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Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | Saturday, September 03, 2005 | Ann Rodgers,

Posted on 09/03/2005 9:53:17 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor

As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same.

Other relief agencies say the area is so damaged and dangerous that they doubted they could conduct mass feeding there now.

"The Homeland Security Department has requested and continues to request that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler, spokeswoman for the Red Cross.

"Right now access is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities. We have been at the table every single day [asking for access]. We cannot get into New Orleans against their orders."

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Though frustrated, Hosler understood the reasons. The goal is to move people out of an uninhabitable city, and relief operations might keep them there. Security is so bad that she fears feeding stations might get ransacked.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: dhs; disasterrelief; incompetence; katrina; katrinafailures; nationalguard; neworleans; redcross
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I can see the NG point. They got to get people out of there. Still, there would be more people surviving to get out with some food and water coming in
1 posted on 09/03/2005 9:53:18 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor
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To: SauronOfMordor

They're getting people out. And I hope they're busy quietly ridding the city of the thugs that have made it too dangerous to let relief workers in.

I hope to see a column of thugs joined together by handcuffs wading through the sewage to Gitmo style penal camps. I doubt that I will, but that's what needs to happen. Either that or thug bodies floating on the sewage.


2 posted on 09/03/2005 9:56:30 AM PDT by livius
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To: SauronOfMordor
This story is kinda strange...just yesterday it was reported the Red Cross was pulling out for safety...which is it Red Cross??..This blame game is going to go on and on and on...
3 posted on 09/03/2005 9:56:40 AM PDT by Getsmart64
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To: SauronOfMordor

They don't want people staying in NO so they're keeping the big charities out I guess.


4 posted on 09/03/2005 9:56:46 AM PDT by Deetes (God Bless the Troops and their Families)
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To: SauronOfMordor

The Red Cross cannot protect themselves, they would not last two minutes if they got near these places. They need to stay alive so they can care for the ones that can be gotten out.

I don't like it any more than anybody else to see another human in the condition they are in. Reality does stink to high heaven though.


5 posted on 09/03/2005 9:57:51 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: SauronOfMordor
Of course. Let's see. Let a bunch of unarmed people go into an area where you cannot ensure their safety. Then when the thugs mob them, you have to pull your troops off their mission to go rescue the "helpers". How about this you MORONS at the Red Cross. You can help best by setting up camps on dry ground OUT SIDE NO and have the people brought TO you.

BTW, just how does this? "The Homeland Security Department has requested a" get translated to the headline of this pap? Modern Journalism, Last refuge of the Drama Queens.

6 posted on 09/03/2005 9:58:39 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (If you try to be smarter, I will try to be nicer.)
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To: Deetes

Exactly. The "leaders" want everybody OUT of NOLA.

The engineers know that other levees could give way at any time. Also, any heavy rain in the area will NOT be pumped off (because the pumps are down), adding to the current flood level.

The goal now is to totally evac the city.


7 posted on 09/03/2005 10:00:40 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: Getsmart64
This story is kinda strange...just yesterday it was reported the Red Cross was pulling out for safety...which is it Red Cross??..

It's the same story, just slanted to make the NG and Homeland Security look bad.

8 posted on 09/03/2005 10:01:01 AM PDT by 6ppc
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To: SauronOfMordor

The NG's bringing massive quantities of food and water in now. There's probably plenty for everyone now, or will be very shortly. If they let Red Cross and other releif groups in, they have to stretch themselves thinner to protect them from the mutants still roaming the city looking to loot and rape and kill. Leave it to the MSM to only report half the story, to make it look like the federal government (Bush) is trying to slow the flow of relief.


9 posted on 09/03/2005 10:01:25 AM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Why doesn't the Red Cross set up feeding center and staging areas outside of the city to move the people from the city too? That should be their focus. The Mayor and Governor did an incompetent job preparing their city and state for a disaster!


10 posted on 09/03/2005 10:02:08 AM PDT by martinidon (Bush won sKerry lost and Soro's is out millions for nothing!)
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First the MSM b*tched because the National Guard wasn't there, and now they're b*tching because the NG is there.
11 posted on 09/03/2005 10:02:43 AM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'chaim!)
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To: SauronOfMordor

The NG has food they can give them for temporary sustainment.


12 posted on 09/03/2005 10:03:10 AM PDT by bnelson44 (Scouts Up! http://www.scouting.org/media/katrina/unithelp.html)
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To: LibFreeOrDie

People from the Dome have walked to the bridge. Why not let Red Cross go there.


13 posted on 09/03/2005 10:03:23 AM PDT by drlevy88
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To: SauronOfMordor

Maybe they can bring in the Italian Red Cross to help the looters....I mean insurgents....I mean freedom fighters...


14 posted on 09/03/2005 10:03:34 AM PDT by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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To: SauronOfMordor

"Though frustrated, Hosler understood the reasons. The goal is to move people out of an uninhabitable city, and relief operations might keep them there. "



Did she just say that FEMA is denying people food to force them to leave the city?


15 posted on 09/03/2005 10:04:25 AM PDT by gondramB
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To: SauronOfMordor

Untrue.


16 posted on 09/03/2005 10:05:15 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: SauronOfMordor

Geraldo just reported on a large group of Vietnamese immigrants...who were refusing any aid until every=body else was helped.

He said they have been calm throughout, and were a "Sea of tranquility" among the chaos.

Truly a credit to them, as opposed to some of our other "citizens."


17 posted on 09/03/2005 10:05:42 AM PDT by Sometimes A River ("The leaves have broken on Lake Ponktran" - WKAT 1360 AM Miami Newsreader)
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If you feed them warm meals and make them comfortable as the RC will do, they have nor reason to leave. They scatter and the job becomes worse. The NG is doing the right thing until the infrastructure is repaired to safely sustain life.
18 posted on 09/03/2005 10:05:58 AM PDT by devane617
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To: Deetes

My wife is talking on the phone to a friend of hers that's a nurse in Florida. She called the Red Cross and volunteered to come to Houston to help out. They turned her down because "of all the disease" saying it was too dangerous. Huh????


19 posted on 09/03/2005 10:06:38 AM PDT by isthisnickcool (If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime what do freedom fighters fight?)
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But there are always delays, Burton said, because nothing is deployed until experts survey the damage and decide where to most effectively put relief services.

We're all so used to seeing news media's instant assessments, we don't realize what it takes to provide a proper response for the most seriously in need of help. All the news media have to take in are their camera equipment, operators, batteries, and personal water and food supplies. They don't bring in any kind of help for those needing it. Conversely, the aid workers need to know what to bring in for the masses rather than merely for themselves.

20 posted on 09/03/2005 10:06:41 AM PDT by Real Cynic No More (Al-Jazeera is to the Iraqi War as CBS was to the Vietnam War.)
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