FEMA’s Catastrophic Failure: Amy LePore on Free the People

Oct 9 2024

https://youtu.be/J1h–ksR6Bc

"As Hurricane Helene brought devastation to Asheville, North Carolina, and surrounding communities, it’s been remarkable how ineffective FEMA and other government agencies have been at helping victims. More galling, government bureaucrats are actually impeding private efforts to offer aid to those in need.

Matt Kibbe sits down with Amy LePore, co-founder ofDissident Media, who explains how the centralization of emergency services after 9/11 has led to an obstructive bureaucracy incapable of responding to the needs of citizens."

Discussion is about how the ROOTS of federal emergency management go back decades to the STAFFORD ACT and how it was the first step in a process that gradually destroyed the ability of local people to develop a community-based approach to disaster management. The Feds promoted the idea that THEY were (and should be) the primary responders to local emergencies. They also made local govt's dependent on Federal funds, thereby corrupting local officials. As a result, those officials then began to see their friends and neighbors as something to be directed and managed during emergencies instead of the community's greatest resource during times of trouble.

The Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act is a 1988 United States federal law designed to bring an orderly and systematic means of federal natural disaster assistance for state and local governments in carrying out their responsibilities to aid citizens. Wikipedia