What REALLY happened in New Orleans: Two Stories

"They all believed they were sent here to die." Overflowing convention center residents with no food or water ignored by police, kept from safety by armed guards protecting neighboring parish.

This second story by two EMS workers is very similar. They had to leave a French Quarter Hotel they were at for a convention and then described the Hell more from the rescuers then from the fellow victims.

As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge. Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions. As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation. We told them of our conversation with the police commander and of the commander's assurances. The sheriffs informed us there were no buses waiting. The commander had lied to us to get us to move.

We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the 6-lane highway. They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes in their City. These were code words for if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans.

...If the relief organizations had saturated the City with food and water in the first 2 or 3 days, the desperation, the frustration and the ugliness would not have set in.

Of course, they are socialists so this must be just a pack of lies, right?