Posted on 09/25/2005 11:19:46 PM PDT by Leroy S. Mort
After five days managing near-riots, medical horrors and unspeakable living conditions inside the Superdome, Louisiana National Guard Col. Thomas Beron prepared to hand over the dead to representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Following days of internationally reported killings, rapes and gang violence inside the Dome, the doctor from FEMA - Beron doesn't remember his name - came prepared for a grisly scene: He brought a refrigerated 18-wheeler and three doctors to process bodies.
"I've got a report of 200 bodies in the Dome," Beron recalls the doctor saying.
The real total was six, Beron said.
Of those, four died of natural causes, one overdosed and another jumped to his death in an apparent suicide, said Beron, who personally oversaw the turning over of bodies from a Dome freezer, where they lay atop melting bags of ice. State health department officials in charge of body recovery put the official death count at the Dome at 10, but Beron said the other four bodies were found in the street near the Dome, not inside it. Both sources said no one had been killed inside.
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"I think 99 percent of it is bulls---," said Sgt. 1st Class Jason Lachney, who played a key role in security and humanitarian work inside the Dome. "Don't get me wrong, bad things happened, but I didn't see any killing and raping and cutting of throats or anything. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
From the story: "Soldiers were shot."
Has anyone heard of soldiers being shot in the Superdome?
Note the story says women were "threatened" with rape. "Threatened" with rape could mean some big guy looked at them funny. Nowhere does it say any of these Aussies saw a rape.
The article is full of hysteria.
I believe there was an overstating of the amount of deaths but I do not for one minute believe there was an overstating of the violence in the Superdome. Matter of fact I believe the msm understated the facts of the violence in the Superdome in order to not offend.
The Desire Project?
Ah,and that place brings back some memories for me.I will never forget how ironic some of the street names were-Piety,Pleasure,Benefit,etc.
"the Ject"folks got a bad rap back in the Seventies when I was down in NO.In fact,the folks in the Lower Ninth could get real nasty and snobbish when speaking of the Desire residents.
Yet when Desire was built in the Fifties,it was a big step UP on the social ladder for folks in the Ninth Ward.The whole single moms on welfare syndrome was not healthy for the kids coming up.Made it seem to them that dependency was their natural destiny.
I really had a lot of good kids from Desire in my classes.Almost all wanted out of the hood and some DID make it to college and into the middle class.One of my smartest kids later became an attorney and he had just got out of juvenile prison when he came to my class.A real nice turnaround for the kid.
I went to one of my student's wedding receptions at an apartment in the Desire-did"the only white guy there"routine.Everyone was cool and had my back.
Have to admit that I made it a point to get out before the sun set,however!
I for one will never forget the sight of the shamelessly showboating Geraldo reporting from outside the Superdome, licking his lips, ratcheting up the hysteria with his voice booming "It is DANTE'S INFERNO inside there!!! I have NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS!! Come nightfall ALL HELL WILL BREAK LOOSE INSIDE THE SUPERDOME!!!!!
Meanwhile, you could see dozens of evacuees twenty feet behind Geraldo, calmly wiping their brows, fanning themselves with pieces of cardboard, in general looking miserably uncomfortable, but NOT like they were ready to turn on each other and commit the unspeakable acts Geraldo was obviously hungering to report.
I've never been too fond of Geraldo, but what he did in New Orleans was so far beyond appropriate that lookng at his face now gives me the same feeling as when I look at Barbra Streisand or Michael Moore.
On second thought, to correct the record, I think Geraldo was outside the Convention Center, not the Superdome in the first day or two after the flooding. As I remember it was a few days after that...
Shepard Smith stunk the joint up as well. Fox was no better then CNN. (And MSNBC was pure feces.)
I agree. He essentially spent a week screaming "Fire" in a movie theater after seeing someone flick a bic lighter two rows away.
If you don't believe there was hysteria and people scared to death in the Superdome you haven't been reading the right articles.
You don't "believe"? On what evidence do you base this belief? The actual evidence does not support your belief. If things were actually more violent than what was reported where are the bodies beyond the 4 who died of natural causes, the one who died from drug overdose, and the one suicide. There were doctors in the Superdome from start to finish. Where is their reports of patching up the wounded from all the violence? Where is ANY evidence beyond the hysterical heresay of folks like Shep Smith and Geraldo? Seriously. Where is it?
I certainly don't doubt some people were scared but the article you provided talked about soldiers being shot!!! First I've heard of it. Is the media part of the conspiracy to cover this up?
It also talks about women being threatened with rape (which would certainly be frightening) but says nothing about these people being raped or seeing a rape.
The article also says 98 percent of the people in the Superdome were bad people. From everything I've read that's complete and pure bull. They may have been poor and desperate and angry and most definitely not the sort of folks these Aussie tourists -- who I assume were probably fairly well off -- are used to hanging around with, but 98 percent were not "bad."
As I said before, the article is full of baseless hysteria.
"Matter of fact I believe the msm understated the facts of the violence in the Superdome in order to not offend."
Gimmee a break.
<<< scratching head >>>> Not one violent death, unless you count the suicide. A lot different than bodies stacked like cordwood that the MSM was reporting.
Did some people get mugged? Most likely, but I'd bet not as many as on a typical weekend in the French Quarter.
You use your media sources and I'll use mine.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15922236&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=dead-bodies--rape-crack--gunshots--filth-and-a-sickening-stench-filling-the-thick-air--name_page.html
"You use your media sources and I'll use mine."
I don't doubt a lot of this is true, but I still don't see any evidence here of multiple rapes, murders, or soldierS being shot. There's absolutely no question at all that the Superdome and convention center became hellholes.
And on this we both agree.
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