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> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:57:58 GMT, "Kurtz" <the horror@HG.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> "George Kerby" <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:BF4713B8.27EA6%ghost_topper@hotmail.com...
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 9/9/05 4:04 AM, in article
>> 5ecUe.3726$LZ6.541@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net,
>>> "Kurtz" <the horror@HG.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> "moorehead" <moorehead_johnson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:1126205483.319749.268140@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
>>>>> 
>>>>> CJT wrote:
>>>>>> moorehead wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> dart@board.net wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Bush floats like a turd in New Orleans.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Clinton's turds nearly floated - but then sank.  Too much fat in his
>>>>>>> diet.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> mj
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well, you're the expert ...
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm not exactly an expert on nutrition, but it's pretty obvious from
>>>>> Clinton's puffy face and his gut that he doesn't spend a whole lot of
>>>>> time watching the fat in his diet.
>>>> 
>>>> Whereas Shrub is the fittest resident we have ever had installed by the
>>>> Supremes....
>>>> ( but he IS lookin' a little....twitchy, lately.....) Just keep him away
>>>> from the pretzels, and the segways, and the public, and Pelosi.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> Gotdamit, Kraut!
>>> 
>>> Three and a half hours of solid posts in the middle of early morning tells
>>> all of us that you have other issues besides insomnia:
>> 
>> No, a deep burning RAGE at the complete clusterfuck this misadministration
>> has committed on this country.

And I guess our little kraut would blame this on The President as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/national/nationalspecial/10emt.html

September 10, 2005
Police in Suburbs Blocked Evacuees, Witnesses Report

By GARDINER HARRIS
Police agencies to the south of New Orleans were so fearful of the crowds
trying to leave the city after Hurricane Katrina that they sealed a crucial
bridge over the Mississippi River and turned back hundreds of desperate
evacuees, two paramedics who were in the crowd said.

The paramedics and two other witnesses said officers sometimes shot guns
over the heads of fleeing people, who, instead of complying immediately with
orders to leave the bridge, pleaded to be let through, the paramedics and
two other witnesses said. The witnesses said they had been told by the New
Orleans police to cross that same bridge because buses were waiting for them
there.

Instead, a suburban police officer angrily ordered about 200 people to
abandon an encampment between the highways near the bridge. The officer then
confiscated their food and water, the four witnesses said. The incidents
took place in the first days after the storm last week, they said.

"The police kept saying, 'We don't want another Superdome,' and 'This isn't
New Orleans,' " said Larry Bradshaw, a San Francisco paramedic who was among
those fleeing.

Arthur Lawson, chief of the Gretna, La., Police Department, confirmed that
his officers, along with those from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office
and the Crescent City Connection Police, sealed the bridge.

"There was no place for them to come on our side," Mr. Lawson said.

He said that he had been asked by reporters about officers threatening
victims with guns or shooting over their heads, but he said that he had not
yet asked his officers about that.

"As soon as things calm down, we will do an inquiry and find out what
happened," he said.

The lawlessness that erupted in New Orleans soon after the hurricane
terrified officials throughout Louisiana, and even a week later, law
enforcement officers rarely entered the city without heavy weaponry.

While police officers saved countless lives and provided security to medical
providers, many victims have complained bitterly about the behavior of some
of the police officers in New Orleans in the days following Hurricane
Katrina.

Officials in Lafayette, La., reported seeing scores of cruisers from the New
Orleans police department in their city in the week after the hurricane.
Some evacuees who fled to the Superdome and the convention center say that
many police officers refused to patrol those structures after dark.

"It's unbelievable what the police officers did; they just left us," said
Harold Veasey, a 66-year-old New Orleans resident who spent two horrific
days at the convention center. And in the week after the hurricane, there
were persistent rumors in and around New Orleans that police officers in
suburban areas refused to help the storm victims.

Mr. Bradshaw and his partner, Lorrie Beth Slonsky, wrote an account about
their experiences that has been widely circulated by e-mail and was first
printed in The Socialist Worker.

Cathey Golden, a 51-year-old from Boston, and her 13-year-old son, Ramon
Golden, yesterday confirmed the account.

The four met at the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter. Mr. Bradshaw and
Ms. Slonsky had attended a convention for emergency medicine specialists.
Ms. Golden and her two children, including 23-year-old Rashida Golden, were
there to visit family.

The hotel allowed its guests and nearly 250 residents from the nearby
neighborhood to stay until Thursday, Sept 1. With its food exhausted, the
hotel's manager finally instructed people to leave. Hotel staff handed out
maps to show the way to the city's convention center, to which thousands of
other evacuees had fled.

A group of nearly 200 guests gathered to make their way to the center
together, the four said. But on the way, they heard that the convention
center had become a dangerous, unsanitary pit from which no one was being
evacuated. So they stopped in front of a New Orleans police command post
near the Harrah's casino on Canal Street.

A New Orleans police commander whom none of the four could identify told the
crowd that they could not stay there and later told them that buses were
being brought to the Crescent City Connection, a nearby bridge to Jefferson
Parish, to carry them to safety.

The crowd cheered and began to move. Suspicious, Mr. Bradshaw said that he
asked the commander if he was sure that buses would be there for them. "We'd
had so much misinformation by that point," Mr. Bradshaw said.

"He looked all of us in the eye and said, 'I swear to you, there are buses
waiting across the bridge,' " Mr. Bradshaw said.

But on the bridge there were four police cruisers parked across some lanes.
Between six and eight officers stood with shotguns in their hands, the
witnesses said. As the crowd approached, the officers shot over the heads of
the crowd, most of whom retreated immediately, Mr. Bradshaw, Ms. Slonsky and
Ms. Golden and her son said.

Mr. Bradshaw said the officers were allowing cars to cross the bridge, some
of them loaded with passengers. Only pedestrians were being stopped, he
said. Chief Lawson said he believed that only emergency vehicles were
allowed through.

Mr. Bradshaw said he approached the officers and begged to be allowed
through, saying a commander in New Orleans had told them buses were waiting
for them on the other side.

"He said that there are no buses and that there is no foot traffic allowed
across the bridge," Mr. Bradshaw said.

The remaining evacuees first sought refuge under a nearby highway overpass
and then trudged back to New Orleans.


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