Jefferson Parish: "We have declared ourselves a seperate country"

[kerry-is-my-prez]

"We can't rely upon this country. We'd get more help that way."

We all need to declare ourselves members of another country, get our own flag, have our own President and set up camp somewhere. Maybe we can ask to rejoin Britain and declare the Revolutionary War an illegitimate war.

[fudge stripe cookays]

1. Maybe Key West had the right idea...

the Conch Republic thing was very tongue in cheek, but it'd be nice if things began to lean in that direction. Vermont wants to do it too.

FSC

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. Let's all pick a state to convene in.... then secede.

n/t

[Matariki]

24. i'm a citizen of the Republic of Cascadia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascadia

[Jackpine Radical]

2. The Mouse that Roared. Anybody else remember?

[Zen Democrat]

5. I remember. Absolutely right on.

[karlrschneider]

17. You beat me to that by a long shot, just now saw the OP

:eyes:

[CatBoreal]

3. May I respectfully suggest that...

anyone of Acadian decent rejoin Canada? We'll take you with open arms.

Sure our taxes are higher, but you'd never be left in the lurch like you were with Shrub.

[mzmolly]

7. I'm considering it. I have French Canadian ancestors.

I don't know that they'll let us all in though. :(

I considered it after the past election very seriously - but due to our job situation I think our standard of living would suffer greatly? Though, we'd at least have health care!

[Zodiak]

20. That's my ace in the hole

2nd generation French Canadian here with ancestry traced back to 1635 and a soon-to-be PhD. If it is clear that we have lost America to fascism, then I am going to have a Mayflower (err...Mapleleaf) moment.

But not until then...I owe it to my country to fight for it.

[Ladyhawk]

34. Would I be happy in British Columbia? I was born in the mountains

of California. We don't have the temperate rainforest thing going here. We have the Mediterranean climate. It rains / snows from October until May, then quits for the summer. Could I get used to British Columbia?

[mzmolly]

6. Wow.

:wow:

[skooooo]

8. Who said this?

Is this something you are writing, or did you see it on tv?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

10. It was on CNN.

n/t

[DanCa]

9. I seen the interview it was heart wrenching.

There's too much emotion.

[marions ghost]

11. where did you see this ?

[MelissaB]

12. Who could blame them?

[IndyOp]

13. God Speed! (n/t)

[Lori Price CLG]

14. Nominated. Kicked. n/t

[K8-EEE]

15. I'm With Him -- Stop The Fed $$, Keep CA $$ In CA

And give us our Nat'l Guard back. If we're on our own then let us fund our own defense and take back our "Homeland Security" bucks. CA can do it better than BushCo, but stop looting us of our resources.

[MellowOne]

16. I saw the interview

Tore my heart out. I think it was his mother that was trapped and he was communicating with her telling her help was on the way. Each day he would tell her help was coming. She drown on Friday night.

[NYC]

33. It was not Broussard's mother.

It was another man's mother. Just as tragic.

[StellaBlue]

18. Texas

We've been our own country before, and most of us are nationalistic now!

But I think we should join Mexico, since *co's ideological ancestors stole Texas from them to begin with. We have a burgeoning Spanish-speaking population, anyway, and, frankly, I prefer their culture to our own Anglo-macho-Protestant-capitalist one.

This would also be a great time for all American Indian tribes to rally together and physically take the national monuments in DC.

Edited for spelling

[johannes1984]

19. y'all are always welcome in Europe

as long as you don't mind paying 7 dollars a gallon , free health care and less corporate evil (read in seductive voice )....oow and we'ld love to have president gore around , ...maybe he can get the EU constitution idea on track

[RightSightBrightLite]

21. JeffParish President on NBC-one of the worst abandonments of Americans...

...on American soil

MR. RUSSERT: And we are back.

Jefferson Parish President Broussard, let me start with you. You
just heard the director of Homeland Security's explanation of what
has happened this last week. What is your reaction?

MR. AARON BROUSSARD: We have been abandoned by our own country.
Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst
storms ever to hit an American coast, but the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of
Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history. I am personally
asking our bipartisan congressional delegation here in Louisiana to
immediately begin congressional hearings to find out just what
happened here. Why did it happen? Who needs to be fired? And
believe me, they need to be fired right away, because we still have
weeks to go in this tragedy. We have months to go. We have years to
go. And whoever is at the top of this totem pole, that totem pole
needs to be chain-sawed off and we've got to start with some new
leadership.

It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans
here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New
Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress
now. It's so obvious. @
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4626138#4626192
*****
what EXACTLY has been going on in this Parish?

-it is on the northeast side of New Orleans, where the storm was strongest
-it is one of the first areas put under martial law
-I read where the population is 423,000
--on Wednesday this report came through bloggers from the, I
guess, unflappable safety director

Check out the sites for all of these bloggers. They're providing
some fascinating insights about life inside the Big Easy for those
left behind.

Posted by Eric Berger at 12:50 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

How bad has it become in Jefferson Parish? Part II
Yesterday, Jefferson Parish officials ordered all residents out,
telling them not to return for a month.

Today, it appears they may have reached the breaking point.
Consider this snippet information from the Times-Picayune on its
ongoing news blog:

The normally unflappable Jefferson Parish Emergency
Management Director Walter Maestri broke into tears as he broadcast
a call to help for anyone who could offer food or water to
officials at the parish's emergency operations center in Marrero.

Maestri said anyone who can help with the necessities of life for
workers at the center can call [phone].

Maestri said the water situation is so dire that like many people
in the parish and the area, they are trapped in the center.

@ http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/

MANY, ssshhhhh, many did not survive

[Peace Patriot]

23. Why didn't they just order their drivers to gas up the limo and go? What

about their Cessnas? Couldn't they have just flown out ahead of the storm? They had plenty of warning. And anybody could have taken a commercial airline--or even a taxi? And these stupid people who refused to leave, who had a day's notice, why should they receive any government handouts now? It will just encourage them. Let them eat John McCain's birthday cake!

--------

Actually, I'm beginning to suspect the birthday cake photo op may have been a setup of Bush by insider coupsters, led by Cheney. Really. I'm wondering. Even the most low-down neocon freeper jerk wouldn't have let that happen, if he cared about Bush's residency.

[klebean]

25. Really.

makes most sense when you think about it; most of the people handling bush are not stupid - like bush - who doesn't have the sense to stop reading My Pet Goat when our nation is under attack.

"Actually, I'm beginning to suspect the birthday cake photo op may have been a setup of Bush by insider coupsters, led by Cheney. Really. I'm wondering. Even the most low-down neocon freeper jerk wouldn't have let that happen, if he cared about Bush's residency."

[libhill]

28. If it was a coup attempt

by Cheney, look out - that bastard would be infinitey worse than Bush, and a Cheney regime wpould bode no good for the public. Bush is stupid and clueless, Cheney is out right evil.

[NYC]

35. That would explain the guitar as well, Peace Patriot.

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, and Bush also played a stringed instrument while New Orleans drowned.

I thought that was too _________. Not quite sure what the word is. Same vein.

[nashville_brook]

22. france -- don't trust blair.

[melody]

29. I trust the people of the UK just as I trust the people everywhere

Blair is immaterial.

I say we throw back in with the old country (if they'll have us). Either them or Canada (if they'll have us).

I'd love to create a country of our own, but the Busheviks would nuke us in no time.

[NYC]

36. Can Nieuw Amsterdam go back to Old Amsterdam?

I'd rather we went back to the Dutch.

[beetbox]

26. kick n/t

[libhill]

27. I'll go with that -

the "American Experiment" is a failure, it's over. I'd rather be a subject of the Queen, than be a wage slave to ass hat Rethuglicans, neocon jerk offs, and neo-nazis.

[melody]

30. the American experiment WAS fine

But Bush & Co destroyed it.

I agree - better the Queen than a Bush.

[libhill]

31. Or even a King -

compared to George Bush, King George 3rd looks like a choir boy.

[malaise]

32. I have a serious question

Having sent so many national guard units overseas to fight his illegal war thus depleting critical state resources, is Bush the first post-civil war US president to send the army to a state in the US. What does the constitution say about this? Does a simple executive order cover him or is this more grounds for the big I.

[libhill]

37. Not sure about the legality of it ,

but, he's not the 1st post Civil War President do do it - you're forgetting Reconstruction in the post war South, which was largely regulated / enforced by the Regular Army.