For shame, Mr Bush. For shame. RESIGN NOW ! ! !

[Carla in Ca]

The Edger Hollingsworth Story




NEW ORLEANS - . . . A human foot arching at an odd angle was visible through the front window of a locked and dark home.

The National Guard team of searchers was about to call in a "DB," or dead body . . . in the Broadmoor district when Lt. Frederick Fell decided to investigate.

In the past few days, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered searchers not to break into homes. They are supposed to look in through a window and knock on the door. If no one cries out for help, they are supposed to move on. If they see a body, they are supposed to log the address and move on.

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Fell broke the rules and ordered his men to bash open the door, launching a series of events that would save a man's life and revitalize California Task Force 5 from Orange County.

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. . . 16 days after Hurricane Katrina smacked this aging community in the face, an unconscious and emaciated man identified as Edgar Hollingsworth, 74, was rescued. The man is expected to survive.

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[texpatriot2004]

1. Shame on you Bush for letting the weakest suffer and die

needlessly...ADMIT IT, YOU ARE NOT A CHRISTIAN.

Karma Karma Karma

[Carla in Ca]

3. Mr. Hollingsworth is one of the lucky ones

The cover up is and will be massive. The policy of don't ask, don't tell for this WH is for death. I can't believe what is happening to us.

[autorank]

2. Thanks for all the visuals George, you've traumatized a whole nation.

Many wondered what "the children" would think about 911, and the result was truly appaling. Kids of all ages learned that the world was even less secure than they thought.

Instead of the stark horror of 911, we have the rolling, non stop parade of tragedy, suffering and death. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. The impact on those who viewed this is also profound. It's called vicarious trauma...and in the case of NOLA, it's a very powerful event. The world is not only unsave, it's cruel, heartless, and inept.

This picture is siimply too powerful for words.

Now this. You're right Carla, the guy needs to take a hike, now, and quickly and bring the rest of the neocon crew with him (now that we have a song, we must be a protest movement...referring to the Stones song about Neocons). He just needs to get out.

[Carla in Ca]

6. Yes, autorank. This is *'s America, not ours.

I'm so proud of this OC task force for not obeying orders. The government is failing us, the people need to take it back...NOW!

[donheld]

4. "In as much as you've done it unto the least of these

You've done it unto me" - Jesus

[texpatriot2004]

7. Yep, that's what I thought about too. n/t

[PatriotMom]

5. For God's Sakes this is America?

I cannot tell you what I think should happen to * and the rest of them. This just makes me sick.

[LittleClarkie]

8. Thank God they broke the damned rules!

As if people who would still be in their homes at this point have the strength to answer the fucking door. What kind of search is that?!

[Carla in Ca]

9. It is the search and DON'T rescue world of *

n/t

[KT2000]

10. Is the order not to break in

so they will bulldoze the houses and the bodies inside?
This is horrible. There must be many more like this poor man.

Local authorities are putting up with this FEMA order?

[Carla in Ca]

11. I hadn't thought of that

but we know how they feel about dead bodies being shown. Yikes.

[ladylibertee]

12. That is one of the most wonderful yet at the same time HORRIFIC ..

stories I have heard about this whole Katrina event. I am very relieved for this man and then ......I feel utter contempt and anger to wards FEMA and that asshole who has to ask permission to take a shit President Bush. I hate em . I can't wait to get my order in. I have two stickers on the way.One says BU ll SH it/ Don't blame me I didn't vote for Bush; and the other says,My Body,My Choice.

[Carla in Ca]

13. Exactly, he was lucky and so many more were not

Your stickers are great. Mine says Bush (in red) is America's worst disaster.

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