Eric, I said it once and I'll say it again, in other words. The media
reports of incompetence and people playing the blame game is just a
whitewash of the fact that this is another real world test case to see
how the american populace react . If the powers to be get away with
taking all this prime coastal property from weak hands, give it to
strong hands ( remember the supreme court recently ruled that
corporations can relieve private property owners of their land if it
is in the best interest of the community.(I'll bet you they only pay
pennies on the dollar. )
Can't get people to leave beacause of flooding, no problem we'll
pollute the crap out of the area.
Gov won't allow the feds to evict people, no problem we'll send in
Hitler in a Bunker to strong arm her.
If they get away with this look for a similar type scenario in Harlem
NY, that real estate is much to valuable to be held by such weak hands.
Remember, people first laughed at Hitler, saying he never could rise
to power. But then Hermann Goering set fire to the Reichstag and
dictatorial powers were granted to Hitler.
Now if you'll excuse me I need to go to the local bookstore and
reshelve George Orwells book "1984" from the fiction & literature
section to the History section. Bless my parents for sending me to a
school were we studied this book in depth.
Conall-
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DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "Eric L. Green"
wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, scott quillen wrote:
> > What upsets me the most is the finger-pointing at the federal
government
> > while many seem quick to forgive those who REALLY dropped the ball -
> > city/county/state officials - those with PRIMARY responsibility to
care
> > for those in their immediate vicinity.
>
> Err, when people are dying and FEMA has control of the resources to
help
> them, I don't give a flying flip about legal BS. FEMA had the
resources,
> and refused to use them for FOUR DAYS because, get this, THE EFFIN'
> PAPERWORK HAD NOT COME THROUGH. My god, what kind of ANIMAL gives a
****
> about legal bull**** when people are dying? What kind of ANIMAL whines
> that somehow it's the LOCAL people who are responsible for FEMA
hijacking
> their resources at gunpoint and diverting them... well, we still don't
> know where FEMA sent Parish President Broussard's water and generators
> that they hijacked at GUNPOINT at the Department and turned around and
> sent them to FEMA warehouses in Baton Rouge because, get this,
"Jefferson
> Parish hasn't filed the proper paperwork that says they need this
> assistance." This was stuff that Parish President Broussard had ordered
> because he was on the ground and he KNEW what his people needed, and
FEMA
> *TURNED IT AWAY! AT GUNPOINT!*
>
> Tell me this is the local people's fault again. Tell me that. How
the ****
> are they supposed to help their local people when FEMA is *STEALING
THEIR
> SUPPLIES!* My God, Parish President Broussard even had to post an
*ARMED
> GUARD* on his communications lines because, get this, FEMA was upset
that
> he'd ordered those supplies for his people without filing the proper
> paperwork, and they CUT HIS COMMUNICATIONS LINES!
>
> And this was Parish President Broussard's fault?!
>
> Help was trying to get in. People were trying to bring supplies in for
> those people, once they learned that those people were trapped in New
> Orleans. The American Red Cross, EVERY DAY, on the Mayor of New
Orleans's
> request, was requesting from FEMA that they be allowed to bring in food
> and water and portable toilets for the people trapped in New
Orleans. And
> FEMA WOULD NOT LET THEM IN, FEMA told them that no, they didn't have
the
> proper paperwork showing that a request had been made for the
assistance
> and thus they couldn't get in. And because there was only one way
for aid
> to get into New Orleans, only one road that was above water, the Red
Cross
> couldn't just say "f*** FEMA, we're going in", because, get this,
FEMA had
> a CHECKPOINT on that one road, staffed by Department of Homeland
Security
> agents, and was turning away assistance *AT GUNPOINT*.
>
> But this is all the victim's fault because, well, the victims, not FEMA,
> turned that help away...
>
> That's wrong. That's just so wrong. So wrong in so many ways. I've
heard
> stories now from THREE PARISHES where they were trying to take care of
> their people, and where assistance they tried to bring in for their
> people, water and food and generators and other supplies, were
HIJACKED AT
> GUNPOINT by Department of Homeland Security goons because FEMA had
> "detirmined that these materials are more needed elsewhere". As far
as I
> know, all that happened was that those materials ended up in
warehouses in
> Baton Rouge until "a proper request on the proper form has been
> submitted". My GOD, this is the LOCALS' fault? That water and food and
> generators and other supplies that they've ordered are being
HIJACKED by
> the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT?!
>
> I do agree with you on one thing: Governor Kathleen Blanco bears
primary
> responsibility for all this. She should have set up a coordination
office
> outside of FEMA (never mind that federal law and Presidential decree
set
> up FEMA as the coordinating agency) and when FEMA started
interfering with
> the ability of local governments to provide for their own, she
should have
> dispatched the Louisiana State Police to escort the aid to where it was
> needed and arrest the DHS agents who were turning the assistance
away. She
> should have told those federal GOONS to get out of her state, and then
> taken care of her people with the generous assistance that was
pouring in
> from around the nation. As my mother put it from where she now is on
high
> ground in Pineville, yes, the state got jacked around by the feds, but
> Blanco let them do it, and Blanco won't get re-elected. But as far
as the
> local guys go? In my book, they are ALL heros. They didn't abandon the
> ship. They were right there, fighting with everything they had, doing
> their best to care for their people. Blaming them because FEMA
turned away
> the help they needed to care for their people because some BS form
hadn't
> been filled out in triplicate... that's just wrong. Just plain wrong.
>
> -E