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Congress Seeks To Authorize & Legalize FEMA Camp Facilities

It pays to be a little suspicious & a lot prepared. However, a Freeper posted a pretty realistic reply on the first page of that FR article:

I think that these are legitimate emergency disaster relief camps for a very good reason. Why? Simply a numbers game.

Say Obama orders the military to turn on the people of the United States. About 80% of the US military is Republican. How about “no.”

Police and other law enforcement types? For the vast majority, he’s not their boss and they don’t have to do what he says.

So who’s gonna do it? Bangladeshi 7-11 clerk shock troops? France?

If it was just a riot in a city, like South Central Los Angeles, maybe. But it wouldn’t be Obama putting them in rural camps, now would it?

Now compare this to a disaster like Katrina, or say the big one hits southern California. The logistics of disaster relief are terrible. It takes weeks to do anything. Unless, of course, what you needed was pre-positioned.

Occam’s razor.

....or you can choose to put on a bigger tinfoil hat and shiver yourself to sleep thinking there's a couple g-men under your bed ready to snatch you up and spirit you away to a US gas chamber at any moment.

One part of this that you have missed is that the whole FEMA and natural disaster action is unconstitutional. As stated by Rep. David Crockett (Davey Crockett)on the House floor:

I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much money of our own as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week’s pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.

It is not the responsability of the Fed Gov to do this, it is the responsibility of the States.