“This is for the coming major terrorist attack for one thing, and then secondly, it will also serve as a place where people could have gone to, when the New Orleans disaster happened. But, it wasn’t there at that time. Hopefully these centers will be in place and fully ready in short order.”
Oh BS!
First of all, the “New Orleans disaster” was caused by the LOCAL GOVERNMENT not following through with their published evacuation plan followed by their refusal to allow outside organizations in to provide relief services.
Second, those who were evacuated were moved to military bases as well as other facilities across the nation.
It’s still needed and it’s long-overdue. It should have been done and a number of them completed *during* the Bush Administration. That’s a failure on Bush’s Administration that it wasn’t done (at least one or two of them, if not more...).
We are going to have a huge number of *refugees* in the coming major terrorist attack and probably one or two or three major metro areas destroyed. We better be prepared. The faster they can build them, the better...
On the New Orleans “disaster”... the disaster was the hurricane itself, which then caused the necessity of removing large numbers of people from the area. Now, whether the removal had problems or not — is not — the issue for the fact that people *had to go*.
It’s *that component* (that they had to go) that is the problem. And so, the fact that an emergency center could be used would have taken a lot of the stress off what I saw in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio (and probably a lot of other areas). They could have been given a destination of one of the emergency refugee camps and “holed up” there until they could be returned to New Orleans or relocated permanently in another part of the country.
That’s how a center like that could have been very helpful in the situation of New Orleans... And, once again, the *disaster* was the hurricane, by itself, and the requirement to move a lot of people to other “living quarters”...
And the fact that some were moved to some military facilities does not — at all — mean that there is *adequate capacity* for a huge disaster such as New Orleans (in terms of that hurricane, and others to come in the future) along with the certain major terrorist attack that is coming upon this nation...
That’s why we need those facilities *as fast as possible*...
Yes, I agree strongly with this. Under the Stafford Act, the feds can only provide what a governor specifically asks for. She did not ask for troops on the ground, portable shelter, power, sanitation, security, transport and housing of displaced people. She basically asked for debris removal and some money.
Even then, these camps sound superfluous and scary. If fedgov wanted to, they could put up a temporary tent city for 10,000 people with kitchens, heat, and sanitation on any suitable ground in under a week.
But permanent designated camps just waiting to be populated? There is no need. I think that if you have a tool you are tempted to use it, and detention facilities (humanitarian detention facilities, with barbed wire to keep miscreants out) just are not needed.
It's a bill in Congress, we can call and write, shine a big light on this.