New Orleans Mayor Issues 'Desperate SOS'

Before we actually get into the article below, here's a random rant:

WHERE THE HECK IS THE FOREIGN AID FOR AMERICAN IN THE TIME OF THIS HUGE NATIONAL DISASTER???

As I remember it, America followed only Australia (and this could be wrong, don't have a fact sheet in front of me) in aid to Asia after the huge tsunami many months back.

And many, many talking heads bitched that America needed to give more, MORE, MORE.

And we did.

So, now we have America with a HUGE national disaster.

And who the hell is going to send aid to us??

Notice no one else out there appears to feel much obligated to help us.

The people with power who should be responsible in other countries are a very long list of mostly four letter words. Plain and simple.

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And now... The rest of the story...

...But across the flooded-out city, the rescuers themselves came under attack from storm victims.

"Hospitals are trying to evacuate," said Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan, spokesman at the city emergency operations center. "At every one of them, there are reports that as the helicopters come in people are shooting at them. There are people just taking potshots at police and at helicopters, telling them, `You better come get my family.'"

Some Federal Emergency Management rescue operations were suspended in areas where gunfire has broken out, Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said in Washington.

OK, I understand people feeling desperate/panicked, but who the heck shoots at rescue people?? It just doesn't figure AT ALL that this would up your chances of being rescued...

"In areas where our employees have been determined to potentially be in danger, we have pulled back," he said.

A National Guard military policeman was shot in the leg as the two scuffled for the MP's rifle, police Capt. Ernie Demmo said. The man was arrested.

"These are good people. These are just scared people," Demmo said.

At the risk of sounding honest, no, these are not necessarily good people. A large percentage of the people who were left in the city when Katrina hit were there because they could not afford personal transport to leave the city. Many of them have most likely been on welfare and used to handouts-so they expect the gov't to be bending over backwards to care for them now instead of having initiative to save themselves = all these terrible looting/violence stories we're hearing.

Outside the Convention Center, the sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement. Thousands of storm refugees had been assembling outside for days, waiting for buses that did not come.

And how are the buses going to get in, again?

At least seven bodies were scattered outside, and hungry people broke through the steel doors to a food service entrance and began pushing out pallets of water and juice and whatever else they could find.

An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered with a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.

"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."

Ooooooooooooooook. First off, NO ONE has gotten in to any great extent then. Not military, not medical personal, not the large amounts of volunteers bearing the good will of the rest of the country that will most likely show up as soon as it's safe/possible to get in.

When America entered Iraq/etc, it was not done over night. Also, Iraq was NOT a response to a natural disaster.

Besides, WHERE on earth is there room to BURY people if most of the city (let alone ground/cemetaries) is underwater?

I get that people want to blame someone for this (even though this is a NATURAL DISASTER and not caused by human influence in ANY sense) but this is just ridiculous.

The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.

"They've been teasing us with buses for four days," Edwards said.

TEASING??? Maybe those in charge (poor, brave souls that they are) have been hoping and praying for relief just as hard as the rest of the people trapped in N.O.-- but the buses STILL CAN'T GET IN. Bus v. flooded road = flooded road wins.

People chanted, "Help, help!" as reporters and photographers walked through. The crowd got angry when journalists tried to photograph one of the bodies, and covered it over with a blanket. A woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm.

John Murray, 52, said: "It's like they're punishing us."

"They" who?

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