Tom Ridge finally came out and said that, yeah, there might be some terrorist activity designed to influence the elections. Well no kiddin’, Tom!
This guy drives me nuts. You want Homeland Security? Put me in charge…I’ll show you Homeland Security. People get tax breaks for having bomb shelters. Community emergency/disaster agencies are encouraged. Surplus/out-of-date military equipment gets trickled down to local levels. Every state gets at least one defunct/decommisioned military base to use as a warehouse/staging area for its own emergency/crisis management. Civillians can get military MRE’s and the like at cost. Private organizations all the way from the Boy Scouts to the VFW get options to take special training and become part of the disaster planning. Civil defense shelters are brought back up to snuff. Large businesses are encouraged to provide shelter/supplies for their workers. And not a single wiretap, spycam or no-knock warrant is needed…save that crap for the FBI and other JBT’s. Go to Utah sometime after a blizzard or other disaster and see how preparedness is supposed to work.
I do toy with the idea of somehow getting myself appointed as county OEM/disaster management chief. I’d imagine its mostly an appointed position rather than an elected one, but you never know. Certainly would be nice to know where the county caches its ammo, cots, medical gear and fuel.
If you’re going to go that far, I’d also suggest going back to the days of mandatory service in local militias.
Now, now…none of my proposals infringes on anyones sovereignty. Its all volunteerism and tax incentives.
But nothing you propose centralizes power and resources in your own hands. You don’t understand government at all!
Hunker in the bunker
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I do toy with the idea of somehow getting myself appointed as county OEM/disaster management chief. I’d imagine its mostly an appointed position rather than an elected one, but you never know. Certainly would be nice to know where the county caches its ammo, cots, medical gear and fuel.
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Top floor of the dorms. Thought you knew that.
put whom in charge?
why you want to run a circus? Wildflower
don’t know how it works where you live, but here in Monroe County, WI, the OEG manager, to the best of my knowledge, is appointed by the county board of screwups, oops, i mean supervisors
Just got around to the Commander Zero posts, so I’m catching up over here.
Add something to your list for when you’re HH of HLS, Commander: “…and when I talk about ‘surplus/out-of-date military equipment’, I AM talking about M14’s, damn it!”
Think of all those beauties rusting away or being demilled. People who do that are reserved a special place in hell.