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MUST SEE: Blanco refused to allow Red Cross and FEMA to bring food and water to Stadium!!!
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Posted on 09/07/2005 3:35:54 PM PDT by NickatNite2003

Just heard on FOX that Blanco refused to allow supplies to be brought to the stadium, "Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water!"""


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To: NickatNite2003
Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water!""

Excuse me but didn't the Gov. Blank-o and Nagging Nagin TELL people to go to the Superdome???? Am I mis-remembering???:)

161 posted on 09/07/2005 4:31:38 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: AGreatPer
Notice the MSM didn't run a survey on "Who do you think is to blame for the current mess?"

Actually CNN did, but I don't think they like the results much. Bush got the lowest ranking, FEMA next, with state and local authorities getting the highest blame ranking.

162 posted on 09/07/2005 4:31:43 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: nutmeg

Shocking disregard for human life. Color me sitting on the floor speechless.


163 posted on 09/07/2005 4:32:04 PM PDT by Peach (South Carolina is praying for our Gulf coast citizens.)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX
Senator Mary Landrieu: Louisiana Low Life Democrat

Maybe little Mary should punch her Governor for not allowing help to get to people.

164 posted on 09/07/2005 4:32:12 PM PDT by IrishGOP
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To: All

September 02, 2005

Subject: FW: New Orleans rescue effort thwarted

My name is Jason Robideaux, I am an attorney from Lafayette Louisiana and have dealt with all of the various law enforcement agencies in Louisiana during the past 18 years. Although I have had a positive relationship with law enforcement personnel throughout the State for many years, I regretfully have a story to share that will shake your head in disbelief about the La. Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries.

A group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette this morning (Weds.) and headed to New Orleans with a police escort from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Department. The “flotillia” of trucks pulling boats stretched over five miles. This citizen rescue group was organized by La. State Senator, Gautreaux from Vermilion Parish. The group was comprised of experienced boaters, licensed fishermen and hunters, people who have spent their entire adult life and teenage years on the waterways of Louisiana.

The State Police waved the flotillia of trucks/boats through the barricades in LaPlace and we sped into New Orleans via I-10 until past the airport and near the Clearview exit. At that time we were stopped by agents of the La. Dept. of Wildlife & Fisheries. A young DWF agent strolled through the boats and told approximately half of the citizens that their boats were “too large” because the water had “dropped during the night” and that they should turn around and go home.

We were pulling a large (24ft) shallow draft aluminum boat that can safely carry 12 passengers and had ramp access which would allow the elderly and infirm to have easier access to the boat. We politely informed the DWF agent that the local and national media had consistently reported that the water level had “risen” during the night which contradicted his statement to us that the water “was dropping” and no boat over 16ft. in length would be allowed to participate in rescue operations.

We then specifically asked the DWF agent that we (and other citizens in the flotillia) be allowed to go to the hospitals and help evacuate the sick and the doctors and nurses stranded there. We offered to bring these people back to Lafayette, in our own vehicles, in order to ensure that they received proper and prompt medical care.

The DWF agent did not want to hear this and ordered us home. We complied with the DWF agent’s orders, turned around and headed back to Lafayette along with half of the flotillia. However, two of my friends were pulling my other boat, a smaller 15ft alumaweld with a 25 hp. The DWF agents let them through to proceed to the rescue operation launch site.

My two friends were allowed to drive to the launch site where the La. Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries were launching their rescue operations (via boat). They reported to me that there were over 200 DWF agents just standing around and doing nothing. My friends were kept there for approximately 3 hours. During that time they observed a large number of DWF agents doing nothing. After three hours had passed they were told that they were not needed and should go home. They complied with the DWF’s orders and turned around and went home to Lafayette.

Watching CNN tonight, there was a telephone interview with a Nurse trapped in Charity Hospital in New Orleans. She said that there were over 1,000 people trapped inside of the hospital and that the doctors and nurses had zero medical supplies, no diesel to run the generators and that only three people had been rescued from the hospital since the Hurricane hit!

I can’t come up with one logical reason why the DWF sent this large group of 500 boats/1000 men home when we surely could have rescued most, if not all, of the people trapped in Charity Hospital. Further, we had the means to immediately transport these people to hospitals in Southwest Louisiana.

On Tuesday afternoon, August 30, Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee asked for all citizens with boats to come to the aid of Jefferson Parish. A short time later Dwight Landreneau, the head of the La. Depart. of Wildlife and Fisheries, got on television and remarked that his agency had things under control and citizen help was not needed. Apparently, Sheriff Lee did not agree with that assessment and had one of his deputies provide the Lafayette flotillia with an escort into Jefferson Parish.

Sheriff Lee and Senator Gautreaux – 1000 of Louisiana’s citizens responded to your pleas for help. We were prevented from helping by Dwight Landreneau’s agency, the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. When I learned that Charity Hospital has not been evacuated and that no one has been there to attempt a rescue, I became angry.

The “turf-marking” by some minor state agency should never take priority over the lives of citizens!

Signed,

Bewildered and Frustrated,

Jason Robideaux

Attorney At Law

1005 Lafayette Street

Lafayette, La. 70501


165 posted on 09/07/2005 4:32:28 PM PDT by anglian
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To: All

Okay, how about governatorial Olympics

We get Blanco to do a lap 'round NO in the nasty water.

Hey, I'd pay good money to see that. All funds going to pay for the funerals of the people she killed.

(Please note: while my response is flippant, I believe that Blanco is looking eterity in hell!!)


166 posted on 09/07/2005 4:32:28 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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To: Cboldt

The buck stops with the Governor! She failed. F minus!


167 posted on 09/07/2005 4:32:40 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; Doctor Raoul; ...
Posted by NickatNite2003:

Just heard on FOX that Blanco refused to allow supplies to be brought to the stadium, "Because they wanted all those people to leave, and they didn't want to create a magnet to bring others there, by bringing in food and water!""

http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html

From the Red Cross website (link above):

Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?

Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.

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.

168 posted on 09/07/2005 4:32:47 PM PDT by nutmeg ("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
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To: prairiebreeze

I don't understand.
Are they saying she wouldn't let them in right after the hurricane when people COULD leave and she wanted them to leave, OR later in the week (last week) when folks were stranded and could NOT leave, or THIS week when they can leave and she wants them to leave?

BTW, I DO hold her and Nagin responsible for criminal negligence.


169 posted on 09/07/2005 4:33:04 PM PDT by Muzzle_em (I'm an island awash in a sea of stupidity)
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To: moose2004

I think it's more than 3 - there was also the "forged documents" issue and the "military targets reporters" issue .. those are the 2 that come to mind at the moment.


170 posted on 09/07/2005 4:33:13 PM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: pieces of time

Also, don't forget that Republican candidate Woody Jenkins probably beat Mary Landrieu for the Senate a few years earlier, but the same political shenanigans happened, so the wrong person was sworn in there too.


171 posted on 09/07/2005 4:34:11 PM PDT by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Osage Orange

I'm talking about one particular ignorant young man who I believe would like to change that description. Naw, not really, I want to rub his face in it because this was the argument he tried to use.


172 posted on 09/07/2005 4:34:24 PM PDT by tiki
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To: CyberAnt
So .. the way I see it .. if the FEDS were late - Blanco was to blame .. not the FEDS.

In more ways than one. She refused to admit there was civil unrest in NOLA. That too delayed:

Rescue at a hospital
Flotialla for search and rescue (being shot at)

... for 24 hours. And in the midst of this civil unrest, innocent people are being killed, raped, maimed, and generally made to suffer torment. Just so she could put on a happy face and say "everything is going to be just fine, there is no serious unrest."

And there will be no repurcussion that matches the malfeasance. She'll resign and have a cushy rest of her life, at worst.

173 posted on 09/07/2005 4:34:30 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: NickatNite2003
Old news. Red Cross babe told O'Reilly that last night and Larry King last week.

Gov is a dipwad... of course the whole state is crooked.

Here is the list from another Free Republic Thread on the subject:

Louisiana politicians convicted of crimes includes a governor, an attorney general, an elections commissioner, an agriculture commissioner, three successive insurance commissioners (one was MSNBC, Campbell Brown's father), a congressman, a federal judge, a State Senate president, six other state legislators, and a host of appointed officials, local sheriffs, city councilmen, and parish police jurors.

And we know that the prior mayor's office has a whole lot of people under investigation and the Feds demanded $30million back from the State in April this year for flood control money that was mis-spent.

174 posted on 09/07/2005 4:34:38 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Ann Archy
.."No one before Major Garrett bothered to ask the Red Cross WHY they didn't show up???...
Senator Leahy, here's your answer to your rantings, courtesy of Fox News. I know Fox stumbles sometimes, but they're the only voice of legitimate TV journalism left out there. The major public relations issue remains who left those people in NO w/out aid for so long. It was again the Gov's state cronies. This issue needs to be pressed full force forward.
175 posted on 09/07/2005 4:34:46 PM PDT by Shqipo (And so the great battle starts...)
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To: Cboldt

I have video of the segment here:

http://thepoliticalteen.net/2005/09/07/garrettblanco/


176 posted on 09/07/2005 4:34:52 PM PDT by ianschwartz
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To: IMRight

He stated that it was the La. Home Land Security that issuied the statement. Also said it was under the direction of the Gov.

I have never heard David Gregory so upset, you could heard it in his voice. I would say he was ANGRY.

If you missed Britt this evening, try to listen to him when he comes back on later tonight.


177 posted on 09/07/2005 4:35:17 PM PDT by frannie (Be not afraid of tomorrow - God is already there!)
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To: Xenalyte

Actually .. it's not the "majority" of women who watch Oprah - it's the liberals who watch her because she sides with their issues.


178 posted on 09/07/2005 4:35:35 PM PDT by CyberAnt (America has the greatest military on the face of the earth.)
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To: spectre
There were no logical answers for why the food and water wasn't there..It HAD to be deliberate.

Other than people shooting at those trying to bring it in. Or did you mean why it wasn't in a designated shelter area to begin with? The answer is that the 'Dome was a shelter of last resort, intended only to shelter from the wind and rain of the storm itself, not a refuge from the rising waters of a levee break. When the levees broke and the water started rising, they still had those buses, some of them just over a mile away, that could have been used to haul people out of there... assuming they didn't shoot at the buses.

179 posted on 09/07/2005 4:35:36 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: IMRight

I heard Major report this - we need to find out WHO in the LA dept of homeland security made this call.


180 posted on 09/07/2005 4:35:38 PM PDT by RDTF
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