QUICK!! Its a matter of life and death. We've got to warn the evacuees not to get in a car with this guy.
Posted on 09/10/2005 5:43:27 AM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
On Cape Cod, evacuees share tales of horror: But 7 sex offenders ID'd among Katrina refugees
By Joe Burns/ Upper Cape Codder Saturday, September 10, 2005
BOURNE - As they settled into their new home at Camp Edwards less than 24 hours after many were rescued from New Orleans, 209 evacuees wept tears of joy and despair.
But seven of those evacuees, whose criminal pasts in Louisiana would qualify them as registered sex offenders in Massachusetts, received a ruder welcome.
The seven males, none of whom was identified by name, were segregated from the families and children who arrived at Camp Edwards.
Public Saftey spokeswoman Katie Ford said local police and state police are aware of who the individuals are and are working to classify them this week. An eighth man, John Kitchens, 46, of New Orleans was arrested on a warrant. No details on any of their criminal pasts were provided.
The other evacuees told of the ``rotten fish'' smell, the pestilent mosquitoes and the dead left floating in the streets - and gave thanks for their new home on the Cape.
``I don't want to go back,'' said Antasha Love, one of the ``guests'' at Camp Edwards in Bourne, who include 25 children and 22 pets.
Meanwhile, refugees from the storm praised the people of Massachusetts, with a few specifically thanking Gov. Mitt Romney yesterday as they told of facing down death.
Retired Marine Elvert Shaw, 52, wasn't thinking yesterday about when he'd get back to the Big Easy. ``We're enjoying ourselves here. The governor's good,'' he said of Romney, who has helped oversee the temporary housing operation.
All of those who arrived here on two airliners were never told their destination when they boarded the planes. But with their once-carefree city a toxic mess, these refugees had no choice but to flee. ``The water came upstairs . . . I was scared,'' said 6-year-old Keyontay Dimes, who bravely faced the press.
Meanwhile, some of the newcomers from New Orleans made outraged accusations of racism, memories of being torn from their homes fresh in their minds.
``They pumped water out of million-dollar neighborhoods and pumped it into African-American neighborhoods,'' said Garren Essex of New Orleans. ``They flooded history - New Orleans black history.''
Yesterday, it all seemed like a bad dream.
Gracie Beauvais, 71, eased into a lawn chair with the help of military officials and described how she stood in the murky waters three hours waiting for her daughter after the storm had passed.
``I thank God that I'm alive. That's the best thing. Once you're alive from a storm like that,'' she said, pausing, ``I survived every storm that ever came.''
Reporters always have an agenda, don't they.
Welcome to Massachusetts. Your 'rat party registration is now active.
Found a few in Utah too...but this is to be expected when you got people moving like that. What is surprising? All the people with police records to stay in NO and drown?
QUICK!! Its a matter of life and death. We've got to warn the evacuees not to get in a car with this guy.
Are the registered sex offenders being housed at the Kennedy compound
Targeted water pumping. Oh, the humanity!
No... in MA we place them next to the schools & day-care centers.
Have pity on me. I live here. the fat whale as a neighbor, now this.
Oh, woe is me.
Maybe you should ask overfed Ted if you could borrow a bottle .... it might help
Down here we don't believe every thing we read or hear. The people of Massachusetts should beware.
Why didn't anyone stop that man right there and correct the idiocy of that statement? No, just quote it verbatim as a fact and put it in the article.
Gee, I thought that the pumps had quit working when the electricity went down. Guess I was wrong and that all that water in downtown NO came from the white neighborhoods. (much sarcasm dripping)
Must be true, it's all the talk at DU.
They aren't ID'ing them here in TX that I know of, heck lets get them in those nice neighborhoods and fast maybe no one will notice.
Keyontay - and her sister Marcha
Water flows downhill due to gravity. The low-lying neighborhoods are located right next to the levees so they would naturally fill with water first when a levee breaks. Eventually if the leak goes on long enough, the water level rises until the higher neighborhoods begin taking on water too.
It's called gravity. Obviously a concept that DU and the race warlords cannot grasp. No one ever pumped water into any neighborhood...duh. All pump outlets go into the canals.
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