Posted on 09/03/2005 9:23:57 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since last Sunday.
"How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?" exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.
The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Every pane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.
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Apparently you are as illiterate as Dr Marten.
There were interviews of the Tourists who were left behind by Hyatt and Hilton who had no transport, the hotel workers abandoned them. They paid 30K for busses to evacuate themselves and the busses were taken by NOLA officials and FEMA to evacuate others.
They paid for their own evacuation. Damn straight they should be first.
Dr Marten is posting from China and must not be reading the threads or have access to anything but the MSM.
they paid for the own evac immediatly and the National Guard halted it for those in the superdome.
This was a practical decision. These people don't need housing, they just need to get out of town and back to wherever they came from - in several cases, foreign countries. A Spanish MP was stuck there and finally got out and is on his way back to Spain now, for example. Tourists are not multiple-needs people. They only thing they needed to do was get out of town, which most of them had been trying to do, but unlike the city, the airport closed a day early and they were stranded. They had hired and paid for the buses themselves, btw.
Furthermore, NO does not need to be burdened with having to provide security for them, since most of them were probably white or at any rate, not black, and hence were targets.
I've noticed this article posted several times today by some of our more - er, provocative - posters. Any reason for that?
I can agree that they were targets and should have been removed ASAP, but couldn't the mayor have found a way that wasn't such a slap in the face to people (who were not the thugs) who had been waiting so long. (A roundabout route? Maybe he could have had the police take them out in handcuffs so they wouldn't look like they were being favored?)
bttt
Yes.
I live in Tennessee. I just talked to my neighbor and he's out shopping for a pump shotgun today. He and I agree we are this far (holding two fingers an inch apart) from total anarchy in the United States.
We have millions of people in this country who are irresponsible and believe they are entitled to pillage and plunder at the slightest inconvenience to their lives.
Even on this site, we have plenty of looting apologists.
I'm so sorry about the looting. :-)
From what I heard, this was a group of people (mostly foreign tourists) who had raised money to charter buses to take them out of the city, but when the buses arrived, the "governor" commandeered them for use in evacuation efforts. So you could look at like these people finally getting what they had paid for.
Well, if you get the white tourists out of ground zero, it's much easier to paint a picture of only poor blacks getting screwed. This is necessary for urban Dim demagoguery.
I would guess that paying customers come first, even in situations like this. Probably the Hyatt paid to get their customers to the front of the line. It was their obligation to do so, really.
LOL. It does pay to read the whole article.
I can't confirm it, but I was told that Hyatt paid a fortune for those buses to evacuate its guests and employees. If that's the truth, perhaps that explains it.
Excuse me ... "the evacuation was interrupted briefly" ... no it wasnt, they were simply part of the evacuation...
More class-baiting reporting.
It boggles my mind that it would take more than 24 hours to clear out the superdome, when games can clear out in about an hour or so.
So I take this 'news' as wretched piece of divisive rhetoric.
I guess my question is who hired the school buses? If it was the Hyatt Hotel group then yes they are from their customers not those awaiting for the government transportation to arrive.
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