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 isn't a 'who can invent the craziest conspiracy theory' competition...
""Is this the same Red Cross that compared Gitmo to the Gulag? Sounds about right. The higher ups just straightened ""
see, thats my thought exactly, why trust the RedX with anything these days? of whom are they a political arm? When I see "Red Cross" I kind of gloss over it as not a factor in anything.
THINK! What was their motive? Why did they stop the Red Cross? Why didn't they let the aid trucks through? We don't have to guess, we know, they told us. They stopped the aid from going through because if conditions in the Superdome and the Convention Center improved, more people might be tempted to go there... and fewer would be inclined to leave. They explicitly wanted to prevent conditions from improving. That is DELIBERATELY MAKING THINGS WORSE.
From my recollection it was the Red Cross. I think we all know (or should know) about amnesty int'l and their agenda.
what is scary is that we have come to that point.
If my house was on dry land I would not be leaving either. I am no survivalist, I don't trust the NO authorities to not try and demolish all and appologize later.
The more they can demolish QUICK the more their corrupt developer buddies can come in and force desperate ordinary people out at fire sale prices.
That poor neighborhood in the way of your yuppie cookie cutter association development? Condemned and gone! Mom and pop own a strip mall in the way of your new condo complex project? Condemned and gone!
Nagin wants people out by force, Blaco wants people out by denial of help.
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.
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These two puppets, Blanco and Nagin aren't shifty and cunningly evil enough to pull this sort of hat trick off in order to make (fill in the blank) look bad. It does however, have shades of Hillary and her anti-American Euro-weenie clique(Soros) ALL OVER IT.
Tom, I can't say, given this situation that perhaps that particular restriction doesn't make sense for a temporary time, however, if I was there, my piece would stay with me regardless of any decree. Its like in DC, the criminals have guns, the citizens get preyed upon because they don't.
I guess it just means if the guard offs you and you are holding, that there is no problem. It would be a tough choice. We need to watch out for those who want to make this permanent now that there is a foothold, so to speak...
LA had & has a standing government & because of it they maintain full jurisdiction over any and all federal action within their territory. It wasn't just in the name of "bipartisanship". It was & is the law of the land. I see no power given to the federal government to override a state's standing government in your link, though I'll admit, I only skimmed it. Please direct me to the page where you see otherwise.
we need pictures of those pre-delivered supplies.
the MSM will not budge without pictures.
We have it all planned...the fires we'll fan
Press pals will blame it all on Bush
It is all laid out...just watch how it plays out
From all directions we will push
Bobby will launch a blow...sit back and watch the show...now
We'll stab George in the back and claim that he hates blacks
We will scream that he's a zero...we will stop Salvation Army trucks
They will not get their supplies to the Superdome
Partisan warfare...do you think we care
Without our power we feel dead
This is a battle...and his cage we'll rattle
Psychotic hatred must be fed
Howard will give his scream...he's whacked-out as it seems...yeah
Hillary, wicked witch, will prove that she's a b*tch
All together now -- we will scream that he's a zero...we will stop Salvation Army trucks
They will not get their supplies to the Superdome
Our power was taken away...in 1994
We don't like the way things have gone since then
You d*mn neo-cons, you will see what's in store
We will scream that he's a zero...we will stop Salvation Army trucks
They will not get their supplies to the Superdome
We will scream that he's a zero...we will stop Salvation Army trucks
They will not get their supplies to the Superdome
Really, though, could it be the ultimate in beaurocracy? And we are seeing it in its mos evil form? So much red tape that even a truck can't pass through a checkpoint without documentii???
I find myself more and more making the comment under my breath, while waiting in line, or on hold, or dealing with DHS on something, "man, this is worse than in Russia"
It ain't pretty
The only alternative, I think, might have been to go to the 5th DCA for an emergency order to allow the feds to interceed.
I really wish we had a tape recording of blanco's telephone conversations with the feds. They would be "special."
Rush and Hannity both get plenty of information from FR and other Conservative sites. The talking points of the day are easy enough to find so I doubt that Hannity is playing "copycat reporter" to Rush. If Hannity was on before Rush, I suppose people would say that Rush was copying Hannity? LOL :)
I'm sure Blanco wanted people to suffer so they wouldn't wanna stay in the dome, but it's a reach to say Blanco intended people to die of dehydration there. IMO, every single death due to dehydration in an area where the Governor prevented relief is murder & it was murder through depraved indifference.
It was the International Committee of the Red Cross, not the American Red Cross.
Yah! They weren't really trying to get to those in the Superdome == they didn't care very much. ;>
Really? Because according to their 2004 tax return, they took in $3.065 billion and paid out $3.173 billion. They sure "absolutely required" a lot of expenses to keep those donations coming in... more expense than income, in fact.
If anyone can come up with any proof that the American Red Cross has engaged in crass politicalization (I'm really pretty sure it was Amnesty International who called Gitmo a gulag), I will apologize and bitterly regret my $1,000 contribution. Until then, please stop smearing a charity, thanks.
Really, though, could it be the ultimate in beaurocracy? And we are seeing it in its mos evil form? So much red tape that even a truck can't pass through a checkpoint without documentii???
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