Spotted this, and I'll admit I'm not too surprised.
BREITBART.COM - Just The NewsIn peacetime the military basically invents red tape to keep themselves busy with picky detail-oriented tasks. When the crunch hits, a LOT of that red tape goes away. Suddenly, it goes from "Everything has to be EXACTLY perfect on this requisition form including all the commas and periods before the Commander signs it" to "Looks good enough, you got the right stock number - let's get this signed and get things going." You're kept busy during peacetime, and during war you know what you can get by without.From all corners of this country, hundreds of would-be rescuers are wending their way to the beleaguered Gulf Coast in buses, vans and trailers. But government red tape has hampered many who ache to help Katrina's victims.
Louisiana's Jefferson Parish is desperate for relief, but parish President Aaron Broussard says officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency turned back three trailer trucks of water, ordered the Coast Guard not to provide emergency diesel fuel and cut emergency power lines. (ed. -- note that the details provided are pretty sparse here. Trying to find more...)
An outraged Broussard said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the agency needs to bring in all its "force immediately, without red tape, without bureaucracy, act immediately with common sense and leadership, and save lives."
Unfortunately, it looks like FEMA hasn't learned there's a time to dump the red tape, and LEAVE IT ALONE. But on the other hand, having a lot of folks flooding into a disaster area in an uncontrolled/uncoordinated manner isn't a good thing either. It'd be entirely possible for a lot of the aid folks to end up in trouble on their own. So, though this doesn't look too good I'd like to get more details before any judgement is passed.
J.