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Originally posted by Jessicamsa
As posted about before, those who were able bodied and tried to walk out were fired at by police. The bridge leading to the nearby town was blocked off by police and those approaching the bridge were shot at.
Originally posted by craig732
Originally posted by Jessicamsa
As posted about before, those who were able bodied and tried to walk out were fired at by police. The bridge leading to the nearby town was blocked off by police and those approaching the bridge were shot at.
Please post your source for this statement.
Even if this is true, and I am skeptical that it id until I see the source, NO ONE was prevented from leaving BEFORE the hurricane hit. They were activlely encouraged to leave by local and state officials.
Those who CHOSE to stay behind suffered for their mistake.
Originally posted by whitewave
A Doctor I know here in Oklahoma loaded up his car with bottled water to hand out to Katrina victims. He drove all the way down to New Orleans to offer much needed water and his skills as a physician. He found a large group of displaced persons "camping" out in the open, pulled over, opened his car and began offering bottled water to the "campers". He said that several asked him if he had any sodas. He told them that he did not have sodas but had a car full of bottled water. He became disgusted when he saw these obviously needy people throw his bottles of water on the ground and grumble about the lack of sodas. At that point he got in his car and drove back to Oklahoma.
Originally posted by Murky
I also must agree with Catherder's remarks about the "suehappy" society. Because our society has been Sharptonized to such a large extent, every bit of emergency aid must be standardized so that no outside hustler can come in and say "Look, you poor people are eating Dollar General PopTarts some woman brought in from California, and over there in the next refuge, where the people are another color, THEY have KELLOGG'S PopTarts.
Blame the politics of envy.