Don't You Just Hate it When the Conspiracy Theorists Are Right?

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For a few years now, Alex Jones, the Libertarian Party and other wings of the Aluminum Foil Hat Society have been telling tales about secret detention camps set up by FEMA, The Department of Homeland Security and the "special guests" from offworld at Area 51. I don't know how much of the theories were true in the past, but the past, or the warning of prophets of disaster don't scare me... Bills introduced in the House of Representatives allocating $180,000,000 to set up such camps does. In fact, it scares me to death. Dubbed the ‘National Emergency Centers Establishment Act’ when it was introduced on January 22, 2009 by Rep. Hastings of Florida, the bill seeks to; "SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF NATIONAL EMERGENCY CENTERS. (a) In General- In accordance with the requirements of this Act, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall establish not fewer than 6 national emergency centers on military installations. (b) Purpose of National Emergency Centers- The purpose of a national emergency center shall be to use existing infrastructure-- (1) to provide temporary housing, medical, and humanitarian assistance to individuals and families dislocated due to an emergency or major disaster; (2) to provide centralized locations for the purposes of training and ensuring the coordination of Federal, State, and local first responders; (3) to provide centralized locations to improve the coordination of preparedness, response, and recovery efforts of government, private, and not-for-profit entities and faith-based organizations; and (4) to meet other appropriate needs, as determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security.' Folks, this isn't some pie in the sky guest on Coast To Coast Am. This is an actual bill, which means it isn't a conspiracy theory, it's proposed legislation. It is also unwanted, unwelcome, unneeded and Unconstitutional legislation. Your county already have Emergency Management Offices. The people who work in these offices are local people, who know the area. They know what assets are available in the area in case of disaster. They know the buildings that are sufficient to be used as shelters. They know the transportation infrastructure of their area. Most of them already have protocols in place. Protocols listing by name of point of contact every building designated as a shelter. The people who run the equipment designated as necessary have already been contracted. The vendors who will be responsible for food and supplies already know who they are, what their responsibilities will be as well as their compensation. If it is a disaster too big for the county, each state has an Emergency Management Office that does for the state what the local offices do for the county. People, all disasters are local problems. States and the Federal Government can ASSIST the local Disaster workers; they can coordinate state, national and international aid; they can even fund such things.... but what they CAN'T do is do the Emergency Manager's job for them. That is what that idiot Hastings hopes to do with his totalitarian ideas put forth in this bill. This isn't a republican, democrat, libertarian, conservative, moderate or liberal thing. This is something that we can all unite behind. Stop Hastings and any sponsors of this National Emergency Concentration Camp Act of 2009! Call your Representative, go sit at his or her front door, do everything you can to keep this from moving from conspiracy theory, to legislation, to law! http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-h645/text