[Loki12]

Originally Posted by yoyoyoyo

The Wal-MArt land is leased by the Meraux Foundation. The head of that foundation is a family member. Believe me, I am in touch with what happened there. Call me a liar if you want, but I know what happened. The reporter on the MSNBC clip even says "The people here say they were told it was OK," and they were!

This is no proof or evidence.

Don't believe everything you hear on FOX news.

I believe what my eyes see on CNN, Sky, Fox, BBC, etc etc... unless they were doctored video clips, LOL.

THOUSANDS of families didn't have the MEANS to leave! Sure it is easy to tell poor people with no money to their name to leave their home, but until you provide a MEANS for those to be able to leave, and a place for them to go, then that "impassioned plea" is useless. It is easy to blame the victims, but that is not the right thing to do.

I do not call a criminal a "victim". Of course, I am not saying all are criminals. But a worrying percentage of them indeed were - from day one.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4213214.stm

Survivors reveal Superdome horror

The bedraggled crowds may have left the Superdome, but the dead remain where they fell.
Tired, hungry and traumatised by days spent under the damaged roof a once-gleaming football stadium, the refugees of New Orleans have spoken of a nightmarish week living among the crazed and the desperate.

Stories of rape, murder and suicide have emerged.

Amid the filth and the crime, some snapped.

"One guy jumped off a balcony," said Charles Womack, a 30-year-old roofer who was beaten and injured during his time at the Superdome.

"I saw him do it. He was talking to a lady about it. He said it reminded him of the war and he couldn't leave."

"A young lady was being raped and stabbed.

"And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag down a passing truck of them.

"He jumped up on the truck's windscreen and they shot him dead."

"There is rapes going on here. Women cannot go to the bathroom without men. They are raping them and slitting their throats," she told Reuters.

Rotting

Inside the Superdome, a National Guard soldier charged with keeping order confirmed the brutal reality of life after Katrina.

"We found a young girl raped and killed in the bathroom. Then the crowd got the man and they beat him to death."

National Guardsmen arrested those suspected of causing trouble