Head of FEMA blames victims of Katrina

[elbales]

Michael Brown, the head of FEMA... well, I'll let him do his own talking:

(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.

Michael Brown also agreed with other public officials that the death toll in the city could reach into the thousands.

"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.

"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.

There are no words for this kind of thing.

(For those who don't know: most of those who stayed, stayed because they had no cars, no place to go, and no money. Where were the gov't-sponsored buses then?)

(I had already shut down my comp and turned off the radio, and then I walked by my husband's comp with cnn.com up onscreen and saw the headline and was like, "What?")

Comments

[dizzyditz.livejournal.com]

And didn't we feel so superior when the tsunami hit parts of Asia. "We deal with natural disaster so much better". Better my ass. Time to send some money to the Red Cross - time to do SOMETHING.