Beam me up, FEMA. Please!
If you mention Bill Cooper’s name to anyone in intelligence, you’ll get a chuckle or you’ll see their eyes roll. Cooper was a former United States Naval Intelligence briefing team member who went AWOL in the early 1970s after claiming to have learned that the Office of Naval Intelligence had participated in the assassination of President Kennedy. He returned to duty after an unnoticeable amount of time and was able to glean several other very interesting pieces of information from the Navy. He learned that the primary task of the NSA is alien communication and other extraterrestrial projects, that the CIA controls most of the world’s illegal drug markets, and that a Polish chemist, who manufactured cyanide and sold it to the Nazis for use in Auschwitz, later became the pope, Pope John Paul II.
Before Cooper was killed - as much by his own paranoia as by the Apache County Sheriff’s office in Phoenix, who shot him dead on his own front lawn when he used a small hand gun to resist arrest - he posited conspiracy theories so complex, so threaded and so convincing that even today they quickly turn chuckles and rolling eyes into tight lips.
Cooper had a theory on FEMA. He believed that FEMA was created in advance of the New World Order which is to emerge on some apocalyptic day to handle alien beings and the nasty little threat they may pose to the public. While FEMA was established to take control of local, state and federal government in the case of a national emergency, Cooper believed there was more to it. He believed the alien threat was just an excuse by the ruling elite to set up the agency; their real intention, he said, is to use the agency as a means to suspend the constitution and seize world power.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was the twinkle in President Kennedy’s eye when, in 1962, he signed Executive Order 11051 establishing national preparedness for “war,” “general war,” and “eminent attack”. Then in 1969, what would later become FEMA was actually conceived when President Nixon signed Executive Order 11490, an order that superseded Kennedy’s by replacing the phrases “war,” “general war,” and “eminent attack” with the clause “during any emergency that might conceivably occur.” In 1979, when Carter signed Executive Order 12148, effectively combining several government agencies that had been acting independently to protect the public from many types of disasters, FEMA was born.
Cooper’s reasoning was simple: because FEMA will assume control of all levels of government during a national disaster, it will act outside the constructs of the US constitution. The president would declare a national state of emergency and FEMA would take over. The constitution would have to be suspended and martial law declared. In with the ruling elite, and bring on them aliens!
We’ve learned recently how ill-prepared FEMA is for rescue and relief. I too roll my eyes at Cooper’s theories, but after such a display of ineptitude on the part of FEMA and initial apathy on the part of President Bush, I'm beginning to wonder if we wouldn't be better off with the aliens. On the face of it, FEMA is the same type of towering and teetering layer cake covered with icing that our intelligence community proved to be after 9/11: many agencies, very little coordination and a lot of cover-up.
At its outset, FEMA absorbed many agencies and activities, including the Federal Preparedness Agency of the General Services Administration, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, the Federal Insurance Administration, the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD, the National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program, and the civil defense responsibilities from the Defense Department's Defense Civil Preparedness Agency. What a mess!
In 1993, President Clinton put James Witt in charge of FEMA. He was the first director of the agency with state emergency experience. Witt implemented sweeping reforms for disaster relief and recovery operations and re-focused the agency on preparedness and mitigation. According to the FEMA website, the end of the Cold War allowed Witt to redirect agency resources from civil defense to disaster relief. Witt tried to do the right thing, shaped it up, made FEMA what he thought it needed to be. Piece of cake.
But let me beat this metaphor to death. In March of 2003, FEMA was rolled in with 22 other federal agencies and organizations to become part of the Department of Homeland Security. Can you imagine the size of this layer cake? And given that it was set up by the same administration who brought us WMD and the promise of a cheap and easy war, can you imagine how much icing is needed to cover this whole thing up?
Bill Cooper would tell us the creation of the Department of Homeland Security is yet another step toward the formation of the New World Order, that it’s part of a finely crafted plan being put in place to stage a national or perhaps a world disaster that will call for the suspension of the constitution and the declaration of martial law. A “secret” government will come forward, a single world government, coordinated and commanding, protective and demanding. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, well, we’d just take their word for it that they’ve got us covered.
I don’t share Bill Cooper’s belief in the clandestine abilities of our current government. They can’t punch themselves out of a wet paper security briefing folder. I suppose Cooper would tell us that the Katrina rescue and recovery is proof that his theory is right, that all of FEMA’s and the DHS’s funding and planning have gone not into handling little hurricanes, but into what the ruling elite consider a real threat.
Bring on the aliens! Maybe they’ll save us from ourselves.
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Before Cooper was killed - as much by his own paranoia as by the Apache County Sheriff’s office in Phoenix, who shot him dead on his own front lawn when he used a small hand gun to resist arrest - he posited conspiracy theories so complex, so threaded and so convincing that even today they quickly turn chuckles and rolling eyes into tight lips.
Cooper had a theory on FEMA. He believed that FEMA was created in advance of the New World Order which is to emerge on some apocalyptic day to handle alien beings and the nasty little threat they may pose to the public. While FEMA was established to take control of local, state and federal government in the case of a national emergency, Cooper believed there was more to it. He believed the alien threat was just an excuse by the ruling elite to set up the agency; their real intention, he said, is to use the agency as a means to suspend the constitution and seize world power.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was the twinkle in President Kennedy’s eye when, in 1962, he signed Executive Order 11051 establishing national preparedness for “war,” “general war,” and “eminent attack”. Then in 1969, what would later become FEMA was actually conceived when President Nixon signed Executive Order 11490, an order that superseded Kennedy’s by replacing the phrases “war,” “general war,” and “eminent attack” with the clause “during any emergency that might conceivably occur.” In 1979, when Carter signed Executive Order 12148, effectively combining several government agencies that had been acting independently to protect the public from many types of disasters, FEMA was born.
Cooper’s reasoning was simple: because FEMA will assume control of all levels of government during a national disaster, it will act outside the constructs of the US constitution. The president would declare a national state of emergency and FEMA would take over. The constitution would have to be suspended and martial law declared. In with the ruling elite, and bring on them aliens!
We’ve learned recently how ill-prepared FEMA is for rescue and relief. I too roll my eyes at Cooper’s theories, but after such a display of ineptitude on the part of FEMA and initial apathy on the part of President Bush, I'm beginning to wonder if we wouldn't be better off with the aliens. On the face of it, FEMA is the same type of towering and teetering layer cake covered with icing that our intelligence community proved to be after 9/11: many agencies, very little coordination and a lot of cover-up.
At its outset, FEMA absorbed many agencies and activities, including the Federal Preparedness Agency of the General Services Administration, the National Fire Prevention and Control Administration, the Federal Insurance Administration, the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration activities from HUD, the National Weather Service Community Preparedness Program, and the civil defense responsibilities from the Defense Department's Defense Civil Preparedness Agency. What a mess!
In 1993, President Clinton put James Witt in charge of FEMA. He was the first director of the agency with state emergency experience. Witt implemented sweeping reforms for disaster relief and recovery operations and re-focused the agency on preparedness and mitigation. According to the FEMA website, the end of the Cold War allowed Witt to redirect agency resources from civil defense to disaster relief. Witt tried to do the right thing, shaped it up, made FEMA what he thought it needed to be. Piece of cake.
But let me beat this metaphor to death. In March of 2003, FEMA was rolled in with 22 other federal agencies and organizations to become part of the Department of Homeland Security. Can you imagine the size of this layer cake? And given that it was set up by the same administration who brought us WMD and the promise of a cheap and easy war, can you imagine how much icing is needed to cover this whole thing up?
Bill Cooper would tell us the creation of the Department of Homeland Security is yet another step toward the formation of the New World Order, that it’s part of a finely crafted plan being put in place to stage a national or perhaps a world disaster that will call for the suspension of the constitution and the declaration of martial law. A “secret” government will come forward, a single world government, coordinated and commanding, protective and demanding. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, well, we’d just take their word for it that they’ve got us covered.
I don’t share Bill Cooper’s belief in the clandestine abilities of our current government. They can’t punch themselves out of a wet paper security briefing folder. I suppose Cooper would tell us that the Katrina rescue and recovery is proof that his theory is right, that all of FEMA’s and the DHS’s funding and planning have gone not into handling little hurricanes, but into what the ruling elite consider a real threat.
Bring on the aliens! Maybe they’ll save us from ourselves.
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