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Louisiana authorities DELIBERATELY MADE THINGS WORSE
Various (see article) ^ | 9/8/05 | Various

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?

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.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Louisiana; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: blanco; cary; conventioncenter; katrina; louisiana; neworleans; redcross; superdome
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To: longtermmemmory

Bingo! They are already confiscating guns in anticipation.


141 posted on 09/08/2005 5:17:18 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: InsureAmerica

They are going door to door confiscating firearms right now. There's a thread about it.


142 posted on 09/08/2005 5:19:44 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: cricket

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


143 posted on 09/08/2005 5:19:45 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: null and void
New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms as Water Recedes
144 posted on 09/08/2005 5:21:17 PM PDT by null and void (Does my life *really* need a sarcasm tag????)
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To: Republican Red

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.


145 posted on 09/08/2005 5:24:48 PM PDT by HannaUSA
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To: All
Could someone please point me to the article where Nagin tells New Orleanians, "they are on their own."

I would greatly appreciate it.

146 posted on 09/08/2005 5:26:56 PM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: johnb838
why would they leave now?

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.

147 posted on 09/08/2005 5:27:22 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: mmercier

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.


148 posted on 09/08/2005 5:29:04 PM PDT by HannaUSA
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion; Politicalities

Thanks for the ping/post and comment(s). BTTT.


149 posted on 09/08/2005 5:36:06 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: podkane

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.


150 posted on 09/08/2005 5:39:13 PM PDT by HannaUSA
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To: Politicalities

In short, the DUmmycrats in charge in LA had to destroy the city to save it.


151 posted on 09/08/2005 5:40:17 PM PDT by Cautor
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To: Politicalities

bttt


152 posted on 09/08/2005 5:40:37 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: HannaUSA

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


153 posted on 09/08/2005 5:45:36 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: Lee'sGhost

Without Bush Hate there will be no Liberal Media story.
Bush hate is more important than facts.


154 posted on 09/08/2005 5:48:25 PM PDT by Revererdrv
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To: Politicalities

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.


155 posted on 09/08/2005 5:49:00 PM PDT by hershey
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To: GoLightly
While Cheney is in LA, he should try to get Nagin to change parties. LOL

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.

156 posted on 09/08/2005 6:18:16 PM PDT by Politicalities (http://www.politicalities.com)
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To: Politicalities
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.

157 posted on 09/08/2005 6:56:31 PM PDT by GoLightly
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To: HannaUSA
>> 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.

That is what Jay Severin was screaming about. He claimed they were simple debit cards with a 2K balance usable anywhere for anything.

Apparently news of these cards being issued at the stadium caused a reverse evacuation as people headed back there to get one.

Again, this is something I heard on talk radio today, I have no confirmation of this and no source other than him.

I rot in traffic for an hour a day lately and he is on the clicker. http://www.wtkk.com/showdj.asp?DJID=5854
158 posted on 09/08/2005 7:00:12 PM PDT by mmercier
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To: GoLightly
"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."

If that is true; then she is only again. . .showing what a worthless 'leader' she is. . .

159 posted on 09/08/2005 7:04:32 PM PDT by cricket (.Just say NO U.N.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
As usual, your thread/post makes more sense than anything else reported.

Days before this tragedy I predicted what the "professional victims" would do and say and my posts were removed, the threads were removed and I was chastised by fellow freepers.
DU did a number on me and I was chastised again.

I correctly predicted (before the levy broke) almost exactly what has happened since. The City, Levy Board and State Government preferred to count their chickens, they were already spending the Federal (FREE MONEY) that they were going to get. The Welfare recipients (7 and 8 continuous Generations! thought they were going to cleanup too, which is why they didn't leave. Doing the right thing, the smart thing means that you take responsibility, these folks know that to accept responsibility means that you don't receive that means you PAY.

The media is complicit and you point it out better than I ever could, I can see it, you know how to say it.

Kudos again for an outstanding post

TT
160 posted on 09/08/2005 7:54:42 PM PDT by TexasTransplant (Ogden contact Texas Transplant)
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