OK, this might start spelling like polpoo but I am gonna post it anyhow...
An email I received:
On Friday night, August 26, 2005 before the Hurricane hit,
Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the
unprecedented action of calling Mayor Nagin of New Orleans
and Louisiana Governor 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, August 27, before the Hurricane 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 Governor Blanco refused to even
sign the multi-state mutual aid pack activation documents until Wednesday, August
31,
which further delayed the legal deployment of National Guard from
adjoining states.
Or maybe ask why Mayor 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.




value their family heritage so much and use it as a measure for a person's "worth". They want the poor blacks out of the city so their families can have it to themselves, so to speak, conveniently ignoring the fact that it's their families who BROUGHT those blacks over during the slave trade. NOLA was one of the biggest slave trading ports in America and those French settlers were largely responsible for that. I'm sure if those "elites" were still allowed to have them as slaves they wouldn't mind keeping them around tho. Ugh.
shame on DAM GOV, pepole .

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