saturnalia Disco's
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Registered: Mar
2002 Location: south
florida
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Real News on What
Happened at the Convention Center
The news
gaves us congratulatory pictures of convoys finally arriving.
See below: "Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop.
Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before
they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around
up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to
approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons
being aimed at them."
Linked from http://www.thenation.com/
"Bigfoot"
is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local
personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of
the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the
Iberville Projects because he knew he would be above any flood
waters. Here is his story as told to me moments ago. I took
notes while he talked and then I asked some questions:
Three days ago, police and national guard troops
told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection
Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens
trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses
which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or
somewhere else, out of this area.
It's been 3 days,
and the buses have yet to appear.
Although obviously
he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people
are packed into and around and outside the convention center
still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and
no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the
National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed
out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below.
Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people
tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit
the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the
bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to
approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons
being aimed at them.
There are many infants and
elderly people among them, as well as many people who were
injured jumping out of windows to escape flood water and the
like -- all of them in dire straights.
Any attempt to
flag down police results in being told to get away at
gunpoint. Hour after hour they watch buses pass by filled with
people from other areas. Tensions are very high, and there has
been at least one murder and several fights. 8 or 9 dead
people have been stored in a freezer in the area, and 2 of
these dead people are kids.
The people are so
desperate that they're doing anything they can think of to
impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These
things include standing in single file lines with the eldery
in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and
cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the
people are not barbarians.
The buses never stop.
Before the supplies were pitched off the bridge today,
people had to break into buildings in the area to try to find
food and water for their families. There was not enough. This
spurred many families to break into cars to try to escape the
city. There was no police response to the auto thefts until
the mob reached the rich area -- Saulet Condos -- once they
tried to get cars from there... well then the whole swat teams
began showing up with rifles pointed. Snipers got on the roof
and told people to get back.
He reports that the
conditions are horrendous. Heat, mosquitoes and utter misery.
The smell, he says, is "horrific."
He says it's the
slowest mandatory evacuation ever, and he wants to know why
they were told to go to the Convention Center area in the
first place; furthermore, he reports that many of them with
cell phones have contacts willing to come rescue them, but
people are not being allowed through to pick them up.
I have "Bigfoot"'s phone number and will gladly
give it to any city or state official who would like to tell
him how everything is under control.
Addendum: Bigfoot
just called to report that "they" (the authorities) are
cleaning up the dead bodies at the Convention Center right
now.
IP:
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