FEMA: what's it's 'real' mission?indirectly promoting public confusion

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excerpt from:
http://www.totse.com/en/conspiracy/the_new_world_order/163636.html

In the words of Dr. Henry Kliemann, political scientist at Boston University:

"Those words enunciated by President Gerald Ford in Executive Order 11921, were understood by FEMA to mean that one day they would be in charge of the country. As these bureaucrats saw it, FEMA's real mission was to wait, prepare and then take over when some 'situation' seemed serious enough to turn the United States into a police state."

The General

A closer look at one of FEMA's most influential directors might be instructive. In 1981, President Ronald Reagan appointed as FEMA director Louis O. Giuffrida, a security-obsessed general in the California Na-tional Guard, and veteran of World War II and the resultant Cold War-divided Berlin. While attending the Army War College in 1970, Giuffrida authored a paper advocating the declaration of Martial Law in the event of widespread uprisings by black militants, together with the roundup and incarceration of at least 21 million "American Negroes" into "assembly centers or relocation camps."

Deeply disturbed by widespread protests of the Vietnam War, Reagan did not view the participants as young citizens taking to the streets to petition their government, but as dangerous elements of civil unrest. He established the California Specialized Training Institute in 1971 and installed Giuffrida as its director. During his 10 years at CSTI, more than 27,000 police officials from every state in the union plus 25 foreign nations passed through. "The General," as he insisted on being addressed, personally taught the week-long, highly intense course in civil disorder management. Among course topics were contemporary insurgency, terrorism, control force intelligence and mass arrest procedures. In the course manual, Giuffrida wrote of Martial Law:

"It requires no proclamation, although one is generally made. ... Martial rule comes into existence upon a determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander that civil government must be replaced because it is no longer functioning anyway."

Out of CSTI came the modern Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) team, admittedly an adaptation of long-range search-and-destroy patrol techniques applied to urban America. This is not to suggest that SWAT teams should not exist within each and every major police department. Rather, it is to illustrate the mindset of FEMA's director towards "combat patrols" versus disaster relief.

"The General" further wrote: "Legitimate violence is integral to our form of government. For it is from this source that we can continue to purge our weaknesses." Plainly, Giuffrida was not referring to foreign threats.

In 1982 President Reagan issued National Security Directive 58 (kin to an Executive Order) which enabled Robert "Bud" McFarlane and Oliver North to use the National Security Council to secretly redirect FEMA from an inept, poorly conceived, obscure agency into its current mode.