Questions:
Why when we look at the news feed of so called “rescue efforts” are there so few boats in the neighborhood streets of New Orleans rescuing people. Why aren’t the streets trafficked with hundreds of boats as cars normally traffic the streets?
Why aren’t there any divers? Divers going into the homes and searching for victims trapped in upper floor, even lower floor rooms with air bubbles?
What precisely is the condition of the water in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. Are there oil spills and how many?
How many refineries have been damaged and destroyed? What is the impact of the refineries damage?
What is the impact of port damage?
What is going on in the Astro Dome in Houston? What are the rules and regulations for coming and going? Are the people free to leave or are they confined? Can they go for a walk on the outside? What are they eating? What is the sanitation condition after 3 days?
What are the rules and regulations for freedom of movement in other areas where there are large concentrations of people?
Why are some people called “Contractors” Who are they? What are they doing? Who is paying them? When we hear contractors are being fired on, it is the same language used to describe the insurgency in Iraq toward American Contractors when they are being fired on. Who is releasing news reports about the incident where 6-8 people were killed? It is the government? And why is this language being used? Who are the “Gunmen who were killed?”
Is the government claiming that there is an insurgency in New Orleans of “gunman” who are killing contractors as they do in Iraq?
Where are the 200,000 (some reports) people in Baton Rouge being held? The population is expected to double there
Why are people being shipped to far away places like Colorado? Why are they not being placed in areas close to where they came from? Why are they being separated by long distances from each other? What is this so-called “Plan”? Is this similar to the kinds of movements in history where entire ethnic groups are shipped to various parts of a nation to break up their unity?
Why did Bush go golfing the day after seeing the devastations from Air Force One?
Where exactly were Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Mike Brown of Fema from Friday before the Hurricane Struck until the president arrived in New Orleans to “inspect the damage”? How many were on vacation and how many were at work and what were their schedules
Where is Dick Cheney? He has not been heard from. Is he physically ill?
If we can get answers to these questions a much clearer picture of what has happened and what will be happening will start to emerge.
Excellent questions. Thanks.
If anybody know any answers to any of these please post them. I tried to get answers on the Astrodome, but I can’t find any.
Macie Gray said people are at their wits end or something to the effect and they could not be expected to remain much longer.
I don’t what all that means.
It takes some serious digging, but the information is out there. Start with the disaster.gov site. Over the past few days they’ve consolidated a wealth of information. (They are fastidious record-keepers).
For Louisiana either click the link there, or here.
Hope this helps.
Please send this to every single media outlet and every single goverment “representative” you can think of — maybe somebody will try to get answers for us.
I found out of course rice was in New York. on vacation. She got into an argument with someone who objected to her shopping for shoes at a shoe store in Manhattan, I believe.
Cheney was on vacation. I would like to know WHEN he and they went back to work. Am I to understand that YESTERDAY CHENEY ended his vacation?
Democracy Now reports almost no effort is being made to rescue people in their homes. This on Monday 55 minutes into the broadcast. This is a first hand account by their producers as of Saturday.
link to democracy now
http://www.democracynow.org
Why are volunteers rescuing people? Where is the Army with their boats.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4215390.stm
Thanks for that link. And you’re right. I know we’ve seen people being rescued by Nat. Guard etc but where is a full contingent of military power boats rescuing people who are too sick, crippled etc that couldn’t leave?…it seems another glaring omission from the pictures we’re seeing.
Volunteers are supposed to help augment government operations in times of these disasters not be the fucken vanguard.
And I just heard bush blathering about the Red Cross and how we should donate because they are the first responders in times of crisis…No the government is supposed to be the first responders…he’s operating again on faith based disaster plan it seems.
So we pay goddamn taxes so our supposed Homeland Security can respond but they are incompetent and have squandered the money so now we’re supposed to donate money again to a private organization like the Red Cross. Absolutely nothing wrong with donating to the Red Cross but that is not a comphrehensive disaster Plan for god’s sake.