WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON IN NEW ORLEANS WHERE IS THE FUCKING MILITARY
motherFUCK this cocksucker
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:34 (nineteen years ago)
douchebag
― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:42 (nineteen years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:48 (nineteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago)
should just go to bed. what an absolute nightmare
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:01 (nineteen years ago)
http://ilx.p3r.net/newanswers.php?board=15
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:05 (nineteen years ago)
About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken shelter at New Orleans convention center grew ever more hostile after waiting for buses for days amid the filth and the dead. Police Chief Eddie Compass said there was such a crush around a squad of 88 officers that they retreated when they went in to check out reports of assaults.
"We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten," Compass said. "Tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon."
Col. Henry Whitehorn, chief of the Louisiana State Police, said he heard of numerous instances of New Orleans police officers — many of whom from flooded areas — turning in their badges.
"They indicated that they had lost everything and didn't feel that it was worth them going back to take fire from looters and losing their lives," Whitehorn said.
A military helicopter tried to land at the convention center several times to drop off food and water. But the rushing crowd forced the choppers to back off. Troopers then tossed the supplies to the crowd from 10 feet off the ground and flew away.
In hopes of defusing the situation at the convention center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they could find. But the bedlam made that difficult.
"This is a desperate SOS," Nagin said in a statement. "Right now we are out of resources at the convention center and don't anticipate enough buses."
At least seven bodies were scattered outside the convention center, a makeshift staging area for those rescued from rooftops, attics and highways. The sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement.
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair.
"You can do everything for other countries, but you can't do nothing for your own people," he added. "You can go overseas with the military, but you can't get them down here."
The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.
"They've been teasing us with buses for four days," Edwards said. "They're telling us they're going to come get us one day, and then they don't show up."
Every so often, an armored state police vehicle cruised in front of the convention center with four or five officers in riot gear with automatic weapons. But there was no sign of help from the National Guard.
At one point the crowd began to chant "We want help! We want help!" Later, a woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd ..."
"We are out here like pure animals," the Issac Clark said.
"We've got people dying out here — two babies have died, a woman died, a man died," said Helen Cheek. "We haven't had no food, we haven't had no water, we haven't had nothing. They just brought us here and dropped us."
Tourist Debbie Durso of Washington, Mich., said she asked a police officer for assistance and his response was, "'Go to hell — it's every man for himself.'"
"This is just insanity," she said. "We have no food, no water ... all these trucks and buses go by and they do nothing but wave."
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:08 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:09 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:15 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:18 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:21 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:23 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:24 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago)
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:27 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:27 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:28 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:29 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:30 (nineteen years ago)
beg your pardon? do i need to put a ned-winky after everything?
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:31 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago)
― gainfully emloyed (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:35 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:38 (nineteen years ago)
Anyhoo, crashing now to ensure presence at my well-paying job...
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:40 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:41 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:42 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:43 (nineteen years ago)
― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:45 (nineteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago)
― Stormy Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:46 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:47 (nineteen years ago)
― Stormy Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:49 (nineteen years ago)
― Fushigina Blobby: Blobania no Kiki (ex machina), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:53 (nineteen years ago)
― amon (eman), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago)
-- gear (speed.to.roa...), September 1st, 2005 6:34 PM. (gear) (later)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago)
― obrit (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago)
― oreobobbibibititi (dr g), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:00 (nineteen years ago)
-- marissa -marchant (freakvo...), August 12th, 2005 5:40 PM.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Friday, 2 September 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago)
― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:00 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:35 (nineteen years ago)
― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Saturday, 3 September 2005 01:37 (nineteen years ago)
I mentioned it on another thread, but I got into a REPLY ALL arguement with a flat-topped neocon at work today about FEMA and the president. I figured that I'd be suspended or something, but these white-bread, church-goin', shotgun-totin' red-staters around the office all gave me the thumbs up. That was kinda weird.
So keep saying it. FUCK GEORGE BUSH. Apparently, maybe it's having an effect. Richard Nixon won re-election with 48 states, and look where it got him.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 3 September 2005 05:25 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Saturday, 3 September 2005 09:02 (nineteen years ago)
Take it easy, noise board.
― I don't doubt it, my friend, I don't doubt it (nordicskilla), Saturday, 3 September 2005 15:31 (nineteen years ago)
― PHOIOEI (blastocyst), Saturday, 3 September 2005 16:50 (nineteen years ago)
for the record, gwb dancing at a funeralhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBf4DCpL1Q4
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:23 (nine years ago)
like a bored, mischievous four-year-old
michelle's expression around 25s is priceless
― brexit through the rift shock (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 14 July 2016 18:39 (nine years ago)
Michelle smiled at him the way I smile at everyone's jokes in my office.
― del griffith, Friday, 15 July 2016 01:12 (nine years ago)