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.
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, Obama’s 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 Department of Homeland Security graduated its first class of FEMA Corps first-responders, “Homeland Youth”. 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, 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 are not 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 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.
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 armed 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 athttp://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 Obama and the US federal government preparing for? 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 is more like the arming of the Hitler Youth than an army of first responders fighting forest fires and hurricanes.
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9 comments:
Why would Obama need to create a FEMA army of youth when he is already the commander in chief of the actual Army?
And it's all so far on the DL that even Fox doesn't know about it?
Thank goodness for email forwards...
Wow, this hasn't been covered by any news orgs, not even *gasp* FOX NEWS! Well then it must be true!!!!
We constantly hear from Wayne LaPierre and his fellow NRA kooks about the need to be armed in order to take on the hoards of murderous gangs who are apparently going to start roaming this country at any minute (probably arriving via the southern border en masse, if Wayne is to be believed). Perhaps Obama is just taking good old Wayne's advice and making sure that he has a personal army for protection from these mysterious gangs? You can't be too careful these days, there's a lot of crazies out there with access to firearms.
"should sound alarm to all Americans"
"you also will likely also be horrified"
This from the same group that wants to make English the official language.
Broken English, I presume.
We have a term for kids aged 18-25. They are called adults.
I know there is so much misinformation it would take forever to correct it all, but why would they call a group of people over 18 "Youth?"
We don't call our enlisted soldiers "Army Youth" and that's the age most E1-E5s are.
Wow, this one comes close to winning the award for rightwing cognitive dissonance on steroids. OTOH, we the NRA & the gunz 'n ammo industries constantly pushing numbskull gun nuts to buy, buy, buy more & more & more gunz 'n ammo bc booga booga scary scary NObamma's gunna steal everyone's gunz 'n stuff.
But then when there's a natural disaster like Hurricane Sandy, it's all Nazi FEMA camps & Hitler Youth Brown shirts with gunz, ammo & big bad-ass tanks 'n stuff.
WTF? This one really jumps the shark, but I guess 2 points for nifty invocation of Godwin's law. Hitler seems to be everywhere these days, including -as Hillary Rodham Clinton so kindly pointed out to us last week - over there in Roooskie-land where Putin - gasp! - protected his assets and compared to Hitler for doing that.
zzzzzzzzzzz....
Somehow Godwin's law ain't working so much for me these days, but I think this clanger can be summed up by the usual rightwing email forward favorite sobriquet: BE VERY AFRAID!!!!111!!!
Someone who is fearful is much more easily manipulated and brainwashed, as we've noticed.
This e-mail is right, there is a group of Americans being misled and brainwashed by propaganda, misinformation, and their own naivety. However we seem to disagree upon the adherents of that group…
"Horrors of FEMA Relief" by Chuck Norris.
Gosh. Gotta be a KKKlasic.
Yeah, I'm so naive & brainwashed by my lack of tv & refusal to listen to almost any "nooz" on the radio, that I am misled into NOT believing this insane nutty hogwash.
What's that I hear off in the distance??? Must be black UN helos comin' ta git us! whomp whomp whomp....
Aieeeee, where's Chuck Norris & Ted Nugent when you need 'em??
This is so over the top that even the most afflicted by Poe's Law tinfoil-hat type has know it's BS.
As I have some far-right acquaintances and family ( my own RW-dad among them ) I get to know them and get a definite sense that they know most of this stuff is malarkey, but they go along with it in the name of some wingnut solidarity against a common and hated enemy. ( anybody to the left of them )
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