Disasters, Expectations and Disappointments

Sub­mit­ted by GEORGE MCCLELLAN

Not to dis­count or min­i­mize the sev­er­al extreme­ly destruc­tive for­est fires that plague Cal­i­for­nia from time to time, no sin­gu­lar nat­ur­al dis­as­ter event that occurred in 2024 can match Sep­tem­bers vis­it by Hur­ri­cane Helene to West­ern North Car­oli­na. That storm, first bring­ing its expect­ed rains, high winds and flood­ing to Flori­da with the asso­ci­at­ed dam­age of high tides, was fore­seen and expect­ed. But, the shock­ing lev­el of destruc­tion that that one storm brought to West­ern North Car­oli­na, over thir­ty inch­es of rain, was­n’t. The cities of Asheville, Spruce Pine, Boone, Chim­ney Rock and oth­er small­er vil­lages, fill­ing in recent years with peo­ple escap­ing the grow­ing vio­lence and “wokeisms” infect­ing big cities, stag­gers the imag­i­na­tion.

What is to be learned from this sin­gu­lar dis­as­trous event? First, we real­ize we can aban­don all hope that we can depend on the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment for any­thing but mis­chief! In the hands of incom­pe­tents, it has demon­strat­ed again and again that it is unpre­pared to respond to the imme­di­ate needs of Amer­i­cans in dis­as­ters, the wel­fare of vet­er­ans or the home­less. Their fail­ure to pro­vide in the wake of Helene, amount­ed to a betray­al of the Amer­i­can tax­pay­er. Sec­on­dar­i­ly, we saw it was Amer­i­can vol­un­teers from local com­mu­ni­ties, church­es, the Sal­va­tion Army and mul­ti­ple out­side orga­ni­za­tions that stepped up uncom­pen­sat­ed, to ren­der imme­di­ate aid for the relief of sur­vivors. It was not FEMA or the Red Cross! Vol­un­teerism saw a Michi­gan fire depart­ment show up to ren­der search and res­cue assis­tance, police depart­ments from oth­er states show­ing up with cadav­er dogs to seek bod­ies buried under lay­ers of mud and pri­vate heli­copter pilots imme­di­ate­ly show­ing up to extract strand­ed sur­vivors and deliv­er food and water where they could. The pow­er com­pa­nies from sev­er­al states ral­lied to sup­port Flori­das pow­er loss prob­lems but also North Car­oli­nas. So, where was FEMA? They weren’t there and when they did show up, late, they attempt­ed to direct food and oth­er dona­tions to their sites for dis­pens­ing to assert some lev­el of fed­er­al con­trol to cov­er-up their incom­pe­tence. Pow­er Com­pa­ny’s are the only tru­ly pre­pared orga­ni­za­tions ready to con­front nat­ur­al dis­as­ters. By the way, they use fos­sil fuels to gen­er­ate pow­er, dri­ve their vehi­cles and cook meals.

But the dis­ap­point­ments abound. Bureau­cra­cy has even taint­ed local gov­ern­ments. One pilot was threat­ened with arrest alleged­ly for vio­lat­ing the jeal­ous­ly claimed pro­pri­etary inter­est of a local Deputy Fire Chief if he con­tin­ued his res­cue efforts. That Chief had no author­i­ty to do that, just jeal­ousy. If there was some author­i­ty to make such threats it sim­ply shows there is too many gov­ern­ment reg­u­la­tions. That always results in wast­ed resources. North Car­oli­na’s Nation­al Guard did respond imme­di­ate­ly with heli­copters, earth mov­ing equip­ment and even mobile kitchens but no one ordered out the Army. The Army is being saved to con­front MAGA pro­tes­tors after the elec­tion. Biden’s gov­ern­ment is a clown show. “When a clown moves into a palace he does­n’t become a king, the palace becomes a cir­cus.”

Funds allo­cat­ed by Con­gress to FEMA for emer­gen­cies were instead squan­dered by our Marx­ist gov­ern­ment to trans­port, feed, house and edu­cate the chil­dren of mil­lions of ille­gal alien invaders. What does that tell us? It tells us there is no Con­gres­sion­al over­sight. It also tells us the Biden admin­is­tra­tion is pur­su­ing the Marx­ist rule on how to destroy gov­ern­ments, by over­whelm­ing their resources to col­lapse gov­ern­ments abil­i­ty to serve cit­i­zens and aliens alike. This cre­ats chaos that Pro­gres­sives tell us only they can bring under con­trol if we let them. That’s where total­i­tarism is born. Not to drift from the point but the con­trol of funds by cor­rupt politi­cians, many in Con­gress in league with spe­cial inter­ests, is the main point to be addressed, pri­mar­i­ly FEMA now under the Cab­int lev­el admin­is­tra­tive author­i­ty of Home­land Secu­ri­ty (Ale­jan­dro Myorkus). FEMA should either be sep­a­rat­ed from DHS or Con­gress should re-estab­lish its leg­isla­tive respon­si­bil­i­ty with laws for­bid­ding allo­cat­ed funds to be used for any oth­er pur­pose than that spec­i­fied. This should espe­cial­ly apply to sub­orn­ing immi­gra­tion laws to con­form to the New World Orders agen­da to have open bor­ders world wide.

Remem­ber, free­dom is the goal, the Con­sti­tu­tion is the way. Now, go get ready. (03Nov24)