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FEMA has also been the subject of allegations by critics[who?]who suspect an upcoming planned genocide of the American people to be carried out by the US Government under the provisions of REX-84 and Operation Garden Plot[citation needed]. In February 2009[citation needed], a search[who?] for "FEMA concentration camps" returned over 120,000 hits in Google with individuals and small groups filming and posting pictures of FEMA facilities which they identify as "concentration camps" or "death camps"[citation needed]. The principal reasons for this conclusion appear to be that FEMA has broad general emergency powers, as a result of a succession of executive orders, some of which are apparently classified, which FEMA claims are issued to empower them to assist the civilian population in times of emergency. Some of these critics have noted the unexplained presence of personnel processing equipment and coffins at FEMA emergency response sites, and, in the absence of official explanations for these items, have not unreasonably been alarmed at the possible implications. It should surprise noone, least of all Government planners, that in an information vacuum some citizens could become alarmed at these findings, even though they may be reasonable and lawful preparations for certain extreme emergency scenarios, including unfamiliar ones that could arise in the event of biowarfare or bioterrorism. In a free society, there is a perhaps unavoidable tension between a legitimate Governmental need to keep certain preparations secret and the public's legitimate right to know. Effective oversight of this tension by duly elected officials should be considered an essential part of the "Eternal Vigilance" that is widely agreed to be necessary[citation needed] to maintaining the stability of a free and open democratic society.
I've been thinking of getting a tin hat and adding my own unverified high school essay to the FEMA page.
