When "The Best Laid Plans" Aren't
CREW:
CREW just released a new blockbuster report: The Best Laid Plans: The Story of How the Government Ignored Its Own Gulf Coast Hurricane Plans.
Best Laid Plans details the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) plan to respond to a hurricane of Katrina's magnitude and, very importantly, FEMA's subsequent failure to implement that plan. The full report can be found here.
Shortly after Katrina struck, on September 7, 2005, CREW sent a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), of which FEMA is a component, seeking records related to the federal government's long-term planning for a hurricane on the Gulf Coast as well as its immediate preparations for and response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Best Laid Plans is based on the 7,500 records DHS provided in response. What we found is disturbing -- and dangerous.
Oh MY!!
I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
There must be something wrong with FEMA. They would never let anythig like this happen.
They could not even read the instructions? It was all written down and they didn't read it? Oh my!
dont worry we will take extra effort to help the downtrodden citizens of the lake tahoe fires. we rebuild their 450.000 homes right away
And the hits just keep on comin'
It was expected. They don't know their ass.....
Minnesota RNC BEGGING for $ for 2008 Convention
But bad things come to those who fuck over others. Karma bites.
The current administration have F#$%ed up everything they have touched, worst admin and president in the USAs history.
“stupid is as stupid does” to quote Gump, Bushs presumed role model.
To be fair to Forest, he showed compassion, and didnt have a bad thought in his head.
I dont think incompetence is a good excuse for Bushco and their failings, to have done what they have done over the last 6 years, it has to have been deliberate evil.
Jesus Christ, at first glance I thought that picture was of Darfur, then on closer inspection, I saw that the head scarves were actually baseball caps and t-shirts, it's a camo backpack, not Army BDUs and even with the smoke in the background, those are American citizens left to die on rooftops. Please don't forget the oil tanker that ran aground in Alaska not three weeks after Katrina in which the Navy was en route in less than 24 hours.
Paddy @ 7:
Gladdens my heart as a MN resident to see them suffer.
we havent forgotten what they did to Sen. Paul Wellstone.
May the RNC and their ilk rot in hell.
Strawberry @ 9:
I heard back in 06 a story from somebody who knew somebody who had worked in NO doing relief,
about 'Darkwater' or similar doing some nasty contract work down there,
seems 300 plus perps were removed permantly (from the world).
Private crime fighting or ethnic cleansing of 'trash' as some would call it.
SO THEY'RE LACK OF RESPONSE WAS INTENTIONAL???
carefulwiththatAXEeugene @ 12:
They responded promptly in the 'nice' neighborhoods, ie the white ones.
The places they didnt care about or ignored for days were poor areas, and most likely non GOP voting.
Logical extention of the GOP caging scandal, "they didnt vote for us. why should we care"
Katrina was the final message don't expect ANYTHING from these guys.
L.A. Confidential @ 14:
I just want them to leave office in 09, when they lose the next election.
Praying that they do (if I was religious) would be the appropriate words :O
just like the PDB dated aug 6th 2001...they either read it and ignored it or they didn't read it at all..either way it's a deriliction of duty..and the consequences were..........overwhelming...just like Katrina
Paddy,
I'm also a Minnesotan (don'chya know) and completely agree.
As for Katrina, you would have to be pretty naive to think that anyone in Washington truly gave/gives a shit.
Aside from the few votes that they will lose (which would be a lot more if it weren't for voter caging), they could not care less about what happens to other people. ESPECIALLY poor, black, other people.
PEACE
And how many of these 7500 documents did Congress attempt to get when they did their "official investigation" of the Katrina clusterfcuk? My guess would be none. Since the purpose of the Congressional investigation into the Katrina disaster was to give people a circus, pin it all on Michael Brown, and then hopefully forget about it, I think subpoenaing his emails about being a 'fashion god,' and releasing THOSE to the public was considered enough.
Thanks for keeping us up on Katrina...we still need to Know what went wrong...FEMA is still in the toilet, even without Brownie at the Helm....
Lincoln in his Gettysburg address summed it up pretty well,
Politics is INCLUSIVE, we vote them into office by party, BUT they work for ALL people.
Different flavors of politicos might have pet projects and plans, but everybody is important.
"government of the people, by the people, for the people"
At least FEMA had a plan to ignore, which (sorta) puts them one-up on the Iraq war imbeciles.
This also demonstrates the main feature of this administration, lots of talk, lots of bullshit on (secret) paper, no relationship between the talk and bullshit and reality, and no positive, beneficial action, ever.
This looks like a Republican plan for depopulating the US. Let natural disasters eliminate the poor.
What's the matter with our people in government? None of them show any compassion.
When an emergency happens - there should be NO RED TAPE.
We have the technology to aim and pinpoint a bomb so as not to kill human beings - just blow up a building.
AFTER KATRINA, WHY COULD'NT FOOD, ICE AND WATER BE DROPPED TO OUR NEIGHBORS IN NEED? Dumb repulicans!!
Is this snapshot from New Orleans or from one of the countries in Africa?
How to Destroy an African-American City in 33 Steps
by Bill Quigley
http://www.counterpunch.org/
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