Actually, I couldn’t care less what Clarkson thinks about anything. But he should not be pushing lies about helicopters shooting down poor people during Katrina. What a lot of hooey!
http://www.rense.com/general67/copsd.htm
When it became clear that the help they so desperately needed was not coming anytime soon, the group pooled their resources in an effort to buy their way out of the surrounding hell. They ponied up $25,000, enough to lease 10 buses that would carry them out of the city.
But as the buses they paid for approached the city, they were immediately commandeered by the National Guard forces that were in New Orleans, Bradshaw and Slonsky said Thursday in an interview back home.
"If they used the buses to get the most severely ill out of the Superdome and convention center, I have no problem with that,'' Bradshaw said. "The thing that gets me is that if we could get on the phone and get 10 buses, why couldn't FEMA make that call?''
"If I weren't there, and hadn't witnessed it for myself, I don't think I would have ever believed this," Bradshaw said.
The officers fired warning shots into the air and then leveled their weapons at members of the crowd, Bradshaw said. He approached, hands in the air, displaying his paramedic's badge.
"They told us that there would be no Superdomes in their city,'' the couple wrote. "These were code words that if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River -- and you weren't getting out of New Orleans.''
And when exhausted hurricane victims set up temporary shelters on the highway, Gretna police came back a few hours later, fired shots into the air again, told people to "get the f -- off the bridge" and used a helicopter to blow down all the makeshift shelters, the paramedics said.
When the officers had pushed the crowd back far enough, one of them took the group's food and water, dropped it in the trunk of a patrol car and drove away.
Bottom line is that in a SHTF situation don’t ever assume the local LEO’s or the National Guard are there to help you. In some cases you are no better off with them than you are among the looters. And in a desperate situation where I was in desperate need of food and water (and guns and ammo) in order for me and my family to survive, would I break into locked store? Damned right I would. (Although being the kind of person I am, after it was over, I’d look up the store owner and pay for what I took, and it would be only the necessities, not big screen TV’s and such).