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08 September 2005

"You don't understand the type of people that are about to come here..." →[More:]"We've already been told of teenage girls delivering fetuses on buses."

post by: quonsar at: 17:05 | 12 comments

This is unbelievable. I am in shock.

posted by Specklet 08 September | 17:16

Thanks for posting this,quonsar. How exactly are these people supposed to get their lives together without ever leaving the camp?

posted by jrossi4r 08 September | 17:19

yup--it's no surprise. and what makes it all worse is that they're loading evacuees onto planes and not telling them where they're going--so it's a crapshoot--some other state, or a camp like this. They're basically prisons.

posted by amberglow 08 September | 17:22

and from my hometown newspaper today:

"For four days we worked under a model provided to the state (by federal officials), and we've committed thousands of hours to develop and implement a plan to accommodate these disaster victims and, apparently, they decide to change it today" - Grand Rapids mayor George Heartwell

posted by quonsar 08 September | 17:29

Meanwhile...

posted by mudpuppie 08 September | 17:37

So when we start to see footage broadcast around the world of these camps, that won't be remotely embarrassing. No, not one bit.

posted by dodgygeezer 08 September | 17:37

By the way, I was just reading Bob Harris' summary of what's happened so far which seems pretty comprehensive to me.

posted by dodgygeezer 08 September | 17:41

there won't be a single shot of footage of these camps, unless they do a show camp like the Nazis did. They'll never allow any footage at all.

posted by amberglow 08 September | 19:08

Jesus H tapdancing Christ on a motherfucking pogo stick, whatever happened to the freedom to move around the country at will?

posted by mr_crash_davis 08 September | 20:55

Scary, scary fucking shit.

*packs more tinfoil into his hat*

posted by loquacious 08 September | 22:00

This gives credence to Geraldo's plea to just "let the people walk out of here" in the now-infamous FOX clip. And that was before evacuation.

posted by dreamsign 09 September | 02:52

REX-84 comes to life.

posted by caddis 09 September | 11:12

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