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New News article on exit from NO being blocked
[link|http://www.washtimes.com/upi/20050908-112433-4907r.htm|Washington Times]
Police from surrounding jurisdictions shut down several access points to one of the only ways out of New Orleans last week, effectively trapping victims of Hurricane Katrina in the flooded and devastated city.

Lawson said that once the storm itself had passed Monday, police from Gretna City, Jefferson Parrish and the Louisiana State Crescent City Connection Police Department closed to foot traffic the three access points to the bridge closest to the West Bank of the river.
He added that the small town, which he called "a bedroom community" for the city of New Orleans, would have been overwhelmed by the influx.
"There was no food, water or shelter" in Gretna City, Lawson said. "We did not have the wherewithal to deal with these people.
"If we had opened the bridge, our city would have looked like New Orleans does now: looted, burned and pillaged."
But -- in an example of the chaos that continued to beset survivors of the storm long after it had passed -- even as Lawson's men were closing the bridge, authorities in New Orleans were telling people that it was only way out of the city.
"The only way people can leave the city of New Orleans is to get on (the) Crescent City Connection ... authorities said," reads a Tuesday morning posting on the Web site of the New Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper, which kept reporting through the storm and the ruinous flooding that followed.

The article draws from things already posted here. But it is important in two regards, it is the first major news agency to report this and they have direct confirmation that exit was actually blocked.

Jay
New I hope a civil rights case is opened aginst these people
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New Cholera Marys?
If that isn't the 'reason' today ... wait a few days.

Heard a lengthy NPR broadcast this AM re parallels with 9/11 and the present toxic soup in South. Every part of the inundated houses is a Petri dish of nastiness from e-coli in flooded sewers to the very many Oil-related industries and their chemicals (and the ~500K gallon?) collapsed oil storage in just one locale -- as all roiled together throughout the city.

Note how the toxic cloud around the Twin Towers entered only momentarily into press and public consciousness; recall the initial CDC lies about the hazards (initially and subsequently) -- then the lies re following-up on "long term effects" on the volunteers and the many other hi- and low- wage workers exposed for months. Nothing Like 'followup' has occurred or is likely. Without sustained noise: ditto re N.O.

The medical effects are only just surfacing. With our collective attention span -- these present hold-outs, cops et al and National Guard (per broadcast: few with Hepatitis A or B vacs; few with even repirators and ~none with access to regular showers or decontamination) -- all are canddidates for various expectable disabilities. And then long-term carcinogenic roulette.

I will look periodically for any of these facets to appear on newsfotainment.

     News article on exit from NO being blocked - (JayMehaffey) - (2)
         I hope a civil rights case is opened aginst these people -NT - (boxley)
         Cholera Marys? - (Ashton)

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