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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:05 PM
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FEMA: Blueprint for Tyranny
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FEMA: Blueprint For Tyranny
Last year, America was treated to the heavily hyped, blockbuster hit movie 'Independence Day,' which was no more than a third-rate, feel-good production in which an alien invasion was repelled by a president of questionable ability as a trusting populace watched and hoped.

The disaster theme has been carried even further by several widely promoted offerings such as 'Twister,' 'Volcano,' and the TV miniseries 'Earthquake,' based on experiences in California. In February of this year, the television miniseries 'Asteroid' was shown on NBC, following a months-long barrage of blurbs. In the first few minutes of this four-hour drama, a primary hero was established. He was the one man who had the power to marshal the resources needed to save the Earth. He was the Director of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

How do you spell 'conditioning?'

In 1984, Davenport, Iowa, suffered a '100-year flood' with the downtown area under several feet of water. The people had chosen not to build protection against the Mississippi River, citing $20 million cost and concerns that a flood wall would block a scenic view of the river. Underlying their decision may have been a hope that if losses were massive enough, a benevolent federal government would rescue them. And so it came to pass, they begged part of a $10 billion bailout package. FEMA got the credit.

Emergencies and disasters, major and minor, occur every day. So shouldn't a caring federal parent protect and rebuild? On the surface, that seemed to be the thinking of President Richard M. Nixon when his admin-istration conceived the beginnings of FEMA. For a generation, the government and the people had been concerned with invasion, and then nuclear attack. As those threats ebbed and the Cold War era passed, the violent demonstrations attendant to the Vietnam War caused Nixon to refocus emergency powers inward. Domestic unrest was the target; the American people were thereafter to be seen as a greater threat.

Those who thought a president's power to be closely limited received a shock when, in the early 1970s, Nixon froze all wages and prices in a doomed attempt to break an inflationary spiral. Ironically, the agency which preferred to remain low profile had its 'outing' with Florida's Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

more at: http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/the_new_world_order/163636.html

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Angry Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:15 PM
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1. Fascinating! Rec'd!
From the article also:

"A point to dwell on is that those underground facilities with which FEMA is not today directly involved will fall under its control the moment a national emergency is declared."

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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 02:58 PM
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2. A FEMA blueprint for tyranny?
First they'll have to get competent.
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katty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-22-05 06:38 PM
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3. They ARE competent-when it pertains to COG/that is their
Executive Order Directive
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