by professorpan » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:00 pm
Let's take a step back here, just for a moment.<br><br>If you were in charge of taking care of thousands of people, most of them left with only the clothes on their backs, it would make sense that there would be some restrictions on them in their new environment.<br><br>Name badges? It helps the medical teams in case someone falls ill to document their care. Or if a toddler wanders off, it can help connect that child with his or her parents.<br><br>Food and cooking restrictions? It also makes sense to me. Take a look at military camps. Are soldiers allowed to roam into kitchens, grab whatever they want, and cook it? How about kids' summer camps? Whenever you have a large group of people concentrated in one facility, it would generate chaos if everyone just grabbed whatever they wanted to eat and cooked whatever they wanted. That's why there are mess halls in military facilities, cafeterias in schools, and large, industrial-style kitchens in camps.<br><br>Supplies being routed to a central warehouse? What's nefarious about that?<br><br>Navy blue jumpsuits? Either EMTs, Medical staff, cleaning crews, or any of many other possibilities.<br><br>Cops and National Guard? Why not? Ambulances? For God's sake, I sure hope there are ambulances to take people to get urgent medical care.<br><br>This article does not indicated anything remotely like a genocidal death camp, as some have suggested. It seems to me like a camp set up to keep people safe, fed, and housed.<br><br>I am disturbed that they will not be allowed to leave the premises. That is taking it too far. At the same time, I understand that FEMA doesn't want people just disappearing. If too many people just took off, essentially vanishing, FEMA could become the target of lawsuits and recrimination when children or elderly people disappear. <br><br>And I even understand the concerns about riots over one camp getting steak while another gets rice and beans. These are desperate people, after all -- desperate people act desperately. <br><br>Comparing these temporary shelters to death camps is absurd. At least at this point in time. Remember, the people working at those camps are human beings, not Illuminati cyborgs. Most of them care about the hurricane victims and want to help them, and will react harshly to egregious orders that fly in the face of human dignity.<br><br>One positive outcome to all his hellishness is that we've seen even media mouthpieces for the MSM break down and condemn the treament of displaced human beings as worthless cattle. There is a profound public outrage against how the victims were left to rot in the NO Superdome, and believe me, people will be paying *very* close attention to how the victims are treated in these shelters.<br><br>And before I'm once again vilified as an Illuminati disinfo provocateur, I am very aware of the history of FEMA, and have serious concerns about its extra-Constitutional abilities. I will be watching this situation very, very closely, and will be the first to condemn any mistreatment of the victims.<br><br>But comparing them to Nazi death camps at this point is not only alarmist, but is disrespectful to the people who lived through the Nazi death camps. I know of survivors of the Holocaust who would be appalled at the comparison.<br><br>We'll see how this shakes out. But I would suggest that we watch extremely closely, and reserve the Nazi hyperbole for conditions where it is warranted.<br><br><br><br><br><br> <p></p><i></i>