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                               Series Title:

                         IN CASE OF EMERGENCY ...

                    FEMA vs. Your Constitutional Rights


         [This series of texts is reproduced with permission from
          a special supplement to _The Spotlight_, May 25, 1992.]

                               The SPOTLIGHT
                        300 Independence Avenue, SE
                           Washington, DC  20003

                               WHAT IS FEMA?

      This text may be freely reproduced provided acknowledgement to
           The Spotlight appears, including the above address.]

     FEMA is the acronym for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.  It
was established by Executive Order 12148 and signed into existence by Jimmy
Carter in 1979.

     It was originally planned as an umbrella administration consisting of
the disaster and emergency response arms of nearly a dozen scattered
federal agencies.

     Questions have existed about FEMA's role from the beginning.  Veteran
Washington watchers have long been puzzled by its secretive role.

     The Reagan administration, for example, had plans for arresting tens
of thousands of "potentially subversive" suspect aliens, critics and
dissenters in the wake of an undefined national emergency.

     Does FEMA pose a danger to lawful government?  Is there the
possibility of a dictatorial overthrow of the Constitution with the
president seizing all power?

     These are the questions Americans should ask.  This reprint from The
SPOTLIGHT is designed to provide the facts necessary.

