Posted on 09/02/2005 2:22:21 PM PDT by joinedafterattack
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Thanks for the responses. I have to admit I am rather furious at the moment that the media is portraying the mayor as some sort of victim of the federal government. While I think the federal goverment was slower than they should have been given the magnitude of the impending event, the source of trouble ultimately traces itself through the governor, the local goverment, and eventually to Nagin and the New Orleans Emergency Operations Office. While other parishes seem to have been miserably underprepared, it is the situation in New Orleans that is currently the most dire, all due to the sheer volume of people that were left in the city. By not evacuating those necessary people out of the city prior to the storm (rather than after it), all other operations that typically take place on the federal level in terms of hurricane relief have been severely compromised. Rescue efforts and food dispersals that should be allocated to more isolated areas in surrounding parishes must now be spent on more than 100,000 people (in dangerous conditions) that should have been 50 miles west in Baton Rouge on Sunday in shelters. There they would have received the necessary treatment days ago and had power and telephone service.
I have faith that in the coming days and weeks that responsible news organizations will expose Nagin and his sham emergency operations manager Terry Ebbert for their inexcusable neglect. In an ideal world they would be brought before a court on charges of neglect but I'm not holding my breath.
Great find.
Just got back from vacation out west. But my wife and I stayed up-to-date on all that is happening. It is obvious to me that neither the mayor nor the governor of Louisiana has any degree of competence. No coincidence that both are Dems. The recent insane hysterical statements from the mayor confirm my view of his total inadequacy. From what I've heard and read there was NO!!! worst case scenario plan at all...inconceivable as it sounds. But of course it must be Bush's fault for not being there personally to manage things and hold their hands. (/sarcasm)
I think there was a lot of things straightened out today between the feds and the locals.
Found this FWIW. The article was Sunday 25
Sorry if this already posted.
I'm sure it was posted someplace around here. Keep it handy to counter the LeftStreamMedia/DemonRAT talking points though.
True....but anything short of sending the military in and forcing the citizens out at gunpoint would have been useless. Some were NOT going to leave...no matter what. :(
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Thanks for the heads up, Grampa Dave!
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Just occured to me what kind of precedent would be set if the feds could move in pre-emptively before a potential disaster struck. Would even liberals want big brother to have such power?
I'll keep looking for the time of the call. I enjoy playing super-sleuth and the web is my magnifying glass. :)
Good one.
Nothing a Republican President ever does will be alright.
Clinton actually had Americans killed at Waco, many of them black and children, which the press never pictured, and I don't remember the press expressing any outrage whatsoever. None.
The president actually does pre-planning for a hurricane, declares a state of emergency on Sunday, calls the Mayor and Governor to encourage a full evacuation, puts the full forces of the federal goverment behind the relief efforts, and he's the one the press goes after.
And it's racial, according to them.
This president who has more minorities in his administration than any other administration in our history is called a racist.
I am beyond sick at the racial rioting that the press is trying to stir up in this country. Between this new specious race angle and gas prices and lines and shortages, the press is just reveling in it and remembering the 70's. They are malignant narcissists who should be dam* for the rest of their natural lives.
The DUmmies don't care. It's just yet another inconvenient fact that conflicts with their agenda.
Amen
TOday I had a MD I work with we asked me why didn't Bush do something sooner will with that I went off needless to say and I am sick of all the racist tones the media is spitting out. my question is where is John Conyers or Maxine Waters COnyers is always trying to get reparations for slaves yet haven't heard or seen him to help his people or where is the people who make the blue water spots for the damn illegals why aren't they there for the united states citizens and also, this is what happens when you teach people to depend on the government and not fend for themselves they are totally unprepared.
Presumably the mandatory evacuation would have kicked in, you know, the EVACUATION PLAN. Which may have involved, say, 1500 soon to be submerged school busses for people who don't have transportation.
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