Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00047)

Bart,

Let me try to get this straight....

Are you telling me that it is NOT allowed by law for the
Director of FEMA to call the Governor of Louisiana and ask
if she wants them to go in and assist the people at the
Superdome?

Or for several high level FEMA officials to go to see the
Governor and tell their concerns about the developing
crisis at the Superdome?

Are you telling me that if you were the Director of FEMA
you wouldn't want to call the Governor and have a frank
discussion about what appears to be the developing crisis
at the Superdome?

I was given the impression more than once both by the words of both 
the FEMA director and the Louisiana governor that they and their 
offices were working in close conjunction with each other.

Furthermore, are you telling us that the Louisiana governor didn't 
request FEMA to come in to assist with the mess in Louisiana? 

Daniel


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl@s...> wrote:
> Daniel H. Caldwell wrote:
> > A day or two BEFORE the hurricane hit the coast, FEMA should AT 
> > LEAST have known about the thousands of people going to the 
> > Superdome. This was covered on all the news channels. And I 
> > remember that the news channels reported BEFORE the hurricane 
> > arrived that the last time people were sheltered in the 
superdome 
> > from a hurricane that there had been unrest and some problems. 
> 
> FEMA was not called in. They would have had to violate the 
law to come 
> in. Now, before you say they should have violated the law, do you 
> believe that George Bush can take over any state government if he 
> believes that the people are in danger?
> 
> FEMA is supposed to assist local government, and only take 
over 
> completely when the local government abdicates. 
> 
> Bart