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For those who have an interest in what the Federal Emergency Management
Agency does and is up to, I submit the following consolidated
information for your review and information.
Where I work here in Atlanta, FEMA is setting up what is most likely the
Southeast Regional Headquarters in a building next to mine.  It is a
huge five-story building with a brand new diesel generator behind it.
Roger Cravens
SYSOP
South East Signals Intelligence Group
Special Intelligence Team
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Some people have referred to it as the "secret government" of the United
States. It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public
disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of
dollars. This government organization has more power than the President
of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws,
move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant
and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies,
transportation systems, and can suspend the Constitution.
Not only is it the most powerful entity in the United States, but it was
not even created under Constitutional law by the Congress. It was a
product of a Presidential Executive Order. No, it is not the U.S.
military nor the Central Intelligence Agency, they are subject to
Congress. The organization is called FEMA, which stands for the Federal
Emergency Management Agency. Originally conceived in the Richard Nixon
Administration, it was refined by President Jimmy Carter and given teeth
in the Ronald Reagan and George Bush Administrations.
FEMA had one original concept when it was created, to assure the
survivability of the United States government in the event of a nuclear
attack on this nation. It was also provided with the task of being a
federal coordinating body during times of domestic disasters, such as
earthquakes, floods and hurricanes. Its awesome powers grow under the
tutelage of people like Lt. Col. Oliver North and General Richard
Secord, the architects on the Iran-Contra scandal and the looting of
America's savings and loan institutions. FEMA has even been given
control of the State Defense Forces, a rag-tag, often considered
neo-Nazi, civilian army that will substitute for the National Guard, if
the Guard is called to duty overseas.
THE MOST POWERFUL ORGANIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Though it may be the most powerful organization in the United States,
few people know it even exists. But it has crept into our private lives.
Even mortgage papers contain FEMA's name in small print if the property
in question is near a flood plain. FEMA was deeply involved in the Los
Angeles riots and the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in the San Francisco
Bay Area. Some of the black helicopter traffic reported throughout the
United States, but mainly in the West, California, Washington, Arizona,
New Mexico, Texas and Colorado, are flown by FEMA personnel. FEMA has
been given responsibility for many new disasters including urban forest
fires, home heating emergencies, refugee situations, urban riots, and
emergency planning for nuclear and toxic incidents. In the West, it
works in conjunction with the Sixth Army.
FEMA was created in a series of Executive Orders. A Presidential
Executive Order, whether Constitutional or not, becomes law simply by
its publication in the Federal Registry. Congress is by-passed.
Executive Order Number 12148 created the Federal Emergency Management
Agency that is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil
defense planning and funding. An "emergency czar" was appointed. FEMA
has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national emergencies,
the bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of secret
underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a
major emergency, foreign or domestic. Executive Order Number 12656
appointed the National Security Council as the principal body that
should consider emergency powers. This allows the government to increase
domestic intelligence and surveillance of U.S. citizens and would
restrict the freedom of movement within the United States and grant the
government the right to isolate large groups of civilians. The National
Guard could be federalized to seal all borders and take control of U.S.
air space and all ports of entry.
Here are just a few Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would
suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. These Executive Orders
have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the
stroke of a Presidential pen:
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes
of transportation and control of highways and seaports.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control
the communication media.
   * EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take over all
electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
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