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 Federal Emergency Management Agency    | |
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| Parent organization | US/Department/Homeland Security |
9/11
In early 2001, when George W. Bush took office, FEMA warned that a hurricane hitting New Orleans would be the deadliest of the three most likely catastrophes facing America; the others were a massive San Francisco earthquake and a terrorist attack on New York.[1]
FEMA had scheduled Operation TRIPOD for September 12th, 2001, at Pier 92. As Rudy Giuliani testified to the 9-11/Commission: "The equipment was already there, so we were able to establish a command center there, within three days, that was two and a half to three times bigger than the command center that we had lost at 7 World Trade Center"[2]
Concerns
FEMA has been severely criticised for their heavy handed approach to dealing with Hurricane Katrina.[3]
Events carried out
| Event | Location | Description |
|---|---|---|
| National Level Exercise 2009 | Australia Canada US Mexico UK | NLE09 was a White House-directed, Congressionally-mandated large scale "terrorism" prevention and preparedness exercise. Held July 2009 |
| REX-84 | US | Scenario and drill developed by the United States federal government to detain large numbers of United States residents deemed to be "national security threats" in the event that the president declared a National Emergency (martial law). |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noam Chomsky | “I mean, look, there’s a lot of, I think there’s a lot of excessive concern in activist groups about state repression. So take, say, there’s paranoia about concentration camps. You know, they’re gonna lock us up, NDAA says they can detain us indefinitely. Concentration camps have been there since the 50s. Back in the 1950s the liberal Democrats, Humphrey and Lehman, introduced legislation to set up internment camps in case people got out of control. I don’t know, I never followed to see what happened but I know the legislation was passed. But they can’t do anything about it...And if they try they’ll arouse popular reaction. So power really is in the hands of the governed if they’re willing to use it.” | Noam Chomsky | May 2012 |
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References
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20081202222205/http:/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/warnings-went-ignored-as-bush-slashed-flood-defence-budget-to-pay-for-wars-505500.html
- ↑ http://911research.wtc7.net/cache/wtc/groundzero/prisonplanet_longdebunked.htm
- ↑ http://www.wanttoknow.info/femafailureskatrina
