Katrina Commission a 21st Century Idea
A "People's Katrina Commission" -- A 21st Century Solution
Updated Sept 6, 2005
Senators are calling for a "Katrina Commission"...
One wonders how hard the Whitehouse will fight this one.
I wonder if a "People's Commission" on Katrina is what is needed?
It could combine the Internet, using the latest in technology,
and result in the best and the brightest, from around the world
trading ideas and thoughts on preventing future tragedies.
Each time a federal "commission" be it the "911 Commission" back
to the "Warren Commission" there have been accusations of
"cover-up", perhaps an open and frank and uncensored "People's
Commission" is the solution.
The shortsighted thinking of people from all the levels of
government, local, state and federal are being high-lighted to
the world.
FEMA and other agencies are apparently more interested in a turf
war.
Even though many experts are all on record as saying that just
such a disaster was due. The preparation and long term planning
was sadly lacking. Katrina Predicted
Allowing the very politicians, and bureaucrats to "study and
report" on this disaster, is frankly a recipe for future
disasters.
The Whitehouse started, after 911 on a program to put in place
massive disaster plans for terror attacks.
A terror attack would not have days of radar tracking covered on
all the 24 hour news stations.
FEMA's Cheroff, is on record as saying that once they read that
New Orleans "dodged a bullet", a headline that doesn't appear to
have made it to any major papers.
That is NOT the issue here.... what is the issue, simply is
that, once the scope of the disaster was apparent, it still took
days for federal help that was already approved to come in,
started to arrive.
The federal government, Department of Homeland Security and the
President all promised that they would be prepared to protect
against a terror attack, and that they would be ready to help
after any disaster.
We have now seen how empty that promise really was, and is.
Letting the same people whose failures allowed this disaster to
seek solutions to make sure such a failure never happens again
is not going to solve these kinds of problems.
"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility,
provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and
secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity"
are the first words in Constitution of the United States...
today, perhaps it is time for "the People" to stand up and take
some of the burden away from the politicians and bureaucrats.
James Murray