Abandoned By Our Own Country

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Rick DeAngelo <rick.deangelo () gmail com>
Date: September 6, 2005 1:08:45 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Abandoned By Our Own Country


Hello Dave,

Thank you for all of the years of maintaining the IP list. I thought  
this might be of interest to the everyone as it really brings home  
the effects of Hurricane Katrina and the Federal government's  
incompetance in responding.

Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, was on  
NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday, September 4, 2005. He gave a scathing  
assessment of how our government has failed us in the wake of  
Hurricane Katrina. But most notably, I was moved by his personal  
story of how someone's mother was trapped in a nursing home and  
subsequently died:

"The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's  
responsible for everything.  His mother was trapped in St. Bernard  
nursing home and every day she called him and said, 'Are you coming,  
son?  Is somebody coming?' And he said, 'Yeah, Mama, somebody's  
coming to get you.  Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday.  
Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday.  Somebody's coming to get  
you on Thursday.  Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.' And she  
drowned Friday night.  She drowned Friday night." -- Jefferson Parish  
President Broussard

Video clip: http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/04.html#a4783

Full Meet the Press transcript (Broussard's comments appear about  
halfway down): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179790/


Regards,

Rick DeAngelo
Systems Engineer, NorthwayNetworks.com
Email: deangelo () northwaynetworks com






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