The Red Cross Is NOT ALLOWED into New Orleans???

Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?

* Acess to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.

* The state Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.

* The Red Cross has been meeting the needs of thousands of New Orleans residents in some 90 shelters throughout the state of Louisiana and elsewhere since before landfall. All told, the Red Cross is today operating 149 shelters for almost 93,000 residents.

* The Red Cross shares the nation?s anguish over the worsening situation inside the city. We will continue to work under the direction of the military, state and local authorities and to focus all our efforts on our lifesaving mission of feeding and sheltering.

* The Red Cross does not conduct search and rescue operations. We are an organization of civilian volunteers and cannot get relief aid into any location until the local authorities say it is safe and provide us with security and access.

* The original plan was to evacuate all the residents of New Orleans to safe places outside the city. With the hurricane bearing down, the city government decided to open a shelter of last resort in the Superdome downtown. We applaud this decision and believe it saved a significant number of lives.

* As the remaining people are evacuated from New Orleans, the most appropriate role for the Red Cross is to provide a safe place for people to stay and to see that their emergency needs are met. We are fully staffed and equipped to handle these individuals once they are evacuated.

Umm ok thats some bullshit there.

I hate to pull the race card but I don't see this happening if the town was full of middle class white folk.

this is - eh - weird

Its not pulling the race card, its pulling the class card. It would not be happening if the town was full of middle class people and not poor people.

I usually don't comment in these types of threads, but last year when my city was completely destroyed by Hurricane Ivan, the National Guard and Red Cross didn't have to worry about being shot at or rushed and beaten. There were many in my town that didn't receive help from FEMA or the government but there was no rioting or looting in my city. Neighbors helped each other and we didn't complain when we didn't have any place to live for weeks or clean water to drink.

It has nothing to do with race, but everything to do with the social and moral responsibility of the people in New Orleans. They just so happen to be a majority of black people, but their problem is that they feel that the government owes them something, and that FEMA owes them something, and that the Red Cross owes them something, and that the American people owe them something. I fully support any relief effort for the people of New Orleans since I appreciated the support my city received last year, even though it took weeks to get it.

Why are we only hearing about New Orleans? Biloxi has just as much damage if not more than New Orleans, but the people of Biloxi aren't acting the same way as the people of New Orleans. They aren't receiving any help either, but the media sees a story of a group of people and makes a national crisis of it. Where are the stories of the people helping other people which happened in our city? Where are the stories of South Florida who also had heavy damage to some of its areas from Katrina and now has NO gasoline at all?

These are a group of people who don't appreciate the help that is given to them. They think that it's the responsiblity of everyone else to come to their aid. They use that as an excuse to loot, kill, rape, and beat other innocent human being and make the environment unsave for relief and rescue workers.

Until you lived first hand in a horrible natural disaster like Hurrican Katrian or Hurricane Ivan, you can not full understand what it is to be without anything. The news cannot describe it, media and pictures cannot fully represent it, but that does not give a group of people the right to act as if they were animals from a prehistoric era.

I donated money to the red cross and same with lots of other people. I'm sure they would do a lot of good, this is really fucked up.

The sheer nerve!

Are you saying that you expect the residents to abide by the law?!

The sheer audacity!! Are you a racist?!!

;)

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=512072

The Louisiana governor is to blame

Very well said.

Exactly.

Same reason food and water weren't brought in as soon as the storm passed.

Looters, rapists, murderers. There are regular battles between troops and

thugz