However, two of the questions deserve further explanation:
1. Why no police at the Superdome?
2. Why no food/water at the Superdome?
The answer to that question illustrates the monumental degree of incompetence.
Why wasn't the Superdome supplied with food/water supplies earmaked for it?
Why weren't Police deployed to the Superdome in accordance to a pre-disaster plan?
Why?
That was exactly my point in coming up with the -- admittedly "out there" -- theory.
1. Why no police at the superdome?
2. Why no food and water at the superdome?
They could SEE with their own eyes the misery in the Superdome. The repoters were telling them (espeically on Wednesday BEFORE Blanco declared an "emergency") that PEOPLE WERE DYING inside the Superdome. There were reports that a man had raped a 7 year old girl and had been subsequently beaten to death in an act of vigilante justice. There reports of multiple rapes, beatings, robbings, and worse.
And through this, the Governor (and maybe the Mayor) didn't feel the need to send even a FEW police over to the Superdome? I mean, I saw "car 54, where are you?", but this is ridiculous! Now, my -- admittedly "out there" -- theory posits: What if it wasn't just "monumental incompetence"? What if it was a DELIBERATE REFUSAL TO RESPOND because these people were being shown live on national (and world-wide TV) and the MSM was blaming Bush (not them) for it? If the theory is true, maybe someone said "Let's just wait a while, and let it get a little worse, and let Bush keep getting blamed for this."
They could SEE with their own eyes the misery in the Superdome. The repoters were telling them (espeically on Wednesday BEFORE Blanco declared an "emergency") that PEOPLE WERE DYING inside the Superdome. There were reports that a man had raped a 7 year old girl and had been subsequently beaten to death in an act of vigilante justice. There reports of multiple rapes, beatings, robbings, and worse. And through this, the Governor (and maybe the Mayor) didn't feel the need to send even a FEW police over to the Superdome? I mean, I saw "car 54, where are you?", but this is ridiculous! By that time there were tens of thousands of people crammed into the Superdome.............as I documented, a place they were never supposed to be at since New Orleans was supposaed to be COMPLETELY evacuated...........and the savage beast had grown far too large to be tamed by local Police.
Eighty New Orleans policemen, at one point, tried to enter the Superdome and restore order and they were driven out by a lawless mob.
The Governor, in the meantime, had refused to allow a Federal takeover:
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state’s emergency operations center said Saturday............... The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. “Quite frankly, if they’d been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals,” said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly.
"Thank you for flying Lufthansa."