FEMA Head: Lawlessness Not Anticipated

Washington Post

WASHINGTON -- The head of the federal disaster relief agency said Friday it's "heartbreaking and very, very frustrating" to witness the virtual anarchy in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and defended the Bush administration's response.

Interviewed on several network morning news shows, Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, blamed emergency assistance delivery problems on "the total lack of communications, the inability to hear and have good intelligence on the ground about what was actually occurring there."

Appearing on ABC's "Good Morning America," the FEMA director said he "never thought I'd see" the lawlessness that has overtaken the city and interrupted emergency relief efforts.

It is time to get real people

With cutbacks in law enforcement, increasing gangs, millions of federal law breakers e.g. illegal aliens and people pushing political correctness, unfortunately I am not a bit surprised.

If a situation similar to this such as the recent threat of the tsunami in Oregon, I would highly expect the same situation. People that do not care about the law are not going to change their beliefs to help others. They are going to see it as an OPPORTUNITY for personal gain.

As Greenspan found out five years ago when he was playing with the interest rates, the world has changed, things happen faster now than what they used to it and you can not go by the same old same old any longer.

As Ross Perot once said, "when the president looks out his window from the Oval Office, he sees trees and a green lawn. From his point of view, everything looks wonderful. What he does not see is the homeless people sleeping on the benches across the street."

This is also true for state government as well.