While the United States Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Afghanistan, Djibouti, Iraq, the Philippines and west Africa defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) Mayor C. Raymond J. Nagin, Jr., of New Orleans, louisiana, issues a vitriolic, profanity-laced, statement to WWL radio about the anemic Federal response to Hurricane Katrina, by Republican (fascist/socialist) President George W. Bush:

       You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can’t figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need?  Come on man.

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       I need reinforcements.  I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man. This is a national disaster.

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       I’ve been out there man.  I flew in these helicopters, been in the crowds talking to people crying, don’t know where their relatives are. I’ve done it all man, and I’ll tell you man, I keep hearing that it’s coming.  This is coming, that is coming. And my answer to that today is b___ s___, where is the beef?  Because there is no beef in this city. … Get every Greyhound bus in the country and get them moving.

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       I’ve been out there man.  I flew in these helicopters Get off you’re a____ and let’s do something.

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       I’ve been out there man.  I flew in these helicopters I don’t want to see anybody do anymore g______ press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences.  Don’t do another press conference until the resources are in this city.  And then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can’t even count.  Don’t tell me 40,000 people are coming here.  They’re not here. It’s too doggone late.  Now get off your asses and do something, and let’s fix the biggest goddamn crisis in the history of this country.

       Questions:

• If Nagin were so concerned about the residents of his city why did he not make use of the government school and transit district buses, which were capable of evacuating 12,000 people out of the city at a time?
• Why were only the three northbound lanes of Interstate 10 open to evacuees, while the three southbound lanes remained unavailable, forcing many to abandon their automobiles and trucks, and travel faster on foot?
• Why did Nagin not take the National Rail Passenger Corporation (AMTRAK) up on its offer to evacuate New Orleans’ residents on the last, near empty train to leave the city?
• Where in the Constitution for the united States does it say Congress is responsible for disaster relief?
• Now many hundreds of his city’s residents would be alive today had Nagin done just these three simple things?
• Also, why were Nagin’s statute enforcement agents busy confiscating legally registered pistols, revolvers, rifles and shotguns that residents needed to defend themselves, and not rescuing endangered residents?

       [added 1/21/2024]

       It’s hard to be sympathetic with people who chose to live below sea level in a known Hurricane zone and Put their trust in the U.S. Army’s Corps of Engineers, who built retaining walls on top of the earthen levees thrown up by the previous residents over the past two centuries, without proper foundations.  They could have asked the Dutch how to do it.

       I was in New Orleans in 1974 when I looked up from my travel trailer park and saw a merchant ship steam up the river channel some 40 feet over my head.  When it began to rain I hooked up and the wife & I were on our way to higher ground.  While on the bridge over the river we heard that the area we had been parked in was flooded as the city’s pumps had failed.  Oops!

       Not that FEMA and the other so called rescue organizations are nearly as effective as private organizations that do not have any police powers. –– JL