by Col. W. Patrick Lang (Ret.)
“FEMA Wants No Photos of Dead”
Today, 9:06 AM
“NEW ORLEANS — The U.S. agency leading Hurricane Katrina rescue efforts said Tuesday that it does not want the news media to photograph the dead as they are recovered.
“The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected journalists’ requests to accompany rescue boats searching for storm victims. An agency spokeswoman said space was needed on the rescue boats. ‘We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media,’ the spokeswoman said in an e-mail. ” (Los Angeles Times)
Excuse me!!
FEMA wants what? OK. We could accept the idea that our soldiers’ dead bodies should not be made the objects of the press’s attention at Dover AFB, but how are we to interpret this as other than an attempt to hide from the public just how terrible our losses were in this Gulf (our own)?
Pat Lang
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Jack Burkman – Boy Patriot
Jack: “I understand there are 10,000 people dead. It’s terrible. It’s tragic. But in a democracy of 300 million people, over years and years and years, these things happen.
These things happen. That’s Jack’s defense of the government.”
Sent to me today, but I watched this segment on “Connected Coast to Coast” myself.
This is interesting since already by tonight a close observer could watch the media “fall off” their moment of professionalism in response to their self interest and fear.
Haley Barbour, Mr Republican, is just more fuel for the bonfire so far as this Yuppy pol. is concerned.
Pat Lang
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Is anyone surprised by this; that the Bush regime would attempt to use such a tactic to obscure their own responsibility for their own failures? They do it in Iraq; why not here in the hurricane area as well?
The bastards!
Not surprised in the least. These people do not even bother to hide the fact that they are covering up their crimes. They are so blatant, it is actually painful, to acknowledge what they are doing.
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I’m so frustrated. I’ve tried for three days to play that video, but it never works for me. I e-mailed Evan at Alternet’s PEEK because he’d linked it — with a very nice description — and he can get it to play on his Mac. But I can’t. It may be that I have the newest Mac OS?
I also asked Crooks & Liars to see if they could convert it somehow so it works on more operating systems.
Why does this remind me of the Chermobyl incident in 1986, but with the bizarre twist that this is happening in the United States?
on the (UK) news tonight they showed one of the big military boats going through the floods – the point of the story seemed to be that the military were patrolling basically empty flooded streets with nothing to do while bodies floated by them.
They may not want press photos, but the newscaster/commentator on these shots could barely supress his anger as some of the troops were shown taking photos of the bodies in the water. He said something like ‘they may not be collecting the bodies, but surely they are not here to snap them as if they were sightseeing’