Posted on 09/05/2005 9:01:40 PM PDT by joholso
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...
The mayor, the gov, and those who stayed have nobody to blame but them selves
I believe Drudge got this by way of a WBT-Charlotte fill-in host named Tara Servacius (sp?). She found the article on Lexis-Nexis, and she added that the city of NO made DVDs containing the video.
Time for another cut-n-paste of flooded buses!
What will happen, once the security is guaranteed against the next level 5 hurricane, is thay many old neighborhoods will becaome gentrified. Blacks won't rebuild, they don't have to; the government is supposed to take care of them. The rebuilding will be done by Mexican who will rebuild and stay.
The helpless, passive blacks will vote as the dems tell them, the Mexicans won't. So, maybe, Katrina has flushed a filthy dem stronghold and will turn it into a much less corrupt city.
Which will strenghten conservatives/republicans in the 2006 elections and Hitlery goes the way of the DoDo bird.
"Attention fellow New Orleansians:
There is a Category 5 storm going to hit here in 2 days. Winds of over 145 MPH. Could flood the entire city. Gonna kill you if you stay. Get out, now. For your future safety, we are going to put all our buses in storage to protect them from the storm. If you are old, in a nursing home, crippled, infirm or unable to evacuate on your own, you will need to call a taxi or hitchhike to safe ground."
Good luck....Mayor Nagin
"Attention fellow New Orleansians:
There is a Category 5 storm going to hit here in 2 days. Winds of over 145 MPH. Could flood the entire city. Gonna kill you if you stay. Get out, now. For your future safety, we are going to put all our buses in storage to protect them from the storm. If you are old, in a nursing home, crippled, infirm or unable to evacuate on your own, you will need to call a taxi or hitchhike to safe ground."
Good luck....Mayor Nagin
Tara Servatius. She's a communist/columnist for Charlotte Creative Loafing.
"New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE ran a story"
Do they honestly believe the majority of these folks read the article. I bet alot of these people are illiterate. I am not being sarcastic with that comment either.
The illiteracy rates in New Orleans were very high.
NEW ORLEANS FLASHBACK: OFFICALS WARNED RESIDENTS 'YOU'LL BE ON YOUR OWN'
Thats true but newspapers telling them that cost 50 whole cents and they didn't own TV's to hear it until AFTER the hurricane so the peoples in New Orleans didn't know they were suppose to get out.
I guess the editorial staff doesn't read their own paper.
And I can't blame them. It a rag.
Media Bias BUMP
Here's my prediction. Within a few days you will see the MSM go from non-stop Bush-Bashing to, "Now is not the time to point fingers" as the evidence starts looking bad for the Rats.
Ya don't say? Sure would like to see one of those DVD's fall into the right hands...
Right on Brother!
But you forgot to mention the Race baiter's, and the Liberal Poverty Pimps as well.
Oh dear me. I forgot that they are all one in the same, aren't they.
My Bad.
Despite the fact she works for a far-far-far-left "FREE" rag, she may be the only honest journalist in Charlotte. Good work by her tonight digging this story up.
"Now I don't have to tell you good folks what's been happening in our beloved little town. Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped. The time has come to act, and act fast. I'm leaving."
Just substitute Mayor Nagin for the good Reverend.
Seems I'm a little quick on the trigger lately.
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