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Sep. 4th, 2005 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dweniusLots of interesting blowback going on these days for the Bush administration, but this article may have slipped by you. It points out that the National Response Plan, signed and put into effect in December 2004, *specifically* directs the feds to take proactive steps in response to natural disasters. The talking points about "the state/local governments didn't ask for help/didn't manage the situation/didn't prepare adequately" that we have been hearing? Pure bullshit. The NRP allows for the suspension of any and all such protocols for events of "catastrophic magnitude", which is sure as hell what we have here.
So, Homeland Security has proven conclusively that it hasn't accomplished jack shit since 9/11 except for a nifty color coding scheme, plus adding a deadly level of bureaucratic incompetence to the operations of FEMA. This NRP is suposed to be the ONE plan for domestic incident response, but it looks like NOBODY got the memo.
In other news, Bush is sending more troops and "several cabinet members" to the region tomorrow. Oh, that's just dandy, cabinet members! I better see Rumsfeld and Rice personally handing out food and/or picking corpses out of the convention center, or WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY THERE?
So, Homeland Security has proven conclusively that it hasn't accomplished jack shit since 9/11 except for a nifty color coding scheme, plus adding a deadly level of bureaucratic incompetence to the operations of FEMA. This NRP is suposed to be the ONE plan for domestic incident response, but it looks like NOBODY got the memo.
In other news, Bush is sending more troops and "several cabinet members" to the region tomorrow. Oh, that's just dandy, cabinet members! I better see Rumsfeld and Rice personally handing out food and/or picking corpses out of the convention center, or WHY THE FUCK ARE THEY THERE?
