http://votingamerican.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/obama-justifies-fema-imprisonment-of-americans/
This is a video, kinda long, but well worth watching. I can see him using his own ows crowd as an excuse to do this. POWDERMAN. 
And to think! This is coming from Rachel Maddow
Getting pretty bad when a Liberal, that I'm sure voted for him comes out with this condemnation of him.
When will the voters realize, that these vermin we elect from both sides of the isle feed off each other? There is "ONE" running for president this election, that would actually work to eliminate some of these draconian agency's like FEMA, and that monster (The Department of Homeland Security).
Every time we elect a GOP Republican or DNC Democrat, we get another agency or restructure of one to strip more freedoms from the American people. Neither one tries to do anything about the damage previously done.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Congress passed the Homeland Security Act of 2002, which created the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to better coordinate among the different federal agencies that deal with law enforcement, disaster preparedness and recovery, border protection and civil defense. FEMA was absorbed into DHS effective March 1,2003. As a result, FEMA became part of the Emergency Preparedness and Response Directorate of Department of Homeland Security, and employs more than 2,600 full time employees. It became the FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT Agency again on March 31, 2007 but still remained in DHS.
During the debate of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, some called for FEMA to remain as an independent agency. Later, following the failed response to Hurricane Katrina, critics called for FEMA to be removed from the Department of Homeland Security.[16] Today FEMA exists as a major agency of the Department of Homeland Security. The Administrator for Federal Emergency Management reports directly to the Secretary of Homeland Security.
FEMA currently manages the National Flood Insurance Program. Other programs FEMA previously administered have since been internalized or shifted under direct DHS control.
FEMA is also home to the National Continuity Programs Directorate (formerly the Office of National Security Coordination). ONSC was responsible for developing, exercising, and validating agency wide continuity of operations and continuity of government plans as well as overseeing and maintaining continuity readiness including the Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center. ONSC also coordinated the continuity efforts of other Federal Executive Agencies.
FEMA began administering the Center for Domestic Preparedness in 2007.
