PLEASE, PLEASE, remove the dead bodies from the streets of New Orleans.

[glarius]

Is anyone else as bothered as I am by the fact that the poor souls who have died in New Orleans have been left lying, rotting in the streets?...When Anderson Cooper asks about them, (and he has, on camera, several times) he is told that the concern is with rescuing the living and they can't spare the time to pick up the dead bodies....Then CNN does a piece showing that there is a group of firemen with their fire trucks, from I believe it is South Carolina, who arrived to help out. FEMA hasn't put them to work yet so they while away their time tossing around a football....Why couldn't they gather up the dead bodies?....Imagine the pain felt by the living relatives of these corpses, knowing their loved ones are being treated this way....I'm surprised that I've heard nobody, other than Anderson Cooper ask about this...Why have not the politicians or city officials or someone done something about it?.....It's not only sad, but a disgrace!

[Richard Steele]

1. It's a perfect symbol for B*sh's time in office. nm

[uppityperson]

10. That is why they should be left out, continue to show how little * cares

It is being proven to those who still believed in * how little the administration cares. It is very disrespectful, very bad, but is showing how bad they are.

[bloom]

2. I agree

enough is enough.

IF there are people/pets to be rescued - fine - do that - but at this point there is no reason not to have a contingent getting the bodies.

[phusion]

4. If anything...

They should be doing this for health reasons.

[LostinVA]

5. Didn't you hear Brownie? Dead bodies are NOT a health

concern. The two nurses in my family hooted with laughter at that one, let em tell you...

[ohio_liberal]

7. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out

Black flies all over the place, spreading disease. Bodies floating in the water so long they burst and spread toxins throughout. This is messed up.

[glarius]

11. The bodies floating in the water especially should be removed because

of health reasons....They are so concerned with the state of the water now and this has got to be a major reason...Why doesn't this dawn on someone?

[onecent]

3. Where's the military - BRING THE TROOPS HOME all of them

[ohio_liberal]

6. There are 600 fireman twiddling their thumbs at LSU

I wrote about it this morning. There are 600 fire/rescue/emt from Illinois playing football and cards while they're waiting for FEMA "orders" to come through. They could've started the process two days ago.

[glarius]

19. What you say is absolutely criminal!

This point should be made to the TV cameras, over and over by the Democrats!

[Lindsay]

8. I don't care about what happens to my body when I die;

my mom used to say she wanted her body to be used for compost in the garden, and that's fine by me.

But that's my decision. I am FURIOUS that no attention is being paid to the bodies of these people who are someone's family member, who were human beings. These hacks running FEMA are DEPRAVED!

[glarius]

9. I'm glad you see my point.....it's the indignity to these bodies that

bothers me so much, besides the health hazard. They are humans, not piles of garbage!

[annabanana]

12. there are THREE (3) FEMA mortuary teams

Who are supposed to do the whole thing. All the bodies are being sent to St. Gabiel. Yesterday M$M showed several 18 wheelers (refrigerator trucks) pulling up, purportedly loaded.

I guess the edict to not film is holding firm.

[glarius]

14. We'll see tonight when Anderson Cooper comes on if the bodies have

been removed....I'm sure he'll say something....

[slackmaster]

13. Do you think anyone actually wants to leave them there?

Anyone at all?

[glarius]

15. They have been there quite a few days....that's all I know....Cooper

said there are people walking around doing nothing...

[bloom]

16. Do you think FEMA is doing anything right?

Anything at all?


Do you think that they would not have been removed earlier with reasonable people in charge?

[glarius]

17. Apparently some of the bodies have deteriorated to the point of

swelling up and breaking open....It's a horrible situation...

[slackmaster]

18. I'm not sure about anything any more

I'm being continually lied to from all the extrema, and it's getting pretty annoying.

[rainbow4321]

20. Guess no one has told the soldiers to NOT take pix of bodies

I had put this in LBN, not realizing it was an editorial, so it's in that forum now, but it has info about the bodies and what is happening to them:


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/national/nationalspecial/08orleans.html?hp&ex=1126152000&en=20e00c90f7037aad&ei=5094&partner=homepage

In the downtown business district here, on a dry stretch of Union Street, past the Omni Bank automated teller machine, across from a parking garage offering "early bird" rates: a corpse. Its feet jut from a damp blue tarp. Its knees rise in rigor mortis.

Six National Guardsmen walked up to it on Tuesday afternoon and two blessed themselves with the sign of the cross. One soldier took a parting snapshot like some visiting conventioneer, and they walked away. New Orleans, September 2005.

Hours passed, the dusk of curfew crept, the body remained. A Louisiana state trooper around the corner knew all about it: murder victim, bludgeoned, one of several in that area. The police marked it with traffic cones maybe four days ago, he said, and then he joked that if you wanted to kill someone here, this was a good time.

That a corpse lies on Union Street may not shock; in the wake of last week's hurricane, there are surely hundreds, probably thousands. What is remarkable is that on a downtown street in a major American city, a corpse can decompose for days, like carrion, and that is acceptable.