Posted by Jack
Good news! On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. This is a plan to have a large force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural or man made disasters.
Obama is keeping his promise to raise a new army of youth volunteers. Some are concerned the ‘new army’ is almost all 18-24. I know, some of you are also concerned that over the past few years President Obama has signed a number of Executive Orders suspending some civil and Constitutional rights and turning over management of an America under Martial Law to FEMA, who will also be in charge of the new youth army. Don’t worry about it, there’s no connection! You have the assurances of the President himself.
Also, a few of you are concerned that domestic federal agencies under DHS, including FEMA, have ordered billions of rounds of ammunition as well as the corresponding firearms. [Reference given below] Admittedly, these new weapons and ammunition will on be used for peace-keeping purposes like fighting forest fires in California. So don’t worry, everything is fine.
What about those strange Armored Fighting Vehicles Individuals around the US have begun reporting? Again, only to be used for peaceful purposes. They are heavily armed FEMA fighting vehicles for disaster relief. 2,500 brand new GLS armored fighting vehicles have just been purchased. According to the agency’s own mandate, as well as President Obama’s recent Executive Order they may also be used to control crowds during times of Martial Law and since we’ve never had martial law imposed, don’t worry about it, all is fine.
One set of images made available by Rense.com shows trailer after trailer carrying these new DHS and FEMA armored fighting vehicles, complete with machine gun slots. They’re labeled with the usual backward American flag and the title, ‘Homeland Security’. Below that and the DHS logo, it also reads, ‘Immigration & Customs Enforcement’. Joining those markings, the black vehicles with white lettering also display ‘POLICE/RESCUE’ on one side and ‘Special Response Team’ on the other. Pretty cool eh?
FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino gave the keynote address at the ‘Induction Ceremony’ for the inaugural class of FEMA Corps members. According to the DHS website, ‘Corps members assist with disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities, providing support in areas ranging from working directly with disaster survivors to supporting disaster recovering centers to sharing valuable disaster preparedness and mitigation information with the public.’
Serino describes what the first FEMA Corps class has accomplished so far, as well as where they’ll be going next:
‘Yesterday, we welcomed 231 energetic members into the first ever FEMA Corps class. The members just finished off their first month of training with our partners at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and are one step closer to working in the field on disaster response and recovery. They will now head to FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness to spend the next two weeks training in their FEMA position-specific roles. Once they complete both the CNCS and FEMA training, these 231 dedicated FEMA Corps members will be qualified to work in one of a variety of disaster related roles, ranging from Community Relations to Disaster Recovery Center support.’
Unlike most local disaster response teams who are volunteers, training periodically and only showing up when there’s a disaster, the FEMA Corps will be a paid, full time, standing army of government youth. FEMA Deputy Administrator Sarino goes on to explain, ‘The new members, who range in age from 18-24 years old, will contribute to a dedicated, trained, and reliable disaster workforce by working full-time for ten months on federal disaster response and recovery efforts.’
In closing his announcement of the first graduating class of FEMA Corps Youth, Sarino describes his and the agency’s vision of the future, one where ‘FEMA Corps sets the foundation for a new generation of emergency managers’.
As we detailed in the August 28 article ‘History of DHS Ammunition Purchases’, federal emergency management agencies are looking more and more like a military army every day. The federal government’s procurement website actually lists DHS’ requests for bids to supply it with ammunition and military weaponry. All of the orders listed in the above article, including the orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, are publicly available at http://www.fbo.gov/.
One look at a chart of DHS ammunition purchases over the past decade reveals a drastic spike in orders of bullets recently, totaling in the billions of rounds. Other charts available online show a similar drastic spike in the purchases of accompanying weaponry by the Department of Homeland Security. They are getting ready for fires, hurricanes, floods and earthquakes and as you know this takes a lot of ammo,
The Obama Administration understands we needs an army of youth, millions of guns, thousands of armored fighting vehicles and literally billions of rounds of ammunition to provide relief to the American people during an upcoming disaster to be announced later.
It’s also amazing, call it a miracle, this program won’t cost taxpayers a single extra dime:
http://blog.fema.gov/2012/03/announcing-creation-of-fema-corps.html
Yep, progressives continue in their ability to put more stuff in the cart without ever having to pass through the pay window!
So, we now know why all of those Sandy victims are saying they havent seen FEMA at all. The funds went to buy ammo, guns, salaries and training for this youth guard force.
The Sandy victims are getting help from private individuals like the man who bought $50k blankets and had them delivered to a church in Long Island. Another person has filled trucks of supplies and food and had them delivered to churches. People who have power are bringing complete strangers into their homes for a warm meal. The list of individuals and the effectiveness of their help is to long to list, but self-evident of why we should not rely on the govt to care for us in a crisis.
We should all have an emergency pantry with enough food and supplies to last every family member at least a week, if not longer. Lesson learned, do not rely on the govt! Their priorities may not be what is best for the people. It may be spent on guns and ammo instead of food and blankets.
Very interesting. FEMA under Obama has become an extra quasi-military arm of the state. Looking at the conditions following the aftermath of hurricane Sandy, it appears that the new brown shirt FEMA has been pretty much ineffective.
Perhaps if conditions deteriorate to lawlessness, looting, and riots FEMA may deploy their new Obama directed capabilities.
Curiouser and curiouser. We have Harold’s “Obama as an AQ member” post, and Peggy’s impending military coup, and now this.
People … you’re losing it.
I find it sad that at a time when FEMA is actually doing its job, and even conservative governer Chris Christie is praising the president for his handling of this crisis, you feel the need to cast discredit the organization with a dumb conspiracy theory. Talk about exploiting a tragedy for political gain.