Slowly but surely the truth of what's really happening

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From: sascully

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 3:02 PM

Subject: Letter from Louisiana..

This is from a gal I used to work with years ago.

Slowly but surely the truth of what's really happening is coming out.

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Hi Everyone,

There has been so much going on that I don't know where to start. There's no way I can tell you everything that is going on and I may have to send a few notes. If you're not interested, just delete. The people, who are trying to do the right thing, are very appreciated by most of us. The problem is a particular element in the city.

First you are not getting all the news, you are hearing what the media and politicians want you to hear, and you are left to try and piece this together, so I'm writing as someone from N.O. My family and friends are living there and now many of them are living with us. We have been in communication with the police and fire departments as well as some hospitals because family and friends work with them. Between us, after a few days we have pieced together a lot of what is going on, but no one will ever know the whole story. Still, I think that I can straighten out some of the thoughts on this.

Bush immediately responded to this crisism and made it known that he was ready to send federal assistance, but the states have sovernity and must ASK for help before the feds can move. From what we were told, he didn't understand why the state waited so long. Bush tried to get them to ask and was put on hold. True the city was still under water, but there were many things that could have been done, including getting food and water to those in shelters and hospitals.

The city had a manditory evacuation order. ANYONE, who needed shelter and could not get out on their own, was directed to go to bus stops to be picked up. Disabled or empaired persons were told to call a special number or go to a hospital and they were to be transported to safety.

There are five main reasons that people stayed behind. (And, I'm not making excuses for them, I'm just explaining what I know to be true. I have very little sympathy for most of those who stayed.)

1.) Because they'd been through other storms and thought this wasn't going to be that bad.

2.) The heros of the day, hospital workers, rescue workers, police, fireman and military. They stayed behind to help.

3.) Hospital patients.

4.) People, who felt their property was more important than their lives and who stayed behind to defend their homes.

5.) The scum who are ravaging the city and who stayed behind purposely, because they know they can loot and rob. ( And, yes, they did stay just for that purpose. They do everytime there is a storm. There is always some neighborhood that becomes vulnerable to this, but never to this extent. Friends of mine had a guy parked outside their homes casing the street to see who was evacuating and even had the nerve to ask if they were leaving.)

I have friends of many races and I am not talking about lumping any race into the category of the group, I am about to describe. But, at the risk of sounding racist, I'm going to tell you what happened to N.O. My friends and I have watched the disintigration of our beautiful city over our lifetime. As whites were driven from one neighborhood after another. DRIVEN not chose to move, because it was integrated. DRIVEN.

My own in-laws were robbed, then their house of thirty years was vandalized and finally when they refused to move, it was set on fire, because as they were told, there was no room for whites there. This was now a black neighborhood. I could tell you dozens of incidents, but I'll limit it to this one. Within these neighborhoods in a couple of generations, life deteriorated. Gangs grew and crime became rampant and savage. They would drive to suburbs like Slidell and loot and rob, and in the last few years, home invasions became more prevalent.

These gangs, I am describing are savage, with no morals or concerns for anyone. They don't just loot and rob, they kill, molest, torture and rape. One of the friends, we had here, we met because of this storm. This is her story. She worked at a downtown hospital and stayed to help the victims. The hospital was filling with water and they were struggling with a tired staff to move the patients to higher floors. They were not allowed to give the patients medication intravenously, only by mouth, because some of the family's of the patients were staying with them to get shelter from the storm and they were of the elk described above. They were stealing medication, looting the medicine cabinets and there was no one, save a security guard to stop them. Eventually, gangs were breaking in windows to get to the drugs, and they molested the staff and patients. The staff was abused, threatened and traumatized.

As rescue boats came to the hospital and to the superdome, they and staff and patients were fired upon. The staff had a choice to go with the buses and cross town or risk being highjacked along the exit route or go with the Guard (not sure which military affiliation it was) and go out by helicopter, which had it's own risks. All of them were fired on as they departed. Our friend ended up being lifted out by helicopter. She was suffering from shock and was brought to Reliant Center here in Texas. We didn't know her yet.

Meanwhile, one of our friends here, got a call from her brother's fiance, begging us to find her. After much searching, we found that she had gotten a news crew to smuggle her out of the crowd and bring her to a hotel, where they left her. We drove there and found she had only the clothes on her back, nothing to eat, no money and disoriented. She was shaking and scared. We brought her home of course and tried to make her feel secure. Her husband arrived last night, and they took off this morning for Tennesee, where her family lives. This is just one small story, but it illustrates the intensity of this event. It's a war zone and that is not an exaggeration.

My sister and brother have flooded homes. Our friends don't know if they have a house yet, because they aren't allowed back in the city. But this is something that you expect from a storm, you rebuild or relocate and move on.

The real tragedy is the way this has been handled...or not handled.

Pumps were shut down and crews were left with no access codes to turn them on, because officials didn't think this was going to be that bad when the storm turned They expected it would keep turning, so those in charge went home. We still haven't gotten the whole story yet on this one.

Police were not allowed to confront looters, because they were in groups of two, where they were up against a gang of a dozen or so savages, armed with guns of all types who were ready to shoot anyone they saw. They were announcing on TV that looting was being overlooked because the police were too busy with the rescue effort, and it didn't take long for the savages to learn they wouldn't be pursued. As one looter said on camers, if it was wrong, someone would stop them, as he smiled into the camera.. And, let me clarify that I'm not talking about food here when I say looting. We're talking about anything not nailed down from expensive electronics to jewelry and money and destroying building and houses as they went.

Homes in Orleans were emptied of money and many were taken over. Some tried to walk across the Mississippi river bridge and were stopped because the bridge was closed. Then, the mayor of N.O. allowed them to cross over and told them to find vacant homes to live in for shelter until the water went down. They've destroyed the homes, not lived in them. The biggest mall on the west bank was looted and then set on fire. That's not seeking shelter or food. That's just plain criminal.

The Superdome shelter was a nightmare. The scene of murders & fights. Rapes were going on in the restrooms.

We haven't been able to contact most of our families, because the local area codes have been shut down except for emergency services. The reason? Because the savages use cell phones to communicate with each other to meet and destroy. It's their organizational tool of choice. It's terrorism at it's best. The Islamic extremists have nothing on these people, and I use the term "people" loosely. They are animals.

I could go on with stories from home. But, I'll digress to an earlier time and explain why, as I close. In 1965, Algiers, which is a small community on the West Bank of N.O., was a most beautiful place, no crime, home owners showed pride in the care of their homes. Hurricane Betsy hit the city and power went out for a month or so. The government (local and federal) decided to move the inner city savages to Algiers and give them shelter in a center there. Then, the government built Fischer Project to house them. They terrorized Algiers and eventually drove off everyone, who lived there. It's a crime ridden bed of seedy characters now. They even take shots from the project occassionally at the police on the bridge. Now, they have condemed the project and told the residents that they are going to merge them with the community by giving them a grant to find a home to buy in the area. It has since become a community living in terror.

The reason I mention this? Because in their infinite wisdom...or GREED, our governor and others, have allowed them to ship this vermin to Houston, San Antonio, and Galveston. Other states have also lent a helping hand (for money) by allowing them into Tennessee, Missouri and Arkansas. If left to grow, these savages will wreak the same havoc on these places, drive them into the ground as they have done to my beautiful city.

Algiers initially received some money in return to rescue these people. Now, Texas and other states are also receiving money to give these people a place to live. I tell you, it isn't worth it, and we will pay the price in the long run. You can disagree if you want to, that's your choice, but I know that this is a horrible, horrible situation. And, our cities will never be the same. Can't happen where you are? Don't bet on it.

There are wonderful people who live in the metropolitan area of N.O. They are upright and decent and would do anything to help anyone who needed help. But these refugees from the storm are not among them.

Most every room in my house is a bed room now. We are on two phones at a time, trying to get lives back together, and see if our loved ones are okay. We cry, we watch the news and we wait. As I write this, most of us have heard from most of our friends and family but we still are struggling to find a way to restart lives. My in-laws are in Rustin. My sister is in LaPlace, my brother is in Baton Rouge, my father and younger sister are in Covington. People are scattered all over and trying to find a way home.

I have become very cynical and feel there is little that can be done about corrupt or stupid government, and justice has disappeared from our land. There is only one thing to turn to and that is our creator. Please pray for all of the victims of this storm, and also for the country. Our cities are emploding, and we are on the verge of destroying ourselves from within. God bless us all.

Regards,

M
sascully@hal-pc.org
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