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Trapped in an Arena of Suffering
LA Times ^ | 9/1/05 | Scott Gold

Posted on 09/01/2005 6:56:22 AM PDT by Brian Mosely

NEW ORLEANS — A 2-year-old girl slept in a pool of urine. Crack vials littered a restroom. Blood stained the walls next to vending machines smashed by teenagers.

The Louisiana Superdome, once a mighty testament to architecture and ingenuity, became the biggest storm shelter in New Orleans the day before Katrina's arrival Monday. About 16,000 people eventually settled in.

By Wednesday, it had degenerated into horror. A few hundred people were evacuated from the arena Wednesday, and buses will take away the vast majority of refugees today.

"We pee on the floor. We are like animals," said Taffany Smith, 25, as she cradled her 3-week-old son, Terry. In her right hand she carried a half-full bottle of formula provided by rescuers. Baby supplies are running low; one mother said she was given two diapers and told to scrape them off when they got dirty and use them again.

At least two people, including a child, have been raped. At least three people have died, including one man who jumped 50 feet to his death, saying he had nothing left to live for.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: katrina; superdome
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To: GeorgiaDawg32
NO ONE could have foreseen the fury of this storm..

A Cat 5 Huricane roaring inland should of been reason enough to move north
21 posted on 09/01/2005 7:12:53 AM PDT by boxerblues
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To: Brian Mosely

As someone so succinctly put it on Hugh Hewitt last night, this is what you get for years of government hand-outs.


22 posted on 09/01/2005 7:12:57 AM PDT by RushCrush (When will Clinton come back from his vacation in Hawaii?)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Heheheh. Steve does a checkmate on Skin Crawl.


23 posted on 09/01/2005 7:13:40 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: Brian Mosely
Crack vials littered a restroom. Blood stained the walls next to vending machines smashed by teenagers.

While there are innocent people suffering, it looks like that place has more than its share of thugs. And that group of people will destroy any place they are put up.

24 posted on 09/01/2005 7:14:35 AM PDT by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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To: Bahbah

Pardon my posting this comment. I have two threads open and this was the wrong one.


25 posted on 09/01/2005 7:14:42 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: theDentist

After years of living off the "Check" and other social
programs alot of these folks have no idea how to care
for their families.


26 posted on 09/01/2005 7:15:36 AM PDT by CAP811 (One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
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To: proudofthesouth


True, not the most enterprising of the bunch.


27 posted on 09/01/2005 7:15:51 AM PDT by Fido969 ("And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free" (John 8:32).)
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To: Pondman88

I think that the "refugees" are (for the most part) WIC, AFDC, etc, dependent persons who now get to rely upon more gubmint handouts....a permanent underclass maintained by the govt.


And to think some people despise illegals who put their children on the school bus to get an education while they work their a??es off all day.
These 'citizens' had an opportunity to board busses headed out of the city for safety and didn't take it. They could have at least gotten their children out.


28 posted on 09/01/2005 7:16:06 AM PDT by Mrs. Shawnlaw (Rock beats scissors. Don't run with rocks. NRA)
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To: Lekker 1

Just like home.


29 posted on 09/01/2005 7:16:15 AM PDT by johnny7 (“And now, little man, I give the watch to you.”)
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To: Brian Mosely

This disaster is bringing out the best and the worst in people. My thoughts and prayers are for the innocent and goodhearted ones who are trapped and for those who are doing everything they can to help them.

It is difficult to comprehend the real extent of this horror and sickening to see the small percentage of people terrorizing their fellow citizens and hampering the rescue efforts. We can't let the evil actions of this group cause us to harden our hearts to the suffering of the innocents.

Blessed are they who show mercy: mercy shall be theirs.


30 posted on 09/01/2005 7:16:45 AM PDT by chgomac
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To: Lekker 1
"We pee on the floor. We are like animals,"

My dogs wont do that

31 posted on 09/01/2005 7:16:46 AM PDT by woofie
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To: boxerblues

I stand corrected, and you are also correct. What I meant was, a breech of the levies the day after the storm wasn't expected. All indications were that N'Awlins had dodged the bullet.


32 posted on 09/01/2005 7:16:51 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my children may live in peace..Thomas Paine)
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To: Tsunamii

Whoa! What is so wrong with what he pointed out?
You're the one who sounds like you can't handle the reality of how bad people (society) have become...


33 posted on 09/01/2005 7:17:11 AM PDT by NormB (Yes, but watch your cookies!!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Stop making sense...there's no room for that here.


34 posted on 09/01/2005 7:17:22 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Brian Mosely

I am amazed full on rioting has not broken out. I think it can only be credited to the skills of the National Guard working in the Superdome who obviously are calming and controlling an unruly desperate army of refugees.


35 posted on 09/01/2005 7:17:45 AM PDT by finnman69 (cum puella incedit minore medio corpore sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos)
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To: Pondman88

Tough situations call for a tough response.


36 posted on 09/01/2005 7:17:58 AM PDT by CAP811 (One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
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To: Brian Mosely
At least two people, including a child, have been raped

Motherf'ing monsters.

37 posted on 09/01/2005 7:18:05 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
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To: boxerblues

It doesn't happen elsewhere, why should NO be an exception?


38 posted on 09/01/2005 7:18:21 AM PDT by stuartcr (Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
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To: Brian Mosely
It's horrible, the locals are held in intolerable conditions, they show their hatred of us by looting, setting fires, shooting their police even firing upon our helicopters on mercy missions.

Get out of Iraq New Orleans NOW.

39 posted on 09/01/2005 7:19:03 AM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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To: RushCrush

In a word....Yep.


40 posted on 09/01/2005 7:19:20 AM PDT by CAP811 (One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
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