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Reno family recalls violence, squalor in New Orleans Superdome
News 4 Local News (Reno, Nevada) ^ | Sep 6, 2005, 10:47 AM | News 4 Local News

Posted on 09/06/2005 7:51:05 PM PDT by af_vet_1981

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1 posted on 09/06/2005 7:51:07 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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"Eventually, the family does want to return to New Orleans." And that would be because...?


2 posted on 09/06/2005 7:54:22 PM PDT by bboop (Refugees ... refugees ... refugees ... Come and get me, Jesse.)
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Horrible.

I wonder how many children and women were raped and killed because Blanco needed more time to make a decision about getting the feds involved?


3 posted on 09/06/2005 7:54:43 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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Now underwater buses could have saved alot of people that met their death in the Super dome.....
4 posted on 09/06/2005 7:55:47 PM PDT by Dallas59 (“You love life, while we love death.” - Al-Qaeda / Democratic Party)
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"Eventually, the family does want to return to New Orleans." And that would be because...?

Odd, huh ?

It may have been survivor's guilt tossed in at the end of the interview, or perhaps related to the original reason that had moved to New Orleans from Reno.

I can't see moving from Reno to New Orleans. It must have been a family down on their luck or with roots in that area.

5 posted on 09/06/2005 7:57:19 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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"Women carried make-shift weapons because in the pitch black, there were rapes, even rapes of children."

I would really like a full count of exactly how many threads were pulled off of FR on this topic.

There were SEVERAL that day.

6 posted on 09/06/2005 7:58:51 PM PDT by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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Another witness to the rapes, albeit a teen, but seems credible:

Teen survivor shares horror in New Orleans

“We saw two girls who had been raped, their throats slashed. Their heads were next to their bodies. This was on the second floor of the convention center,” Martin said. “They weren’t covered up. They had run out of sheets and body bags.

7 posted on 09/06/2005 7:59:38 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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"I wonder how many children and women were raped and killed because Blanco needed more time to make a decision about getting the feds involved?"

And because widespread discussion was intentionally prevented....

8 posted on 09/06/2005 8:00:21 PM PDT by SteveMcKing ("I was born a Democrat. I expect I'll be a Democrat the day I leave this earth." -Zell Miller '04)
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To: bboop

stimulation junkies


9 posted on 09/06/2005 8:00:25 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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There was a poster the other night telling me the rapes didn't happen. But today the convention center was searched and bodies, including a 7 year old girl, were found in the commercial freezer.

Animals.


10 posted on 09/06/2005 8:01:33 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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I would really like a full count of exactly how many threads were pulled off of FR on this topic.

There are clearly some people with a pro-rapist agenda whose strategy and tactics are deny, deny, deny. There are too many reports, too many witnesses. Unfortunately many of the victims may be dead. Even worse than in Aruba where no body, no crime; no live victim, no crime; just bury the dead and lie to the American people because of moral decay and lack of character.

11 posted on 09/06/2005 8:02:35 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: Peach

With their throats slashed.

Coming to a community near you.


12 posted on 09/06/2005 8:03:07 PM PDT by ladyjane
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Another Brit eyewitness, Jenny Sachs

Ed Whitaker from Bristol described the situation as “hell on earth” while Jenny Sachs, who had to be smuggled out of the cities Superdome stadium by soldiers, said she saw rapes and attacks, "a guy was brought in who had seven stab wounds and was covered in blood."

13 posted on 09/06/2005 8:06:37 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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Its utterly disgusting! Blanco's defense is she needed time to think about it! She worried that the presidents decision to move in the Feds would take control away from her. (The RATS) And has said to some close to her, she thought the president was trying to make a'' political move'' on her. Huh? Why this woman is still in office is beyond words!
14 posted on 09/06/2005 8:07:30 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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Someone else mentioned it, so I looked it up earlier today, but in Orleans parish they have about 1400 registered sex offender/child molesters. How many were likely of a high enough income level to leave on their own I wonder. Then you have to wonder how many were inside the SD and convention center.


15 posted on 09/06/2005 8:12:08 PM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all our neighbors in the gulf coast.)
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, another eyewitness

She and her ailing mother had survived a horrifying few days at the Louisiana Superdome; recounting their ordeal still left this woman shaking. Asked what she had seen, she fired back: "What didn't I see?!" She said they were in trash, feces and "filth up to their knees" on the single level of Superdome seating that was open to more than 35,000 refugees. She said she had witnessed rapes and murders in the Superdome. Her 68-year-old mother had her wheelchair stolen out from under her, she said, and her oxygen tanks stolen as well.

16 posted on 09/06/2005 8:13:46 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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"And has said to some close to her, she thought the president was trying to make a'' political move'' on her."


Thanks to the Howard Dean/DU school of politics.


17 posted on 09/06/2005 8:13:58 PM PDT by kenth (north Georgia mountains - prayers for all our neighbors in the gulf coast.)
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I happen to know Mark Markiewicz he is a former police officer. I'm glad to know he's back in Reno and safe. Sounds like he and his family went through hell.


18 posted on 09/06/2005 8:21:03 PM PDT by Crapgame
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Knowing he is a former police officer makes his words haunting ... "these people were preying on the children, they're preying on the women who they knew were there alone."

And his wife said:"I didn't wait in line for any of the food and water because we were too scared to wait in the lines. There was too much stuff going on. Anytime we went to the bathroom, we went as a team."

19 posted on 09/06/2005 8:24:45 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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Exactly! While people are drowning and dying horrible deaths she is logged onto DU reading and believing all the conspiracy theorists, Bush bashing ,wacko nuts. When people argue that the far left has not taken over the Rat party and that RATS AREN'T DANGEROUS to this country and are fit for office, I will point them toward this idiot woman and the consequences of her non action!


20 posted on 09/06/2005 8:26:08 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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