Homeland Security - NATIONAL RESPONSE PLAN - What a joke

[DoYouEverWonder]

The National Response Plan establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents. The plan incorporates best practices and procedures from incident management disciplines—homeland security, emergency management, law enforcement, firefighting, public works, public health, responder and recovery worker health and safety, emergency medical services, and the private sector—and integrates them into a unified structure. It forms the basis of how the federal government coordinates with state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector during incidents. It establishes protocols to help

# Save lives and protect the health and safety of the public, responders, and recovery workers;
# Ensure security of the homeland;
# Prevent an imminent incident, including acts of terrorism, from occurring;
# Protect and restore critical infrastructure and key resources;
# Conduct law enforcement investigations to resolve the incident, apprehend the perpetrators, and collect and preserve evidence for prosecution and/or attribution;
# Protect property and mitigate damages and impacts to individuals, communities, and the environment; and
# Facilitate recovery of individuals, families, businesses, governments, and the environment.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial_0566.xml


So the Federal Government/Homeland Security has spent billions on Emergency planning. However, has we have seen in the past week their response has been a miserable failure. I think it would be worth digging through their response plans so we can understand how and what failed and to force them to stop passing the buck and trying to blame everyone else for their failures. Might be a good idea to copy these documents before they decide to change them or pull them down.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. Found one good tidbit already

The Plan ensures the seamless integration of the federal government when an incident exceeds local or state capabilities.

Any hurricane, especially a Category 5 hurricane that threats an entire region, exceeds local or state capabilities. This plan claims to ensure seamless integration of the Fed response. We'll now it seems that their only response is to point fingers at the people further down the chain.

[gatorboy]

5. That's what Bush does best....Passing the buck

"Torture in Iraq? I didn't order that...The troops did it on their own."

"WMD's? They're there...That Plame chick's husband was lying."

"Everything else?.....Clinton did it."

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Timely Federal Response to Catastrophic Incidents

Except when the Bush administration take the entire month of August off. Then you are on your own.

[whistle]

4. In parlimentary forms of government, when there is such a....

...colossel failure to properly govern at the federal level, endangering lives, property and stability of a disaster situation, that government must resign and allow an immediate election to take place so that the people can elect a government which will be responsive. This must now happen here in the United States at the federal level. Force the Bush administration to resign along with all of congress and call for a national election this fall. Allow 60 days of campaigning and limit all private contributions and spending on advertising so that a true representation of the people can be established. Fuck the professional politicians! Get them out of Washington DC

[whistle]

3. These are only words on a sheet of paper....there is no intension

...and never has been any intension by the president or anyone from the various cabinets and departments to make Homeland Security anything but a gutless, impotent agency that issues propaganda to the American people for the purpose of creating and supporting the illusion of security and justifying a military state. No money, no accountability, no resources beyond the basic bureaucracy, no leadership, nothing. ALL HORSE-SHIT!

[Lindsay]

6. Well, we've all known for a long time

that BushCo's promises were not worth the paper they were printed on.

I can only hope that the truth is sinking in for everybody else. Especially for the lemming Repugs in Congress. (I'll save my criticisms of the Dems for another time.) Enough of them need to be human enough to realize that Bush has failed this country and needs to go, along with the rest of his hand-picked minions.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. The majority of people have turned against Bush

but he still has his diehard Bushbots who are passing his memes around for him and they continue to do his dirty work.

Look at how the general public is repeating the meme that this disaster is the fault of the Mayor of NO. While Bush issued an emergency order the night before the storm and went back to bed only to continue his vacation for three more days. The friggin' President of the US couldn't even bother to lift a finger until 3 days AFTER the storm and it's the mayor's fault and the general public believes this meme already.