I'm watching a New Orleans station's news....

[Baclava]

WWL Channel 4...

They're now in Baton Rouge, but still have reporters doing 24hr coverage...it's a sister station to one of my local channels out of Mobile that has given them air time....

They have a piece on the mayor of Slidell, he's ripping FEMA up and down...

...saying they're refusing to let in supplies and generators and threatening to seize contractors equipment because of their "stupid, ignorant, regulations"...

"If they do that, they better bring weapons because I'll be godammed if I'm gonna give anything up to a bunch of Feds"

"I'm really pissed off and they better start doing things that make sense and quit all this horseshit that doesn't mean a dammed thing to anybody except some bureaucrat in Washington"


Cool dude.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Another mayor losing his cool at the Feds. Very telling.

Do we have this on audio?

[Baclava]

9. Live TV

I have it on Tivo, does that count?

[Pirate Smile]

20. We have to get it to the National Media. This Administration has

to be shamed into doing anything. We need to get this out. BushCo is more worried about PR and they now have all their talking heads out trying to blame the Governor or the Mayor. To them this is a PR problem (from what I've seen) and the only way to get them to do anything is through bad PR.

[BQueen]

22. contact crooksandliars

and see if you can upload to their site. Widely read.
www.crooksandliars.com -- on left side is a link to send tips to John - click it to email...

[Baclava]

24. Thanks

It was widely reported in the area - haven't seen the story nationally.

[12345]

2. what the hell is going on?

[Eloriel]

16. Here's what I think is going on

and I'd encourage people to read the material before rejecting it out of hand, there's a LOT of evidence in this thread:

ATTN DU RESEARCHERS -- LIHOP/MIHOP evidence stacking up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4588088&mesg_id=4588088

[delen]

3. There has been a

Apocalypse Now feel about the whole thing. I remember the mayor of NO saying they couldn't get anything done because of "too many cooks" apparently things haven't improved much.

[Beam Me Up]

5. Oh, no, it has gotten MUCH MUCH WORSE. Have you heard THIS interview?

New Orleans mayor:

http://podcast.abovetopsecret.com/atspodcast_62.mp3

[delen]

12. Thank you

I had heard the last part but not all of the interview, Mayor Nagin said what needed say'n

[Spazito]

4. Here is another local story with more about FEMA and it's

crap:

JP's Maestri said FEMA didn't keep its word

Mark Schleifstein
Staff writer

Jefferson Parish Emergency Preparedness Director Walter Maestri said Friday night that the Federal Emergency Management Agency reneged on a promise to begin relieving county emergency preparedness staffers 48 hours after Hurricane Katrina hit the New Orleans metropolitan area.

Maestri’s staff has been working almost around the clock since Katrina approached the Louisiana coastline on Sunday. Today, the staff is
expected to finally switch to a 12 hours on/12 hours off schedule, he said,
adding that they’re both tired and demoralized by the lack of assistance from federal officials.

“We had been told we would be on our own for 48 hours,” Maestri said.
“Prepare to survive and in 48 hours the cavalry would arrive.

more

http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html#076438

It seems now that bush has gone back home, FEMA is still doing NOTHING.

[CottonBear]

10. Bu$h will burn in hell for this. He must hate Americans. n/t

[Stephanie]

6. You know that didn't happen in New York

When it first happened, all the steelworkers started marching downtown hoping to rescue trapped people and those guys stayed down there for the duration, lots of them. And the second night, Wednesday night, I was at Chelsea Piers which was a staging area and people kept showing up, like a mountaineering rescue expert just arrived in the middle of the night on a bicycle - he was shown right in to join the rescue workers. The morgue asked for volunteers and hundreds showed up. People with expertise who showed up to volunteer were set to work. Of course this was before Homeland Security.

[Baclava]

11. Same thing - all the help they're getting is local

But they're being hampered by the Feds "red tape".
Unreal.

[ananda]

21. white v. black

The people killed in the 911 attacks were mostly white and affluent, or white affluent wannabes. Also, it was easy to demonize the "other" after this event and exploit it for political gain and to wage an endless war on terror.

One possible reason that it took so long for Bush to respond to the NOLA tragedy is that the feds had to think of a way to keep it in military hands and turn the people of NOLA into "insurgents" and "refugees," so that it would look more like a war and make Bush look good when he stepped in to calm the waters, so to.. gag.. speak.

It's sooo sick.

Sue

[CottonBear]

7. My in-laws just bugged out of St. Tammany Parish (Lacombe, LA)

We finally talked to them for the first time since last Sat. We only knew they were OK due to a ham radio message relay to phone/landline to our neice last Monday.

They are all Bu$h voting, independent and highly armed. We love them anyway and they love us even though we are Democrats. But now, we just want them to be alive and OK. Maybe they will not ever vote Republican ever again. We hope to speak with them tomorrow when they are safe in Lexington, KY.

God have mercy on them all. and us too. CB

[KT2000]

8. Do you think their regulations

have been designed to protect the profits of their contractors? say Halliburton??

There are too many stories of people attempting to deliver goods and services (the people with boats that were told to pay for their own gas; the convoy from Canada) and being turned away. I smell profits at risk and i will bet the regs for FEMA have been changed to protect them over the victims.

[CottonBear]

13. We must have a massive protest on Sept. 24th all over the USA

and throw their asses out of the White House during the 2006 elections. :grr:

[Baclava]

14. Policies and procedures come first...

Checklists
Authorized Inspectors
We Are Smarter Than You
Local Yokels need not apply

[CottonBear]

15. My local yokel brother-in law welded together the fucking Superdome

which withstood the hurricane. It' s too godamn bad he died of cancer last Nov., but I'm so glad he did not live to see this. He was a master union welder who worked with a company that operates giant construction cranes. He was also a generous person who would have done more than all of FEMA to help total strangers in need. That just the way Mr. Benny was.
:cry:
The citizens of the entire region are skilled workers and union men and women, fisherman, engineers, scientists,teachers, clerical workers, plant workers, farmers and musicians and artists and professionals of ALL sorts.

They built NOLA, LA, MS and AL and the surrounding areas and they should rebuild it.

FUCK HALLIBURTON AND BUSH TO HELL.

[lostnfound]

19. Halliburton has ALREADY been given a contract due to Katrina..

for rebuilding some naval facilities.
http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/news/hurricane_katrina.html

Contracts for Halliburton are a higher priority than survivor rescues, apparently!

[suegeo]

25. I think it's because they want people to develop loyalty...

I think it's because they want people to develop loyalty to the Godfather, George W. Bush.

If people get help from anywhere else, they might not have to worship their only benefactor, their Godfather, Bush. Their cabal is the only cabal in town that can help, so you better fall in line if you want to live.

They must grovel to Bush and the republicans for help. No one else is allowed, because then people won't feel they need to return a favor or offer their loyalty to Bush.

There is a massive mind fuck going on right now, just as there was after our government allowed us to be attacked on Sept. 11. The govt of Bush is sick and they want total control. Submit to the CAPOs or be crushed. You are with them or against them. THE END

[enough]

17. kick

[Nothing Without Hope]

18. So they're not just making people suffer and die in New Orleans.

No surprise. Horrible that it's no surprise at all.

Recommended.

[SpiralHawk]

23. This should resonate across dixie

Distrust and dislike of the feds. It's deeply ingrained.

One has to wonder which way the current will flow.

[LiberalUprising]

26. WTF

KICK

[NYC]

27. Homeland Security needs to be disbanded.

It is harming the people.

[Redstone]

28. OK, I want him to run for V.P. on the ticket with the Mayor

of New Orleans in the next Presidential election.

I'm serious.

Redstone

PS: That last sentence would make a wonderful sig line for Duers, yes?