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]

Sounds like he's talking specifically about the delay in retaking the Convention Center, not in operations generally. That they deliberately waited till they had enough people to do it, rather than go in with an insufficient force and end up with people killed; I'm sure that if the'd done so, the same people who are upset now would be even more upset and critical.

And the people were searched for weapons on their way back in to the CC, not on their way out.

[redbird]

So, it matters to the sick and starving which government-recommended shelter they're locked into, with no, water, or medicine, by an army that has locked them in because it believes that there are thugs and rapists locked in with them?

Zev, is there anything that could get you to stop defending authoritarians who see no problem in the deaths of their fellow citizens?

[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?

[avram]

Yeah, if the killing happens under a Democrat. In RASEFF, he criticized the BATF over the Waco massacre.