Federal Response Was ON TIME --- Nagin is Passing the Buck and the New York Times is Not Telling the Truth

New: Katrina Time Line Links added below


While we are busy helping people, believe it or not a bunch of local New Orleans officials and the editorial board of the New York Times are politicizing the story of what happened in New Orleans and also LYING ABOUT IT to the public.

The Federal Emergency Response Plan for New Orleans and area states directly that the local area MUST prepare to be ON ITS OWN following a hurricane for at least 72-96 HOURS while Federal relief efforts are assembled and moved in to the area.

Further, the President of the United States --- any president, not just Bush --- CANNOT SEND FEDERAL TROOPS INTO AN AREA TO RESTORE ORDER WITHOUT AN ACT OF CONGRESS! THIS IS WHY THE STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PREPARED TO HANDLE CIVIL DISORDER WITH LOCAL AND STATE POLICE AND THE NATIONAL GUARD FORCES COMMANDED BY THE GOVERNORS!

To recap the federal response:

President Bush became, as we understand it, the first President in U. S. history to declare an area a disaster area BEFORE the storm hit. He did so to aid the federal relief effort, which of course had to move millions of tons of supplies and equipment, coming in from all over the country, as close as it could safely move them to the probable disaster area.

The U. S. Special Ops teams were airlifted to the Louis Armstrong airport and began working to re-open it ---- between 24-36 hours after Katrina hit.

The Federal Relief convoys --- which were each 4 to 8 miles long carrying millions of tons of supplies including 5.5 million hot meals ---- began rolling into New Orleans on Thursday night: JUST THREE DAYS AFTER KATRINA HIT.

To put it bluntly but accurately, the Federal Relief Effort Was ON TIME and WELL WITHIN THE 72-96 Hour time Frame, and Mayor Nagin and the New York Times Knows it!

But in New Orleans, there are hundreds of school buses and city vehicles, as well as countless private trucks and vehicles, now submerged, and rotting, under the floodwaters of Katrina!

Mayor Nagin and his corrupt city politicians made absolutely no effort --- despite all the OFFICIAL warnings that the levees would break and flood the city --- to commandeer those vehicles and evacuate the poor people!

IN FACT, THERE WERE NO EMERGENCY SUPPLIES OF WATER AND FOOD AT THE SUPERDOME UNTIL THE LOUISIANIA GUARD DELIVERED 3 TRUCKS OF WATER and enough MRE's ( Meals Ready to Eat, ie, combat rations) late Sunday night to care for 15,000 people for 3 days. There were over 26,000 people in the Superdome by that time. There were no more deliveries of food and water.

Nagin and his corrupt city officials did not even stock NOLA's largest public shelter with adequate emergency supplies!

And this man is blaming the federal government for what he helped cause!

There is only one fitting description of Nagin's and the NYT's ranting: it is despicable, politically-motivated, buck-passing hogwash, and it is being spewed on the nation by Mayor Nagin and the New York Times when we should all be coming together to help Katrina's victims!

It is designed to divert attention from what we can only honestly describe as an UNPARALLELED CASE OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE on the part of Mayor Nagin and the NOLA city government and city officials!

And the Media's involvement in this can only be described as irresponsible journalistic FRAUD.

WE OF THE H-GAEBNET CALL NOW FOR CONGRESS AND THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TO LAUNCH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF MAYOR NAGIN AND THE CITY OF NOLA's RESPONSE TO HURRICANE KATRINA!

If you would like to join us in this effort, please comment below and leave your email address.


Thanks, and regards,

Tom Tyler, a Galveston area volunteer in the relief effort


NEW LINKS 09/05 (Thanks to Mark Reiff)

Katrina Time Line
From American Daughter blog

Washington Post: Governor Refused to Act
Little Green Footballs blog