There are over a dozen (12) police, National Guard, Coast Guard, and Medical
Evac helicopters being used in New Orleans. They briefly stopped evacuating
2 hospitals today when a helicopter came under small arms fire. Don't
believe the media- they will have you believing the worst. It IS bad, and
has been poorly planned and coordinated by the local authorities, but there
are untold thousands of police (the New Orleans police have been pathetic,
but they have NO infrastructure, control, or communication), National Guard,
Coast Guard, and Red Cross and other volunteers (literally hundreds of
private boats were out rescuing people before some were shot at today) who
have converged on over 100 miles of obliterated Gulf coastline to help
rescue people and provide food and shelter to them. Many news organizations
fail to mention that HUNDREDS of smaller US cities were either wiped out or
severely affected by this storm. New Orleans, while it is the largest and
poorest of them, is only the tip of a VERY large iceberg.
"Martin-Paul Broennimann" wrote in message
...
Hi,
I'm not a US citizen, and I will not criticise your governement on an
inside issue.
But how should we understand that the copters aren't in there, lifting the
people out of central New Orleans?
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"Harry Krause" a écrit dans le message de news:
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bb wrote:
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 13:52:05 -0400, "Starbucks"
wrote:
I can not believe that Harry would use the plight of New Orleans for
political gain. This is a new low, even for Harry.
So you're saying pointing out the complete ineptness of our government
to provide basic food, shelter and safety should be ignored because it
makes some politicians look bad? Yeah, screw the needy, let's make
sure the white collar criminals don't look bad.
bb
Smithers is active again, eh? I guess he wore out the sheep.
I just saw a bunch of Bush Administration officials on TV patting
themselves on the back for their great efforts to date, and the Homeland
Security Director saying everything is under control at the SuperDome. I
suppose no one told him about the news reports and videos showing people
dying inside the Dome for lack of food, water, and medical attention.
Most of the emphasis of these Bush officials was on law enforcement, not
relief.
No one told them that disaster victims who are being fed and sheltered
and receiving proper care are less likely to loot?
What a crock this Bush Administration is. They ought to be driven out of
town.