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September 11, 2005
The hits just keep on coming. . .
Now it's being reported that in addition to the City of New Orleans:
NOT EVACUATING CITIZENS ON AVAILABLE CITY BUSES
and the State of Louisiana:
STONE-WALLING THE FEDERAL RELIEF EFFORTS AT EVERY TURN
it appears that the city officials in New Orleans (these are the locals people, not the Feds and not the President) refused an Amtrak offer of assistance with getting people out of the city.
In fact, while the last regularly scheduled train out of town had left a few hours earlier, Amtrak had decided to run a "dead-head" train that evening to move equipment out of the city. It was headed for high ground in Macomb, Miss., and it had room for several hundred passengers. "We offered the city the opportunity to take evacuees out of harm's way," said Amtrak spokesman Cliff Black. "The city declined."So the ghost train left New Orleans at 8:30 p.m., with no passengers on board.
I really don't have any civil words to express the anger that builds greater and greater every day as I see the corruption, politicing and COMPLETE AND TOTAL INCOMPETANCE that is the City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana.
It really, really sucks to be embarrassed by your birthplace and hometown.
Nagin and Blanco must go, IMMEDIATELY.
--Jason
Posted by JasonColeman at September 11, 2005 9:59 PM
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You really haven't done much research on your own, have you? The law in which you referred to on my blog has nothing to do with federal emergency management. It is meant to keep the military from acting as a police force and conducting illegal searches, arrests, or seizures of evidence. Learn for yourself. Don't let someone, even someone you may admire, spoon-feed your news to you.
Blessings Abound!
Posted by: Mountain Girl at September 14, 2005 3:38 PM
The "comment" that Mountain Girl is referring to does not exist on this website.
She's either referring to my reference of posse comitatus or the Insurrection Act in one of her posts -http://thinkingwomanslife.blogspot.com/2005/09/irrefutable-evidence.html#comments
In this post, Mountain Girl goes on about how Blanco asked for federal assistance before the storm, unfortunately, Blanco never followed through with it as the evidence is now showing. In fact, there's video coming out today where ONCE AGAIN, Blanco is admitting out of her own mouth that she did not ask for troops and other specific assistance.
The fact remains that until a Governor turns over control to the Feds, it's not a Federal matter, PERIOD. Presidents don't go around overthrowing Governors, even if leftie moonbats want them too. It's just simply illegal. There are a couple of ways around posse comitatus, and one is the Insurrection Act.
Here's the reply I left for Mountain Girl (warning, kids, she's another moonbat leftie):
Perhaps you should learn to read the entire comment before you google some term you see in it that you don't know the meaning to and basing your response from that.Yes I did mention the Insurrection Act, as are many right now, across the political spectrum. Because that's what people like you have been suggesting the President do. The President didn't have the authority to ride into the state with federal troops as you seem to think he should have. He QUITE simply didn't have the legal authority.
I asked YOU if YOU were one of those thinking that he could, and that he should have invoked the Insurrection Act which would have allowed just what you suggest.
This only goes forward to prove that if Bush would have rolled in over the Governor, you would have bitched, and if he'd have stayed out and followed the law you would have bitched.
Or do you know of some legal loophole that no one else seems to know about??? The Constitution I have still has posse comitatus in it and it cannot be gotten around.
Read next time before you run away to google, Mountain Girl.
--Jason
Posted by: Jason Coleman at September 14, 2005 3:58 PM
