FEMA's crime spree
From Andy and Nancy Johnson via Mark Crispin Miller's News from Underground:
"I realize your right-wing friends (and mine) will absorb the coming Rove spin and try to lay blame of Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin ...
"The delay in rescue was POLITICAL, it's clear. Everything Bush does is PARTISAN -- from "town-hall" meetings where he excludes anyone from attending not Republican, to national disasters. You see, it doesn't matter how many lives are lost in a war based on lies or a category 5 hurricane where rescue was delayed several days in a deliberate effort to smear state and local officials of the opposing party. It only matters, in Karl Rove's way of thinking, that the Republican Party remains on track to one-party rule."
FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations
FEMA turns away experienced firefighters
FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks
FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel
FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food
FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans
FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid
FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board
FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck
FEMA turns away generators
and this last, positively Orwellian (from FEMA's own website)
FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond" .
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3 comments:
Sigh, boy, you really need help huh.
Amtrak -- There's not one rail line that's been determined to be safe leading from the city center to "safe ground". When they have time to inspect and repair the twisted tracks, you will see rail service but the last thing we need is a de-railment on to of all this.
Firefighters - Lets see, we've got a brigade of firefighters there that can't work effectivly right now because there's no water pressure. Bringing in more firefighters who don't have shelter, provisions, or communications certainly wouldn't help.
Wal-Mart supply trucks -- There are over 9 million MRE's in New Orleans, MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR THE NEED, send the wal-mart trucks to the shelters, not New Orleans.
Red Cross deliver food -- again, 9 million MRE's there, send the food to the shelters.
Morticians - Bodies are being taken to St. Gabriel by the military, morticians need to go there, not New Orleans.
500 boat flotilla of food - again, 9 million MRE's in place. Take the food and water to the shelters.
600 bed hospital ship - The USS Comfort IS being utilized, by the NAVY. They are taking people from rooftops directly to the USS Comfort. Bringing the USS Comfort into port is simply too dangerous, there are NO river pilots familiar with the approaches due to the destruction of Plaquemines parrish waterways, the Coast Guard is clearing it. When it's clear, the comfort will move in. FEMA has a hospital at Armstrong international airport, let the navy and coast guard keep using the USS Comfort.
Chicago - There's no shortage of emergency vechicles on the scene right now, Chicago wants to make the same symbolic gesture that New York made by sending a truck, NOTICE that FEMA is accepting doctors, EMS professionals, NG troops and police volunteers from Illinois, but more Emergency vechicles would sit idle. They've got more vechicles than they can use now.
Generators - Don't know much about this one other than all the areas that FEMA wants to "light up" right now are lit within the city. Send the Generators to Mississippi where 1/2 of the state is still without power. They are needed more there.
First Responders - YEP, we're well beyond first response now. We're into recovery and relief phases now. First Responders don't have the skills for recovery operations, nor the equipment.
Your nitpicking without knowing WHY.
I'll bet you they'd turn away truckloads of toys for the children too.
The goal here is to get everyone out of the city, which becomes more and more toxic every day. The goal is NOT to manage the refugees in place. The goal is NOT to make people comfortable in staying, the goal is NOW to force everyone out of the city before dysentry, cholera, and other parasitic diseases take hold. Not make people comfortable in staying.
--Jason
I'm sorry, I thought the article was about the USS Comfort, but it's about the Bataan.
Blanco wounldn't let the Marines off the Bataan, now they are off. As for the hospital on the bataan, the facilities at the Field Hospital at Armstrong Airport are more productive for triage and evacuation than an Amphibious Assault Ship.
Again though on the troops, it was Blanco that didn't let the US Marines enter the city. Had they gone on their own or on FEMA's orders, that would have been illegal under "posse comitatus".
My apologies for assuming that you were referring to the USS Comfort and the other hospital ship coming from California.
--Jason
they cannot wiggle out of the scrutiny from the invesigations that will follow this fiasco. all those good ol' boys are going down. i am so sad that new orleans had to be sacrificed to see 'w' go down ...
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