Posted on 09/08/2005 1:16:11 PM PDT by Politicalities
Folks, I'm sorry for the semi-vanity post, but THIS NEEDS TO GET OUT THERE. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell perfect strangers. Tell everyone. Frankly, I'm absolutely stunned that this isn't the top article on every single news site. I'm stunned that the blogosphere isn't buzzing about nothing else. Why hasn't this gotten the attention it deserved?
In short: the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security BLOCKED THE RED CROSS from bringing desperately needed food, water, and supplies to the Superdome and the Convention Center. This was done to deliberately make conditions worse. Why? Because they wanted people to evacuate, and I guess they figured that if the people there had the luxury of, say, CLEAN WATER, they'd be less likely to leave. So they made a willful decision to starve and dehydrate the people in the Superdome so they'd be miserable enough to leave... or, if they were weak, miserable enough to die, as a few of them did.
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. Check the Red Cross site:
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?
- 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.
Governor Blanco doesn't deserve electoral defeat. She doesn't deserve impeachment. She deserves to sit in prison for the rest of her life... or to hang by the neck until dead for inflicting on Americans what would be considered an atrocity if Americans inflicted it on anyone else.
And while this was going on, both the Mayor and the Governor were crying, "Where is the food? Where is the water?" The food and the water were sitting on trucks which were prevented from delivering them by the State of Louisiana.
Tell everybody.
THis was murder.
I do seriously believe that Blaco concerns were centered about her maintining her authority as governor of the state of LA rather than actual help to the people
The disaster relief command was "AN ISSUE" she needed to claim. The issue of actual relieve was irrelevant to her. In her eyes as a democrat, that would sort itself out and she could spin anything to her advantage.
Look now as they try to evacuate people from the non-flood areas, they are going to try and "starve people out" too.
The military says they will not do that, Nagin wants people out by force, Blaco wants people out by denial of help.
There were deliberate and contumacious steps taken by the Governor to maintain her authority. She acted with thought as if she were hearding cattle.
It is truly amazing the foresight that this president has had in planning for disaster preparedness. How many people are aware of the National Response Plan that the president implemented late last fall? Has this even been mentioned by the MSM? (rhetorical question - of course not... catering to the grade-school attention spans of their audiences)
http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRPbaseplan.pdf
DHS or FEMA didn't have to wait for the local governments requests or lack thereof, and I'm kind of appalled that they let a corrupt governor take over their sphere of authority.
The administration has been way too deferential to corrupt local officials in the name of "bipartisanship" ... and their (let's just say the heads of FEMA and DHS) lack of spine is doing a disservice to the president.
Was this the Greta(?) Bridge?
Okay, really LOL! That was pretty dang funny.
Is this the same Red Cross that compared Gitmo to the Gulag? Sounds about right. The higher ups just straightened them out on what party is in power in Louisiana.
More like flesh & bloods vs 'pods'.
It was a STUPID idea not to water them to "encourage" them to leave. What made it CRIMINAL and MURDEROUS was that THEY DIDN'T FREAKING EVACUATE THEM AND THEY WOULDN'T LET THEM OUT!!!!!
Do not confuse the Red Cross, which does good work and is (mostly) apolitical, with Amnesty Internation, which is a joke. Thank you.
What that the overpass to neighboring Greta(?)
The Red Cross is a fund RAISING organization. They only spend their cash when absolutely required to keep the donations coming in.
Dems are siding with those who want to destroy America in the War on Terrorism...what's to say they wouldn't do their little part to crash down the system?
Many of them really believe we shouldn't be the only Superpower...that we are too powerful.
They also said last year that we should be paying $3-4 dollars a gallon for gas like they do in Europe. Who's to say that they wouldn't do their little parts to bring down the gas system, like thwarting new refineries and new oilwells?
As if New Orleans didn't have enough "Victims" before Katrina stomped through.
bookmark bump
Homicide - death at the hands of another human. Murder, I agree with your sentiment 100%, but it won't fall there I don't think. Of course we know the only accountability may be political, however otherwise the possible array could be from negligent homicide on up.....
What about mass negligent involuntary manslaughter? If enough of us, or enough people pursued this, could it happen? Wanna find out? Count me in
The Houston Chronicle has an excellent article outlining the failures of Local New Orlean's and Louisiana politicians during Hurricane Katrina. It even includes a picture of the unused buses. You may find the article here: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3344347
man, just a general comment but I was thinking where would we be without the right and the ability to bear arms.
And they are surprised that people refuse to leave their homes NOW after all that's happened? They paint the people who are staying as unbalanced or stupid but they're really knowing that as soon as they leave everything they have will be stolen by the hooligans in uniform. My God if ever a city needed to be taken over by the Feds, this is the time.
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