I know this is an important and emotional topic, but it isn't genealogy.
Lets find another place to discuss the politics of the recent disaster
please.
Thanks,
Edward Hayden
-----Original Message-----
From: anniegms(a)bellsouth.net [mailto:anniegms@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:31 AM
To: LAGENWEB-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: [LAGENWEB] Impeach them both!
Just my opinion:
1. The evacuees of New Orleans and all surrounding parishes, along with the
rest of the state of Louisiana should begin a petition to present to the
legislature of Louisiana to begin impeachment proceedings against the Mayor
Nagin of New Orleans and Governor Kathleen Blanco. With enough signatures
the Legislature can impeach them both for negligence in causing the deaths
of hundreds of Louisiana residents. On Friday night before the storm hit Max
Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of
calling Nagin and Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY
evacuation of New Orleans and they said they'd take it under consideration.
This was after the NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68' waves before
it was destroyed.
2. After 9-11 we spent a lot of money setting up Homeland Security. This
Agency is supposed to be in charge of the security of the people and assets
of the United States. We need to make THEM the first people to act in any
disaster whether man-made or natural. There are people trained in every
county and parish in the nation to do this very thing. It would have been
the same thing if some foreign nation had dropped a bomb on the Central Gulf
Coast of the United States. Because of the way the laws are presently
written, thousands of people were placed in danger because of the negligence
of the above named politicians to act in a timely manner. I know in our
county, which was also declared a disaster area, though we had MUCH less
damage, our Director of Homeland Security took over and with his well
trained Fire Chiefs, every thing ran very smoothly and food, water, ice,
generators, and shelters were quickly and efficiently distributed to all who
needed it.
Ann Allen Geoghegan
PC for Morehouse, Red River and The Carrolls CC for Harrison, Jefferson, &
Claiborne in MS MS Archives Director Born and raised in Baton Rouge and
resident of Louisiana for 47 years before retiring to MS.