Posted on 09/06/2005 8:02:07 PM PDT by kingu
Any freepers want to lend a hand to proving this to be a fraudulant account?
At the very least, these 'EMS' workers should be ashamed for not offering their services at relief centers and hospitals that were calling for help. And supposedly there was a conference of EMS workers? What a boon this could have been for those in need of seeing medical profesionals.
I'd really like to know if anyone can even verify that there was such a conference.
Kudos to the real EMS who did.
They would love Cuba.
"Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreen's store at the corner of Royal and Iberville streets remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing. The milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat. The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers, and prescriptions and fled the City."
Those bastards.
Locking up their own property!
That's not very socialistic!
How do you know it is an honest account?
I guess he left ever so quietly.
What were your previous handles, and what did you say?
Perhaps if you said, we'd know whether or not to take you seriously.
well, that was a quick canning of your troll butt!
He's back in post 9 as "tyusro".
"The hatred disguised as righteousness is putrid"
so is your b.o.!
The Socialist Worker site that this LArry Bradsaw is part of (I noticed that he spelled his name wrong in the heading, to no doubt inhibit google searches) is promoting Geaorge Galloway's US tour of lies. I wonder if they are helping fund it, or if Galloway is using his oil-for-food scam money that saddam gave him?
I just received this thing via e-mail without any indication of who wrote it.
There does appear to have been an EMS expo which ended on August 27th. It is credible that some would have stayed over for an extra weekend.
That having been said, this reads a lot like the kind of BS urban legend story you often see on the Internet. There are too many "politically aware" asides in the document to take it at face value as a first-hand account.
I also think there may be problems with the timeline of events described here.
My biggest WTF moment in reading the story is the $48/head fare for an emergency bus to take them out of the city.
Also, it's troubling that a letter purportedly from attendees of an emergency medical services expo has so little "professional" commentary on emergency treatments provided during the ordeal, but so much political commentary. This is very odd.
I'm not going to say at this point it's definitely bogus through and through, but I think some healthy skepticism is warranted.
"Most of us had not eaten all day because our C-rations had been confiscated at the airport because the rations set off the metal detectors"
C-rations???
What, they dipped into korean war supplies to feed them?
AFAIK mre's don't have anything in them that will normally set off a metal detector.
This entire account is so bogus. Notice the only "good" people they encounter are the blue-collar laborers. Even got a dig in about the GWOT which had NOTHING to do with the aid to New Orleans. Superdome/New Orleans code words for poor/black? Were these EMS people poor and black?
and he's gone again!
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