by StarmanSkye » Sun Jan 29, 2006 7:40 pm
Darkbeforedawn said,"... shelled it to the ground."<br><br>Eh, WOT?<br><br>Re: Katrina response:<br>Among the many indications of an institutionalized adversarial mindset held by top FEMA and military officials confounding effective, coordinated rescue, relief and recovery efforts, and esp. noteable for its being largely ignored, is the inexplicable lack of even the most basic public information communication provided to the tens of thousands of New Orleans citizens in the aftermath of the disaster. <br><br>it almost impossible to believe this was 'just' an oversight. Certainly, in FEMA's and Homeland Security formulating their disaster-relief plans, the critical need for establishing and maintaining communication channels between and among different government (Fed, state and local), law enforcement, first responder, National Guard/Military and volunteer services officials had to be recognized as a high priority -- as well as the need to keep crowds of displaced citizens and disaster victims informed about what was happening and what they could expect -- in order to prevent widespread panic, anxiety, confusion, or desperation needlessly complicating and obstructing aid operations. This also needed to be a two-way communication, with a process for group needs and concerns to be heard and responded to. <br><br>Much of the failure by FEMA officials to have adequate situational awareness of the dire Superdome and Convention center conditions was due to this abysmal failure. How is it possible that all of the various officials with primary responsibility to provide services and coordinate response, ie. FEMA, law enforcement and military, could have overlooked or ignored this essential function 'by accident'?<br><br>This 'lapse' provides yet more circumstantial evidence that numerous incitements to widespread civil disorder and provocations legitimizing the 'official' doctrine of deadly force were deliberately put in-place by key psyop agents -- as with the unconfirmed reports of 'snipers' that became the justification for deployment of more than 40,000 armed troops who did little more than provide a public spectacle of enforced 'order'.<br><br>The utter lack of courtesy, compassion, and civility shown to the hardest-hit Katrina victims who were overwhelmingly poor and black by a majority of the duly-authorized representatives of local, state and federal government reveals much of the duplicity, hypocrisy and contradiction of American society, in which the democratic ideal of government Of, By and FOR the people has been subverted so that official policies reflect a government increasingly isolated from and actively at-odds with public needs and interests.<br><br>Ah, 'nuff sed.<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>