Stories Now Emerging (Katrina aftermath)

Southern Political Report ^ | September 9, 2005 | Matt Towery

[TheForceOfOne]

Creators Syndicate national columnist and InsiderAdvantage CEO Matt Towery spent time Wednesday with Hurricane Katrina evacuees and reports the following:

“I talked with one woman who was trapped in her home in New Orleans’s ninth ward. She was up to her neck in water for three days. She explained to me the reason why she and many others in her neighborhood did not try to break through the roof of her house or escape through a window. ‘When I looked outside, it appeared to me that the water was higher outside than it was inside the house.’

Whether or not this was an optical illusion is hard to determine, but similar impressions are widely reported by those who stayed in their homes for days. The woman told me of two minor miracles during her time of misery.

First, she snatched a pair of boots that floated by, providing some protection for her bare feet. Second, a water-logged Bible floated by. She read to herself during her miserable confinement.

[TheForceOfOne]

Most chilling are the reports now emerging about the lawlessness inside the Louisiana Superdome. One hurricane victim told of fellow evacuee who claimed that he had been forced to kill a man while inside the dome. The man was reportedly raping the body of a seven-year-old child he had just murdered.

Animals!

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

But the superitendent of the New Orleans police says there still are no proven cases of sexual assault.

[TheForceOfOne]

Sounds like the superitendent wants to be Bagdad Bob of New Orleans.

[kingu]

One hurricane victim told of fellow evacuee[...]

Unidentified sources acting as confirmation. Got me if it is true or not, but I'm really getting sick of stories confirming unconfirmed reports using sources that can't be confirmed.

[Huck]

I think a lot of these stories will end up on Snopes.

[Names Ash Housewares]

"Animals!"

Monsters. I would have killed this "thing" too.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Got me if it is true or not, but I'm really getting sick of stories confirming unconfirmed reports using sources that can't be confirmed.

dittos

[little jeremiah]

I don't know why people think that Snopes is infallible. They have a strong liberal bias and get their info on google like everyone else.

A few years ago after reading every book on the Clintons available, I decided to check Snopes' reliability. They covered for Hitlery as though they had been paid to do so. I would never even hit their website again.

[TheForceOfOne]

Matt Towery gave an interview by phone yesterday on radio station WBAL in Baltimore during the "Ron Smith Show" and he said this is just a small sample of what they have found out about what happened in New Orleans after the Hurricane.

Matt is reporting this as fact so we can believe him or write him off, its up to you guys to make your own decision about that.

[Elyse]

I don't know why people think that Snopes is infallible. They have a strong liberal bias and get their info on google like everyone else.

I've already been there to look at what they have on the flood. They definitely have a liberal bias. For example, they confirmed that the pictures of the buses in the parking lots were true, but then made another 3 or 4 paragraphs making excuses about why they weren't used.

[little jeremiah]

Good catch.

IOW, they're useless but claim some kind of holy infallibility.

[samm1148]

I really don't buy alot of this. Doubtless there were crimes. Hell we all seen the looting on TV. But alot of this stuff just smacks of the making of urban legends.

I can here teens sitting around years from now telling the one about the cannibalism after the flood.

[Auntie Mame]

An immediate and quite serious complication for many displaced New Orleans residents is that they can’t seem to establish their social security identification. That would allow them to apply for assistance, or to enroll their children in public school systems where they’re now housing.

This is interesting. Apparently they don't know their social security number (or don't have one--could this be possible?) or birthdate, name and address (with which the number could be looked up). Eee gads. This is almost frightening in its implications.

[The Radical Capitalist]

"She was up to her neck in water for three days."

This is such an obvious lie. Nobody spends three days up to their neck in water unless they're bobbing in the ocean in a life jacket. Did she sleep up to her neck in water? Did she eat and drink up to her neck in water? Try treading water for three days without eating or drinking or sleeping. Or maybe a Carls Jr. Double-double and a Sprite floated by, along with the boots and bible. The credulousness of reporters is...well..increadable.

[ekwd]

Still more ditto's.

[ekwd]

I would wait before I would call it a "lie".

[silent_jonny]

Agreed.

I hope this is another exaggerated story and not fact. God help us if it's fact.

[TheForceOfOne]

Agreed, how could any of of find satisfaction from pain and suffering. While it is true the MSM believe in the motto "If it bleeds it leads" it also hold true that unless it serves there purpose "Bring Bush down at all cost" you will not here about it.

Show the dead bodies in N.O. but not 9/11. We KNOW the Superdome was a house of horrors and some of these stories will be true. Lets just hope the truth in these stories and the body counts are low and move forward to a better day.

I have know problem with those of you that doubt everything you read, you should, and in the end may we left with the truth. The fact we have new outlets to debunk or validate what the MSM or any other source presents us gives us the power we have been denied for decades of liberal MSM monopoly over the news.

[the invisib1e hand]

Animals!

Animals can't make up stories like this.

[nmh]

"Second, a water-logged Bible floated by. She read to herself during her miserable confinement."


Hmmmm ... Bibles don't normally float.

Also, how do you read when there is NO electricity? When the storm occurred, it wasn't sunny outside ... .

Another drama queen victim?