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Catastrophic Class 5 Crime Committed by New Orleans Mayor
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There was a massive "Power Failure" alright in New Orleans and it began at the LOCAL level with the failure of the Mayor not evacuating All of his constituents. Why did he let his OWN people down? Why didn't the mayor make provisions for the mass mobilization of the poor black people who didn't have cars or the gas or the money to leave the city ? ? ? Where was the mayor's emergency plan for ALL the people. ? ? ? He should have ordered buses to come to the poor areas and evacuate them out of the city to safe shelters far away, where there was food and water and provisions preset up for them. IF he had done this, all we would have seen on television was the damage caused to property and Not the massive misery of Thousands of peolple left behind because the mayor didn't do the complete job. His lack of vision, planning, having an exit strategy for all, was a class 5 catastrophic crime. He shoild be impeached for failing in leaderhip. How could he overlook the 10's of thousnds of his own people ? ? It was HIS responsibility and he failed miserably . Yet HE is blaming he Pres. and every other branch of authority. The poor black people should demand answers from him . If he knew that the poor weren't going to evacuate why didn't he mobilize to have port a potties and food and water and blankets all set up at the Superdome and the Astrodome in advance. ?????? He and all the Gulf residents had 4 days of warning. Heraldo Rivera wouldn't have had much to show the TV audience if the Mayor was at the top of his game and had made evacuation plans for EVERYONE. Blame KATRINA and Mayor RAY NAGIN for the death and destruction the whole world witnessed.
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helenoftroy
(female, senior)
(Posted 9/5/05)
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Writer_B
(9/7):
Sorry, but anyone who thinks the federal government responded well to this emergency has their head in the sand. Could more have been done in advance? Probably (although we have to realize that a mayor cannot force people to leave their homes). But once the city was flooded, it took an inordinate amount of time for FEMA, the Red Cross and everyone else to finally start taking action. It was disgraceful.
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Anonymous
(9/7):
I agree with some aspects of your post but disagree in others. First the mayor doesn't have the recources the federal government has. For the mayor alone to evacuate the city of N.O. in a day or two without the assistance of the feds is a monumental task for local government. Second without the assistance of the feds forced evacuation isn't an option for the local gov. to accompish on its own in a day or two. You have to remember that evacuation in most foreseeable disasters are encouraged but never forced usually do to the lack of time it requires. To this day(9/7/05) people are resisting forced evacuations. I believe the local, state and federal govenments new that a category 5 hurricane in N.O. would be devastating. They new this city sits 18 feet below sea level. I believe that all officials should take some responsibility in this trajedy not one man.
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blueisgood
(9/8):
It is the city and county's responsible to enable an evacuation, but as anyone may remember, last year there was never 100% evacuation from areas in Fla hit by hurricanes. However, last year FEMA's response times in Fla were measured in hours, not days. Hmm, election year and Prez's brother is Gov. Coincidence? You tell me.
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PChadayev
(9/8):
The whole point of having a Federal Emergency Management Agency is that in a disaster situation local government is unequipped and unfunded to respond. We share the burden over all the states and local jurisdictions by giving that responsibility to the federal government. I suppose you are going to try to blame the poor part-time mayor of tiny Waveland Mississippi as well? One can only hope that you never have to call on federal disaster relief as the Bay Area did after the earthquake of 1989. Remember, an major earthquake in San Franciso is the only remaining one of the three greatest disasters predicted by FEMA that hasn't yet happened. Good luck, Helenoftroy.
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Anonymous
(9/9):
helenoftroy: I read a post where you say and I quote "he should be tried for mass murder". You must be out of your mind to pin the hole outcome on one man. He may not have done the best job I will agree with that. But if people are still being plucked off roof tops 10 days later, how was he supposed to evacuate those people in a day or two before that storm hit. It is taking 30 or more thousand national guard and who knows how many coast guard,local and state police from all over this country to get this task taken care of. What about the Governer, Fema, Home Land Security, Dick Cheney, George Bush. You don't believe they should hold any responsiblity in this situation? What about the local police that abandoned there jobs to go loot Walmart. How about the fact we are spending billions of dollars everyday to fight a fallacious war. This money could have been spent on protecting the citizens of New Orleans by stengthening the leveys which they new wouldn't hold up. Point is there are many factors known and unknown which contributed to this disaster. Try taking in some other factors before blowing your whistle. It does nobody any good to perceive a situation with many factors and blame it on one.
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Anonymous
(9/11):
Right on Helen! I wish I could be shocked at the boneheads blaming GW, but I guess it was just too much to expect that the Mayor of NO - or the Gov of LA - might consider the possibility of a hurricane striking their beloved hell-hole and perhaps rather than spending every last dime on bribing the Saints to stay in NO they might have spent some bucks on levee and pump repairs. Unbelievable.
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Anonymous
(9/11):
Darwinism, anyone? :-)
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Anonymous
(9/12):
you make it sound like one man's actions, at the local level, would have stopped that huge hurricane that slammed into four states. Couldn't it be that the president had some responsibility. There are many federal agencies that deal with weather and coastal storms and emergencies, etc... FEMA is under the Department of Homeland Security. The president was at his ranch on vacation when this storm started. A four week vacation!!
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Anonymous
(9/14):
anyone else think that the mayor and governor and city and state governments were pathetically and grotesquely unprepared for what everyone in the civilized world knew was destined to happen - namely a major storm hitting the hell-hole of NO, brilliantly located below sealevel in a tropical storm zone? or is it really ALL GW's fault?
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Anonymous
(9/16):
Writer B, you are a disgrace! Why can't the mayor (who controls the city's police) force people to evacuate? If Nagin & Co. had done their relatively EASY jobs (arresting people who didn't evacuate before Katrina hit), FEMA wouldn't have been forced to do the hard job (rescuing people from rooftops by helicopter). This is a classic example of stupid people not taking care of themselves and then expecting the government to bail them out! Listen to any doctor, PREVENTION is the best medecine. Get a brain, Writer B. I think you've got writer's cramp!
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Anonymous
(9/20):
Anybody with HALF A BRAIN knows that this storm and every other problem experienced by humanity is CAUSED BY WHITEY (unless whitey is a democrat, in which case he is transformed into a white knight saving us all from certain doom). Far be it for anyone to suggest that 400 years of experience might have given the people of New Orleans a CLUE that they live below sea level in a tropical storm belt. NOoooooooooo! Let's PARTY!
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Anonymous
(9/26):
Has anyone thought of filling in the bowl or moving 50 miles north,
If I build a house in a known flood zone and it floods and I move back and "rebuild" again and again then I'm stupid......
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yoohoo2
(9/5):
Right on Helenoftroy! I couldn't have said it any better! Finally, someone on Shnikes has gotten this right. I am so tired of everyone blaming the Feds and Bush! Nothing could have stopped this catastrophic and horribly tragic natural disaster, but good leadership, planning, and coordination of city resources from the mayor and city officals could have ensured that ALL of their residents were evacuated and provided for in a safer environment.
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Anonymous
(9/5):
I agree, what about all the school buses left to "drown" that could have been used?
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Scuba
(9/6):
Agree 100%!!!! But what do you expect from someone who can't even use the English language properly? If I hear: "The federal government responded so poor/bad/etc." one more time I'm going to loose it. How they responded is an adverb, remember the "ly" (i.e. poorly, badly, etc.). UGH!
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helenoftroy
(9/7):
It looks like the press is going after the local leaders. The Mayor and the Governor are refusing to answer the hard questions being asked by journalists . The disaster was in their leadership and I hope they are held accountable for their incompetence.
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Anonymous
(9/7):
You must be another Bush supporter/apologist. Just wanted to remind you that your guy has the worst approval rating since Lincoln and it's going down fast because he's an incompetent. Man should have been impeached already!
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Rockhead
(9/10):
Reading the posts on the left (how ironic) it seems our liberal freinds again are missing the point of the rant. The feds response, while slow, was not the point, the jist of the rant was the inability of New Orleans Mayor to properly plan and implement an evacuation plan for his city. Sure its a monumental task, and the federal govt would have been better suited (in this case) to enforce the evacuation. But, where was the request for help from the Mayor? Or the Gov.? Blanco didnt ask for any federal assistance, though it was available days prior to land fall, until 2 days after. Correct me if i'm wrong, but doesnt our constitution prohibit the federal govt from taking control of an area wthout the declaration of martial law? Also, how would you feel in your city if the feds decided your local govt wasnt exactly woking out and invaded your city un-invited. it aint gonna happen. Its not the feds job to micro-manage every city in this country, and sure is not W's job either. Nagin dropped the ball, he needs to admit it, and those who live to bash the right, and bash W especially, should really take a hard look at their opinions and realise that their opinion is born more of their dis-satisfaction with our current administration than of any valid point or reason.
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Anonymous
(9/10):
I agree, could't of said it better myself. Once again the blacks want to blame the man.
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Anonymous
(9/14):
anyone else growing weary of blacks and liberal apologists yet again blaming whitey - this time for a storm that everyone knew was bound to happen but a city and state government too busy drinking and flashing at mardi gras to give a damn about coming up with a plan?
i lover bama's brilliant comment that "history shows a pattern of slow govermnment response when the victims are black." i'd modify that statment a bit: "history shows that when the victim's are black, the victim's response will be slow." what the f**k were people doing other than collecting welfare checks when they might have given the slightest attention to the fact that they lived below sea level in a huricane zone. incredible. good riddance.
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choctaw
(9/16):
I agree absolutely
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Doomsdaymama
(9/19):
1. The state of Louisiana has had a corrupt/ignorant government since its beginning. My family has lived there since they arrived before the American Revolution.
2. Half the state naturally exists as swamp...levies have held back the water for about 50 or so years now. The state tends to be waterlogged.
3. Hurricanes and floods have caused massive flooding in that state since before people existed there.
4. The state powers that be in Louisiana knew what could happen and had the means to deal with it....they just preferred to take care of their own interests.
Louisiana officials did not care about their own...that's what plagues a lot of this country right now. From the family unit up to our congress. So many kids on ritalin or some equivalent. So many people on antidepressants...where is the family support for loved ones? So much selfishness....such a lack of empathy. It's beginning to feel quite socialist even communist sometimes.
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Anonymous
(9/20):
doomsdaymomma: you obviously don't understand that this storm was CAUSED BY THE WHITE MAN and as such is THE WHITE MAN'S FAULT. This is true and will forever be so, UNLESS John Kerry or Al Gore is elected President, in which case THE SAVIOUR will be the WHITE MAN, emoboddied in said Kerry or Gore. Get it straight momma!
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Anonymous
(9/24):
Exactly! I agree 100% and include the governor (Blanco...an appropriate name). I have stated that they should both be fired immediately. Unbelievable incompetance with the NERVE to blame someone else!
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