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Kathleen Blanco who, after being asked about federal help prior to landfall said, "No." The same Kathleen Blanco who rescinded Mayor Ray Nagin's order to completely evacuate the city due to dangerous conditions just today.HH: And the answer is?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?
Is it? I've spent the last few days, beating them up on this forum for using that kind of language. Have you? I don't think it's "OK" for anybody to be using that kind of language.
Let me, or someone else here, turn the tables ever so slightly, and there's so much hand-wringing and gnashing of teeth from everyone under the sun.
Your complaint would have more credibility if you hadn't been conspicuous by your absence from the threads about Jesse Jackson, Kanye West, et al.
Personally, I don't think race had anything to do with what happened there.
Wow! I agree with that. Is negligent homicide a capital crime, though? (I honestly don't know, IANAL. And I don't live in Louisiana.)
Finally, I pinged you to that last post as a courtesy; it was primarly a reply to the other two.
The party that wants to blame everyone else, sue everyone else, and investigate everyone else never hesitates to invoke a gag order to protect their own sorry butts.
Of course they push the gag order after they have poisoned the well waters of public opinion with days of lies, spin and their mantras re their side of the story.
Her actions are inexplicable. Is it her hatred for GW Bush was so much that she was willing to have people die so she could blame the deaths on the administration? That's pure evil.
I don't understand why they had people waiting for HOURS to get into the Superdome when they could have used that time to open up the southbound highway lanes and put those people in school buses to get away from the storm.
Let's not forget they used the Superdome twice before and conditions deteriorated rapidly both times. They knew EXACTLY what would happen.
How nice of you to put a gag order on this thread.
I'm sure the liberals will respond in kind.
"Gag order"???? WTF are you talking about?
Me too.
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that sentence in my last post should really be switched around. :) Let me rephrase:
That Blanco refused to have supplies in the Superdome is very chilling in light of the fact that they had disastrous results--twice before--when they used the place as a hurricane shelter.
There. That's better. :)
You know, telling everyone what they can or can't say on this thread, that's what I'm talking about.
That's a gag order from you.
It's already been suggested that the democrats may be engineering the biggest land grab since the Louisana purchase in New Orleans, but I suppose you don't want that discussed either.
It's such overwhelming incompetence by NOLA officials. It is so starkly bizarre, Occam's razor, keeps popping into the backbrain of my own mind.
Is this "incompetence" or something else?
The "anything for politics, anything for a win" strategies, rhetoricisms of the left -- keep rebounding in backbrain in re the Katrina Disaster.
I pray it isn't so. I pray it is mere incompetence, corruption, et al, in re NOLA officials and their allied Dem buddies.
Nah, she's just a weak leader.
Bingo.
If you have actual evidence, fire away!
If you don't have any, you just make yourself (and those around you) look like idiots.
Thank you.
You'd be surprised about how many threads about Jackson, West and everyone else I've been on in the past week.
I've been going after more than my share of people this week -- far more than I ever care to. I don't envy the Mods' job here, not one bit.
Ethnic-cleansing could also apply.
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