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[quote:8bac5]The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is a Cabinet department of the federal government of the United States that is concerned with protecting America's people from harm and its property from damage. This department was created primarily from a conglomeration of existing federal agencies in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.[/quote:8bac5]

[quote:8bac5]Homeland security or homeland defense is a neologism referring to domestic governmental actions justified by potential guerrilla attacks or terrorism. The term became prominent in the United States following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, although it was used less frequently before that incident.

Such domestic governmental actions include:

* Emergency mobilization, including volunteer medical, police, and fire personnel
* New domestic surveillance and spying efforts, particularly with respect to immigration, transportation, military installations, and utilities
* Secret arrests and detentions
* Infrastructure protection
* Border control
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[url=http://rawstory.com/news/2005/July_2005_article_reveals_Red_Cross_told_poor_Your e_on_your_o_0902.html:8bac5]Revealed: New Orleans told poor: 'On your own'[/url:8bac5]

[url=http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm:8bac5]Red Cross Barred by Homeland Security][/url:8bac5]
[quote:8bac5]"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.[/quote:8bac5]

TGB! your right, the State Government did fail on some levels, but to say that the Federal Government is immune to any criticism is an obvious sign of your blind support for your own party and your un-willingness to challenge your own ideals or even put things into perspective. The US Government on a Federal and State level failed in a big way, 100 Billion dollars (Which we don’t have.) and possibly ten-thousand dead (Mostly poor people who didn’t have means to leave.) FEMA is part of Homeland Security; FEMA has to run through Homeland Security not the other way around. Besides FEMA is run by a Bush crony who has been criticized before.

Michael D. Brown
[quote:8bac5] In January 2005, U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler publically urged President Bush to fire Brown, citing reports that FEMA disbursed $30 million in disaster relief funds for Hurricane Frances to residents of Miami, Florida, a city which was not affected by the hurricane. Brown admitted to $12 million in overpayments, but denied any serious mistakes, blaming a computer glitch. Wexler repeated his call in April to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, citing new reports that FEMA sent inspectors with criminal records of robbery and embezzlement to do damage assessments.
In the aftermath of 2005's Hurricane Katrina being named an "Incident of National Significance", Brown was named the Principal Federal Official and placed in charge of the government's response by Homeland Security Director Michael Chertoff. CNN is reporting increasing anger filling the region due to what seems like complacency and tardiness from FEMA, coupled with an unsympathetic response from Director Brown, who lays some of the blame on the victims for their suffering.
In a September 3, 2005 editorial, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd called Brown a "blithering idiot" for not being aware that 15,000 hurricane victims were stranded in the New Orleans Convention Center, after this had been widely reported. [11][/quote:8bac5]
[url=http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/politics/12554958.htm:8bac5]Unlikely Background[/url:8bac5]

TGB! About the school busses let’s see you send a fleet of buses out of a city that’s already in the processes of a mass “exodus” while Gas stations are swamped full of people trying to get gas, and when did the Mayor call for Greyhound busses? . Besides would you want to sit on a bathroom less uncomfortable school bus five hours to Texas? Plus were would you find these bus drivers? Chances have it a lot of them either left town. And how would get these people together? The plan at the superdome was to get people in so that for one they would be somewhere safe and two so that they could have hub were survivors could come and were the supplies could be given. Obviously if that was their intention it didn’t work out.


TGB! Stop pretending you’re the undisputed overlord of the political forums, people who participate in this forum for the most part find a way to rebut others points of view without acting like some elitist.