Trapped Son: 'People Are Dying Here'Son Trapped in New Orleans

[Judi Lynn]

Trapped Son: 'People Are Dying Here'Son Trapped in New Orleans Hospital Describes Desperate Conditions to Father in Montana
By SARAH COOKE Associated Press Writer
The Associated Press

HELENA, Mont. Sep 3, 2005 — A college student stuck in a flooded New Orleans hospital described desperate conditions in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, telling his father of dozens of dead patients and describing a makeshift morgue in an operating room.

Erik McCall, 23, spoke with his father for the first time late Thursday from Methodist Hospital, where he and his mother have been since she was called in to work there last weekend as a nursing administrator.

What attorney Terry McCall heard from his son was heart-wrenching. McCall provided a recording of the phone call to The Associated Press on Friday.

His son, a University of New Orleans student recovering from appendix surgery, told him patients were just starting to be evacuated by helicopter Thursday night. At least 40 had died since the hurricane made landfall, and food and water were scarce.
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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1093152

[jus_the_facts]

1. ..and here's what Homeland Security looks like on the streets of N.O......

[Plausible]

2. what country does that look like?

what other hurricane struck area has been "aided" with that kind of show of guns and force?

[myrmenki]

3. one of the most apalling photographs I've ever seen

A bunch of white guys in full armour, guns ready for what appears to be your average African disaster area population.

If the picture was from an African country, and the guys on the truck were UN, the picture would be "normal". But this is supposed to be a developed nation, you know, first world country, wealth and democracy and all that.

Until this week, I didn't know racism in the US was so ... sorry, I'm out of (decent) words. This is incredible.

[jus_the_facts]

4. Welcome to DU....this is homeland security facism at it's finest.....

...doubt this picture is bein' shown on Fox News repeatedly...the reality that..the terrorists have won....and they are us.