Katrina Coverage

I'm sure you've all seen the infamous July 5, 1987 Miami Herald article entitled "Reagan aides and the 'secret' government". (Also here or here in case the first link is disappeared) :

FEMA's clash with [Atty Gen. William French Smith] occurred over a secret contingency plan that called for suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the United States over to FEMA, appointment of military commanders to run state and local governments and declaration of martial law during a national crisis.

…"I believe that the role assigned to the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the revised Executive Order exceeds its proper function as a coordinating agency for emergency preparedness," Smith said in the letter to McFarlane, which The Herald obtained. "This department and others have repeatedly raised serious policy and legal objections to the creation of an 'emergency czar' role for FEMA."

Obviously, if their response to Katrina is any guide, FEMA's role as a replacement government is seriously in question. All those tinfoil-wearers should be ashamed of themselves for making up stories about that fine agency.

(And, no, it is not possible that the White House intentionally had FEMA bungle their response in order to get more powers to FEMA so they could eventually declare martial law and establish a police state. Now that would be a conspiracy theory!)

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