Before residents had ever heard the words "Hurricane Katrina," the New
Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE ran a story warning residents: If you stay behind during a big storm, you'll be on your own!
Editors at TIMES-PICAYUNE on Monday called for every official at the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to be fired. In an open letter to President Bush,
the paper said: "Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were
not. That's to the government's shame."
But the TIMES-PICAYUNE published a story on July 24, 2005 stating: City,
state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give a historically blunt
message: "In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own."
Staff writer Bruce Nolan reported some 7 weeks before Katrina: "In scripted
appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red
Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas
drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of
harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation." ...
That's some REALLY SERIOUS PSYCHOLOGICAL PROJECTION going on there. Looks like a case study for the record books to me.
Look, if you were complicit in the deaths of thousands of people because you were too lazy as a reporter to question Nagin about alternatives (like buses!) to this sort of lunacy, just think how your brain would re-wire itself with denial in order to avoid resorting to self-inflicted harm.
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