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The Red Cross leaders have said on the Larry King show that the La Homeland Defense People have kept them out of La..

Below is reply to this thread where shield links us to the Red Cross's site and they detail that they have been kept out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479829/posts?page=56#56

SEE WHAT THE RED CROSS SAYS ON THEIR WEB SITE:
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?

Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard* and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.

The STATE Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.

http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html

56 posted on 09/07/2005 8:26:31 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)

As the guy once told me, there's something stinky in Denmark. The officials of the State of Louisiana prevented the Red Cross from bringing in supplies. During Britt Hume's initial interview with Major Garrett, the subject of "security" wasn't brought up. All that Major Garrett mentioned was that the Louisiana officials denied the Red Cross's request because they wanted to evacuate the people.

If the State of Louisiana wants to backtrack, and claim there was a "security" issue, I want to know who it was that was searching and using a wand on the people entering the Superdome. It sure as hell looked like they were "security" to me!

And if the Louisiana Officials were directing people to the Superdome, and there was no security, even though "security" was searching people, then it was negligent to direct them to a place with no "security." (This sounds like "Catch 22." "Yes Yossarian, the "security" personnel searched people, but we had no "security" on duty.")

Senator Leahy was livid that people were being denied basic supplies, when the news crew could get in, but supplies couldn't. Well, he needs to read FreeRepublic, or watch FOX NEWS CHANNEL, because there is reportage that supplies were available, they could have been delivered, and a lot of suffering could have been avoided.

Instead, people weren't evacuated, they were directed to a hell hole with no "security." Because the "security" didn't constitute "security," supplies were not allowed to be brought in. And because relief supplies were denied, people suffered. And BTW, the press could get in, but helicopters couldn't. I guess it was because there was no "security," or "snipers" or something like that.

The net result, is that ill informed or negligent decisions were made, and people were needlessly subjected to monstrous and hellish "living" conditions for a lengthy period of time. And THAT, as President Bush might say, is "unacceptable." The actions of the officials of the State of Louisiana are similar to what Mugabe, or Castro, or Saddam Hussein might have done. In fact, this could have been a U.N. operation, because it was so negligent, incompetent, and unconscionably cruel.