THIS IS AWESOME!!! READ EVERY WORD AND REMEMBER THE TRUTH!! THOSE LIBERAL SOCIALISTS LET THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRAE
A SAD STATE OF CORRUPT LOCAL GOVERNMENT LOOKING FOR A HAND OUT.
Politics over duty
This is a post from a fellow over in Merritt Is, FL, a reporter who's been
researching what went on before the storm hit
I think all of Nagin's pomp and posturing is going to bite him hard in the
near future as the lies and distortions of his interviews are coming to
light.
On Friday night before the storm hit Max Mayfield of the National
Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling Nagin and Blanco
personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New Orleans
and they said they'd take it under consideration. This was after the NOAA
buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before it was destroyed.
President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his
advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a
state to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the Posse
Comitatus Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act).
Just before midnight
Friday evening the President called Governor Blanco and pleaded with her to
sign the request papers so the federal government and the military could
legally begin mobilization and call up.
He was told that they didn't think
it necessary for the federal government to be involved yet. After the
President's final call to the governor she held meetings with her staff to
discuss the political ramifications of bringing federal forces. It was decided
that if they allowed federal assistance it would make it look as if they had
failed so it was agreed upon that the feds would not be invited in.
Saturday before the storm hit the President again called Blanco and
Nagin requesting they please sign the papers requesting federal assistance,
that they declare the state an emergency area, and begin mandatory
evacuation.
After a personal plea from the President, Mayor Nagin agreed to order an
evacuation, but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the governor
still refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing federal action.
In frustration the President declared the area a national disaster
area before the state of Louisiana did so he could legally begin some
advanced preparations. Rumor has it that the President's legal advisers
were looking into the ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass
the Constitutional requirement that a state request federal aid before the
federal government can move into state with troops - but that had not been
done since 1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to
use before the disaster.
Throw in that over half the federal aid of the past decade to New Orleans
for levee construction, maintenance, and repair was diverted to fund a marina
and support the gambling ships.
Toss in the investigation that will look into why the emergency
preparedness plan submitted to the federal government for funding and
published on the city's website was never implemented and in fact may have
been bogus for the purpose of gaining additional federal funding as we now
learn that the organizations identified in the plan were never contacted or
coordinating into any planning - though the document implies that they
were.
The suffering people of New Orleans need to be asking some hard questions
as do we all, but they better start with why Blanco refused to even sign the
multi-state mutual aid pack activation documents until Wednesday which
further delayed the legal deployment of National Guard from adjoining
states.
Or maybe ask why Nagin keeps harping that the President should
have commandeered 500 Greyhound busses to help him when according to his own
emergency plan and documents he claimed to have over 500 busses at his
disposal to use between the local school busses and the city transportation
busses - but he never raised a finger to prepare them or activate them.
This is a sad time for all of us to see that a major city has all but been
destroyed and thousands of people have died with hundreds of thousands more
suffering, but it's certainly not a time for people to be pointing fingers
and trying to find a bigger dog to blame for local corruption and
incompetence. Pray to God for the survivors that they can start their lives
anew as fast as possible and we learn from all the mistakes to avoid them in
the future.
Very interesting becasue there's other information that Gov. Blaco declared a state of emergency on Aug 26th, before the storm hit, not after. Somebody's trying to spin the reponse....who? I don't know.
'Wash Post' Runs A Key Katrina Correction By E&P Staff Published: September 04, 2005 11:30 PM ET
NEW YORK In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post quoted a "senior Bush official" who said that "as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency." This, of course, was meant to make the governor look foolish and spread the blame around for the disastrous response to the disaster, though it was hard to imagine on what grounds the newspaper would quote an unnamed source in this case.Several hours of blogosphere howling ensued. Later in the day, the Post ran this correction, or rather, 180-degree turn: "A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared a state of emergency. She declared an emergency on Aug. 26."
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Days Full Of Clays...
NWTF, DU, SCI
I'd like to see the final timeline and who did what and when.
There is plenty of blame to spread everywhere. Estimates are up to 40,000 dead. All involved from federal to local government should have to pay the piper
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE BLAME GAME!!!!
