People often have no idea how much the government does when they call for less government. So when someone comes along with an agenda to lobby for less regulation, and they need the support of voters, they rev people up against the government. The end point of that is having people going fully off the edge during an emergency and endangering their fellow citizens.
Federal personnel are facing threats during hurricane response, DHS chief warns As misinformation swirls, posters online have vowed to send militias and ‘shoot’ federal workers responding to recent disasters. October 11, 2024 Eric Katz Senior Correspondent – Government Executive Federal officials have warned that threats against civil servants have increased in recent years, including at the Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service and FBI. Those agencies, in conjunction with the Homeland Security Department’s Federal Protective Service, have taken steps to harden federal buildings and issue warnings to their workforces.
Man arrested for threats toward FEMA WFMY News 2 – Oct 14, 2024 FEMA told us that the reason you might not see someone in a fema shirt helping out of the distribution site is because the items being distributed was brought in by them. The agency prepositioned supplies ahead of the storm so it was able to get too easy and handed out.