How We Survived the Flood By CHARMAINE NEVILLE

[seemslikeadream]

There were groups of us, there were about 24 of us, and we kept going back and forth and rescuing whoever we could get and bringing them to the French Quarter because we heard that there were phones in the French Quarter, and that there wasn't any water. And they were right, there were phones, but we couldn't get through to anyone.

I found some police officers. I told them that a lot of us women had been raped down there by guys, not from the neighborhood where we were, they were helping us to save people. But other men, and they came and they started raping women and they started killing, and I don't know who these people were. I'm not gonna tell you I know, because I don't.

But what I want people to understand is that, if we hadn't been left down there like the animals that they were treating us like, all of those things wouldn't have happened. People are trying to say that we stayed in that city because we wanted to be rioting and we wanted to do this and, we didn't have resources to get out, we had no way to leave.

When they gave the evacuation order, if we could've left, we would have left.

http://www.counterpunch.org/

[musette_sf]

1. Arthel needs to get on this

and support her cousin's efforts to speak truth!

[IndyOp]

2. WHO were the OTHER MEN?

"I found some police officers. I told them that a lot of us women had been raped down there by guys, not from the neighborhood where we were, they were helping us to save people. But other men, and they came and they started raping women and they started killing, and I don't know who these people were. I'm not gonna tell you I know, because I don't."

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[seemslikeadream]

3. Storm Survivors Told To 'Expose Themselves'

Storm Survivors Told To 'Expose Themselves'
A group of female hurricane survivors were told to show their breasts if they wanted to be rescued, a British holidaymaker has revealed.Ged Scott watched as American rescuers turned their boat around and sped off when the the women refused.

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Mr Scott, 36, of Liverpool, was with his wife and seven-year-old daughter in the Ramada Hotel when the flood waters started rising.

"At one point, there were a load of girls on the roof of the hotel saying 'Can you help us?' and the policemen said 'Show us what you've got' and made signs for them to lift their T-shirts," he told the Liverpool Evening Echo.

"When the girls refused, they said `Fine' and motored off down the road in their boat."

uk.news.yahoo.com/0609200...elves.html

[IndyOp]

4. I saw this and do not doubt that police/guard troops would

treat women this way & possibly rape -- the men Charmaine describes were not in uniform (not that changing clothes would take more than a few minutes).

I was really wondering whether the other men might not have been there as a result of a 'well-timed and well-placed' release of prisoners from the state or federal prison system?

[shireen]

5. video interview -- very heartbreaking ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1758671