"This is a national disgrace,”, head of New Orleans’ emergency operations

[RedEarth]

“This is a national disgrace,” said Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans’ emergency operations. “FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control,” Ebbert said. “We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can’t bail out the city of New Orleans."

"We have got a mayor who has been pushing and asking but we’re not getting supplies,” he said. He said the evacuation was almost entirely a Louisiana operation. “This is not a FEMA operation. I haven’t seen a single FEMA guy.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/

[Lindsay]

1. Tell it, brother!

Let the people hear the truth!

[whistle]

2. Why rebuild New Orleans when Armageddon is at hand...that's

...what I'm hearing these repukes inferring in what they are saying:wtf:

[Minstrel Boy]

3. FEMA is actually impeding the rescue.

I wouldn't believe this if it wasn't happening before my fucking eyes.

[Donailin]

5. who can see through their tears

this is beyond disgraceful. deplorable. i feel so ashamed to be comfortable. i have to do something

[burythehatchet]

9. How so MB - Incompetence or malfeasance?

[etherealtruth]

21. Both!

[LibertyLou]

4. "Let Me Eat Cake" is Bush's New Moniker..

"Let Me Eat Cake" while New Orleans drowns....

[enough]

6. kick

[CoffeeCat]

7. WHY???????????

Why are they not acting????

Why are they not helping people????????

[TankLV]

28. They just don't care - they haven't figured out to funnel more billions

to ONLY dick cheney's criminal enterprises.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. I am so glad that this is being reported. Shocked but

glad the truth is coming out.

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[BlueJac]

10. Bush's master plan

[chomskysright]

11. because he DOESN'T GIVE A FUCK: Impeach NOW

[AnnInLa]

12. kick for LA officials

everyone who came back to our town today from N.O. said FEMA no where to be seen....work being done by LA officials with limited or no resources....yet FEMA director piece of shit blames LA officials for not telling him that hospitals need to be evacuated until today. Huh?

[anarch]

13. My God this pisses me off so much n/t

[stevietheman]

14. More "snap!" on Bush... If quotes like this don't bring down...

the chimp, I don't know what will. Stark reality has a political punch many orders of magnitude above the most strident partisan sniping.

[doc03]

15. Wasn't Homeland Security supposed to be making

plans to evacuate cities in case of a terrorist attack? I would think they would have planned for the possibility of a terrorist possibly blowing up one of the levies and flooding NO. They knew this storm was coming several days in advance and NO is in total disarray.

[stickdog]

16. Yes. A national disgrace.

[mrfrapp]

17. It is a disgrace.

If this was happening in anywhere else in the world, western governments would be falling over themselves to condemn it as an act of genocide. I'm not going to apologise for using such language because that's what it is, genocide through wilfull incompetence.

I've though long and hard about this subject and I've concluded that although I'm against the death penalty in general, capital punishment of war criminals is acceptable. The crimes of the Bush administration is very long and range from the incompentance that allowed the events of 9/11 to occur to the duplicity that led to invasion and occupation of Iraq; but this abandonment of the American people that we are witnessing today is his greatest crime I believe. Bush should be hung by his neck for this betrayal.

And may God have mercy on my soul for thinking such thoughts.

[chomskysright]

18. experiment to see effect of martial law in US explain re: tardinessof help

"It was suggested to me by someone that it seems like the lack of assistance in New Orleans was meant to provoke people to extreme violence and chaos. It certainly looks that way to me... but what if new orleans is being used as a test case to see, in a real world setting, how easily a motivated, angry populace (and the military personnel forced to do the dirty work) could be subdued and controlled to create a working model of how to impose endless Martial Law throughout the country while keeping those who might resist under the lid... and those in the armed forces in line. It's a thought... because I find it absolutely incredible how inept the response has been... to the point of criminality on the part of the federal government." --c., CLG reader.
Citizens for Legitimate government:
http://www.legitgov.org/

[The_Casual_Observer]

19. And this ain't some disgruntled bush hating lefty. It's a real live

front line guy. The bush gang will all hang.

[Paradise]

20. there are no words to describe this atrocity! nt

[TornadoTN]

22. That is saying something very powerful!

Here we have the director of the New Orleans emergency operations, a critical figure in this mess, saying that he hasn't seen on single FEMA guy.

WHERE THE HELL ARE THEY?!!?!? THERE IS NO DAMN EXCUSE FOR THIS!

[scottxyz]

23. This is deliberate

They put a former estate lawyer in charge of FEMA and crippled the agency. They didn't reinforce the levee on Sunday when they knew it was about to break.

They WANT to let New Orleans be destroyed. They're not going to get away with blaming it on Katrina. Anyone who didn't die Monday wasn't killed by Katrina - they were killed by Bush and FEMA's foot-dragging.

[Nothing Without Hope]

31. Absolutely true IMO. I put some of my reasons for thinking so here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4523783

[rrrevolution]

24. Same Bush Plan for NO as Bush Used in Iraq - Wrong & More of Same

Let's see, members of the club calling this a disgrace: Cafferty at CNN, Scheiffer at CBS, and Terry Ebbert of NO's emergency operations.

[adigal]

25. I am stunned by the photos of people doing all they can

to survive. Pushing others on inflatable mattresses, trying to get out. Unfortunately, the people on TV tonight look so much more desperate and weak than they looked this morning.

What are we? A third world nation. We had ships giving aid to the tsunami victims within 4 or 5 days and we cannot help our OWN people??? God, this is heartbreaking!! My view of this nation is completely changed in the last 3 days. We either cannot or do not want to take care of our own citizens.

The ultimate expression of the Republicans' survival of the fittest philosophy.

[tsuki]

26. Time for some of that plain South LA talk. Tell it like it is! eom

[TankLV]

27. It was the same way in Hawaii with the last 2 hurricanes.

FEMA was absolutely the most inept bunch of repuke political appointees I have ever imagined.

[Zenlitened]

29. This has been a test of America's readiness to respond to a terror attack

Mother Nature provided the test. Even gave us fair warning. And the Bush administration still managed to earn a big, huge "F."

The head of FEMA is a political hack of the worst kind, and it shows. Whole DAYS go by, and there are still people grouped together at 'relief' centers with no food or water? Unforgivable. Absolutely unforgivable.

[Nothing Without Hope]

30. Dennie Hastert is already saying New Orleans shouldn't be rebuilt,

so maybe they're just cutting their losses. :sarcasm:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1744292

This is passive genocide. I am coming to think it's deliberate.