--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 9/3/05 7:23:50 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > The Red Cross could have gotten food and water > and medical and other supplies into New Orleans > *long* before yesterday, when the first supplies > were sent in under the aegis of the National > Guard and the feds. > > Some people have died and many thousands more have > endured incredible suffering, in other words, in > order to force them to evacuate. > > The mind boggles. > > Now according to Geraldo and Shep Smith last night who absolutely > threw a crying fit on TV, they say People are NOT being allowed to > evacuate. everybody is being told where to go, usually the > convention center or Dome where they will be evacuated from . Once > they get there, they are not allowed to leave. They are forced to > stay. So there is no coercion to force people to leave the > city to seek help, it's just the opposite.
You don't quite get it, as usual. They are forcing them to evacuate *their* way. > The National Guard doesn't want > tens of thousands of people in all conditions walking the highways > and roads where they can not be picked up easily or delivered food > and water while they wait for evacuation. If they had been delivered food and water while they were waiting, that would be one thing. But they weren't, not until late yesterday, when many of them had been without food and water and medical attention for three or four days. The point is, the Red Cross *could* have supplied those necessities for them while they were waiting to be evacuated, had the Red Cross been allowed in. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
