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Repo · 06-09-05, 10:02 AM

There is a lot to be learnt from Hurricane Katrina, first and foremost is you better have enough supplies and plans ready for the next disaster whether natural or one due to terrorism because the Department of Homeland Security is slow and inept and if you rely on them you are sure to die...

The big elephant in the room is the National Guard. The National Guard is trained to handle disasters, if the National Guard and their equipment is overseas fighting in foreign wars; they can't help the very people they were trained to help. Some will say that they can bring in National Guard units from other states, which may be true, but people die in the time it takes to get those out of state units into the disaster area and they are unfamiliar with the region. Time is crucial in disaster relief and waiting for another state's National Guard is deadly; men, women, children and babies died in Louisiana and Mississippi because their National Guard is deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is criminal to hijack a state's National Guard to use overseas and deny the residents of Louisiana and Mississippi the people that trained to rescue them in times of an emergency. Congress needs to pass a law making it illegal effective immediately to deploy state National Guard units outside of the United States or it's territories. If the regular army isn't big enough to fight its wars then enlarge it but don't be stealing the National Guard from it's own citizens. Katrina proved that not having first responders immediately available to keep law and order results in chaos. The National Guard is more important in a disaster than many people realize. When Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida the Homestead police were at each other’s throats in revolt. Many Homestead police left the force to be with their families in their time of need. Reports on television said that about 50% of the New Orleans police deserted after Katrina hit. When police flea, it leaves the remaining officers with an impossible task to keep order, only the National Guard can help and they have to be deployed immediately not days later...

When will officials understand that when emergencies strike communications systems fail? Communications failed in 9/11 and television reports said communications failed after Katrina struck. Maybe it is time the Department of Homeland Security comes up with a communication system especially devised to work after a disaster, of course that could prove difficult because as we have all seen the Department of Homeland Security doesn't work after a disaster...

After seeing the pathetic job the Department of Homeland Security has done following Hurricane Katrina in regards to keeping civil order, evacuating residents and caring for them, just imagine if you will the Department of Homeland Security after a terrorist detonates a nuclear bomb in a major U.S. city. It would probably be pretty much the same chaos experienced in New Orleans with the added pleasure of radiation poisoning causing all the people to lay in their own diarrhea while choking on their own vomit. The Department of Homeland Security knew Hurricane Katrina was on the way, they knew the levies could not take a major category 4 hurricane, they knew there would be massive flooding but yet they never had a plan to deal with the consequences. We now know how the Department of Homeland Security works when they know a disaster is on the way; one can only imagine how they would handle a disaster they didn't expect...

About the only thing the Department of Homeland Security can do good is give a press conference. I've seen them they are very good. They are great at spinning words too. I thought the press conference/photo-op in the aircraft hangar of President Bush, FEMA head Michael Brown, Alabama Governor Riley and Mississippi Governor Barbour was so nicely done it looked like an old Dockers commercial. Nice to see the boys dropped the suits for some casual wear during the disaster...

The Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and his gopher Michael Brown did an unbelievably poor job and we have learned from past experiences that can only mean one thing, President Bush will give Chertoff and Brown medals just like he gave all the other people that bungled their government jobs...

06-09-05, 10:02 AM	#1
Repo Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Posts: 123	And What Have We Learned???... There is a lot to be learnt from Hurricane Katrina, first and foremost is you better have enough supplies and plans ready for the next disaster whether natural or one due to terrorism because the Department of Homeland Security is slow and inept and if you rely on them you are sure to die... The big elephant in the room is the National Guard. The National Guard is trained to handle disasters, if the National Guard and their equipment is overseas fighting in foreign wars; they can't help the very people they were trained to help. Some will say that they can bring in National Guard units from other states, which may be true, but people die in the time it takes to get those out of state units into the disaster area and they are unfamiliar with the region. Time is crucial in disaster relief and waiting for another state's National Guard is deadly; men, women, children and babies died in Louisiana and Mississippi because their National Guard is deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is criminal to hijack a state's National Guard to use overseas and deny the residents of Louisiana and Mississippi the people that trained to rescue them in times of an emergency. Congress needs to pass a law making it illegal effective immediately to deploy state National Guard units outside of the United States or it's territories. If the regular army isn't big enough to fight its wars then enlarge it but don't be stealing the National Guard from it's own citizens. Katrina proved that not having first responders immediately available to keep law and order results in chaos. The National Guard is more important in a disaster than many people realize. When Hurricane Andrew hit South Florida the Homestead police were at each other’s throats in revolt. Many Homestead police left the force to be with their families in their time of need. Reports on television said that about 50% of the New Orleans police deserted after Katrina hit. When police flea, it leaves the remaining officers with an impossible task to keep order, only the National Guard can help and they have to be deployed immediately not days later... When will officials understand that when emergencies strike communications systems fail? Communications failed in 9/11 and television reports said communications failed after Katrina struck. Maybe it is time the Department of Homeland Security comes up with a communication system especially devised to work after a disaster, of course that could prove difficult because as we have all seen the Department of Homeland Security doesn't work after a disaster... After seeing the pathetic job the Department of Homeland Security has done following Hurricane Katrina in regards to keeping civil order, evacuating residents and caring for them, just imagine if you will the Department of Homeland Security after a terrorist detonates a nuclear bomb in a major U.S. city. It would probably be pretty much the same chaos experienced in New Orleans with the added pleasure of radiation poisoning causing all the people to lay in their own diarrhea while choking on their own vomit. The Department of Homeland Security knew Hurricane Katrina was on the way, they knew the levies could not take a major category 4 hurricane, they knew there would be massive flooding but yet they never had a plan to deal with the consequences. We now know how the Department of Homeland Security works when they know a disaster is on the way; one can only imagine how they would handle a disaster they didn't expect... About the only thing the Department of Homeland Security can do good is give a press conference. I've seen them they are very good. They are great at spinning words too. I thought the press conference/photo-op in the aircraft hangar of President Bush, FEMA head Michael Brown, Alabama Governor Riley and Mississippi Governor Barbour was so nicely done it looked like an old Dockers commercial. Nice to see the boys dropped the suits for some casual wear during the disaster... The Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and his gopher Michael Brown did an unbelievably poor job and we have learned from past experiences that can only mean one thing, President Bush will give Chertoff and Brown medals just like he gave all the other people that bungled their government jobs...