Before the * spinners get p.r. control--
Before the Pentagon gets any further with whatever the h--- they're up to while they keep everyone else out of N.O.--
We MUST make sure the media is AWARE of how Feds HELD UP HELP while trying to EXTORT total control from Blanco et al.
If you think this impt., pls kick and nominate.
Below is what I just sent the media, with links and other info.
Here's the link to the DU media blaster:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/cu/cu.phpGentlemen and Ladies:
First, thank you for the fantastic job you have been doing re- the Katrina aftermath.
I know you have more than you can handle right now, but I feel compelled to call your attention to the information below. I urge you to investigate it as thoroughly as possible and let us know what you find.
Thank you, and congratulations on your outstanding efforts.
Carolyn Sortor
1363 Chemical St.
Dallas, TX 75207
214-969-4946
Bush Admin Sought Control Over Nat’l Guard, Normally Under Control of Governor:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1750979http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.htmlWP, A01: White House Shifts Blame
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.
The administration had sought control over National Guard units, normally under control of the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request, noting that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. State authorities suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who is an adviser and does not have the authority to speak publicly.
Links to posts to the effect that numerous states had offered their N.G. before Katrina hit and Blanco had accepted, but that no one could move until the feds had provided the required paperwork or order, which in at least some cases did not materialize until Thursday; see, e.g.,
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1749337See also
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2057771 ;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/katrina_national_guard ;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4610280 ;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2058654 ;
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4605183&mesg_id=4605183FEMA crippling communications???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4628409http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16475033%255E2703,00.htmlInside Sheriff Lee, of Jefferson parish in New Orleans, is sitting at a table, fuming. He is doing his best to alleviate the biggest catastrophe he will ever witness, but lacks even the most basic of resources. He cannot communicate with his own officers -- his officers can barely communicate with each other -- because the overloaded radio frequency keeps jamming.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m15382&l=i&size=1&hd=0"We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean," explains Madsen. "The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today.... However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts.... A Vancouver, British Columbia Urban Search & Rescue Team deployed to New Orleans reported that their satellite phones were not working and they had to obtain other satellite phones to keep in touch with their headquarters and other emergency agencies in British Columbia." There are also rumors spreading on forums and blogs that troops are confiscating and destroying civilian cameras. Graphic photos are however surfacing on the internet, once again trumping the corporate media, handmaiden to Bushian crimes and cover-ups.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179790 /
The Coast Guard said, "Come get the fuel right away." When we got there with our trucks, they got a word. "FEMA says don't give you the fuel." Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, "No one is getting near these lines." Sheriff Harry Lee said that if America--American government would have responded like Wal-Mart has responded, we wouldn't be in this crisis.
Suspension of posse comatatus???
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4628627 ; see also info in thread at
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4624810
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