Humiliated

TorgoX on 2005-09-09T06:03:09

Dear Log,

«All day long, we saw other families, individuals and groups make the same trip up the incline in an attempt to cross the bridge, only to be turned away. Some chased away with gunfire, others simply told no, others to be verbally berated and humiliated. Thousands of New Orleaners were prevented and prohibited from self-evacuating the City on foot.

This official treatment was in sharp contrast to the warm, heart-felt reception given to us by the ordinary Texans. We saw one airline worker give her shoes to someone who was barefoot. Strangers on the street offered us money and toiletries with words of welcome. Throughout, the official relief effort was callous, inept, and racist. There was more suffering than need be. Lives were lost that did not need to be lost.»

--"Ninth Circle": the story of two paramedics who survived the Big Difficult
Support our troops!!

Or what's that other word,.. where you fire them and strip them of benefits and maybe throw them in jail for being sociopathic monsters. That.