FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents

[reprehensor]

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17178

By The Associated Press
07.20.06

MORGAN CITY, La. — Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana aren't allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.

In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out of a trailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules were enforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish...

...The north side of the park is empty, and 92 families live in the south side, Rodi said, adding that the empty trailers would be removed.

"FEMA told us because of privacy issues, they can't give us the addresses of our residents who are spread out in all 50 states. And no one but FEMA has that information," Rousselle said. "If we could contact them, I think a lot of them would come back if they knew we had places for them to live."

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[Hubert Flottz]

1. The GESTAPO is alive and well in the USA!

The teorrists won 5 to 4 in the SCOTUS 12/12/2000!

[jus_the_facts]

2. Damn straight Mr. Flottz.....

...sad but goddamn TRUE! :hi:

[Mnemosyne]

3. Free speech alive and well in the US,

not.

Reprehensible.

:hi:

[Quantess]

4. FEMA already knows they were negligent and incompetent.

They just don't want anyone else to know!