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Thread #84379   Message #1556884
Posted By: GUEST
05-Sep-05 - 04:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: who will we crucify next
Subject: RE: BS: who will we crucify next
Actually, I think the battle for who would control the law enforcement effort in New Orleans between Bush and Blanco, is what Mayor Nagin has been complaining about all along.

Blanco is at fault too. The National Guard are under her control and authority. She blew it in the early days, by not having command and control set up properly, IMO.

But Nagin is also at fault for not getting those who needed evacuating, out of the city in time.

There are two communities being ignored even now--the two communities that STILL haven't been evacuated: the disabled and the elderly. They get evacuated AFTER the poor. Think about that one folks. Go to NOLA.com and read the messages from the many families who left behind their own elderly and disabled relatives, now begging to have them rescued by people remaining behind doing the neighborhood rescues with their boats.

You don't see any national leaders for the elderly and the disabled being invited to White House for pow wows with the president, like we did today with the Black Congressional Caucus (who, by the way, doesn't seem to be concerned at all about the elderly and disabled who still haven't been evacuated).

Everybody seems a little too complacent, now that the dome and convention center are empty, and that includes the mainstream media. I guess the big talking heads don't care much about the elderly and disabled either.