Posted on 11/01/2012 8:17:36 AM PDT by Candor7
October 7, 2012Share Homeland Security graduates first Corps of Homeland Youth
October 7, 2012.
Vicksburg.
The federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the Hitler Youth of 1930’s Germany. Regardless of their name, the Dept of Homeland Security has just graduated its first class of 231 Homeland Youth. Kids, aged 18-24 and recruited from the President’s AmeriCorp volunteers, they represent the first wave of DHS’s youth corps, designed specifically to create a full time, paid, standing army of FEMA Youth across the country.
On September 13, 2012, the Dept of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps youth, aka the Homeland Youth. Image courtesy of DHS.gov. On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. While the idea of having a volunteer force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural disasters sounds great, the details and timing of this new government army is somewhat curious, if not disturbing.
DHS raising an armed army
The first problem one finds with this ‘new army’ is the fact that they are mere children. Yes, 18 is generally the legal age a person can sign a contract, join the military or be tried as an adult. But ask any parent - an 18, 20 or even a 24 year-old is still a naïve, readily-influenced kid.
The second problem with this announcement and program is its timing. Over the past two years, President Obama has signed a number of Executive Orders suspending all civil and Constitutional rights and turning over management of an America under Martial Law to FEMA. Also in that time, domestic federal agencies under DHS, including FEMA, have ordered billions of rounds of ammunition as well as the corresponding firearms. Admittedly, these new weapons and ammunition aren’t to be used in some far-off war or to fight forest fires in California, but right here on the streets of America.
Strange Armored Fighting Vehicles
Individuals around the US have begun reporting the site of strange, new, heavily-armed FEMA fighting vehicles. What would a disaster relief agency like FEMA need with 2,500 brand new GLS armored fighting vehicles? According to the agency’s own mandate, as well as President Obama’s recent Executive Order, the answer is ‘population control’ during a time of Martial Law.
One set of images made available by Rense.com shows trailer after trailer carrying these new DHS and FEMA armored fighting vehicles, complete with machine gun slots. They’re labeled with the usual backward American flag and the title, ‘Homeland Security’. Below that and the DHS logo, it also reads, ‘Immigration & Customs Enforcement’. Joining those markings, the black vehicles with white lettering also display ‘POLICE/RESCUE’ on one side and ‘Special Response Team’ on the other. DHS & FEMA armed fighting vehicles. Images courtesy of Rense.com.
FEMA Corps
FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino gave the keynote address at the ‘Induction Ceremony’ for the inaugural class of FEMA Corps members. According to the DHS website, ‘Corps members assist with disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities, providing support in areas ranging from working directly with disaster survivors to supporting disaster recovering centers to sharing valuable disaster preparedness and mitigation information with the public.’
Serino describes what the first FEMA Corps class has accomplished so far, as well as where they’ll be going next:
‘Yesterday, we welcomed 231 energetic members into the first ever FEMA Corps class. The members just finished off their first month of training with our partners at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and are one step closer to working in the field on disaster response and recovery. They will now head to FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness to spend the next two weeks training in their FEMA position-specific roles. Once they complete both the CNCS and FEMA training, these 231 dedicated FEMA Corps members will be qualified to work in one of a variety of disaster related roles, ranging from Community Relations to Disaster Recovery Center support.’
A standing army
Unlike most local disaster response teams who are volunteers, training periodically and only showing up when there’s a disaster, the FEMA Corps will be a paid, full time, standing army of government youth. FEMA Deputy Administrator Sarino goes on to explain, ‘The new members, who range in age from 18-24 years old, will contribute to a dedicated, trained, and reliable disaster workforce by working full-time for ten months on federal disaster response and recovery efforts.’
In closing his announcement of the first graduating class of FEMA Corps Youth, Sarino describes his and the agency’s vision of the future, one where ‘FEMA Corps sets the foundation for a new generation of emergency managers’.
DHS arms itself
As we detailed in the August 28 Whiteout Press article ‘History of DHS Ammunition Purchases’, federal emergency management agencies are looking more and more like a military army every day.
The federal government’s procurement website actually lists DHS’ requests for bids to supply it with ammunition and military weaponry. All of the orders listed in the above article, including the orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, are publicly available at http://www.fbo.gov.
One look at a chart of DHS ammunition purchases over the past decade reveals a drastic spike in orders of bullets recently, totaling in the billions of rounds. Other charts available online show a similar drastic spike in the purchases of accompanying weaponry by the Department of Homeland Security.
What is the US federal government preparing for? And why does it feel it needs an army of brainwashed youth, millions of guns, thousands of armored fighting vehicles and literally billions of rounds of ammunition, just to provide relief to the American people during a natural disaster? Any historian will tell you it sounds more like the arming of the Hitler Youth than an army of first responders fighting forest fires and hurricanes.
bfl
Back on Nov 3rd 2002, we have a 7.9 shaker; best one I've ever went through. Holes & faults opened up everywhere, all my furniture was over turned, wood stoves slid 15 foot across the floor, all the copper water,propane, & oil lines broke, even my well head's top blew off and I had a 6 inch geyser hitting my ceiling in the laundry room. Anyway, FEMA showed up in a couple days and everybody was glad to see them as we didn't have access to hardware to fix everything, (roads were closed for over a month,couldn't go anywhere). FEMA consists of a management force, then they borrow maintenance people from all the other fed agencies and send them to the site to help out. All the maintenance trucks from other state & fed departments did all the work. The FEMA people were hardly ever around. They did show up about a month later and had everybody fill out forms to get a loan to replace everything they lost. The loan was never to be paid back from what I heard. Wife and I were teachers at the village and only I and another one Indian family refused to fill out the forms for the handouts. The one Indian Family told all the other Indians "When did White Man ever give ya something and not take more away" ha ha, no joke. So anyway, about a month later everybody got checks for 9 thousand and bought new snowmachines. Everybody but me I guess, ha ha.
I don't get too worried about FEMA anymore, they ain't that good at what they do to begin with, all screwed up like most govt entities. And,,, if ya do have a real disaster, you sure are glad to see them get everything started at getting things fixed up and back to working order.
I. E. US!
Purple = the new RED
Ah, no. At eighteen if they are still being referred to as kid, there is something wrong with the parents. If at twenty-four, then there absolutely is a real issue with parenting.
Great timing. So they must all be in NJ shoveling sand, rebuilding boardwalks and restoring power.
wtf
"We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded [as the military]."
It's always the same with these disciples of Marx, son of the Father of Lies.
Time for DHS to be disbanded......
WHO would make the best “useful idiots”
The left has been undereducating and indoctrinating the blacks for years. They need that poor slave mentality to VOTE Democrat.
Looks like I need to stop putting off that .50 BMG purchase.
DHS is now about the same size as the USMC, and has twice the budget of the USMC. And they are aimed squarely at us. Oh, and they just bought a billion hollow points.
Thanks for sharing the article. I am surprised we are not hearing all kinds of wonderful things from MSM about how these FEMA troops are helping in a huge way with hurricane Sandy cleanup and aid? Also wonder why 0bama didn’t say that everything would be fine, since his private army will be swooping in the help. ?? (/s)
The new Brown Shirt Brigade, how surprising.
>> “I hope they are issued a sky-blue beret.” <<
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But Nostradamas said he saw Blue Turbans...
AND Communism’s “Young Pioneers”
Even if they have fighting vehicles we still have them out-trained, out-gunned, and definitely out-manned.
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