Posted on 08/17/2006 8:54:25 AM PDT by Mr. Brightside
Rove uses the Diebold machines to start the lightening! LOL
I have just one question: where was he?
Don't you see, none of what happened to the people in and around NOLA is their fault.
It's always someone elses fault.
If the court makes the municipal government responsible for evacuating everyone when a hurricane is imminent, it would cost the taxpayers billions. It would require thousands of buses and alternative housing for tens of thousands of people.
I would've loved it if he'd tried to sue the hurricane.
I think this is interesting, not because the city and state are getting sued, but because the Feds aren't getting sued along with them.
Thank you for your sensitive remark....
These people did not have transporations to leave when the hurricane was coming..........
Here is a portion of the article from the New Orleans Times Picayune (dated 9/3/2006) that will answer most of the the other questions and comments that followed your post
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Freeman, who wore a pacemaker and a feeding tube, was fine immediately after the hurricane, her son has said. But after waiting more than three days for rescuers or medical help that never came, the woman fell into distress, dying Sept. 1, 2005, shortly after asking her son when the buses were coming, Herbert Freeman said.
In August, her son filed wrongful death lawsuits against the city, state and federal governments, accusing them of causing his mother's death through negligence.
Herbert Freeman had to leave his mother's body in New Orleans when he was ordered to evacuate from the Convention Center and sent to a shelter in Birmingham, Ala. He tucked a piece of paper with his name and phone number near her hands before he left her, he said.
Leaving his mother alone was something Herbert Freeman had never done before. After living next door to his widowed mother for years, he eventually moved in with her.
He was her constant companion until her death outside the Convention Center, where he said police officers told him to go after he used a borrowed boat to get her from their Third Street house to the dry ground of St. Charles Avenue. From there, he pushed her to the Convention Center......
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He had no choice...
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