Posted on 11/01/2012 8:17:36 AM PDT by Candor7
October 7, 2012Share Homeland Security graduates first Corps of Homeland Youth
October 7, 2012.
Vicksburg.
The federal government calls them FEMA Corps. But they conjure up memories of the Hitler Youth of 1930’s Germany. Regardless of their name, the Dept of Homeland Security has just graduated its first class of 231 Homeland Youth. Kids, aged 18-24 and recruited from the President’s AmeriCorp volunteers, they represent the first wave of DHS’s youth corps, designed specifically to create a full time, paid, standing army of FEMA Youth across the country.
On September 13, 2012, the Dept of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps youth, aka the Homeland Youth. Image courtesy of DHS.gov. On September 13, 2012, the Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders. While the idea of having a volunteer force of tens of thousands of volunteers scattered across the country to aid in times of natural disasters sounds great, the details and timing of this new government army is somewhat curious, if not disturbing.
DHS raising an armed army
The first problem one finds with this ‘new army’ is the fact that they are mere children. Yes, 18 is generally the legal age a person can sign a contract, join the military or be tried as an adult. But ask any parent - an 18, 20 or even a 24 year-old is still a naïve, readily-influenced kid.
The second problem with this announcement and program is its timing. Over the past two years, President Obama has signed a number of Executive Orders suspending all civil and Constitutional rights and turning over management of an America under Martial Law to FEMA. Also in that time, domestic federal agencies under DHS, including FEMA, have ordered billions of rounds of ammunition as well as the corresponding firearms. Admittedly, these new weapons and ammunition aren’t to be used in some far-off war or to fight forest fires in California, but right here on the streets of America.
Strange Armored Fighting Vehicles
Individuals around the US have begun reporting the site of strange, new, heavily-armed FEMA fighting vehicles. What would a disaster relief agency like FEMA need with 2,500 brand new GLS armored fighting vehicles? According to the agency’s own mandate, as well as President Obama’s recent Executive Order, the answer is ‘population control’ during a time of Martial Law.
One set of images made available by Rense.com shows trailer after trailer carrying these new DHS and FEMA armored fighting vehicles, complete with machine gun slots. They’re labeled with the usual backward American flag and the title, ‘Homeland Security’. Below that and the DHS logo, it also reads, ‘Immigration & Customs Enforcement’. Joining those markings, the black vehicles with white lettering also display ‘POLICE/RESCUE’ on one side and ‘Special Response Team’ on the other. DHS & FEMA armed fighting vehicles. Images courtesy of Rense.com.
FEMA Corps
FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino gave the keynote address at the ‘Induction Ceremony’ for the inaugural class of FEMA Corps members. According to the DHS website, ‘Corps members assist with disaster preparedness, response, and recovery activities, providing support in areas ranging from working directly with disaster survivors to supporting disaster recovering centers to sharing valuable disaster preparedness and mitigation information with the public.’
Serino describes what the first FEMA Corps class has accomplished so far, as well as where they’ll be going next:
‘Yesterday, we welcomed 231 energetic members into the first ever FEMA Corps class. The members just finished off their first month of training with our partners at the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) and are one step closer to working in the field on disaster response and recovery. They will now head to FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness to spend the next two weeks training in their FEMA position-specific roles. Once they complete both the CNCS and FEMA training, these 231 dedicated FEMA Corps members will be qualified to work in one of a variety of disaster related roles, ranging from Community Relations to Disaster Recovery Center support.’
A standing army
Unlike most local disaster response teams who are volunteers, training periodically and only showing up when there’s a disaster, the FEMA Corps will be a paid, full time, standing army of government youth. FEMA Deputy Administrator Sarino goes on to explain, ‘The new members, who range in age from 18-24 years old, will contribute to a dedicated, trained, and reliable disaster workforce by working full-time for ten months on federal disaster response and recovery efforts.’
In closing his announcement of the first graduating class of FEMA Corps Youth, Sarino describes his and the agency’s vision of the future, one where ‘FEMA Corps sets the foundation for a new generation of emergency managers’.
DHS arms itself
As we detailed in the August 28 Whiteout Press article ‘History of DHS Ammunition Purchases’, federal emergency management agencies are looking more and more like a military army every day.
The federal government’s procurement website actually lists DHS’ requests for bids to supply it with ammunition and military weaponry. All of the orders listed in the above article, including the orders for hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, are publicly available at http://www.fbo.gov.
One look at a chart of DHS ammunition purchases over the past decade reveals a drastic spike in orders of bullets recently, totaling in the billions of rounds. Other charts available online show a similar drastic spike in the purchases of accompanying weaponry by the Department of Homeland Security.
What is the US federal government preparing for? And why does it feel it needs an army of brainwashed youth, millions of guns, thousands of armored fighting vehicles and literally billions of rounds of ammunition, just to provide relief to the American people during a natural disaster? Any historian will tell you it sounds more like the arming of the Hitler Youth than an army of first responders fighting forest fires and hurricanes.
Good read:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html
The Youth Corps is made up of the inner-city tribal parasites exhibited in NY and NJ and on Twitter, where when disaster strikes, they see it as their RIGHT to go take Whitey’s stuff, ‘cause they’re not there and it’s FREE!
Or......Put red kerchiefs around their necks and have them sing that song that Obama kids sang in a campaign ad this week and we will be Young Pioneers, part deux
Darned scary stuff...
Probably more like the Young Pioneers of the Soviet Union...........
Let’s hope they are out of a job after Romney’s inauguration.
THIS is the danger of not knowing history. This is the track ALL leftism takes, but there are so many that think it “couldn’t happen here” or that WE can MAKE socialism work in THIS country.
Make no mistake- the leaders on the left always- ALWAYS- knew what they were doing and just WHO would make the best “useful idiots”. And you can thank John Dewey and the Dept of Ed and the teachers’ unions for the rest of the damage.
This election HAS to be about more than just kicking an incompetent administration out of its can. It HAS to be a complete and total repudiation of leftism. We deny this at our utmost peril.
Ten minutes after he takes the oath, just after he finishes signing all the Obamacare waivers, this is the next thing Romney must kill.
The Obama Corpse becomes reality.
(Just think about the 1.2 billion hollowpoints DHS has stockpiled for these miscreants)
"Tomorrow belongs to me!"
So this is what happened to those fine upstanding youths that were pledging their alliegance to Obama in that video right after the election.
The next step in Obamacare for all the boomers who can no longer carry the 47%...
Euthanasia, not only legal, IT’S THE LAW!
Stuffing ballot boxes, trashing Romney signs, protecting Valarie Jarret, etc.
Not much wonder that Romney is intimating he will pass FEMA role over to the States.
This has the left’s panties all in a twist, they are using it as a talking point against Romney on the MSM talking head news.
I hope they are issued a sky-blue beret. It will make is so much more satisfying when eliminating the domestic threat. Additionally, it will make target acquisition easier.
If the feds were serious about "disaster response and recovery" they would have recruited older, experienced people with the kinds of skills, abilities and experience that would enable them to get the job done without needing On-Job-Training.
Squads of young people like this sounds more like the kinds of youth squads that black despots throughout Africa use to prop them up and control dissenters.
Defund, Disband and Deprogram. Then charge, prosecute and execute the instigators of this mess.
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