Posted on 09/03/2005 9:23:57 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since last Sunday.
"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Every pane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.
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It's law and good custom to give priority to invited guests and legal visitors. Personally, I find it despciable that the rough vice of treating guests worse by giving priority to residents has found so much support on FR and have to wonder exactly what kind of families the FReepers supporting such crudeness and rudeness come from.
Uhhh... somebody might want to do some research on this. I understand there was a large convention of doctors in this group. The convention was dealing with emergency health issues in a disaster. Bumping them to the head of the line just might have something to do with their ability to help out.
Were it not so, other nations would have their militray in New Orleans right now getting thier people out, just like the USA has gone into other uncivilized countries to get it's (and other nations) people out.
I can: because the rampaging locals wanted to kill them because the Hyatt guests were white.
It was a 'Schindler's List' type thing....
Simple.
There have been reports of bodies ridddled by bullet holes and bodies with heads blown off. More than likely they are white people.
The mayor and the National Guard may sense that the anarchy will INCREASE as long as white people are seen. After all, you have black "celebrities" on national television saying that "Bush does not care about blacks".
It is a correct call to make to get the whites out first, if the mayor and the security beleive that anarchy is rising and whites are the target. They need to eliminate the anarchy first so the evacuationa can continue.(Those members of the black ping list know that I am not white).
We will remember you personally when it comes time to evac China of Americans.
They probably would have been robbed and rapped if they were put with the regular crowd at the superdome . But it seems they were doing okay at the Hyatt.
It appears civilized behavior is not a trait of some freepers. Public education on display.
ummmmmmmm, the doctors were crucial so they got them out quicker. makes sense
These people are wealthy, pay a lot of taxes and probably create a lot of wealth when they are not on vacation. The sooner they get out of NO and get back to work, the more tax money the govt. will have to pay for the poor.
That is a logical argument, but the reality is that the mayor realized that by doing the bigwigs a favor, he might get some favors in return after he is booted out of office. Plus, there may have been out right bribery which is the other thing New Orleans is famous for.
Sounds to me like there is a good reason. They have to provide a base of operations for the police and other responders.
I'd heard yesterday that this was done by order of Mayor Nagin. True? Does anyone know?
Yeah I can justify it. They were all verified donors to the Democratic Party.
I wonder if any of the self-rightous croakers who are flogging this story have ever been on a luxury vacation down in "the islands"? Rich Americans in the tourist quarter, sipping boat drinks...how often do THEY walk a few blocks to do the laundry of the poor working island mothers?
This is about one thing...political milage.
There has been much finger pointing about what society could do for certain people in this case. My question is how much food, water and or transportation Did the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton send and when did it get there. There is a old saying God helps those that help themselves. Maybe SOCIETY should stand back and match their efforts at some ratio.
The hotels have been trying to get transport for their guests for days. Whenever they would have a bus come for the hotel guests, the government would commandeer it for the evacuation.
I don't think you can.
Sure I can.
They were caucasian tourists.
With the anarchy caused by the dope addicts taking over the city (Mayor's own words)he made a calculated decision to get them out of danger so he wouldn't have to defend his failed welfare state.
Things must be improving in the playground, we're back to throwing dirt in the air to see where it lands.
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