's of people trapped in the NOLA flood.

So just think, if it was not in their best interest to even provide the most basic necessities to other Americans in desperate need for help, what will they do next time? And what are we going to do about it?

[bryant69]

1. This is confusing - but one assumes deliberately so

Still having a citation and having a citation that proves your point are two different things.

The fact that the Project for the New American Century exists does not directly prove that the Administration deliberatley fucked up the relief efforts in New Orleans.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Their response to the NOLA disaster

has been in the works for decades and the PNAC and the people involved are the ones behind this response. The PNAC link is just a jumping off point, but if you read their plan and the other writings of famous PNACers like Michael Ledeen, it proves that their whole philosophy is based on destabilizing the world and letting lots of people kill each other. What happened two weeks ago is just a taste of what they would like to see more of.

[bryant69]

3. I don't agree with that

I disagree with PNAC but I think they are bastards enough without making up stuff about them.

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Then why do they continue to fail to lead on purpose?

This has been their pattern of behavior since BushCo took power in 2000.

Look at their response to the 9-11 Attack. Not a single person in the high command reacted appropriately until after the Pentagon was attacked and even then the response was less then adequate.

Look at the Anthrax Attack, again 4 years later and we still have no clue.

Look at Afghanistan, still no Osama but the poppies are blooming again.

Look at Iraq, a country the size of Texas with only 25 million people and we can't maintain law and order only because BushCo/PNAC doesn't want to.

So now look again at NOLA and the first week of the disaster. Again BushCo, just like on 9-11 deliberately avoided even acknowledging there was a problem for as long as possible. I think I see a pattern of behavior here and an institutionalized philosophy that is extremely anti-American. These people didn't just turn into monsters overnight.

[dbt]

4. Cheney gets even richer,

provided that he lives!

:evilgrin:

Remember New Orleans

[jokerman93]

5. It's all very clear - but is there sufficient will yet?

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies
In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

:patriot:

Citizen J

[marshall]

7. Implement the Galveston plan nationwide

The reason Houston was able to kick in so quickly with buses, drivers, shelters, supplies, and human assistance is because they enacted the plan that was designed for a Galveston area hit. I say FEMA should find out how it was written and how it was implemented and duplicate it nationwide.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. That might make sense

but when did BushCo ever do anything that makes sense?

Actually, they had a plan, it's was called the National Response Plan. The only problem is that they didn't implement it. All the plans in the world won't do anyone any good if the Government decides to ignore the plan when the time comes.