[Peach]

Those paragraphs make me even more paranoid that the Governor deliberately and willfully let people die. It is homicide at the hands of the state, imo.

[Miss Marple]

OK, now I am adding yet another layer of tin foil. Everyone in the whole country knew those people needed to get out of the Superdome. We now hear that the following groups were kept from helping:

1. The National Guard, because Blanco didn't initially mobilize enough of them.

2. The American Red Cross (turned back by Louisiana officials)

3. The Salvation Army (turned back by Louisiana officials)

4.Hundreds of private citizens with boats ready to get people out of their homes (turned back by Louisiana Fish and Wildllife officials)

5. Mobile hospitals and doctors from George (turned back by Louisiana officials)

6. Ham operators offering to help in communications (turned down by Louisiana officials)

Now, I don't know about you, but to me this looks like a deliberate plan, NOT incompetence.