Reply #46: More lies ... The evacuation was the most successful ever

[Kailassa]

in American history.

People not able to leave were considered to be safe if they came to the dome or convention centre or were in hospitals. And they were safe, from the hurricane. It was the flooding and denial of electricity, food, water and medical supplies to the area that killed people.

The points people never consider when they say that everyone should have been got out are:

1. How much reason was there beforehand to believe that the area would become such a death-trap?

2. How does the evacuation rate and numbers involved compare with other hurricanes in America?

3. How much danger is caused by a huge evacuation?

4. And Where were the people who couldn't evacuate themselves, who were mostly poor and black, to go?

The people who joked about the NO residents and blamed the victims for their own deaths would be the last ones to want them to come to their town. The fact is, if Nagin had bused the remainder out ... How many were left behind? 100,000? Where could he have sent them? Who, in America, wanted all those poor blacks? They would have been called cowards, before the disaster, and told to go back home.

Even afterwards, when they had to be evacuated, the media labelled them as criminals, and people were angry and afraid of having them in their towns.