Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Muzzles for Americans
What are they trying to hide?

MORGAN CITY, La. — Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana aren't allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.
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Officials in Morgan City estimate that FEMA has spent about $7.5 million to build the trailer park but that only about 15 of the 198 trailers are being used. "We all wonder why no one lives there," Matte said. FEMA officials refuse to say how much was spent to build the park or why 183 of the trailers are vacant.
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"FEMA told us because of privacy issues, they can't give us the addresses of our residents who are spread out in all 50 states. And no one but FEMA has that information," Rousselle said. "If we could contact them, I think a lot of them would come back if they knew we had places for them to live."

The residents can't talk to the press, FEMA won't talk about the vacancy rates or how much all this mismanagement is costing, and they won't let anyone know where their residents have gone. I'm wondering if the security mentioned here is some of that Blackwater bunch.
I've never seen such an inept and destructive administration.
Written at 9:08 AM by Lynne.
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