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To: DoughtyOne
Should I say this? Can I say this? Do I really want to say this... You can present the best disaster plan every concocted, but if the powers that be don't implement it, it won't save one life.

I agree, but I've looked at "the plan" and its quite inadequate. But hey don't believe me, just read what those asked to implement it thought: Law Officers, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force, NY Times (FR post here)

A Baton Rouge police officer said he had a friend on the New Orleans force who told him he threw his badge out a car window in disgust just after fleeing the city into neighboring Jefferson Parish as the hurricane approached. The Baton Rouge officer would not give his name, citing a department policy banning comments to the news media.

The officer said he had also heard of an incident in which two men in a New Orleans police cruiser were stopped in Baton Rouge on suspicion of driving a stolen squad car. The men were, in fact, New Orleans officers who had ditched their uniforms and were trying to reach a town in north Louisiana, the officer said.

"They were doing everything to get out of New Orleans," he said. "They didn't have the resources to do the job, or a plan, so they left."

23 posted on 09/03/2005 11:16:12 PM PDT by XHogPilot (Islam is The Death Cult)
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To: XHogPilot

Are you refering to the Witt plan? If so, it's rather unthinkable that he would now be asked to jump and front for the governor.


152 posted on 09/04/2005 8:30:19 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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