"Isn't that a horrendous message from that cop?"
Yes. It's #16 on the thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477931/posts
I find myself unable to repost it here. It's so awful.
I read it. And posted it accidentally on the same thread it's already posted on. I meant to post it here so freepers didn't have to scroll down.
It's shocking. We've read so many things here from people in the relief centers and law enforcement. MSM isn't reporting 1/10th of it.
Yesterday a freeper said there had already been 9 rapes in one of the relief centers in Houston. Nothing in the media. Nada. It doesn't fit their agenda.
I wonder if that is why they werent letting regular people
who drove down help with the rescue effort:
"3:11 P.M. - From all corners of this country, hundreds of would-be rescuers are wending their way to the beleaguered Gulf Coast in buses, vans and trailers. But government red tape has hampered many who ache to help Katrina's victims.
Louisiana's Jefferson Parish is desperate for relief, but parish President Aaron Broussard says officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency turned back three trailer trucks of water, ordered the Coast Guard not to provide emergency diesel fuel and cut emergency power lines.
Why? FEMA has not explained. But the outraged Broussard said Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" that the agency needs to bring in all its "force immediately, without red tape, without bureaucracy, act immediately with common sense and leadership, and save lives."
The government says it is doing the best it can in the face of a massive and complicated disaster.
"Even as progress is being made, we know that victims are still out there and we are working tirelessly to bring them the help they need," said Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Some of the delays can be explained by the need to control a volatile situation. Long lines of volunteers are being stopped on freeways on their way into New Orleans.
"Anyone who self-responded was not being put to work. The military was worried about having more people in the city. They want to limit it to the professionals," said Kevin Southerland, a captain with Orange Fire Department in Orange County, Calif., a member of one of eight 14-member water rescue teams sent to New Orleans at FEMA's request."
Lord, Almighty. 60,000 body bags and that might not be enough. What a horrid account from the ground.