04 October 2024
I wasn't far away when it hit, so I'm not making this up.
I wonder how many of you recall how FEMA did things in response to Hurricane Katrina, 2005. It was a nasty, brutish response, insisting that the victims who had some shred of initiative and responsibility for themselves be rendered utterly helpless. No, I'm not referring to "means testing", but rapacious confiscation of everything that anyone managed to come up with on their own, and destroying what could not be taken.
In one case, a particular county spent their own money fixing a broken communications cable so they could restore comms with the outside world and coordinate relief. FEMA came along and cut the cable again -- on purpose. The sheriff was interviewed, weeping on camera about how he had to post armed guards on the area because, after repairing it again, FEMA came back out to cut it again.
And then there were whole truckloads of donated aid that FEMA routed away from disaster areas (where roads were clear) to staging areas where they could take full control and post armed guards. They then proceeded to deny access to those donations for many local government agencies. Further, when those governments managed to arrange for aid they actually knew they needed, FEMA would keep them from getting it, insisting that only FEMA could decide who needed what.
Private rescue operations were shut down by armed threat, especially those operations FEMA was not equipped to do themselves. You may have heard of house-to-house private arms confiscation in areas where looting was a major threat, armed National Guard troops ordered to keep people confined in that sports dome, etc. In those days, I reviewed online courses for FEMA volunteer training; it followed that same exact script. The first priority was rendering everyone utterly helpless, and refusing to provide available resources until they were fully under control and confined to wherever FEMA wanted them.
Six months after Katrina, FEMA coordinators came around and tried to convince my local church to agree to become a local FEMA emergency facility. For example, the church would house FEMA's thugs with medicines in case of a pandemic. Everyone in the area would have to come to this church and be processed by FEMA or not receive any medical aid. They would further block the roads to prevent people leaving the area.
So, now you have claims that FEMA is doing it again in places like eastern Tennessee. Folks on social media are warning that federal agencies are confiscating resources, blocking roads, etc. A chorus of denials from FEMA officials and their partners in the Tennessee version of FEMA (TEMA) serve only to confirm for me the likelihood that these complaints are true. They haven't changed. They are the same assholes they always were. The government hates you and I.
Would you like to know why it will take months to restore power to TN, NC, etc.? All of our spare transformers in the US inventory were shipped to Ukraine. Want to know why FEMA is broke and has very little money for the disaster? They are still blowing it on helping illegal immigrants enter and become comfortable here in the US.
Guess what? It's not finished. There's two more hurricanes brewing in the Atlantic. Yesterday there was a second solar flare, a big one. The first one from the other day already kicked a CME our way, arriving later today sometime. This second one produced a much bigger and faster moving CME, enhanced by a stout solar wind already streaming at us. Expect the pretty fireworks again with auroras far to the south. Meanwhile, the current estimate is that we have a high probability of substantial network outages and maybe even more transformers destroyed by the mass of charged particles entering our atmosphere.
I hope I'm wrong, but the one thing of which I am certain is that our government hates us. I have always known that since the day in my early 20s that I put on the military uniform, and discovered that it was part of my duty to be ready to kill ordinary Americans for very little justification.
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