thoughts on NOLA from richardf8

[davidfcooper]

"FEMA has been turning away people bringing tools and skills to help while not doing much at all to lend help themselves. The Red Cross is not being let into New Orleans to give direct assistance. Mostly, it seems that it is at FEMA's request, but the Red Cross is doing a good job running interference for the feds in this link.

"Looking some of this material over, it seems as if the feds WANT these people to die. It seems like a passive aggressive holocaust, like "oopsie, we've had a little hurricane thingy. Well we got the people able to transport themselves out, and if the others die, well it's a disaster, people die in those. Not our problem." It makes me want to hop on the truck headed down there and do something hands on. I both envy and admire odanu who is headed down there."

http://www.livejournal.com/users/richardf8/106036.html

Comments

[laffinman.livejournal.com]

there's been new reports....of beurecratic nonsence in action......People who are bussed to a large shelter at one hotel are told to pick up their stuff--again-- and go to a second shelter where they need to "fill out the proper Red Cross forms" before the hotel will let them in

[laffinman.livejournal.com]

ridiculous idea # 456: quick, easy fix: fill in the 'bowl'
but alas ne'er shall such a simple solution be considered
..which means that now much animousity is yet to be experienced....looks like we'll see a whole new level of violence and related insanity in the next 6 months to a year in the stricken area--many gun shops were looted, many pharmacies were looted, it's been INCREDIBLY easy to get drugs in to the druggies....the only people that will be left in the waterlogged areas during the next 3 months will be the worst of the worst
.....Scrutiny and blaming is going to be 20 times bigger than with 9-11...
Gonna be a serious mess for quite a while.