"The Interdictor" posts live from NO..

[LunaSea]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Grim reading

"Three days ago, police and national guard troops told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or somewhere else, out of this area.

It's been 3 days, and the buses have yet to appear.

Although obviously he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people are packed into and around and outside the convention center still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below. Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons being aimed at them.

There are many infants and elderly people among them, as well as many people who were injured jumping out of windows to escape flood water and the like -- all of them in dire straights.

Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint. Hour after hour they watch buses pass by filled with people from other areas. Tensions are very high, and there has been at least one murder and several fights. 8 or 9 dead people have been stored in a freezer in the area, and 2 of these dead people are kids.

The people are so desperate that they're doing anything they can think of to impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These things include standing in single file lines with the eldery in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the people are not barbarians.

The buses never stop."

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[Kool Kitty]

1. Good God.

This doesn't even seem like America anymore. I'm sick over this. How can they just ride right by these people. :cry: :cry: :cry:

[jayctravis]

2. I just had a horrible mental image of a Mardis Gras parade.

throwing supplies instead of beads.

forgive me.

[fleabert]

3. OMG.

Send this to everyone you know.

[roguevalley]

4. I think I could die:

"The people are so desperate that they're doing anything they can think of to impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These things include standing in single file lines with the eldery in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the people are not barbarians."

Please God, help us down here. We can't cope with this horror.

[LunaSea]

5. lots of pictures

http://sigmund.biz/kat20050901%20part%202/

[zulchzulu]

6. Freedom is on the march

Well, some things are on the march...sickening. Truly sickening.

[kansasblue]

7. he mentions a cam at ,: http://old.mises.org:88/NO2

[The_Casual_Observer]

8. I guess it was too "dangerous"

Those old people looked pretty dangerous too me.

[Doremus]

9. Has anyone seen the 9:36a.m. entry? He says he asked FEMA if he could

truck in some diesel and they said SURE.

QUOTE
9:36 am
Diesel Situation
We have permission from the City and from FEMA to truck in diesel. We have the ability to take on 1300-1500 more gallons of diesel fuel. If you or anyone you know is capable of bringing us fuel, we will pay for it. It would be best if the delivery truck could navigate a parking garage, otherwise the unloading will be hours -- no idea how long it could take.
END QUOTE

How the hell can he order diesel --and actually get it delivered-- when people are BEGGING for water? And he talked to FEMA? The mayor can't even get any answers from them for crissakes!

What the hell is this all about anyway??

[Doremus]

10. Kick this! Please read!

[lumpy]

11. Saw this on MSNBC

People standing for the buses to arrive to take them to food and safety. Still standing waiting for the promise.

[aaronbees]

12. Incredible...

What a visceral reminder of how much this government hates its citizens. Just ... well, was about to say unbelievable, but really ... it's not. People asking for help being turned away at gunpoint. This is a government that treats its most helpless citizens like criminals.

[Ms. Clio]

13. And hours and hours ago Baghdad Brown chirped that meals would be

arriving momentarily!

Everything is really going "relatively well!"

Why does this blogger hate America?

[enigmatic]

14. This incredible

Nominate this, folks.