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'A scene of anarchy'
CNN ^ | Sept 1, 2005 | CNN's Chris Lawrence in New Orleans, Louisiana

Posted on 09/01/2005 12:02:28 PM PDT by Esther Ruth

'A scene of anarchy'

CNN's Chris Lawrence in New Orleans, Louisiana

It's hard to believe this is New Orleans.

We spent the last few hours at the New Orleans Convention Center. There are thousands of people lying in the street.

We saw mothers holding babies, some of them just three, four and five months old, living in horrible conditions. Diapers littered the ground. Feces were on the ground. Sewage was spilled all around.

These people are being forced to live like animals. When you look at the mothers, your heart just breaks.

Some of the images we have gathered are very, very graphic.

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


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KEYWORDS: katrina; neworleans
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To: Hatteras

61 posted on 09/01/2005 12:57:35 PM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Proud member of the 21st century Christian Crusaders)
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To: nyconse
Cook what...there is no food, no water and no bathrooms.

I wonder how many will starve to death with a shelf full of canned goods because the electricity is off and their can openers don't work. No food? There's plenty of food. I wonder how many will stare and curse at the next rain instead of catching it in a container. Or just looking up in the sky and opening their mouths. No water? Hah! Remember outdoor plumbing? No bathrooms? Sheesh. My dear you are one of those that thinks meat only comes in plastic wrapped styrofoam packages. Its none of the above. What it is is lack of survival instincts or skills. It takes a lot of food stamps to erase that heritage.

62 posted on 09/01/2005 12:58:06 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: syriacus

The problem with training people to be dependent on government is that when you really need help, you can't depend on government.


63 posted on 09/01/2005 12:58:27 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: kittymyrib
The problem with training people to be dependent on government is that when you really need help, you can't depend on government.

The government is "swamped."

64 posted on 09/01/2005 12:59:28 PM PDT by syriacus (You can't fool Mother Nature. Why didn't New Orleans codes require lifeboats for each residence?)
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To: syriacus
..let's see...they won't use the phrase "martial law"..although their sending in an additional 40,000 troops...the mayor apologized for using the word thug to describe "snipers" or roving gangs shooting at rescuers...there's a hundred privately owned boats ready to set out to rescue people but aren't allowed into the flooded area because of shootings...a National Guard troop is wounded in the leg by a sniper at the Superdome...

Temporary rule by military authorities, imposed on a civilian population especially in time of war or when civil authority has broken down.

..thats the definition of martial law...but least we offend!!

Doogle
65 posted on 09/01/2005 12:59:38 PM PDT by Doogle (8th AF...4077thTFW....408MMS....Ubon Thailand "69"..Night Line Delivery ..AMMO)
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To: edcoil

"What is wrong with these people just sitting there."

It is 80 miles to high ground. How do you walk that far without supplies? This isn't television buckeroo.



66 posted on 09/01/2005 12:59:57 PM PDT by takbodan (AP Help)
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To: ladyjane
You are horrified by rescue efforts? I am horrified by the behavior of many of the people in New Orleans.

Damn straight. There are a LOT of folks in NO that have only managed to make matters worse thru their own inaction. Let's not even mention the thugs that are actively working against their own recovery.

The terrorists are learning from this. Just stick a dirty bomb in a couple of inner city ghettos and let the thugs do the rest.

Like I didn't have enough to worry about.

67 posted on 09/01/2005 1:00:08 PM PDT by AngryJawa (NRA)
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To: SerpentDove
I'm curious. I am not blaming anybody, but the question has to be asked...is there NO PLAN for evacuation?

I think there is a plan. It's just not a very good one.

68 posted on 09/01/2005 1:03:14 PM PDT by HitmanLV
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To: HitmanNY

"I think there is a plan. It's just not a very good one."

Maybe Kerry has a plan...


69 posted on 09/01/2005 1:06:00 PM PDT by takbodan (AP Help)
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To: Hatteras
LOL!!

I was certainly surprised when I scrolled down to your second picture.

70 posted on 09/01/2005 1:08:38 PM PDT by syriacus (You can't fool Mother Nature. Why didn't New Orleans codes require lifeboats for each residence?)
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To: Windsong
The late comedian (former preacher) Sam Kinison once said about the starving people in Africa "What is WRONG with you people?! Stop living in deserts where there is no food! Move where the food is! Arghhhhh!!"

Alas, these 'other' areas where the food is...is already occupied by other people, other tribes. Hence the eons of tribal warfare.

71 posted on 09/01/2005 1:09:00 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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To: Red Badger

Decades of conditioning. Decades of paternalism. Decades of dependency. Decades of welfare. Decades of handouts. Decades of LIBERALISM!

that needs to be repeated becasue its dead ON!

I was thinking the same thing last night watching the news.


72 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:08 PM PDT by ezo4
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To: SerpentDove

there NO PLAN for evacuation?


How do force a population to evacuate if they won't?
Some couldn't but many more wouldn't.


73 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:13 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (Republican - The thinking people's party)
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To: SerpentDove

I completely agree, it just isn't Christian.


74 posted on 09/01/2005 1:10:50 PM PDT by BJClinton (+ /_\)
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To: nyconse

Everybody's trying. This is a pretty unique situation. The area that needs help is almost completely inaccessible due to water, and is surrounded by other hard hit areas which are being stretched to the limit just to sustain their own.

As someone who works in NYC, and was here (in midtown) on 9/11, I don't have any trouble seeing the huge difference between the two situations. NYC had plenty of food and water, the vast majority of people were able to walk home (even if a long way) after subway service was stopped and bridges and tunnels closed for security reasons to a home with food, clean, running water, electricity, and access to Internet/radio/TV/phone. Those who couldn't get home stayed with friends in fully functional homes. There were more able-bodied volunteers than were needed -- a licensed EMT friend of mine tried to volunteer but wasn't needed. The closing of bridges and tunnels was brief enough that store shelves were never anywhere near empty.

Only a tiny fraction of New Yorkers who survived the initial attack were in any mortal danger from injuries, being trapped etc. Most of us were physically fine, and just a bit wary about whether that would continue. I was pretty typical -- walked 40+ blocks to get home, stopping by the grocery to pick up bleach and candles and extra food that wouldn't require refrigeration, and the hardware store to pick up 3 large plastic trash cans for water storage. Went home, filled up my new water tanks, put away my stock of food, ate a nice dinner, and sat down in front of my computer to follow the situation closely via FR and other sources in my air conditioned apartment. Exchanged e-mails with a shaken-up friend who worked downtown and saw the 2nd plane hit as she emerged from the subway and then had to run for her life through the cloud of dust as the first tower fell (she'd managed to get home to New Jersey, with the last leg of her trip on a passing fire truck that picked her up and delivered her to the front door of her building). I never needed the stored water or non-refrigerated food. The next night around midnight, my 20-something-year-old cat needed an emergency trip to the vet hospital, and we hopped in a cab (driven by a Muslim who was chattering angrily, describing the attackers with streams of expletives) and went on our way. The VET hospital (the huge Animal Medical Center) was fully functioning, even after dispatching as many as vets and vet techs as the search and rescue dogs at the WTC site needed, though the air was a bit smoky from the wind having shifted to blow uptown.

Sorry, but the 9/11 situation in NYC was NOTHING like what the people of New Orleans are currently experiencing.


75 posted on 09/01/2005 1:11:23 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: ezoeni

Just once, I'd like to hear some Neo-Pseudo-Con talking head on TV or Radio actually SAY THAT group of sentences!..........................When pigs fly or whatever.......


76 posted on 09/01/2005 1:14:09 PM PDT by Red Badger (United States Marine Corps.....An army of WON!...........)
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To: just me

Quote: ""Diapers littered the ground"" Sounds like they just drop them where ever they change the baby. Put the nasty things in one pile some where.



The wife and I were in NO last November. We walked from the French quarter to the Garden District and saw diapers on the ground then.


Why are not these people organizing among themselves and collectiving going out and collecting food and rationing it out???


77 posted on 09/01/2005 1:14:12 PM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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To: nyconse
Well from what I understand Operation Blessing and other Church's and charities have brought water and food..
You know the first thing I think of when our electric goes out is what I have in the way of canned foods and think how I can use this to keep me from being thirsty or hungry..You do know there is water in the canned foods you buy and there is water in the canned food that have been looted out of the stores their is also canned meat..People have to use their imagination some times..The last time my electric went out was for seven hours..I know my situation was nothing like these people but I also know if some imagination was used and some will power they could survive..I also know that these people are being taken out as fast as possible..25,000 more are being brought to San Antonio..People are already in Houston and even around here..Things are being done..Don't blame the people that are risking their lives for anything..I am so proud of the good people in this country..All loving caring souls(except for the liberal)give some praise where praise is due and stop whining.. That all said I do hope these people find homes..
78 posted on 09/01/2005 1:17:13 PM PDT by Beth528
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To: BJClinton

In fact--according to Monday's Baton Rouge newspaper it was the President that was on the phone before Katrina hit urging LA's Governor and NO's Mayor to order a mandatory evacuation.

I keep seeing CNN asking where the National Guard and law enforcement are. The fact is that the first line of defense is local law enforcement. If NO had a workable disaster plan and if they had worked to establish law and order from the outset then, they would have a situation where the state and Federal government could begin the orderly evacuations of the people stranded there.


79 posted on 09/01/2005 1:17:31 PM PDT by rhetorica
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To: All

ALL
I'm trying to figure this out-this whole seen does not make sense to me. A town of 1 million people is down to 100,000 and there is not enough food- especially a tourist town that caters to tourist (read lots of restaruants etc???

The place should be full of food. Seems like some people are spending more time stealing tv's and jewelery when they should be going on planned food runs.


80 posted on 09/01/2005 1:19:57 PM PDT by superiorslots (Free Traitors are communist China's modern day "Useful Idiots")
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