damned vulpine

The silver lining about FEMA

"Another 50 billion dollars down the drain."

It occurred to me that there's at least one good thing about having an incompetent boob in charge of FEMA, one who resigned before anyone else could take the blame for the American federal government's lackluster response to Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. It's not like too many people care about who's in charge there -- it took a disaster to rival 9/11 to make people care enough to check his credentials.

The good news is for the sake of uncreative conspiracy theorists who rely on (un)popular culture to justify their paranoia. Usurping control of FEMA and using the agency to control the world was a major plot point of both the X-Files movie and the game Deus Ex. In the latter, an evil cyborg named Walton Simons (voiced by Tom Hall, whom I will ask to do the voice if I ever meet him,) goes around declaring government agencies "disasters" and assuming authority.

Except now it seems like someone qualified is now in charge. Fear.

Posted by j at September 13, 2005 11:38 PM