Finding the Devil in New Orleans

[tw]

from the NY Times of 2 Sept 2005
Troops Bring Food, Water and Promise of Order to New Orleans
H.L. Whitehorn, a spokesperson for the Louisiana state police, asserted that some New Orleans police officers were turning in their badges and leaving. He said that the officers that he personally knew who had resigned did so because they had lost everything in the storm and subsequent flood and saw no purpose in patrolling streets where they risked being shot by looters or thugs.

Why bother? Days later, the Federal government and FEMA (who was in operational control days previously) still sent no help. Just as in Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged", the most competent people simply walk off the job when the government and management (George Jr) are totally incompetent. Show me otherwise. Show me.

Review the facts. On Monday, George Jr promised - before TV cameras - that 400 trucks were enroute with food and water. ABC News repeatedly reported how people were not being fed in the Superdome and Convention Center for days. On Thursday in one of the few news reports that truly grilled the irresponsible, Ted Koppel asks Michael Brown, Director of FEMA, why that food still was not delivered. Brown said FEMA only discovered the problem on Thursday - three days later. Whereby Koppel asked him if FEMA ever listened to news reports. Brown also did not answer that question. ABC News and numerous others were reporting for days that tens of thousands of people were not being fed or watered. FEMA did not know! More daming details. Go ahead you radical Bush supporters. Show me. Show me where any of this is in error.

Imagine how angry those Ted Koppel eyes were as he calmly interviewed a man who let so many Americans die. His name is Michael Brown. He works for George Jr. In a more responsible society and if they worked for corporations, then these two men would be indicted for criminal neglect.

So when did food finally arrive? Today - Friday. IOW it took another day after FEMA 'learned of the problem' for food to be delivered? Show me where that demonstrates competence at the highest levels of government? Show me. What was President Cheney doing all this time?

Now you tell me. People who got no water, no rescue, had no way out, and were sometimes sitting next to dead bodies; some began firing weapons. This even got attention of the Cellar where posters asked why? Why? How many more days were these people suppose to wait wihtout food and water as the mental midget president demanded? At what point do they decide they were lied to? Ironic. 400 trucks that were enroute with food must have been coming from Maine and Washington. It took four days!! So food finally arrived just as the President arrived for his press photographs. Sarcastic coincidence? The president is talking about rebuilding Trent Lott's porch while people were still dying.

Let's not forget those tarmacs at Louis Armstrong International airport (in adjacent Kenner LA) chock full of C5A and C17 transport planes with food, water, and medical supplies. Oh. The planes were never dispatched.

Show me. Show me where any of this is incorrect. If I told you this story two weeks ago, you would say it is only fiction. The incompetence is that egregious.

BTW where did Laura Bush go for her press photographs? Lafayette LA - a town I watched on Weatherbug as not one tree fell down. But then the Bushes hope you don't know that little fact. Its all about the spin - screw the people. Cheney knows they are not Republicans. Just too many coincidences.

Well, tw, I'm with you on this one. The entire thing just makes me sick at heart. All of it - from the refusal to spend money keeping the levee's repaired and pumping stations in good order to Bush whining that "WE never thought the levee's would fail," in the face of that catastrophic National Weather Service Forecast, to the incompetent and non-existant rescue efforts.

There you have it, folks - life in the US under Junior's Republican government. Welcome to the third world! Frankly, I think what this country needs is a nice asassination or, at the very least, an impeachment.

[Elspode]

This'll teach those fuckers to donate to the Republican candidates next time, huh?