[DMCForum] Re: Katrina Thread

["delorean_3" <delorean3@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not to step on any toes, but I would like to clear up any confusion.  After 9/11, 
FEMA became subordinate to DHS for all intents and purposes 
administratively ONLY.  While it is true that DHS and FEMA worked (and 
continue to work) together on terrorist incident response plans, FEMA itself is 
still an independent organization that basically still functions the same as 
before 9/11.  And even though a terrorist event and a natural disaster, 
depending on the situation, might be seen the same to most people as far as 
scope of damage, lives lost, etc...I can tell you that they would most definitely 
be dealt with in totally separate ways.  For example, if terrorists had 
detonated a nuclear bomb in New Orleans, there wouldn't be all these search 
and rescue missions.  Rather it would probably most likely involve cleanup, 
containment, and retrieval of bodies (since a catastrophic event like that at the 
epicenter would leave almost no survivors and outlying regions would still be 
contaminated by fallout/radiation).  Just my take, but what do I know? :P


--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Marc Levy <malevy_nj@xxxx> wrote:
> FWIW, The reorg post 9/11 puts FEMA under the
> department of homeland security.  So even though a
> natural disaster is not terrorism, it should have been
> handled in the same manor.
> 
> 
> 
> --- content22207 <brobertson@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm a late comer to this thread, but:
> > 
> > Isn't it possible the federal government was simply
> > more razzle
> > dazzled by the new phenomenon of international
> > terrorism than the old
> > drudgery of natural disasters, allowed itself to
> > become distracted,
> > and now has been caught unprepared for the emergency
> > at hand? No
> > nefariousness, but simply planning for contingency A
> > when it needs to
> > respond to contingency B (which I guess constitutes
> > incompetence and
> > negligence).
> > 
> > It is our national shame that so many people are
> > still suffering from
> > a government that has been myopically preparing for
> > only one threat.
> > 
> > A particularly stunning indictment will be if more
> > people died from
> > Katrina than 9/11 (which now stands at well less
> > than 3,000 if memory
> > serves -- actually a failure on the terrorists' part
> > since I'm sure
> > they anticipated double digit thousand fatalities).
> > 
> > I do wonder: what if New Orleans had been wiped out
> > by a terrorist
> > act? Would the national government have responded
> > any differently?
> > 
> > Bill Robertson
> > #5939
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor
> > --------------------~--> 
> > Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make
> > Yahoo! your home page
> >
> http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/HliolB/TM
> >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
~->
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> > 
> > 
> >     DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
>       
>             
> ______________________________________________________
> Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
> http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/

SPONSORED LINKS

Dmc	Dml	Dmc fz10
Dmc fz1s	Delorean part	Dml forte

---

YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS

•  Visit your group "DMCForum" on the web.
   
•  To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
   DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
   
•  Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

---