-Caveat Lector- from alt.conspiracy ----- As always, Caveat Lector. Om K ----- <A HREF="aol://5863:126/alt.conspiracy:508969">"What FEMA Has in Mind" - WorldNetDaily Propaganda</A> ----- Subject: "What FEMA Has in Mind" - WorldNetDaily Propaganda From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) Date: Tue, Mar 23, 1999 12:45 AM Message-id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Dave Bresnahan has been writing a lot of articles about FEMA and about the military exercises that have been taking place across the US in regards to Y2K. Mr. Bresnahan is intentionaly misleading his readership. The following is an example: In an article entitled What FEMA has in mind - Use of military as police force, population relocation http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_bresnahan/19990304_xex_what_fema_ha.shtml Mr. Bresnahan wrote, "FEMA predicts that the magnitude of the disaster 'will rapidly overwhelm the capacity of State and local governments to assess the disaster and respond effectively to basic and emergency human needs.'" Mr. Bresnahan leads his readership to believe that FEMA is referring specifically to Y2K when it speaks of 'the disaster'. The quotation 'will rapidly overwhelm the capacity of State...' comes from http://www.fema.gov/FEMA/esf6.html. The full paragraph reads: "The magnitude of damage to structures and lifelines will rapidly overwhelm the capacity of State and local governments to assess the disaster and respond effectively to basic and emergency human needs. Damage to roads, airports, communications systems, etc. will hamper emergency response efforts. The movement of emergency supplies will be seriously impeded. Many professional emergency workers and others who normally would help during a disaster will be dead, injured, involved with family problems resulting from the disaster, or unable to reach their assigned posts. State, county, and municipal emergency facilities will be severely damaged or inaccessible." That sounds like a general emergency scenario. It is 1 of 12 scenarios that FEMA details including failures in Transportation (ESF1), "National Communication System" (ESF2) etc. ESF6 is not specific to Y2K. In fact the purpose is spelled out at the top of the document. "A. Purpose The purpose of this Emergency Support Function (ESF) is to coordinate efforts to provide sheltering, feeding, and emergency first aid following a catastrophic earthquake, significant natural disaster or other event requiring Federal response assistance; to operate a Disaster Welfare Information (DWI) System to collect, receive, and report information about the status of victims and assist with family reunification within the disaster area; and to coordinate bulk distribution of emergency relief supplies to disaster victims following a disaster" Y2K might be classified under ESF6 but Mr. Bresnahan doesn't allow his readers to judge the matter for themselves. Instead of saying "Here's an ESF FEMA may use to handle Y2K" he quotes an alarming sentence, wrapped in his own hype. "FEMA predicts that the magnitude of the disaster 'will rapidly overwhelm the capacity of State and local governments to assess the disaster and respond effectively to basic and emergency human needs.'" Bresnahan pretends FEMA is referring specifically to Y2K and comes out looking like a hero for informing his readership of the FEMA perpetrated deception when in fact he is the one who perpetrated it upon his readers! Bresnahan pretends to provide source documents. But they turn out to be worthless links. The first is to the main FEMA site (www.fema.gov) which most of his readership won't bother to browse or search. The second is to a dead- end link that won't allow readers to get to the source document he quotes from. One of the ideas Bresnahan puts forward is that FEMA has population relocation in mind. To those of the wacko mentality this undoubtedly strikes a cord of fear as they envision FEMA rounding up all "gun-loving Christians". But as he notes, the FEMA document he pulls this from indicates that they are prepared to handle up to 300,000 total! That isn't even a drop in the bucket of the American population. The recklessness of Bresnahan, in this one article, calls in question everything he's written till his "facts" and "sources" can be verified. His liberality with the facts on such an important subject make his work worthy of tabloid journalism. Speaking of perpetrating deception upon your readership. WorldNetDaily recently had an article admiting that one of their regular "columnists" in fact was only a hoax. Read the details here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_goldman/19990312_xcsgo_sl_goldman.shtml David M. Bresnahan, a contributing editor for WorldNetDaily.com, is the author of "Cover Up: The Art and Science of Political Deception". 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