The 11,000 trailers built in Arkansas were originally said to be for parking beside damaged homes. They were to house residents while they rebuilt their homes a few feet from these trailers.
This story takes the blame off of Bush and any cronies profiting just as much from unused trailers and utilized trailers. The blame is projected on residents who are supposedly at fault for choosing not to use the trailers in trailer parks. For residents, the choice is the same as for the Abramoff prison cruise ships. New Orleans residents chose not to use them, either, because they, like these trailer parks, are far from the damaged homes they want to restore, and far from potential jobs. Did any Bush cronies profit from the unused Abramoff prison cruise ships, or the 11,000 unused trailers built in Arkansas? -Bob --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: "Dstacey" [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: July 22, 2006 7:12:18 AM PDT > > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;> > > Subject: OUR POLICE STATE: FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents] > > > > > > > > > > ===================== > > From: GlobalCirclenet [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: 2006/07/21 Fri PM 03:30:15 CDT > > > > http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17178 > > FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents > > By The Associated Press > > 07.20.06 > > > > MORGAN CITY, La. - Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal > > Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana > > aren't allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The > > (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported. > > > > In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out > > of a > > trailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules were > > enforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish. > > > > FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Rodi wouldn't say whether the security guards' > > actions complied with FEMA policy, saying the matter was being > > reviewed. But she confirmed that FEMA does not allow the news media to > > speak alone to residents in their trailers. > > > > "If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be > > escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview," Rodi > > told the newspaper for its July 15 report. "That's just a policy." > > > > Gregg Leslie, legal defense director for the Reporters Committee for > > Freedom of the Press, said FEMA's refusal to allow trailer-park > > residents to invite news media into their homes unescorted was > > unconstitutional. > > > > Morgan City Mayor Timothy Matte told The Advocate that he was > > surprised > > residents were being barred from talking to reporters. > > > > "I would think anyone who lives there would be allowed to have any > > visitor they wanted," he said. > > > > FEMA leases the land for the trailer park from the city, Matte said. > > "It's public property. There's no question about that. You would think > > the people would have the same freedom there as everyone else has," he > > told the newspaper. > > > > Hundreds of trailers at FEMA parks sit empty and unused in Louisiana, > > according to The Advocate. > > > > Officials in Morgan City estimate that FEMA has spent about $7.5 > > million to build the trailer park but that only about 15 of the 198 > > trailers are being used. > > > > "We all wonder why no one lives there," Matte said. > > > > FEMA officials refuse to say how much was spent to build the park or > > why 183 of the trailers are vacant. > > > > "We're not going to talk about cost," Rodi told the newspaper. > > > > As in Morgan City, the 334-trailer FEMA park in Davant in Plaquemines > > Parish is greatly underused. > > > > The north side of the park is empty, and 92 families live in the south > > side, Rodi said, adding that the empty trailers would be removed. > > > > "We put them there at the parish's request," she said. "Now we've > > found > > that the need is not as great there or that people don't want to live > > there." > > > > The trailers are going to be put on private property or in private > > parks in the parish as needed, Rodi said. She refused to disclose how > > much the park cost to build. > > > > Meanwhile, Plaquemines Parish President Benny Rousselle blamed > > FEMA, in > > part, for the slow return of residents to the parish. > > > > Rousselle said FEMA knows where many evacuees relocated after the > > storm > > but won't give that information to parish officials. > > > > "FEMA told us because of privacy issues, they can't give us the > > addresses of our residents who are spread out in all 50 states. And no > > one but FEMA has that information," Rousselle said. "If we could > > contact them, I think a lot of them would come back if they knew we > > had > > places for them to live." > > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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