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To: illyia who wrote (37467)	9/7/2005 6:04:04 PM
From: cirrus	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 362293

Ruppert is an idiot. FEMA is supposed to "manage emergencies". Katrina was an emergency. FEMA managed it poorly. Why? Perhaps we start with the head of FEMA - a former horse association lawyer with little experience and aptitude for managing crisis. FEMA requires a military type mind with a clear focus to identifying problems and getting assets in place to quickly solve them - damn the torpedos! A horse lawyer who sends memos ain't the answer. Ruppert's article addresses nothing but is designed to stir fear of FEMA to bolster his right-wing agenda.

To: illyia who wrote (37467)	9/7/2005 8:11:20 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362293

MICHAEL RUPPERT I presume you have read CROSSING THE RUBICON, which (having read it thoroughly) I consider to be a remarkable, well reasoned and thoroughly documented presentation. It is very possible for people (such as one of the posters here) to slam Ruppert as a total fool, because they read something that he says (without any knowledge of the context in which he is writing) and it looks pretty ridiculous. However, I would say that I would agree with about 90% of what Ruppert has to say in CROSSING THE RUBICON--a great deal of which is very alarming. The post I made here a day or so ago from Ruppert relied a lot on the knowledge of what he had to say in his book about FEMA--not in the context of disaster recovery, but in the context of how FEMA is ALREADY empowered to take over the operation of the entire country. It only awaits the right "disaster" and the Administration saying--"go to it" and then you have THE COUNTRY RUN BY THE MILITARY, BASICALLY. As Ruppert points out, this is NOT speculation--you just have to be able to locate the empowering legislation, have the ability to read, and then the ability to connect the dots, so to speak. On Tom Flocco--no opinion. I have read a few of his things, but I am not just knowledgeable enough to comment. Namaste! Jim