Texas rescue team for Haiti stands down
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — An elite search and rescue team from Texas will not fly to earthquake-devastated Haiti and has been demobilized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
The Texas Engineering Extension Service in College Station on Monday said the United Nations mission in Haiti has declared that search and rescue teams in the country are sufficient.
Texas Task Force One was called up by Gov. Rick Perry on Thursday, two days after a massive earthquake rocked the Port-au-Prince area.
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HA??! The UN told Search and Rescue that ‘units on the ground were sufficient’???? The news does not read accordingly. And meanwhile, Obama is dithering in Massachusetts. He should be skewered.
This needs to be sent to Drudge. Absolutely disgusting.
I may be way off base here but here goes: Anyone want to bet this team is not made up of the "right kind of people"?
This reminds me of years ago when I was volunteering year round, for three years, to teach tennis to inner city kids in New Haven, CT. Virtually all of the coaches were white. Then, when the tournament here decided to stop funding the program, the local people took over the program. All of the white coaches were told that they weren't needed anymore. They wanted to keep it "local" they said.
Within a year the program completely fell apart. I never went back and never would. To heck with them.