Letting our fellow Americans die on their roofs and in their attics

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

and on highway overpasses without mounting any credible effort towards search rescue and recovery will always be in my mind the paramount reason they should be removed from office. Malfeasance. Criminal neglect and negligence. Incompetence. Inhumanity.

(Of course I also care about lying into war, torture, domestic warrantless surveillance and the myriad of other crimes and I'm sure everyone would prioritize their list differently. Wait! Isn't it shocking that we have a LIST of impeachable offenses to choose from? It's a veritable smorgasbord!)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. BC couldn't get away with a personal (none of their business) issue

while they blatantly fail to do their jobs and skate, time after time after time. I'm so unimpressed.

[babylonsister]

2. And yet, no one seems able to reverse this downward spiral. nt

[sam sarrha]

3. what they did in NOLA was Negligent Homicide

[Coastie for Truth]

4. What happened in New Orleans was

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was a total and complete failure of leaership at the highest levels of government

conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the conduct of government business

a total failure of the command structure

a total failue to follow their own

Gross derelection of duty.


And this is the team we are relying on to protect us from a terror attack.



Coastie, Lieutenant, United States Coast Guard (Honorable Discharge)


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[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

6. Hello Coastie! The Coast Guard performed admirably

I remember that they accomplished many rescues and were Johnny on the spot and that their Commander said "We don't need someone to tell us what our mission is". And I thing that that is literally true - that they were able to function without the behest of higher-ups and they did.

[EFerrari]

8. Bless you, Coastie, for your service.

I couldn't agree more. And I worry, maybe we all do, about the kids still in the care of the Armed Services. There is no "there" there.

[DELUSIONAL]

5. and something much worse

They knew if a hurricane hit that area that thousands could die. Yet they just sat back and really had to actively NOT do anything. Help was turn away -- FEMA and other agencies had to really work at avoiding helping/assisting in a timely fashion.

[sam sarrha]

11. after it hit FEMA actually stopped and had a 4 DAY training for top people

that is why nothing was done for the first week, while that was happening FEMA was also cutting emergency phone lines and stealing generators and other emergency equipment. the sheriffs told them if they did it again they would be shot and put guards on the phone boxes

[EFerrari]

7. Yes, it is shocking.

:kick:

[Cleita]

9. You are so right.

I was horrified as it happened and horrified at the DU'ers who said it couldn't be helped. We can't let this genocide of negligence die, but must make sure it is spoken about from now on, just like the holocaust.

[OneBlueSky]

10. and there are STILL bodies in some of those attics . . . n/t

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[sam sarrha]

12. the order was to NOT check houses with less than 5 feet of water in them

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

13. I never heard that. I never understood the order to NOT

go into every standing house to check for survivors when they were finally doing the grid checks. They KNOCKED and if they did not hear an answer, they moved on - ignoring of course the possibility that someone might be unconscious and dehydrated and dying and unable to answer a f!#king knock at the door like they were Avon ladies. Someone tell me the rationale for this policy please? People who became clothed skeletons might have conceivably been rescued and revived.