Deliberately delaying rescue

[redbird]

For those who were questioning whether the delays in getting people out of New Orleans were deliberate: DoD is not only admitting it, they're calling it a job well done.

The excuse is that there were dangerous people in the Superdome. So they responded by making everyone else stay there longer, with no food, no water, and "gang members" threatening them. Also, they claim that they needed to search people for guns and weapons on the way out--remember that everyone who came in was searched, and had to stand in line for hours because of this.

Comments

[zsero.livejournal.com]

I didn't see anything in the article about the army locking anyone in the Convention Center, or preventing anyone from leaving (as far as I can tell, the people inside didn't leave because, as bad as it was inside, they had nowhere else to go). What I saw was a reasonable explanation for why the army didn't storm the place earlier, and evict the thugs.

And it certainly didn't relate, as you claimed, to "the delays in getting people out of New Orleans"; it related to one specific situation, where the army was needed to get people out of one building, and they did so as soon as they had enough people to do so safely.

[ala-too.livejournal.com]

Given that this was a center set up by the city why wasn't there food, water, and security there in the first place? I understand why they didn't want the Red Cross operating all over the city but the convention center seemed like a place where they might have done a whole lot of good.

There seems to be a whole lot of stories about real violence (rape, death) in the convention center. So the violence was real. How much of that was caused by lack of water and food though?