FW: More FEMA Shenanigans in Jefferson Parish

From: CMF [mailto:vger@i-55.com]
Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2005 10:16 AM
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Subject: More FEMA Shenanigans in Jefferson Parish

I'm sending this from hurricane country to some of my far-flung contacts in hopes that you will spread the word so that the world will know what is going on in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Sheriff Harry Lee of Jefferson Parish called in to the United Radio Broadcasters of New Orleans (URBONO) radio broadcast yesterday evening, 9/11/05. You can tune in to this streaming broadcast yourself on the web 24/7 at wwl.com for all the news you won't get on tv.

Sheriff Lee announced that he had "commandeered" both the Wal-Mart and Sam's stores in Jefferson Parish and ordered them to open their doors "as quickly as possible" and to remain open. It seems that FEMA has ordered the two stores to remain closed.

The physical damage to property and infrastructure in the areas through which Katrina passed is beyond comprehension. Beyond that, the economy has been totally devastated. More than 400,000 people no longer have jobs. The residents MUST return to their cities and towns so that they can rebuild their homes, their businesses, and their lives. FEMA's edict prohibiting these vital stores from reopening to serve the public and to provide employment virtually assures the economy in the greater metropolitan New Orleans area WILL NOT recover.

Throughout this disaster in the aftermath of Katrina, Sheriff Harry Lee, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter, Congressman Bobby Jindal and other public officials have publically disclosed numerous failures on the part of FEMA.

I am compelled to ask the following non-rhetorical question: Is FEMA's latest administrative action to prohibit the resumption of commerce merely ill-advised? Incompetent? Or, is something else far more disturbing going on here that needs to be exposed to national and international scrutiny?

Please cut and past the text of this message into a new email and forward it far and wide so that this government knows the eyes of the world are watching.