Posted on 09/05/2005 4:09:26 PM PDT by hipaatwo
Before residents had ever heard the words "Hurricane Katrina," the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE ran a story warning residents: If you stay behind during a big storm, you'll be on your own!
Editors at TIMES-PICAYUNE on Monday called for every official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency to be fired. In an open letter to President Bush, the paper said: "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That's to the government's shame."
But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."
Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation."
"In the video, made by the anti-poverty agency Total Community Action, they urge those people to make arrangements now by finding their own ways to leave the city in the event of an evacuation.
"You're responsible for your safety, and you should be responsible for the person next to you," Wilkins said in an interview. "If you have some room to get that person out of town, the Red Cross will have a space for that person outside the area. We can help you."
Developing...
Just thank God that Kerry (or Algore) aren't in the White House at this time........
July 24, 2005
That recent? Wow. Everyone there was in denial.
In other words: We've always been at war with Oceania.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Well, well...the Times Picayune has a very short memory doesn't it? Of is it just that it hates GW Bush so much more than it cares about its own integrity? That's a lot of hate.
Bump!!! We all want to hear more about this. Give us some better proof that this was really published.
"or"-- I meant "or is it just it hates GW...." Good grief.
at least they could have told the residents to go steal those school buses, since the city planned on leaving them there to flood anyway.
The gun...it smokes...
give us more specifics. I need ammo to send to my Louisiana relatives.
Sources for this? Where have these played?
In other words: We've always been at war with Oceania.
Nice literary turn! Orwell would have been pleased.
The sad part is, we are already seeing Orweilian language and syntax being used by the mainstream media, if not overtly, certainly in the insinuative sense. For exampple:
HATE SPEECH and conservativism? THOUGHT CRIME.
Democrats in "charge"? DOUBLE-PLUS GOOD!
They charge Republicans with being "fascists", but THEY'RE the ones who want total control, THEY'RE the ones who WORSHIP THE STATE and all it stands for. They're the ones who disrespect the individual person (abortion) and only see someone in terms of their place in the "collective". So the only "rights" a person has are the ones 9 liberal members of a Supreme Court "gives them" (and can take away). THEY'RE the TOTALITARIANS !
B-U-S-T-E-D
Even the French army once had the intelligence to commandeer transportation...
Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:
5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.
Got it's own thread now- gotta keep this BTTT
Dn't they run a story blasting Bush today?
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