Comments on: After tornado, FEMA disarms town, turns away help

By: Debunking The DOJ’s Hit Piece, Part 3: Assault on The Second Amendment | Philip Brennan

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 11:42:54 +0000

[...] Hurricane Katrina? The Feds went door to door and illegally disarmed the Public. How about when FEMA illegally confiscated weapons from people after a tornado hit Kansas? How about when Big Sis Janet Napolitano said that “Domestic [...]

By: Debunking The DOJ’s Hit Piece, Part 3: Assault on The Second Amendment :

Debunking The DOJ’s Hit Piece, Part 3: Assault on The Second Amendment : — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:06:35 +0000

[...] Hurricane Katrina? The Feds went door to door and illegally disarmed the Public. How about when FEMA illegally confiscated weapons from people after a tornado hit [...]

By: Lori

Lori — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:13:59 +0000

That is not true. They did take some fire arms, but they were the ones found laying around town, and they were all documented and given back within a week of the storm. My grandpa lives there, so I do know this to be fact. Rescue help was there immediately following the storm, and it hasn’t left since!

By: Jean SmilingCoyote

Jean SmilingCoyote — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:37:46 +0000

I wasn’t there, so I don’t know those facts, but I can tell you the government leaders from Governor Sebelius down to City Administrator Steve Hewitt are leading Greensburg into another potential tornado disaster, but not including a requirement for tornado-resistant construction in the rebuilding plans. If you post the URL I entered in the “Website” box, readers can learn about all the options. “Green building” is 1 part of the comprehensive approach I offered them within 48 hours after the tornado. I got a letter in the Kansas City Star 6/17-18 about this problem. What is wrong with meainstream journalists who’ve seen stories about tornado-resistant construction but aren’t asking the questions of the government leaders about Greensburg?

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:31:23 +0000

I worked in Katrina, and Greensburg. There are some things we all should realize FEMA was put under Homeland Security when Katrina hit and was under the leadership of someone that did not know their job. FEMA is not an insurance policy and many look at them as that. They can not buy our homes or replace all that was lost. If they could we could not afford taxes. We all must have insurance, they are the people we need to attack. Insurance companies have more power than all, they have not paid in Katrina and many other disasters and in Kansas it is costly and you in some areas can’t get flood insurance and look at the cost for health insurance. As for sutting down the town in Greensburg you must get a handle on unaffelated volenteers and donated goods look at Katrina there were tons of donated goods that were dumped in parking lots with no place to go causing more of a hardship. As for disarming the public I was in Greensburg they did not disarm anyone when they found a firearm they secured it and all of the firearms were given back when owners came to clame them. What did you expect them to do leave them where someone could steal them or accidently discharge one. Get your facts before you try to tell everyone what happened.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 21:29:38 +0000

I worked in Katrina, and Greensburg. There are some things we all should releaze FEMA was put under Homeland Security when Katrina hit and was under the leadership of someone that did not know their job. FEMA is not an insurance policy and may look at them as that. They can not buy our homes or replace all that was lost. If they could we could not afford taxes. We all must have insurance, they are the people we need to attack. Insurance companies have more power than all, they have not paid in Katrina and many other disasters and in Kansas it is costly and you in some areas can’t get flood insurance and look at the cost for health insurance. As for sutting down the town in Greensburg you must get a handle on unaffelated volenteers and donated goods look at Katrina there were tons of donated goods that were dumped in parking lots with no place to go causing more of a hardship. As for disarming the public I was in Greensburg they did not disarm anyone when they found a firearm they secured it and all of the firearms were given back when owners came to clame them. What did you expect them to do leave them where someone could steal them or accidently discharge one. Get your facts before you try to tell everyone what happened.

By: Warren

Warren — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 17:07:35 +0000

Funny how I found my Dad’s 3 firearms in the wreckage of his house, a little damp, but not disturbed in any way. I would *HOPE* that if the guns would have been laying on the ground in front of his house, they would have picked them up and kept them for safekeeping. I would have THANKED them.

This story is FALSE. I could tell when it stated ‘FEMA and Local Police….” I know the local police.

By: Dan Clore

Dan Clore — Sun, 27 May 2007 00:33:34 +0000

There’s some recent history that might put this event into perspective:

So, in the case of Katrina, we see that while the government disaster relief effort became a second disaster itself, the Common Ground Collective, an anarchist (or rather, anarchist-leaning, as not all members were necessarily anarchists themselves) relief group organized on anarchist lines (note: anarchists do not oppose organization, they oppose involuntary, hierarchical organization in favor of voluntary, non-hierarchical self-organization) did a good job providing disaster relief.

I suspect that rather than any fears about Kansas Mutual Aid making trouble, this really came from concern that they would do a good job providing disaster relief, with the attendant good publicity for anarchists and anarchism and bad publicity for government.

By: Help not wanted if you're an anarchist - Homeland Stupidity

Help not wanted if you're an anarchist - Homeland Stupidity — Wed, 23 May 2007 17:29:47 +0000

[...] of the anarcho-communist group Kansas Mutual Aid, who traveled to Greensburg May 12 and discovered police keeping out relief workers and seizing firearms, returned to Greensburg on May 19 to provide further assistance to local residents who were [...]

By: James Dashner

James Dashner — Mon, 21 May 2007 05:01:20 +0000

How is ‘gathering firearms scattered in the wreckage’ disarming the citizens? Am I messing something?