FEMA blames the victims! WTF

[fryguy]

sorry if a dupe

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.fema.brown/index.html

The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.

Michael Brown also agreed with other public officials that the death toll in the city could reach into the thousands.

"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.

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Blame the victims? As if many of those suffering had any way of leaving the city? Where were the lines of buses to evacuate all those people who couldn't afford to leave New Orleans under the "mandatory evacuation"???

This tragedy mighth have been caused by nature, but it is the FAULT of the government for not helping the most vulnerable people leave the area that it has become the catastrophe that it is....

:grr:

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. FEMA failed to assess the situation properly. Those people needed

transportation then, and they need it now. FEMA will not escape the wrath of public criticism. Brown has to go.

[xchrom]

2. the feds and the states KNEW this was going to be bad

and for YEARS weather scientists have been saying a big bad ugly storm{s} is coming our way.

no, it's not the victims fault -- it's the fault of the people we rely on to make intelligent decisions to keep us ALL safe.

[Beware the Beast Man]

3. The hurricane stuck at the end of the month,

before SSI and before welfare.

HOW THE HELL ARE THOSE PEOPLE SUPPOSED TO LEAVE?

Oh yeah, I forgot, they chose to be poor and lazy. It's their fault. :sarcasm: :eyes:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. I heard him say it, and last night Ted Koppel took him to the mat on it.nt

[tallahasseedem]

5. Advance warning my ass....

alot of them had no resources to get out. Hell even The Weather Channel was talking about it before it hit. My God, these people are idiots.