-Caveat Lector- ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 21:32:34 EST Subject: SNET: FEMA builds underground fortresses to Protect U.S. President from Civilians Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sent to USCMike1's 8,500+ mailing list - please re-post to your own mailing list) Please click on the blue highlighted hyper-link below or read the following post. Happy New Year, USCMike1 Subj: FEMA: Blueprint for Tyranny Date: 99-01-01 04:31:42 EST From: Knight1747 To: Capt AJ 3, USCMike1 from Media Bypass Magazine <A HREF="http://www.4bypass.com/stories/fema1.html">FEMA: Blueprint for Tyranny</A> http://www.4bypass.com/stories/fema1.html FEMA: Blueprint For Tyranny (Part I) By Roland C. Eyears Last year, America was treated to the heavily hyped, blockbuster hit movie 'Independence Day,' which was no more than a third-rate, feel-good production in which an alien invasion was repelled by a president of questionable ability as a trusting populace watched and hoped. The disaster theme has been carried even further by several widely promoted offerings such as 'Twister,' 'Volcano,' and the TV miniseries 'Earthquake,' based on experiences in California. In February of this year, the television miniseries 'Asteroid' was shown on NBC, following a months-long barrage of blurbs. In the first few minutes of this four-hour drama, a primary hero was established. He was the one man who had the power to marshal the resources needed to save the Earth. He was the Director of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency. How do you spell 'conditioning?' In 1984, Davenport, Iowa, suffered a '100-year flood' with the downtown area under several feet of water. The people had chosen not to build protection against the Mississippi River, citing $20 million cost and concerns that a flood wall would block a scenic view of the river. Underlying their decision may have been a hope that if losses were massive enough, a benevolent federal government would rescue them. And so it came to pass, they begged part of a $10 billion bailout package. FEMA got the credit. Emergencies and disasters, major and minor, occur every day. So shouldn't a caring federal parent protect and rebuild? On the surface, that seemed to be the thinking of President Richard M. Nixon when his admin-istration conceived the beginnings of FEMA. For a generation,$the government and the people had been concerned with invasion, and then nuclear attack. As those threats ebbed and the Cold War era passed, the violent demonstrations attendant to the Vietnam War caused Nixon to refocus emergency powers inward. Domestic unrest was the target; the American people were thereafter to be seen as a greater threat. Those who thought a president's power to be closely limited received a shock when, in the early 1970s, Nixon froze all wages and prices in a doomed attempt to break an inflationary spiral. Ironically, the agency which preferred to remain low profile had its 'outing' with Florida's Hurricane Andrew in 1992. It did not show itself to be very responsive, partly due to the waiting period for local and state governments to appropriate their 25 percent share of funds. Three days after the hurricane, Dade County 'still had not received adequate aid.' Some critics called FEMA inept and useless and suggested that disaster aid be handled by the military. The 'Doomsday Establishment' The 'Doomsday Establishment' dates back to the day in 1949 when the Soviets detonated an atomic device. By the following year, the concept of 'Continuity of Gov-ernment' (COG) had taken hold, based on the logical premise that an enemy must know that a nuclear strike would leave our government sufficiently intact to retaliate and to continue to govern. To enable the highly classified 'COG' program, a number of agencies such as$the federal Emergency Broadcast System were formed, later to be consolidated into FEMA. The day came when great concern was expvessed over the layers of FEMA operations personnel which had been inserted between the president and, without exception, all other federal agencies. It was in that postwar era that construction began on the top-secret luxury bunker beneath the Greenbriar Resort in West Virginia. Hollowed out of the Blue Ridge Moun-tains was the giant underworld at Mount Weather, built to house the president, his cabinet and the Supreme Court justices. Long gone is the day when President Eisenhower's motorcade, speeding towards this Strangelovian bunker,$was stalled by a pig farmer's truck on a country road in Virginia. Mount Weather was barely the beginning. In fact, it is currently undergoing massive expansion. That and over 50 more subterranean installations are today under the cloak of FEMA. In his comprehensive book, 'Under-ground Bases and Tunnels,' published in 1995 by the Adventures Unlimited Press, Dr. Richard Sauder detailed the existence of hundreds of subterranean installations, some vast in scope. Quite a number of official publications, such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' 'Utilization of Nuclear Power Plants in Underground Installations' were found which confirm the existence of such systems. A 1985 report, 'Literature Survey of Underground Construction Methods for Ap-plication to Hardened Facilities,' produced by the Corps of Engineers, concluded that the technology to construct such bases has been in place for some time. The only problem has been financial. In view of the substantial increases in military budgets during the Veagan and Bush years, funding shortages ended in the 1980s. The Rand Corp., a major defense contract-or, has been a major player since its founding in 1948. For years, this firm studied prospective sites for underground facilities and coordinated the efforts of government and private industry to effect construction. A three-volume report issued by the Corps in 1964, 'Feasibility of Constructing Large Underground Cavities,' identified 12 recommended sites around the country. It was, however, pointed out that there is no area in which massive underground centers cannot be built. Not to be left out, the U.S. Navy operates its own 'undergrounds,' as they are often called. One is reportedly located at Sugar Grove, W. Va., from where it allegedly eavesdrops on microwave communications. U.S. News & World Report stated in a 1989 article that FEMA and the Pentagon control some 50 underground command posts designated as possible refuges for the president in time of national emergency. Specifically mentioned were the giant facility at Mount Weather, near Bluemont, W.V., and its alternative at Raven Rock, also known as the Ritchie Facility, near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border. Many of these facilities are equipped to independently support hundreds of persons for months. Some evidence exists that the White House sits on a complex underground installation, constructed in secret over many years. One reliable source relates being escorted to the '17th level' to deliver documents. It was his strong impression at the time that he had not reached the bottom. Dr. Sauder has written of federal officials who stated that from the 1970s a resident, parallel government was in place in the Mount Weather facility. These officials stated that all major federal departments and agencies were represented. The senior officials held cabinet-level rank and were addressed by subordinates as 'Mr. Secretary.' Perhaps more disturbing is the claim that these mirror-image leaders were not bound by conventional terms of office and overlapped administrations under COG. Supplementing Mount Weather are said to be 96 satellite relocation centers within the so-called 'Federal Arc,' that is, within 300 miles of D.C. Jack Anderson wrote in The Washington Post in 1991 of the '$5 billion network of bunkers filled with high-tech communications equipment at secret locations around the country.' At Mount Pony, Cultepper, Va., is the 140,000-square-foot underground bunker of the Federal Reserve System. Constructed in the late 1960s, it is entirely self-sufficient, including cold storage for the deceased. Reportedly, the Fed stores $5 billion in greenbacks there against the need to reissue. A Time magazine cover story in August of 1992 alleged that Mount Pony was being phased out due to 'obsolescence of mission.' This has been described as government disinformation. Dr. Sauder has uncovered authorities who seriously propose bunkers of impressive depth and size. Both the Defense Nuc-lear Agency and Los Alamos National Lab-oratory have discussed$facilities to 6,000 feet underground. A 1984 front-page article in the New York Times featured a plan$to build a massive tunnel housing a missile system, presumably in the western states, which would run 400 miles at a depth of 2,500 to 3,500 feet. A joint report published in 1988 by the U.S. Committee on Rock Mechanics and the U.S. National Commit-tee on$Tunneling Technology proposed a missile system housed at depths of 3,000 to 8,000 feet. A 1981 report by the U.S. National Committee on Tunneling Technology projected as much as 20 million cubic meters of earth and rock to be removed between 1985 and 1995, exclusive of routine civil construction involving the Corps of Engineers. A point to dwell on is that those underground facilities with which FEMA is not today directly involved will fall under its control the moment a national emergency is declared. Acquisitions continue. Several years ago at a cost of $20 million, a Texas oil baron built a residential complex complete with a 60-bed underground hospital at Georgetown, near Austin. When he became financially insolvent, the complex was lost to a savings and loan which was subsequently taken over by unidentified interests. Today, that institution's door is guarded by armed security. Several months ago, FEMA bought the property at auction with our tax dollars. Questions keep arising concerning the agency's 'bunker mentality.' Who is to be protected? And from whom? Certainly, it cannot be the people who would be sheltered. That leaves top government officials and the owners of our country. A full scale nuclear attack has become highly improbable, and a conventional invasion is out of the question.That leaves but one possibility: FEMA's underworld has been created to keep the elite safe from the people. Quiet speculation has built over time regarding the true purposes and practices of FEMA, but there have been scant glimpses at the agency's black ops. In June 1983, Senate investigators became aware of a series of C-130 and C-140 flights destined for Texas. Flight times for these aircraft, together with the installation of troop carrier seats, suggested the secret transport of soldiers into Central America. When answers were demanded, FEMA invoked 'continuity of government' and refused comment. The agency had placed itself above Congress, and not even the Senate Intelligence Committee could determine what was happening. One attempt at an internal audit revealed that FEMA had spent a large, unspecified amount of money on electrical installations in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in San Francisco. Beyond a mention of COG, the agency established to assist in time of floods and earthquakes would explain nothing. The Birth of FEMA If FEMA has a predecessor document, it must be Executive Order 11490 signed by Richard M. Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969. In consolidating emergency functions, this massive 40-page fiat dealt with 21 executive orders and two Defense Mobilization Orders. The document describes, in part, proposals to 'develop plans and procedures for the provision of logistical support to members of foreign forces, their employees and dependents as may be present in the United States under terms of bilateral or multilateral agreements which authorize such support in the event of a national emergency... Further declarations found in Nixon's 11490 cover labor conscription and control of the money supply. In evidence is Department of the Army Memorandum marked 1994 ATKO-KM, dated July 1994 and issued out of Fort Monroe, Va.: 'SUBJECT: Draft Army Regulation on Civilian Inmate Labor Program.' It specifically calls for comments on procedures 'to establish civilian prison camps on inwtallations.' Obviously, some people do not believe the Posse Comitatus Act (delegating authority to county governments in the late 1800s) carries any weight or will be around much longer. Those who$think it can't happen here should restudy recent American history. During World War II, tens of thousands of our citizens, primarily Japanese-Americans, were interned in deplorable conditions while their property was legally stolen from them. Based on Exegutive Order 3066 signed in December 1941, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, concentration camps were hastily built in the western deserts as these people, most native-born, were herded together. Japanese-Americans not on the Wewt Coast were relatively untouched. Yet during the entire war, there occurred not a single documented instance of spying or sabotage by Americans of Japanese ancestry. It is interesting that Executive Order 11490 was not issued as a White House press release, nor was it printed in the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents. Due to reasons of workability, a cloak of secrecy was not feasible. However, this was not a document which was supposed to be readily accessible. Zbigniew Brzezinski, cofounder of the Trilateral Commission and National Security Council Advisor to President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, wrote the master plen together with NSC staffer Samuel Huntington. Four years earlier in Kyoto, Japan, Huntington had delivered a disturbing paper edvocating the end to democracy and its replacement with a 'crisis management' form of government. President Carter's Executive Order 12148, dated July 20, 1979, retroactively made effective July 15,$gave FEMA life. That fiat revoked 13 previously issued Executive Orders, amended 19 others, and cited as authority 13 federal statutes. It should be noted that the great bulk of executive orders deal with matters outside the operations of the executive branch. These presidential edicts become law when published in the Federal Register. It has been the style of some presidents to cite specific legislation as their authority to issue certain executive orders. As de facto legislation without debate and oversight, they are quite unconstitutional. Yet, they stand completely unchallenged by Congress and the high court, the two supposedly countervailing branches of government. Moreover, much of the enabling legislation is plainly unconstitutional and should have no force of law. The reality is that the most marvelous legal document ever to spring from the mind of man, our U.S. Constitu-tion, has been rendered nearly inoperative.Fully realizing that a legitimate bill to establish FEMA would$never survive the legislative process Q given agency turf battles and serious concerns of a handful of congressmen Q Carter creeted the monster with a stroke of his pen. During the 1980s when FEMA was assembling the cumbersome regulations for which bureaucrats are famous, a standard complaint was thet 'FEMA doesn't listen.' Efter an unsuccessful appeal of a costly restriction, Janet Queen of the Home Builders Association of Central Arizona commented,$'A lot of technical data has been given. There's been no answer as to why that information has been discredited. They have only stated it was not accepted.' A consensus was building that the only thing FEMA was not much good was at focusing on its primary mandate. Performance had improved by 1993 when FEMA dealt with flooding across the Midwest. The agency was lauded for moving swiftly, without waiting for guidance from the state or Washington. The reason cited: the director, James Lee Witt, native of Wildcat Hollow and 14 years the Director for Emergency Services for the State of Arkansas, was the sole political appointee. FEMA's duties and responsibilities have expanded geometrically over the years. The egency's name is now found on numerous mortgage documents, especially if land on a flood plain is involved. Flood insurance is a$field which has been taken over by the agency. In 1992 FEMA funded the New England States Earthquake Consortium to-gether with insurance industry groups. In many instances where people were unable to qualify for low-interest loans or reconstruction assistence, free grants of public money were made by the agency. How better to build gratitude while providing disincentives to prepare? In the Midwest, FEMA launched a prototype Geographic Information System to mix commercial and custom software designed to map and analyze data. FEMA is no stranger to the art and science of relocating people, whether or not they want to go. In 1983, a chemical compound thought to cause cancer, dioxin, was found in soil in and around the community of Times Beach, Mo. FEMA engineered a federal buyout and removal of the town's 2,400 residents. But what is the true nature of this seemingly all-purpose agency, which has been given responsibility to save us from quakes, refugee situations, toxic spills, excess rain, home heating emergencies, forest fires, ur-ban riots and the like? This parallel government, as some have termed it, makes no public disclosures and operates largely off budget. Executive Order 12148 authorizes a president or his designate, the director of FEMA, to assume virtually unlimited powers in the event of a civil emergency, defined as 'any accidental, natural, man-caused, or wartime emergency or threat thereof, which causes or may cause substantial injury or havm to the population or substantial damage to or loss of property. Translated, it means FEMA can intervene 'at will.' Although the director of$FEMA was originally subject to oversight by the secretary of defense and the National Security Council, such was not the case for long. One day in the early 1980s, a colleague of this writer attended a joint meeting on the bottom of a five-level deep FEMA installation near Battle Creek, Mich. As the regional director lectured, a USAF colonel half-dozed. But when the speaker explained that in the event of a major civil emergency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff would report to the director of FEMA, the full bird instantly came to life. Eyes shining like those of an eagle, he nearly came out of his chair. By January 1994, when a major quake hit California, the agency had undergone a sweeping reorganization for greater efficiency. After the 750-bed Jewish Home for the Aging of Greater Los Angeles$was de-stroyed (total injuries: one broken hip), FEMA supplied 70 percent of rebuilding costs. At $8 billion the disaster relief package was the largest in history. In San Francisco, the American Conservatory Theater was in shambles; FEMA contributed $9.3$million of the $21.5 million needed to rebuild. The agency then pledged 90 percent of repair costs to communities damaged by the Northridge Earthquake, plus another $44 million to rebuild the state's Palo Alto campus in Northern California. Media lapdogs attributed these successes to the sensitivity$of FEMA Director James Lee Witt. In February 1996, Bill Clinton elevated the director's position to cabinet status. The genie hed emerged from the smoked-glass bottle. Budgets & Guesses Between 1982 and 1992 Congress visibly appropriated to FEMA $243 million for disaster relief and $2.9 billion for 'other purposes.' Informed sources place black operations spending at 12 times the published disaster relief figures. Earlier estimates put FEMA's annual appropriation at something above $3 billion, however a-mounts are buried in Department of Defense 'black operations' requests for funds which are submitted without explanation. 'Seeking Help of Federal Government' was the title of a widely circulated news article which purported to prove that the commercial market was not up to the task of providing adequate loss coverage. In mid-1995, FEMA made the news by requesting a $184 million federal loan while promising a three-year payback. It is a well-settled point of law that the notes and obligations of one federal entity to another carry no legal weight. This could only have been a clever attempt to portray the agency as not excessively fund-ed, mimic more conventional agencies, and appear to be an essential service of a caring government. Such amounts fail to meet the lowest level of plausible deniability, even allowing for spinoff of a small number of operations to the Department of Defense as recommended by the National Academy of Public Administration's 1993 review. The academy further estimated that 27 percent of the previous year's allocations had gone into a dark hole. It has been reported that FEMA distributed $3.4 billion in aid in 1994, while the states dispensed $625 million. On Feb. 10, 1997, the FEMA news desk released the agency's Fiscal 1998 Request to Congress covering Oct. 1, 1997, to Sept. 30, 1998. The total request for $3.3 billion covered a projected 9.7 million man-hours, and includes operating accounts of $374 million. Of the $2.8 billion earmarked for the Disaster Relief Fund, almost $2.4 billion was to address real and estimated requirements for 1997 and prior years. Additionally, a contingency fund of $5.8 billion was re-quested to cover variety of anticipated disasters without specific targeting. The operating accounts contain an allocation of $6.2 million to address certain aspects of the president's counterterrorism initiatives related to 1997. While other monies might later be shifted into this function, the request provides basic notice and justification. FEMA heralds the fact that its request for operating accounts represents a net decrease of $15.2 million from an earlier estimate. In its fiscal 1998 request, FEMA offered what could most politely be termed a gratuitous statement, to wit: 'Over the past 25 to 30 years, the nation's exposure to losses from natural hazards has increased dramatically...' This is apparently meant to loosen purse strings and prevent criticism of agency overreach. However, it prompts two questions. One, has our building technology regressed so as to make our infrastructure more damage prone? Two, are we being told that vis-a-vis all recorded history, the last quarter century in America has sustained most of the bad weather? If the '12 factor' relating to black ops is applied, one might see true FEMA budget topping $33 billion. Who knows? Fourteen congressional committees have claimed limited oversight. However, it is generally admitted that such reviews are rubber-stamp exercises. Can FEMA's real focus be on natural calamities? The congressional watchdog unit known as the General Accounting Office conducted as close a study as possible in early 1992. The finding was that less than 10 percent of FEMA's staff was assigned to deal with major storms, hurricanes and the like. Until media pressure forced the agency to disclose the existence of its Mobile Emer-gency Response Support fleet, not a single MERS had ever been employed in a disaster. These 300 awesome power unit/communications command vehicles capable of self-sustainment for over a month had been deemed far too important to use in the agency's stated mission Q that of helping Americans No rational person would$deny the need of a society for a government. Watchdog-ging it, however, is a different matter. Con-gress has done a particularly poor job of oversight. Even if members of Congress do try to become informed about a pvogram, they may be denied. 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