Posted on 09/07/2005 8:08:10 PM PDT by mhking
The Red Cross has confirmed to Fox News Channel's Major Garrett that they had requested permission to take food and medical supplies to the Louisiana Superdome in the hours immediately after Hurricane Katrina's landfall. That request was denied by none other than Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco.
Garrett appeared on Hugh Hewitt's syndicated radio program this evening to discuss the shocking revelation.
MG: Well, the Red Cross, Hugh, had pre-positioned a literal vanguard of trucks with water, food, blankets and hygiene items. They're not really big into medical response items, but those are the three biggies that we saw people at the New Orleans Superdom, and the convention center, needing most accutely. And all of us in America, I think, reasonably asked ourselves, geez. You know, I watch hurricanes all the time. And I see correspondents standing among rubble and refugees and evacuaees. But I always either see that Red Cross or Salvation Army truck nearby. Why don't I see that?The Louisiana Department of Homeland Security is directly under the command and direction of Governor Kathleen Blanco. The same Kathleen Blanco who has whined and blamed the federal government from her perch in Baton Rouge throughout this entire crisis. The same Kathleen Blanco who has stared at cameras with deer-in-headlight-glazed eyes since Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The same Kathleen Blanco who, after being asked about federal help prior to landfall said, "No." The same Kathleen Blanco who rescinded Mayor Ray Nagin's order to completely evacuate the city due to dangerous conditions just today.HH: And the answer is?
MG: The answer is the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, that is the state agency responsible for that state's homeland security, told the Red Cross explicitly, you cannot come.
HH: Now Major Garrett, on what day did they block the delivery? Do you know specifically?
MG: I am told by the Red Cross, immediately after the storm passed.
Was Kathleen Blanco's goal the death of as many of those in the Superdome as possible?
"I think I will email Scarborough and demand he invite you on his show. Something is up with him,"
I think so too something's up with Scarborough. I can't bear to watch him anymore there is so much animosity he has concerning anything to do with the President and his administration.
yeah... only the Good Lord stopped it from happening when the storm changed direction last second!!!
Me thinks he is trying to be like O'Reilly..... A POPULIST
Gov. Blanco sent countless people of color into the "super dome", with no food, water and no established order. She was clearly engaged in a genocidal act. She "hates" people of color, as the Demon-cats always do, and sent these people into a certain hell in a calculated move to destroy them. Oh, the humanity.
Yeah, I think it's a stretch .. but my contention is that the liberals/democrats are so willing to bus black people to vote for them, but when there was danger headed their way, the same black people were not bused out of harms way. I find that so ironic .. I mean .. why would somebody think about that reality.
It may be a bit of a stretch to use the term genocide, but it is not much of one. What she's doing is almost as bad; committing fatal, willful and criminal neglect on a massive scale for political points, not just against President Bush and the feds, but against Mayor Nagin. Not only will she never forgive him for opposing her bid for the governor's mansion, but her fellow 'RATs will never let her forgive him for supporting President Bush.
Before Katrina hit, sure Nagin could have used those buses to get the people that ended up at the Superdome and Convention Center out of the city, but without the shelters Blanco could have and should have opened, I honestly don't know where he could have put them. That does not excuse him for the rest of the cluster<expletive deleted> that is New Orleans that can be laid upon him (leaving those buses in flood-prone areas, not having any significant local supplies for the Superdome/Convention Center, allowing the entire focus to be on the Superdome for days, not having flood-resistant communications for the NOPD, among others).
After Katrina passed, I didn't see Blanco lift one finger to evacuate the Superdome/Convention Center while at the same time she was starving them of supplies. I didn't see Blanco open up any new evacuation sites to help evacuate the Superdome or Convention Center; indeed, I don't seem to recall her or her people having an active role in getting the Astrodume complex used as the eventual evacuation site for those in the Superdome.
I don't know nearly enough about NO politics to fully evaluate this possibility, but it would seem that each dead resident would become a guaranteed vote for Blanco and her fellow travellers.
A bit of a stretch...but Blanco's evacuation plan was unrealistic in evacuating the poorer people of New Orleans.
If only. But on Planet Washington, the Department of Justice is too busy imprisoning 60-year-old comics for selling bongs and yuppie advice ladies on imaginary stock tip charges to bother with little things like this.
ping!
I remember seeing Clinton, Witt, and Edwards coming to Eastern NC after Floyd...............September 1999. Why is this picture stuck in my head, reading this thread.
It does. Indeed, it has 2 of them (#1, a brief description with a link to the video / #2, a larger description via Hugh Hewitt).
I would hate to accuse someone of genocide unless I knew for a fact that this was their goal. I believe that Gov. Blanko has blood on her hands, but not because she wanted those people to die, as much as she wanted to protect her royal hineyness. I've heard that her reason was that she didn't want those people to stay there. So that begs the question, what was she doing? Starving or dehydrating them into leaving? hmmmmmmmmm, she's got alot of 'splainin' to do.
Governor Blanco also had to approve school bus use as they belong to the state.
"And I want to know where all the Homeland Security money the feds sent them wwent. I know $500,000 went to Wesley Clark and James Lee Witt's consulting company."
So James Lee Witt, Bill and President Clinton's bud, had a $500,000 evacuation plan but didn't use it?
I wish I could talk to Bill O'Reilly. I'd ask him exactly WHICH 24 hours he is referring to when he says that our President was 24 hours late. I think those missing 24 hours (if in fact there are any) were the 24 hours it took for Gov. Blanco to pull her head out of her backside, and make a decision.
That's why I'm asking the question -- I don't know that she was, but yes, I'm certainly planting the seed. Make her answer the question.
'I hope they don't find her in Fort Marcey Park.'
Is that anywhere near Bill and President Clinton's place?
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