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I’ll go slow and try to use small words so you can follow…..


Let’s start with your earlier post about the insurrection act – look at the bold (really black letters) for the part you missed/didn’t understand/ignored.

Quelling Civil Disturbances: The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C. § 331 et seq.)

* State and local governments have primary responsibility for quelling rebellions (32 C.F.R. § 215.4(a).

That’s the mayor and the governor

* The President may use the military (including the Federalized National Guard) to quell (1) civil disturbances in a State (upon the Governor's request),

The governor that needed an additional 24 hours to make up her mind

(2) rebellions that make it difficult to enforce Federal law

see above

, or (3) any insurrection that impedes a State's ability to protect citizens' constitutional rights and that State is unable to unwilling to protect these rights.

Both the mayor and the govenor said “all is well!”

* Before committing U.S. troops, the President must issue a proclamation for rebellious citizens to disperse, cease, and desist.

And the local authorities can object, basically vetoing the proclamation

Now, on to some other issues:

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This was declared Aug. 27th, so why the delay?

The Feds had an absoulte Duty to Act, Authorization to Act and Jurisdiction to Act

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The State and city had a hurricane plan – they didn’t follow it.


Louisiana gets more Federal money for Army Corps of Engineers flood control projects than any other state, 1.5 billion dollars but most of it was diverted by state and local politicians to other pork projects instead of NO levies.
Other states and agency had been reviewing the plan since the 90’s and had questioned the workability of it. Shove em’ all in the Superdome was the best they could come up with in 10 years????

Now finally….

The thing you either don’t want to understand or can’t is that FEMA, The Red Cross, The National Guard, even the Police and Fire Departments are reactionary services. This is why they are called responders They are activated after something happens. It’s even in the NO emergency plan not the expect help from FEMA for 72 to 96 hours after (now try real hard here) the event has ended. In other words you don’t stock a bunch of relief supplies in the area where the disaster might destroy them. Ask any emergency worker Fire/Rescue/Medical. One of the first rules in emergency response is to not become a victim yourself.

In any case FEMA is primarily a financial assistance agency They aren’t the one passing out the water and blankets, they are the one who spends tax money to help disaster victims recover financially.

The local rescue personnel, the local and state agencies plus (when the governor calls them out) the national guard are the ones with the water, blankets, food etc.

Finally……..

The National Guard, The US military and FEMA were in Louisiana faster than any other major hurricane, with a greater volume of personnel and materials. In 5 Days- more than 400,000 people were rescued/relocated/evacuated; order has been restored; The Army Corps of Engineers has all but repaired the breaches and begun pumping water out of New Orleans; so far less than 700 people have been killed (who knows how many of those were killed by looters) out of a city population of 448,000.

So, they got there faster, with more support than any other time and yet you still piss and moan.

What the hell do you want?