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October 5, 2012
Santiago, Chile

You just can’t make this stuff up.

Late last week, a bill HR 6566 was introduced on the floor of the US House of Representatives. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read it.

The bill is entitled the “Mass Fatality Planning and Religious Considerations Act,” and its stated purpose is “[to] amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to require the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide guidance and coordination for mass fatality planning…”

Hmmmm. Homeland Security. FEMA. Sounds like a fun party.

The bill was introduced a week ago, but it took the US Government Printing Office until this morning to actually make the text available to the public.

It turns out that my weeklong wait was for nothing. The bill itself is just a handful of paragraphs that merely reiterates the title… that the cracker jack team over at FEMA should be prepared to respond to mass fatalities in the United States, and to account for religious burial differences.

This is just one of those things that makes the stomach turn: the people who brought us the National Defense Authorization Act (authorizing the detention of US citizens on US soil) now deem it prudent to prepare for mass fatalities on US soil…

Moreover, they’re outsourcing it to one of the most failed government agencies in history.

FEMA, as you may recall, is the same organization that couldn’t get bottles of water delivered to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina… and held up hundreds of seasoned volunteer emergency service workers from entering the city for several days of mandatory sexual harassment training.

I doubt a Soviet boot factory could have botched the job more miserably than that. I can’t wait to see these guys in charge of whatever ‘mass fatality’ event the government is preparing for.

It boggles the mind that this agency still exists… and more importantly, why with so many other problems to deal with, ‘mass fatalities’ is even a topic of discussion at the Capitol.

Whether well-intentioned or not, this strange little bill is yet another telling indication of how the political elite thinks. At best, they’re incompetent and out of touch. At worst, they’re dangerous and sociopathic.

Either way, this ought to be a reminder of what representative democracy really means in the Land of the Free today… and why it’s so important to take control of your freedom.

These people are not the solution. They’re the problem. The real solutions lie within. If you’re not free, you can get free. It just takes a little bit of effort, a reshuffling of priorities, and some rational thinking. More to follow.

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Okay, so FEMA botched the last major catastrophe.... and now we're angry because they're planning ahead should another happen?

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Originally posted by canttakesky:

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Originally posted by Storymark:
Okay, so FEMA botched the last major catastrophe.... and now we're angry because they're planning ahead should another happen?

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They planned ahead for the last one too, but botched it anyway. So does it make sense for them to get an even bigger gig than that last one?

Plus... creepy. Like making a plan in event that we need to resort to eating each other. Creepy.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:

I don't find it creepy at all. In the light of recent environmental catastrophes such as tsunamis, earthquake et al and the capacity for mass casualties due to the existence of WMD, it would seem to me to be appropriate contigency planning.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
So I wonder what you find creepy about contigency planning??

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Originally posted by canttakesky:

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
So I wonder what you find creepy about contigency planning??

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Whenever governments make plans, they like to try them out.

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Originally posted by canttakesky:

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
So I wonder what you find creepy about contigency planning??

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Whenever governments make plans, they like to try them out.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Workplaces have safety plans, fire drills, evacuations procedures.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Again, mass fatalities are not uncommon in this world of ours,

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
So I wonder what you find creepy about contigency planning??

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Of course, that is why we nuked a couple of out own cities...right?

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ST. LOUIS — Doris Spates was a baby when her father died inexplicably in 1955. She has watched four siblings die of cancer, and she survived cervical cancer.

After learning that the Army conducted secret chemical testing in her impoverished St. Louis neighborhood at the height of the Cold War, she wonders if her own government is to blame.

In the mid-1950s, and again a decade later, the Army used motorized blowers atop a low-income housing high-rise, at schools and from the backs of station wagons to send a potentially dangerous compound into the already-hazy air in predominantly black areas of St. Louis.

Local officials were told at the time that the government was testing a smoke screen that could shield St. Louis from aerial observation in case the Russians attacked.

But in 1994, the government said the tests were part of a biological weapons program and St. Louis was chosen because it bore some resemblance to Russian cities that the U.S. might attack.

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
That's a highly paranoid point of view. Do you think everyone in government is a psychopathic lunatic, or just the ones in charge?

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Originally posted by Magonsdaughter:
Coz I can't see where the problem lies.

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