Mayor Nagin: 10,000 Counts of Manslaughter

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 10 September 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[Graymatter]

Don't reveal the ending!

[Brilliant]

It says:

D. Regional Transit Authority

* Supply transportation as needed in accordance with the current Standard Operating Procedures.

* Place special vehicles on alert to be utilized if needed.

* Position supervisors and dispatch evacuation buses.

Sounds like it was the Governor's agency that was supposed to do it.

[Congressman Billybob]

There was a dinner theater near Baltimore that used to put the story of Li'l Nell on every Saturday night. I knew the guy who played the part of the villain with his Snively Whiplash mustache and cape. He vastly enjoyed interacting with the audience that hissed and booed his every move and word.

John / Billybob

[dfwgator]

Grant Nagin immunity if he testifies against Blanco. She is the real killer here.

[Congressman Billybob]

Yes, I've read the Louisiana Plan. In a previous article, I quoted and cited Paragraph 5 on Page 13 about the use of public buses. In this article, however, I wanted to force people to look it up themselves, so they'd have zero doubt that what I said was true.

John / Billybob

[ChefKeith]

Hi there fedscum TROLL

BTW

[Congressman Billybob]

Yes, I've read the Louisiana Plan. In a previous article, I quoted and cited Paragraph 5 on Page 13 about the use of public buses. In this article, however, I wanted to force people to look it up themselves, so they'd have zero doubt that what I said was true.

(My message to you didn't post, last time.)

John / Billybob

[.cnI redruM]

Silly Army National Guard, they left their Chefs and Wait staff back at the armory mess hall.

[mhking]

Blanco needs to be party to these counts as well - she does NOT get a pass here.

[spunkets]

Nagin changed the plan to house them in the dome.

"10,000 counts of manslaughter"

Ridiculous. Those folks chose to stay on their own.

[TheDon]

In an interview with Fox News last night, the LA Gov accepted full blame for not evacuating NO before the hurricane.

She said that while the NO Mayor had given a mandatory evacuation order as of Sunday, which had not been rescinded, only she had the power and resources to actually implement the evacuation. She said she was still trying to decide if she would enforce a mandatory evacuation.

It is her belief that only she could have ordered a mandatory evacuation of NO, and she did not.

[Solamente]

Is manslaughter the same as negligent homicide? I woulda thunk n.h. would be the charge.

[miele man]

OK. I see your point but I don't expect them to look it up themselves. We already know they are beyond lazy.

[TheDon]

As floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina began to slowly recede with the ruined city's first pumps returning to operation, Nagin late Tuesday authorized law enforcement officers to force the evacuation of the estimated 10,000 residents who refuse to heed orders to leave.

But in a Wednesday interview with FOX News, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said she had not signed off on the decision.

"The mayor certainly has ordered that but the governor, and that would be me, would have to enforce it or implement it. We are trying to determine whether there is an absolute justification for that," she told FOX News.

[JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT]

Off LaHwy 30, is the small town of St. Gabrial. It has little post office there. The town hardware store is one of the best I have ever seen. As of Tuesday, the town has a new morgue capable of handling 8000 bodies. The forensic team stationed there includes many of the same people brought in after 9/11. Six miles up Hwy 30 is the LSU campus.

[rit]

1:11 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu took to the Senate floor Thursday to accuse the federal government of failing in its "greatest responsibility" -- protecting the lives of Americans after Hurricane Katrina left New Orleans flooded.

"Let me be the first to take the blame," Landrieu said, before chiding President Bush for saying soon after the storm that no one anticipated the levies that protect New Orleans from flood waters would have broken. "Everybody anticipated a breach," she said.

Let's see... a Cat 4/5 storm heading for your cat 3 max levees, and nobody used the public (mass transit/school) buses to transport the thousands who she knew had no means of other transportation, and on top of that, everybody anticipated a breach. How again is that Bush's fault?

[JUMPIN JEHOSPOHAT]

con't....
The Saturday football home game has been moved to Tempe, AZ, becuase the P-Mac (basketball stadium) across the street is being used as a hospital. Tickets will be honored in Tempe.
Armed army troops are stationed at the Box (baseball stadium). There are vehicles of every kind everywhere: military trucks, 18 wheelers, rescue trucks (saw one from Lake Zurich, IL),busses, dump trucks, and New Orleans cars (easily identified by all of the dents).

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The entire interview is worth reading, but the bombshell is that the Red Cross had people and supplies in place in New Orleans, and that FEMA, who is charged with working with the Red Cross and other private entities, could not authorize them to begin work.


Read on . . .

Sep 8th, 2005: 14:29:14



According to Garrett:


The Red Cross was ready. I got off the phone with one of their officials. They had a vanguard, Brit, of trucks with water, food, hygiene equipment, all sorts of things ready to go where? To the Superdome and convention center. Why weren't they there? The Louisiana Department of Homeland Security told them they could not go.

Why not? Garrett again:



The Red Cross tells me that state agency in Louisiana said, look, we do not want to create a magnet for more people to come to the Superdome or convention center, we want to get them out. So at the same time local officials were screaming where is the food, where is the water? The Red Cross was standing by ready, the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security said you can't go.

Garrett was later interviewed by radio talker Hugh Hewitt [transcript, very much worth reading, from Radio Blogger].


Garrett to Hewitt:



I think they are. I mean, and look. Every agency that is in the private sector, Salvation Army, Red Cross, Feed The Children, all the ones we typically see are aggrieved by all the crap that's being thrown around about the response to this hurricane, because they work hand and glove with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. When FEMA is tarred and feathered, the Red Cross and the Salvation Army are tarred and feathered, because they work on a cooperative basis. They feel they are being sullied by this reaction.

Hewitt later asked:



I also have to conclude from what you're telling me, Major Garrett, is that had they been allowed to deliver when they wanted to deliver, which is at least a little bit prior to the levee, or at least prior to the waters rising, the supplies would have been pre-positioned, and the relief...you know, the people in the Superdome, and possibly at the convention center, I want to come back to that, would have been spared the worst of their misery.
Garrett replied:



They would have been spared the lack of food, water and hygiene. I don't think there's any doubt that they would not have been spared the indignity of having nor workable bathrooms in short order.

http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/9/8/142914/9010

[RedhairRedhair]

I don't understand..the Jambalaya MRE is a South Louisiana favorite and it makes good farts.

[don-o]

Congressman,

As usual nail meet hammer. Well said. Ray is trying to lay it off on the weepy Governorette, who is trying to lay it off on the President.

It is obvious as the usual suspects blather on, they are erecting their own gallows. The volume of spin and lies vs the FACTS is going to be pretty amazing.

Is there any legal maneuver that would allow a private citizen of Louisiana to file charges, should the Prosecutors lack a pair?