Re: FEMA's wonderful job

On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 19:56:23 -0400, Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:


>Er, when did they not let the Feds in? The locals sent out desperate
>calls to the Feds, again and again. The Feds kept not showing up.
>Rather, for reasons that appear to have been ideological and
>political, the Bush Administration abrogated its leadership role in a
>major crisis:
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Gov. Kathleen Blanco's Bureaucrats Blocked Food and Water
September 08, 2005

Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2005 11:52 p.m. EDT

Gov. Kathleen Blanco's Bureaucrats Blocked Food and Water The Red
Cross was ready to deliver food, water and other supplies to
flood-ravaged refugees who were sweltering inside New Orleans'
Superdome last week - but the relief was blocked by bureaucrats who
worked for Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco.

Fox News Channel's Major Garrett reported Wednesday that the Red Cross
had "trucks with water, food, hygiene equipment, all sorts of things
ready to go ... to the Superdome and Convention Center."

But the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, Garrett said, "told
them they could not go."

"The Red Cross tells me that Louisiana's Department of Homeland
Security said, 'Look, we do not want to create a magnet for more
people to come to
the Superdome or Convention Center, we want to get them out,'" he
explained.

"So at the same time local officials were screaming where is the food,
where is the water, the Red Cross was standing by ready and the
Louisiana Department of Homeland Security said you can't go."

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All Headline News - "We Were Kept From Superdome By State" - September
8, 2005

Update: Red Cross Says "We Were Kept From Superdome By State"
September 7, 2005 7:01 p.m. EST
By Douglas Maher
All Headline News Staff Reporter

Washington, D.C. (AHN) - A report on Fox News from correspondent Major
Garrett Wednesday night reveals a major break into what exactly went
wrong at the Louisiana Superdome in the days after Hurricane Katrina
struck the city.

An American Red Cross representative tells Fox News that the Louisiana
State Homeland Security Department refused the relief organization
permission to take food and water to the Superdome because they did
not want to "encourage people to go there."

The State office of Homeland Security wanted to get people out and
were afraid that providing support would be a "magnet" attracting more
displaced citizens of New Orleans.

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