A new slogan for FEMA, the goverment gang that can't shoot straight.
Judge
Griffith was angry over an incident in which a FEMA truck was supposed
to deliver fuel to a police facility but took the gasoline to a fire
station. When the crew learned its error, it left, the county judge
said, without providing the fuel to anyone. If police had been
available, Griffith said, they should have just taken the fuel.
Griffith also was outraged over FEMA portable generators that, he said,
were sitting in a park and not being distributed.
Frustration
and anger mounted in Southeast Texas on Monday over the response to
Hurricane Rita by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
With
homes smashed, trees and power lines downed and a looming shortage of
food and water, one official even threatened to take federal relief
supplies by force, if necessary.
"If you have enough policemen to take it from them, take it," Jefferson County Judge Carl Griffith said Monday during a meeting of city and county officials. Link.
Yeah. That's a judge
advocating the seizure of federal property. Boy, doesn't that just
raise all sorts of Constitutional issues.
In any case, the
frustration comes as FEMA has promised trucks filled with food and
water, which apparently haven't arrived in the stricken areas. Odd,
that. Friday night, our local stations gleefully aired footage of the
FEMA trucks heading to the Astrodome staging area, ready to move out.
That was four or five days ago. The hurricane spun out four days ago.
It doesn't take that long to drive from Houston to Beaumont and points
North and East, especially when traffic snarls would all be heading the
opposite way. Furthermore, people need water . It's in the 100s down
here, and Chambers County is expected to be without electricity for
weeks. Let me tell you, were it not for the invention of air
conditioning, Southeast Texas would be uninhabitable.
As Judge Griffith said: "We can't
help it if politicians come here and just want to be seen by the
media." Or as Port Arthur's Mayor Oscar Ortiz said: "The (FEMA)
director is a very nice person, but that is not what we need now. We
need someone who is going to do what they say they are going to do."
City officials cited a lack of water pumps, generators, food and
water, and they complained about federal relief teams failing to show
and fuel deliveries not happening as promised.
Andre Wimer, city manager for Nederland, said he was tired of
getting the runaround from federal officials. "We spend the day faxing
and talking and we don't get any feedback. We need somebody helping us."
All is not well between local and state officials either.
According to the local officials at the meeting, state troopers were
not allowing city employees crucial to the relief effort back into the
county.
"I realize that there is a significant logistics issue and I
appreciate that," Wimer said. "But there is a significant amount of
equipment and manpower sitting at (local FEMA headquarters) and for
whatever reason, it has not been released and that is a bunch of
(nonsense)."
So much for the MSM's failed attempt to prop up a failed presidency by
repeatedly pointing out that the Texas local government were prepared
and that is why no one was killed in hurricane Katrina as a direct
result of the storm.
The
above is a link to footage from the protest in front of the Lily White
House, including a very reasonable request that George Bush vacant the
premises.
Let's make someone hear us everyday until the war ends.
