Posted on 09/08/2005 1:16:11 PM PDT by Politicalities
Folks, I'm sorry for the semi-vanity post, but THIS NEEDS TO GET OUT THERE. Tell your friends. Tell your family. Tell perfect strangers. Tell everyone. Frankly, I'm absolutely stunned that this isn't the top article on every single news site. I'm stunned that the blogosphere isn't buzzing about nothing else. Why hasn't this gotten the attention it deserved?
In short: the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security BLOCKED THE RED CROSS from bringing desperately needed food, water, and supplies to the Superdome and the Convention Center. This was done to deliberately make conditions worse. Why? Because they wanted people to evacuate, and I guess they figured that if the people there had the luxury of, say, CLEAN WATER, they'd be less likely to leave. So they made a willful decision to starve and dehydrate the people in the Superdome so they'd be miserable enough to leave... or, if they were weak, miserable enough to die, as a few of them did.
I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP. Check the Red Cross site:
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?
- 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.
Governor Blanco doesn't deserve electoral defeat. She doesn't deserve impeachment. She deserves to sit in prison for the rest of her life... or to hang by the neck until dead for inflicting on Americans what would be considered an atrocity if Americans inflicted it on anyone else.
And while this was going on, both the Mayor and the Governor were crying, "Where is the food? Where is the water?" The food and the water were sitting on trucks which were prevented from delivering them by the State of Louisiana.
Tell everybody.
Bingo! They are already confiscating guns in anticipation.
They are going door to door confiscating firearms right now. There's a thread about it.
I don't remember where I heard or read it, but something gave me the impression that Blanco is not taking any phone calls from Nagin. While Cheney is in LA, he should try to get Nagin to change parties. LOL
It was the Lousianna Department of Homeland Security that told the Red Cross they could not go in.......NOT the US Department of Homeland Security.
I would greatly appreciate it.
Disease. What good is their stuff gonna do for them, if they catch something fatal while they stay to protect it? Before the storm hit, there were cases of West Nile & other things in NO, which are difficult enough to deal with in communities with when all of their medical facilities are up & running.
I thought those cards were supposed to be fixed somehow so they could only be used for certain things...and that did not include liquor.
Thanks for the ping/post and comment(s). BTTT.
FEMA did not hand over reins of authority. The state....any state, including Louisianna is in charge from the get go. State's rights. If a situation becomes so out of control that the state cannot handle it, then they can REQUEST assistance from the appropriate federal agencies.
Generally the agency the Governor will first go to is the National Guard in their state. The guard does not have policing authority, but they can do rescue etc.
FEMA is not a rescue organization, it is not a first responder organization. It is an organization that works to coordinate agencies such as the Red Cross, all the faith based organizations, volunteers etc. to provide relief, rebuilding etc.
The Governor of Louisianna and the Mayor of New Orleans messed up from the get go. It took President Bush personally calling them to even get them to issue a mandatory evacuation. But even when they did that, they did not follow their own plan, which was to use the buses to get people out of town that could be taken out, then the superdome was ONLY to be refuge for those who were too affirmed to leave via bus. Instead they basically sent everyone to the superdome, telling them to take food and water with them, also blankets etc.
In short, the DUmmycrats in charge in LA had to destroy the city to save it.
bttt
Nagin's power never extended beyond his jurisdiction, which means he had the legal ability to shuffle deck chairs within the Titanic.
http://www.legis.state.la.us/lss/lss.asp?doc=85673
Without Bush Hate there will be no Liberal Media story.
Bush hate is more important than facts.
What are the dems going to say about that! Well, on Brit Hume's show tonight on Fox, Moira Laisson on NPR said, "Oh, let's not blame the local and state authorities! There's plenty of blame to go around, including the feds!" Fog, fog, change the subject, and blame Bush.
He already did, actually. Ex-Republican who switched to the Democrats days before filing to run for mayor. Gave money to George W. Bush and Billy Tauzin.
But I don't want him on my side. He's every bit as incompetent (and out of his depth) as Blanco.
I'm not a Republican, so his party affiliation wouldn't put him on *my* side anyway. Yes, I understand your position, but... He prolly figured there was no way the good people of Norlins would have elected a Republican, so jumping on to the donk plantation was the only way he'd get into office there.
As far as the question of depth... there certainly seems to be a need to be deep in something to be in office in LA. The man needs to climb out that slime. It is the least he can do for his constituents at this point.
I suppose he could have used all of the buses in the city and ditched his population on the border of his jurisdiction, telling them to walk across the line, but beyond that, physically evacuating people in his city would have required Blanco and/or the state's legislators to do more than just put all kinds of power in her hands.
Anyway, I think his political career is dead, so if he switched parties, it would free him up to spill everything he knows about the graft & corruption going on in that state, which is why I think an attempt should be made to lure him off of the plantation.
If that is true; then she is only again. . .showing what a worthless 'leader' she is. . .
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