If the poor people of New Orleans didn't have transportation out of town
it was because their elected Mayor refused to have them humiliated by
having to leave town in a school bus or city bus. He wanted Greyhound
busses with working air-conditioning for them.

It's in the disaster plan to use busses for evacuation. Read it.



Walter Maxwell wrote:
In light of Colin Powell's position that the fate of the poorer people
of New Orleans was not due to racism, but only failing to realize
that those people had no means for transportation out of the city, it
seems to me that racism and bigotry were not involved. To me it's
significant that that position is held by a highly-respected person of
color.

Walt, W2DU


On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 08:36:56 -0700, Richard Clark
wrote:


On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:41:17 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:


A few moments spent perusing a dictionary will show that simply refusing to
take in a storm victim, while abhorrent to me, does not make one a bigot.


from the Oxford English Dictionary:

Bigot. 1598. 1. A hypocrite. 2. A superstitious person - 1664. 3. A
person obstinately and unreasonably wedded to a creed, opinion or
ritual - 1661. Intolerant toward others - 1645.

Hardly seems that the meaning has veered from this in the past 340
years.

73's
Richard Clark, KB7QHC

David G. Nagel wrote:
It's in the disaster plan to use busses for evacuation.

One news service reported that billions earmarked for mass
transit and levee improvements had been spent on advertising
for the tourism industry.
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Not to mention the purchase of a casino and the construction of a Marina.

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David G. Nagel wrote:
It's in the disaster plan to use busses for evacuation.

One news service reported that billions earmarked for mass
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Fred W4JLE wrote:
Not to mention the purchase of a casino and the construction of a Marina.

I wonder if any of that money was used for Trips to Scotland?

- mike KB3EIA -

David G. Nagel wrote:

If the poor people of New Orleans didn't have transportation out of town
it was because their elected Mayor refused to have them humiliated by
having to leave town in a school bus or city bus. He wanted Greyhound
busses with working air-conditioning for them.

It's in the disaster plan to use busses for evacuation. Read it.



Yep, I know I'd refuse to leave a doomed area if I couldn't go in an air
conditioned vehicle. It would have to have leather seats, too. Can't
have anybody dissing me.

What B as in B, S as in S.

tom
K0TAR