Two sub-stories that I remember from Katrina

[Horse with no Name]

The first was the young black boy that commandeered the bus and drove many people to safety.
He was arrested in Houston for saving lives.

The second story was the rich hotel guests who were ushered out of the hotel and rescued ahead of all of the Katrina evacuees that were in the Superdome. I guess they ran out of bottled water.:sarcasm:

Just in case anyone has forgotten that Katrina WAS without a doubt a racial issue.

[Avalux]

1. Not just race, but class too.

Unless you have money and the means, you're screwed in Bushco's America.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Need proof?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2007293

[Horse with no Name]

3. I saw that

It is appalling.

[Warpy]

4. It was other issues as well

I remember the film shot buy a guy who brought his boat in to rescue people from the flooded areas, found a few people on rooftops and brought them to safety and then was told by FEMA to trailer his boat and clear off.

My neighbor across the street went with the state disaster team and was kept sitting on I-10 outside the city for five days by the NG under orders from FEMA.

The FEMA workbook had been "updated," you see, by Chertoff's gang to reflect the divine foreknowledge that the only disaster this country was going to face was the spread of contagion by a foreign power. NO was being treated like a quarantine site. FEMA wouldn't allow anyone in or out, not trailers of bottled water, not diesel trucks for hospital generators, NOTHING.

If the Dems take over, I hope an investigation into FEMA and their murderous actions a year ago this week are fully exposed and I hope the men responsible go to prison. They are murderers.

[smokey nj]

5. I could be mistaken, but I also remember hearing that the DHS

wouldn't allow the Red Cross into NO because if people were given food and water, they would refuse to evacuate.

[Horse with no Name]

7. Actually if I am not mistaken

The Red Cross will only go into a safe area because they don't want to set up a shelter giving the false pretense that it was safe.
All knowledge prior to Katrina was that there wasn't a safe place in New Orleans in the event of a hurricane.

[FlavaKreemSnak]

9. No the Red Cross wanted to go because people were dying but

when the government explained to them that they were supposed to be dying they obeyed them. I mean they didn't say it like that, they said not to take food and water because it would attract people or people would want it because they hadn't had any for a long time or something but whatever it was the Red Cross agreed to let them die.

[Lars39]

6. Those rich hotel guests were also gotten out of there before

the patients in the hospitals. Absolutely shameful.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. Aug. 15, 1971

Nixon announces his decision to devalue the dollar by 10% and to make it inconvertible into gold.

By 1973 the Bretton Woods agreement was effectively dead.