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Rumors of deaths greatly exaggerated (Superdome, etc)
Times-Picayune ^ | Sept 26, 2005 | Brian Thevenot and Gordon Russell

Posted on 09/25/2005 11:19:46 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort

After five days managing near-riots, medical horrors and unspeakable living conditions inside the Superdome, Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron prepared to hand over the dead to representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.


Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.

"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying.

The real total was six, Beron said.

Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw the turning over of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice. State health department officials in charge of body recovery put the official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four bodies were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources said no one had been killed inside.
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"I think 99 percent of it is bulls---," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. "Don't get me wrong, bad things happened, but I didn't see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: conventioncenter; katrina; superdome
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1 posted on 09/25/2005 11:19:47 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
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To: Leroy S. Mort

I do believe those of us who said the rumors of rape, murder, and mayhem were greatly exaggerated have been vindicated.


2 posted on 09/25/2005 11:21:48 PM PDT by coconutt2000 (NO MORE PEACE FOR OIL!!! DOWN WITH TYRANTS, TERRORISTS, AND TIMIDCRATS!!!! (3-T's For World Peace))
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Hysterical media failed again.


3 posted on 09/25/2005 11:23:10 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: coconutt2000
Considering persons at the Superdome were a subset of the tens of thousands with clearer heads who bugged out of town before the storm hit.
4 posted on 09/25/2005 11:26:25 PM PDT by endthematrix (JOHN ROBERTS vs JOE BIDEN ................... ROBERTS wins TKO in second round!)
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To: coconutt2000

All wrong. What was the name of that idiot whose report of the bodies being devoured in NO was cited on FR? Obviously they have eaten the rest of the corpses, and were running out of them with only 6 left by the time FEMA arrived. Good they did not eat FEMA personnel.


5 posted on 09/25/2005 11:27:19 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: roses of sharon
"Hysterical media failed again."

I think that remains to be seen. While coverage of the hundreds of dead stacked in the aisles of the Superdome prompted cries of anguish and gnashing of teeth (all directed at the Bush administration) from the mainstream media, details of reality are trickling out quietly with little or no media coverage. I mean, why would they cover it? It makes them look bad and makes the Bush administration seem a little less incompetent (by their measure). So has the American public already turned the channel with echoes of "mass deaths" ringing in their ears, or are they still tuned in and looking at our lying media with new skepticism.

6 posted on 09/25/2005 11:33:22 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Rokke
I meant that the hysterical media failed again as serious reporters.

Of course they were highly successful in their slander of a United States President.
7 posted on 09/25/2005 11:39:38 PM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: Leroy S. Mort

Do you think Tragedy TV is going to do a big retraction and mea culpa?

Yeah, I'm sure they'll spend several prime-time broadcast hours explaining how they reported baseless fabrications and rumors as verified facts, and basked in humongous ratings.

< /sarcasm>


8 posted on 09/25/2005 11:41:59 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (In this country unelected judges don't write the laws. We have unelected lobbyists to do that.)
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To: roses of sharon
"I meant that the hysterical media failed again as serious reporters."

I couldn't agree with you more.

9 posted on 09/25/2005 11:42:35 PM PDT by Rokke
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To: Rokke

"or are they still tuned in and looking at our lying media with new skepticism."

I think they're still tuned in and waiting for more information. After all, when you hear from local officials and the media that there have been these atrocities (especially that cannibalism nonsense), you expect to hear about the perpetraters being arrested, more details, etc., and we've heard nothing. I blame the media primarily for promoting this hysteria 24/7.


10 posted on 09/25/2005 11:48:41 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: coconutt2000
I do believe those of us who said the rumors of rape, murder, and mayhem were greatly exaggerated have been vindicated.

No you haven't. This is a strawman argument - who, precisely, was claiming there were "hundreds" dead? I remember reading stories of eyewitnesses, and they only mentioned a handful of rapes and murders; this was confirmed weeks ago by interviewed National Guardsmen who reported about six dead bodies in the Superdome. This story merely confirms again what we had been hearing all along; if you were hearing "hundreds dead" in Superdome, you must have been reading different media than I was reading.

11 posted on 09/25/2005 11:52:13 PM PDT by Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
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To: hsalaw
'I think they're still tuned in and waiting for more information.'

The only problem is that the media can use other events to turn the guided eye of the viewer away from their mistakes. Like Hurricane Rita, where the may be greatly exaggerating damage.
12 posted on 09/25/2005 11:57:45 PM PDT by sonofjoe
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To: Leroy S. Mort

I thought they were just trying to make it homelike--like the
Desire Project.


13 posted on 09/26/2005 12:04:18 AM PDT by RWCon
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To: hsalaw
"I think they're still tuned in and waiting for more information."

That's a good point. But I wonder if the information they are waiting for will ever receive broad exposure. Certainly the idiotic decisions by Nagin during the New Orleans recovery has cast some new public doubt on his competency. And the success of Texas in getting MILLIONS of people out of harms way makes New Orlean's effort look even more pathetic. But I honestly think it will be up to people like you and I to make sure the rest of America is made very aware of how badly they were misled by a media whose sole intent in Katrina was to make the Whitehouse look bad. The fact that 51% of American voters chose George Bush for a second term in office DESPITE the full mainstream media effort against him is some evidence that the MSM can be overwhelmed by other information sources. And just maybe, the most enduring effect of Katrina will be the final burial of a media that finds no inhibitions against lying to push its political agenda. Let's hope so.

14 posted on 09/26/2005 12:05:21 AM PDT by Rokke
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To: Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy
One police officer told Reuters there were 100 people in a makeshift morgue at the Superdome, mostly people who died of heat exhaustion,

Reuters Hysteria

15 posted on 09/26/2005 12:18:53 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Leroy S. Mort

So, reports such as this are lies?
http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,16483597%5E2862,00.html

I don't think so.


16 posted on 09/26/2005 12:21:32 AM PDT by taxesareforever (Government is running amuck)
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To: Leroy S. Mort; mhking
Check it.


If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!

17 posted on 09/26/2005 12:23:47 AM PDT by rdb3 (NON-conservative, American exceptionalist here.)
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To: GSlob
Obviously they have eaten the rest of the corpses, and were running out of them with only 6 left by the time FEMA arrived.

LOL! There were a number of 'statements' that a young female had been raped repeatedly. Sometimes the person was 14 years old, sometimes 6 or 7. I even read one account that a kid's torso had been slit open.

Excuse me, but if that had happened, wouldn't the mother or nearest of kin been all over the TV by now? You know Geraldo and Anderson Cooper would have been trying to kill each other for that story.

I figured very little of what was said to have gone on, including statements by so-called eye witnesses looking for their 15 minutes of fame, actually happened.

18 posted on 09/26/2005 12:40:34 AM PDT by radiohead (Proud member of the 'arrogant supermagt')
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To: Choose Ye This Day

OMG...there must be Zoombies loose.


19 posted on 09/26/2005 12:43:11 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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20 posted on 09/26/2005 12:53:47 AM PDT by Old Seadog (Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
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