NIGHTMARE OF ROBBERY, FILTH, DEATH & RAPE IN SUPERDOME

NY Post ^ | 9/2/05 | LUKAS I. ALPERT

[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."

[bc42875]

Crap on the walls....did someone pick it up and throw it???

[verity]

"NIGHTMARE OF ROBBERY, FILTH, DEATH & RAPE"

Seems as though this is the routine in NOLA except when interrupted by hurricanes.

[Hot Tabasco]

I think its just me but if I were in the same boat (excuze the pun) as those people in the dome, I would would have volunteered my svcs just to get myself out of there. Every able male there should be doing that. The only folks that should be in the dome are women and chirrun........

[SouthernFreebird]

Thats just wrong. I know I couldn't mow down grandma in a wheelchair to hop a bus.

But then again when I saw them all linning up to get in the superdome before it hit and the women with small children and babies weren't being taken in before grown men I had my doubts about this place.

What has happened to the people/men in America...to allow babies and children to stand out in the elements while your inside is beyond me.

[Clemenza]

Kerick is a crook. We need General Abizaid down there.

[TomGuy]

So you lob verbal grenades at them all. So go ahead, you can attack me, too

Check your post. You threw the first verbal (typed) grenades. Now, you whine about being attacked. lol.

I'm saying the people need help -- doer's. Not people sitting back in their air conditioned rooms critizing those trying to survive. [I bet your a/c is working...and you have running water to flush your toilet....and you flip on the switch and the light comes on...and you can pick up the phone and call someone. Nice, isn't it. But, I bet you would be a tad irritated if the a/c went off for an afternoon, or the plumbing stopped up and you sit waiting for the plumber, or the Internet services goes down, etc... Perspective.]

[Cricket24]

"The entire world is watching. They are seeing every aspect.
This includes our enemies. Tactics of warfare would be compelling them to strike fast and strike fierce.
We must maintain vigilance"

What the heck good is vigilance going to do? All this planning and this new Homeland Security department is all BS. Where has all that money gone? In their pockets? It's been four years and security wise, we worse off now than we were then. What will happen if we do have a terrorist attack with nuclear weapons? These people in charge are cowards and they will run the other way leaving the poor taxpayers high and dry. I never would have thought this but this past week shows me that the good ole USA is being run by idiots.

[Hatteras]

I was watching a little bit of FOX NEws yesterday afternoon and the reporter was among a group of people stuck in some out-of-the-way shelter where they were waiting for help. People were sick and there was one lady among the group who happened to be a nurse or a doctor. As the reporter was talking to one young lady, she was telling the reporter that she hadn't had her insulin in 3 days and she didn't want to die like that in that place. Then, without warning, the girl screamed and collapsed. The nurse rushed over with some borrowed insulin and gave her a shot and soon she was stablized.

Shortly after that clip, the reporter is sitting back on dry land and a fresh change of clothes and wrapping up his segment with another reporter and throwing it back to the studio. My question is if this girl was in such dire straits, depending on somebody else's insulin, etc.... WHY IN THE HELL DIDN'T THE REPORTER TAKE THE GIRL BACK WITH HIM AND GET HER SOME IMMEDIATE HELP!!! WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE IDIOTS?!

The sad facts of all this is that this is the United States of America and we have idiots running the show down there. As much as I like George Bush, he's got to take control. Arm the damn helicopters and fly the rescue and relief missions. ANd when all this is done, kick the mayor and the governor out of their offices and get some leaders in there to bulldoze the damn city, backfill the whole frickin' Delta with recycled concrete, raise it back up to above sea level and start all over.

Uh... if I were king... (thanks, I feel much better now...)

[jwpjr]

That's why I used the term 'in retrospect'! Hindsight is always 20-20 and I would be the first to agree with you that the plan is flawed. The simple truth is that the dye is cast. We have built and over-built coastal areas to the point where there is no practical way to avoid disasters such as we're seeing right now. A similar strike on the Tampa-St. Pete-Clearwater area would be equally disastrous, if not worse. We need something like 36 hours to get everyone off the Pinellas county coast.

I am VERY familiar with that unfortunate turn of events last year! I live in Tampa! To make it even worse, when the storm finally did move across Florida it went almost directly across the very area where hundreds and thousands of Gulf Coast residents had gone to get out of harm's way! The plan would simply not work well for Florida since we are surrounded by water on three sides and a storm can come at us from any area.

OK, time to turn to Plan B. Anyone have any ideas?

[uncbob]

Shep Smith said it best (Thursday): Officials (local government) lost control at the start and never have been able to regain it.

And here Chris Mathews and other Lib Talking heads were congratulating the gov and major and praisng the job they did . Course that was before the S*&^% hit the fan

[TomGuy]

Arm the damn helicopters and fly the rescue and relief missions.

Exactly.

My mind keeps replaying all those visuals of the MRE's the US dropped in rural, isolated parts of Afghanistan in late 2001 and 2002. We found ways to help there. Now, we need help HERE (gulf coast). Are we so incapable of mobilizing the necessary help for our own people???

[TomGuy]

And here Chris Mathews and other Lib Talking heads were congratulating the gov and major and praisng the job they did . Course that was before the S*&^% hit the fan

All those disaster plans looked sooo good on paper. And all those committee-members who worked on those committees to write up those plans sure got nice salaries. Those plans did look good --- on paper. [end sarcasm]

[uncbob]

By the time we know for sure an area will be hit, it is too late to fully evacuate a large city.

The real solution is to quit building in these areas

[SeaBiscuit]

Yep, I agree, when infrastructure is suddenly removed things can get out of hand fast. This is when people need to pull together.

[JCEccles]

Then again, America is a much different nation than it was 40 years.

What is happening in New Orelans is the catastrophic consequence of Johnson's (and liberals') Great Society fraud in which Americans but especially blacks were hoodwinked into believing the government was a better father and mother than could be provided within the traditional family.

[uncbob]

OK, time to turn to Plan B. Anyone have any ideas?

Yeah Quit building in these areas

Same thing occurs here at the NJ shore they keep building and building onthe long island chain

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Wow...France standing up to evil? These are truly Interesting Times.

[Cricket24]

Too many local and National politicians have been back-patting themselves for their meetings and plans, but at this stage of a crisis, the people need DOERS not planners, not politicians rushing to microphones to applaud themselves.

"This has turned into an unbelievable, incomprehensible fumble by officials/government personnel at all levels.

I can't believe the fiasco situation developing in Houston at the Astrodome. Surely, surely, the government officials could have realized the max capacity. This is turning into another example of 'stupid' on the Tex officials' parts.

These gulf refugees need a Guliani -- someone to take control and get things coordinated."

Well, the head of that stupid new agency, "Homeland Secrurity", Michael Chertoff keeps saying that supplies are there. WELL WHERE? He doesn't even have a clue what's going on. Where is the governor and the mayor? They're probably hiding out so they don't get lynched which they probably deserve. This is so disgusting and getting more disgusting by the hour!

We do need someone to take control and get things coordinated now but that's what all the planning was supposed to do. Somebody has been on the take and not doing their job and it includes not only the local and state government but the federal government as well.
Homeland Security should have been used for just terrorists attacks not national emergencies like this. There are so many people in charge that nothing is getting done.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

I see many women holding babies but no fathers in sight

I just read another accouny from a single mom from the Dome who had 11 children.

Yes, 40 years of welfare has bred this--major cities with 75% of the people on welfare who can't thnk, have no instinctive common sense, and who are dependent like a family pet.

What I don't understand is how FEMA can be spending $500 million per day in NO.

$500 million per day????????????????

That's right, $500 million per day...$1 billion every other day!!! For what? What are they doing?

It is clear:

1] The US government is dysfunctional and broken... nothing gets done and BILLIONS are spent. Much like the $405 billion of funding sent to the Dept of Energy since 1978 with ZERO results, and much like the Dept of Education, and

2] We need to end welfare--totally!!

[Cricket24]

"Typical democrat-run area. The do-nothing incompetent dims do nothing but whine and blame others."

Well, the republicans in charge in Washington DC aren't doing any better. I wondered why the dems were being so quiet. Now I know. They are letting George Bush and the Republicans hang themselves by being so incompetent. Never thought I would see the day that I thought of the Repubs that way but this week has completely changed my mind. Do I feel safe? NO