Posted on 09/02/2005 2:54:29 AM PDT by jimbo123
As buses finally started arriving to pluck refugees from the Louisiana Superdome yesterday, a horrifying picture emerged of the squalor, violence and mayhem that they faced during the days spent huddled in the stadium.
Twenty-five thousand miserable people — many of whom lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina — hunkered down with little food and little water, overflowing toilets, stifling heat and the unbearable stench of human waste.
Children slept in pools of urine. Crack vials littered the bathrooms. Bloodstains smeared the walls near vending machines that had been pried open. Gunfire has ricocheted down the corridors.
There were two reports of rape, one involving a child. Three people died — one a distraught man who jumped to his death, saying he had nothing left to live for.
"We pee on the floor. We are like animals," Taffany Smith, 25, told the Los Angeles Times, while she gripped her 3-week-old son in her arms.
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Supplies were dangerously low, with one mother saying officials told her to reuse diapers by scraping them out when they got dirty.
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"There is feces on the walls," said Bryan Hebert, 43. "There is feces all over the place."
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The real sucky thing about this besides the human tragedy and the possible loss of a complete American city or 2, this is a dry run of sorts for our enemies out there that are measuring our preparedness in cities other than the big ones and what disruption that an attack on them may cause.
We must kick some ass here and get this chit moving forward fast, whether or not the bottomfeeders causing the trouble deserve help or not.
They already have Tobasco, they are calling them looters right now...lol but not funny
Kill those that get in the way.
What makes this unique, and hard for a terrorist to reproduce is the huge wide spread damage over thousands of square miles. That's what prevents rescue efforts from getting in and victims from getting out.
I echo the words of a previous poster on this thread, when an evacuation order hits your area, get far away. Far, far away.
Used to be that disasters brought out the best in Americans. Now it brings out the worst. Then again, America is a much different nation than it was 40 years ago. Looking at footage of New Orleans over the past few days, it looks more like Mogadishu or Bangladesh than America.
Well they did lose their water supply, and so I imagine that the situation in the toilets went from bad to worse rather quickly.
What has been lost in the news is that France is about to decide that Assad's regime in Syria must go. Most of the anti_syria government ministers in Lebanon (the governemnet of Lebanon) have just fled to France.
This is big news! Normally it would be the lead on FR.
Also, France and Iran are at each other's throats now.
Big events happening. New Orleans disaster won't save the regimes in Iran and Syria. They are going down soon.
Mostly, yes. And they will have their hands stuck out for years. Nice, huh?
The ones that have any self-respect at all probably were long gone at the first evacuation notification.
"gub'mint"
I likes yo ebonics Sam, you dun must had sum skoolin? lol
Seems the same lawlessness inside and outside.
The media will whitewash this behaviour but the truth will be there for all to see.
oh joy. It aint bad enough with the crime in Oak Cliff!
YEAH AND AMEN!!!!
No more deadly domestic enemy than 'RAT' leadership and 'RAT' mentality in the people!
Animals. No need for that.
Get the people who are not doing all the mayhem out of there and then corodon off the area and let the animals doing all the criminal behavior fend for themselves. Eventually they will be gone so they would not infect any city they would be moved to.
. . . sounds like county. lol
Zimbabwe or Sudan
Uganda
Heaven help the innocent among them.
As the entire world watches and collectively says, "You have the moral authority to tell us how to live?"
I don't need some idiot mayor like in NO telling me when to leave. I don't need the guvmint thinking for me.
True, but what are they doing to help the situation, where is some personal initiative to make things better.. use their heads a little.. rapes, murders, feces all over, shooting at rescuers? Who is doing that? Not the hurricane, Not the rescuers. They need to do something to make conditions a little better themselves by being a little more Responsible.
How amazing is it that the President declared the state of emergency on Friday but the state and local goons made no provision to move prisoners to other prison facilities and then had to release them to the general population?
Thinking the same thing.
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