I need to know if this rumor about Blanco is true...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

My mother said that she heard Governor Blanco refused to allow food and water into NO immediately after the storm because she wanted people to evacuate the city, and she feared they wouldn't if there was food and water available.

This doesn't make sense to me, and I want to know if others have heard this, if it's true or unconfirmed. To me, it sounds like a rumor designed to put the blame on her, rather than where it belongs.

[cbear70]

1. actually a friend told me this too

Just didn't want to believe it. She said she saw it on the today show.

[Eloriel]

38. ABSOLUTELY NOT -- That was FEMA's lame excuse for not

letting in the Red Cross:

Daily Kos article by Steve Rose
(discussion with Red Cross re going into NO)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4598834&mesg_id=4599049
Link: http://dailykos.com/story/2005/9/2/2125/04978

Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1749261&mesg_id=1749261
Link: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm

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DU thread title (quite a bit of conversation in this):
http:/ /www.redcross.org/faq/ 0,1096,0_682_4524,00. html#4524

Red Cross
* Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.

* The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4598834&mesg_id=4598834
Link: http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html#4524

[blossomstar]

2. probably Karl Rove up to his dirty work already....

[chalky]

3. Wonder where ground zero is for this rumor?

Rove, perhaps?

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. Why would they want to stay? NO toilets.. no power... no security

Yeah. Paradise on earth.

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Surely the governor must have known that those left had no place to go and

no way to get out.

[ananda]

5. DHS told that to..

.. the Red Cross as their excuse for refusing them entrance to NOLA.

Blanco said that too? That's hard to believe since she was begging for help and aid even before the storm hit.

Sue

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. I think Today Show was either confused

or paid off to start this rumor.

[meow mix]

12. i thought it was just DHL too

and is why they shut down the aid.

[enid602]

17. what I heard

I heard that each state DHS chief reports to (and takes orders from) that state's governor

[ThoughtCriminal]

6. It's what it sounds like

I doubt she would even have the authority to do that.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Sounds like a distortion of the Red Cross story

Homeland Security wouldn't let Red Cross in the city because they said "that it would make the people not want to leave".
It's on their website FAQ.
www.redcross.org

Just a distortion of the truth. She might want to keep an eye on who lied to her.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

13. Homeland Security

Makes us feel less secure in our homeland day by day... :grr:

[Pallas180]

21. If that's true, then Bush intended genocide. I heard

the Red Cross wasn't there but I thought they said because it was
too dangerous.

Then I heard that assh FEMA Brown wouldn't let anyone in, including
Sherriffs that the Governor had borrowed from other cities...they gave an interview I saw. 22 of them arrived to help and FEMA wouldn't let them in.

It's FEMA and FEMA must be starting the rumors. (Brown & Chertoff)

"feed the po black people and they wont want to leave the unairconditioned dirty filthy smelly Dome with no cots and toilets"

Helloooo. Sounds like their view of black people.
I really think they did intend to have them die of dehydration, thirst,and starvation.

If we hadnt been kicking up a storm, they might have gotten away with it.

[SoKalKyle]

9. No it's the National Guard

The NG will not allow the Red Cross into NO because of the danger and the fear that people will stay if they start getting supplies....The RC said that they understand that the NG is in control.

[Spazito]

11. That was Homeland Security and they would not let the Red

Cross in, the Governor had nothing to do with that atrocious decision.

[...of J.Temperance]

15. It's just I'm concerned about all this military and Rummy's involved

I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them.

[Walt Starr]

14. Link please

Sorry, anybody spreading bullshit rumors like this are under the burden of proof.

Your mother should be able to cite a reliable source, much like we are able to produce the documents whereby Blanco requested federal assistance.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Today show...

was where she said she saw it.

[Walt Starr]

27. Fallacy of appeal to authority

Produce the tape.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. Is the plan just to throw out so many new lies in a day

nobody has time to debunk them?

If they put one thenth the effort into disaster planning that they put into coming up with smears to deflect blame, thosands of lives could be saved.

[SammyWinstonJack]

28. Looks like it.

:shrug: Doesn't really surprise me though.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

35. Reminds me of the scene in The Blues Brothers...

Where Jake is pleading with his jilted girlfriend for his life with a string of lies and lousy excuses, then he gives her a loving look and she forgives him.

Only instead of "the look", Dumbyass will say a prayer.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. So...There are all kinds of people and agencies

that will serve to confuse this issue for the next few months, and take all the focus away from Dumbyass and his criminal neglect of his people.

We can't fall for it! We've got to keep those phone calls and letters going to our reps.

Bush is incompetent to lead this country, and he and his cohorts in crime need to be impeached and removed from office immediately to insure the safety of the people of the United States.

[riverwalker]

20. Homeland Security. Here is the article

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. So they didn't feel it was safe to save those people?

Pardon me while I :puke:

[LSK]

22. HOW PEOPLE FVCKING LIE!!!!

From the red cross website:

"The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city."

http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html#4524

[rndmprsn]

23. rove slime machine at work already....jesus!

blanco is in for hell....rove has declared war on her in order to shift them blame to a dem governor

[rndmprsn]

24. read - white house shifts blame - WaPo

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4619343

[GoddessOfGuinness]

34. I saw that...That's what made me think that

this rumor is the route the cons are taking to deflect Dumbyass' guilt.

[Jamastiene]

25. The truth is that the National Guard would not allow the Red Cross

into New Orleans for the reasons you stated. It is true. It was posted numerous times on many blogs and credited to a Red Cross public statement. Who issued the orders to the National Guard. I believe the president control them, doesn't he? Yep, they are making her the fall guy, er, um, I mean gal, woman, whatever. At this point, my faith in humanity is so shook up, I'm trying to think of a way to build a Speak & Spell ET caller to get rescued from the human species by aliens, if they exist. It's worth a shot. I'll probably stand a better chance than those poor people left in NOLA. I'm fed up with this government beyond what I already was. I think it's Passive Genocide to keep relief efforts out of NOLA like they did, whoever did it.

[Horse with no Name]

30. It was Homeland Security who issued the order

National Guard may have enforced it...but order came from HS.

[goodhue]

29. No, that was the feds, not Blanco

[Imagevision]

31. Did Blanco make a formal written request for federal aid or not?

that's the 64 dollar question, because Bush is about to place the response blame totally on NO. local levels - Blanco & Kagin.

[goodhue]

32. She did.

Here it is . . .

http://gov.louisiana.gov/Disaster%20Relief%20Request.pdf

[Garbo 2004]

33. Yes, last Sunday. Before the storm hit. Copies of the letter have been

posted online in various places. And as I recall Bush declared a state of emergency on Saturday. So there was no impediment for the feds to provide aid.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

37. There was a PDF file link floating around here yesterday

of her request for aid the day before Katrina struck.

Guess we need to call Today and give them holy hell.

[DistressedAmerican]

36. Check Out The Red Cross's Site. The Government Kept Them Out

for the exact same reasons. There was a post on it earlier.

Someone is saying this. I think it is coming down from the feds not the state though.

Bush is the guy that has the final call on that issue and he chose to let folks starve until they leave. It was planned and it is sickening.

Take a look at their site and look for the FAQ section. If I remember correctly it was discussed at length there.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

39. It's amazing isn't it; how these things get so twisted.

Homeland Security does something horrible and in the repugs attempt to blame the local government rumors spread it was Blanco.

It was a wicked rumor champaign against Ann Richards that won bush the position of Texas Gov.

Wow, just wow.