I would suggest that this was clearly designed to be used by the feds in a terrorist event to seize power. They were essentially trying to wrap the terrorism angle into the natrual disaster angle and hope people wouldn't notice. I doubt they ever really thought about using this in natural disasters: natural disasters aren't very sexy, tend to be very messy, and don't lend themselves to cod piece posturing on aircraft carriers.

Posted at September 4, 2005 3:08 PM in response to CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND KATRINA?