Friday, January 18, 2013

Government "preppers"....

No.. there's no reality show for them even in the age of entertainment. Not yet, anyway:

FEMA's deceptive role really did not come to light with much of the public until Hurricane Andrew smashed into the U.S. mainland. As Russell R. Dynes, director of the Disaster Research Center of the University of Delaware, wrote in The World and I, "...The eye of the political storm hovered over the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA became a convenient target for criticism." Because FEMA was accused of dropping the ball in Florida, the media and Congress commenced to study this agency. What came out of the critical look was that FEMA was spending 12 times more for "black operations" than for disaster relief.
It spent $1.3 billion building secret bunkers throughout the United States in anticipation of government disruption by foreign or domestic upheaval. Yet fewer than 20 members of Congress, only members with top security clearance, know of the $1.3 billion expenditure by FEMA for non-natural disaster situations. These few Congressional leaders state that FEMA has a "black curtain" around its operations. FEMA has worked on National Security programs since 1979, and its predecessor, the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency, has secretly spent millions of dollars before being merged into FEMA by President Carter in 1979. 
 FEMA has developed 300 sophisticated mobile units that are capable of sustaining themselves for a month. The vehicles are located in five areas of the United States. They have tremendous communication systems and each contains a generator that would provide power to 120 homes each, but have never been used for disaster relief.  ABTS
At least one thing seems certain, we'll probably never fully know what type of prepping that they're engaged in.  Yet why not, in an age when people are entertaining themselves with imaginary apocalyptic events and so on?  I suspect that according to official reports "preppers" of this sort probably can't be transparent and open source about things for your own good and your own safety. 

Yet government funded warnings about apocalyptic events due to global warming or the next 911 emergency?  They'll probably need to color code and brand their trendy lemmings for that.  (The branding of ownership...  it may sting a little.)

1 comment:

Alex John said...

I pity the poor people who rely on the government to save them in a disaster.Well prepared survival kits should be a necessity for family emergency preparedness.