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Kathleen Blanco who, after being asked about federal help prior to landfall said, "No." The same Kathleen Blanco who rescinded Mayor Ray Nagin's order to completely evacuate the city due to dangerous conditions just today.HH: And the answer is?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?
Well said. While Blanco is probably incompetent, it does conservatives no good to wallow around in the mud using Jesse Jackson-type histrionics.
Murder.
And I ask again, did Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin intend to kill those people?
Regardless, those deaths are on their hands, and no amount of moonbat screaming will change that.
Another question... NBC's Brian Williams and crew from the NBC nightly news spent the night in the superdome, ( the mayor orderd all the "poor" folks into the superdome) shortly afterward the next day or so he reported "conditions deteriorating rapidly here in the superdome".... Why didn't he jump up and down like a hyena with his ass on fire and demand the mayor do something??
Two words: negligent homicide.
bttt
Ping....
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BLANCO = GORELICK
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#$#@!#
Earth to the nation: You get what you vote for.
Was she protecting something/someone on the west side of New Orleans?
EMTs from CA share their experience in NO. (Take it with a grain of salt: They're shop stewards aka organized labor junkies.)
BTW, which lawyers do you suppose? Nagin's own personal lawyers, the city's lawyers, or both? Inquiring minds want to know, especially if Nagin's using muni legal help for personal work.
And her name means "white" so if she were a Republican it would be an open-and-shut case.
"Was Kathleen Blanco's goal the death of as many of those in the Superdome as possible?"
This kind of comment just makes a person sound like a blithering idiot.
That's what I want to know."
Some will be quick to assume she did everything she did for a reason, in this case; perhaps to cause an even greater catastrophe, and then blame Bush.
I, on the other hand cannot credit any dimwitted democrat with that much intelligence. Rather, I think she is stupid and incompetent, therefore almost every move she made is wrong simply because of who made it.
"In one case, all but one nurse evacuated and left the patients on their own! Truly tragic!"
That's not tragic. That's sinful, disgusting, barbaric, murderous, heinous.
This is tragic... I was six years old, playing at a friend's house when I heard my Dad's voice. I looked up and there he was on national television, the first deputy sheriff on the scene at the following disaster. Have we come such a little distance in 42 years? I don't think so. What we have today is a classic definition of malfeasance \mal-FEE-zuhn(t)s\, noun:
Wrongdoing, misconduct, or misbehavior, especially by a public official.
Title: A Description of Organizational Activities In the Fitchville, Ohio Nursing Home Fire
Authors: Anderson, William A.
Quarantelli, E. L.
Keywords: Fitchville, Ohio
Fire
Organizational Activities
Issue Date: 3-Aug-1964
Publisher: Disaster Research Center
Series/Report no.: Research Notes/Report;8
Description: In the early morning hours of Saturday, November 23, 1963, a fire completely obliterated the Golden Age Nursing Home in Fitchville, Ohio, killed 63 patients and routed 21 others plus a night staff of three attendants. Four firemen were injured in fighting the blaze. Only one other nursing home fire in the history of the country resulted in more victims. In terms of its spatial impact, the event clearly was not a community disaster. Still, it seemed to the Disaster Research Center that at least on a descriptive level something could be learned in this situation about: I. Disaster responses in an institutional setting; and 2. Organizational reactions to disasters in a non-urban area. However, the basic purpose of the field trip was to give members of the DRC staff further experience in an actual disaster situation. Thus, the description below is the by-product of a training mission and should be treated as such. On the afternoon of the fire, two research assistants of the DRC arrived in the area to observe the activities of organizations in this crisis. After visiting the site of the fire Saturday evening, they spent Sunday informally interviewing about a dozen individuals associated with the disaster involved agencies. An attempt was made to interview personnel in each principle organization that participated in the emergency operations. Among those members of the local sheriffs department, State Highway Patrol, and Salvation Army, as well as volunteer firemen.
URI: http://dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/1317
Appears in Collections: DRC Research Notes/Report Series
http://72.14.207.104/search?q=cache:Ed6gUrphIyEJ:dspace.udel.edu:8080/dspace/handle/19716/1317+fitchville+nursing+home+fire&hl=en
That's even worse...Yuck!
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