You can't bury the truth.

[rabidsamfan]

http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/article_18337.shtml

Comments

[mariole.livejournal.com]

I am ill and furious all over again. Thanks for sharing this.

My hope is that, because so many people were affected, the brutality of our govt will be made public knowledge. My fear is that we'll have people who think it's another Holocaust--meaning, it's all made up, it never happened! I really hope the numbers swing towards the education end of the spectrum, vs the denial end of the spectrum. But so many of my fellow Americans have disappointed me so spectacularly of late, I'm afraid to speculate. Hurrah for the truth!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, I think heads should roll on a bunch of levels, starting at the top. But I'm pleased with a good many of my fellow Americans too. There were, and are, a lot of people working hard to help as much as they're allowed.

[abby-normal.livejournal.com]

You can't bury the truth.

God, I hope so.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Me too.

[celandine-g.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for this link. I have sent it on to several friends. It is really a credible back-story, filling in the blanks left by the bits and pieces of news coverage about this group. It is so well written and credible too.

I hope someone pulls all these personal stories into a massive collection of the truth so all will know and no one can pretend not to know. Mariole is right, though, and the Holocaust is a great analogy. I'm sure that many people are now thinking that nothing really bad happened, e.g., our president. Sigh.

But whatever he really thinks, Bush and company are well into stonewalling mode now and hoping that it will all "go away" if they refuse to acknowledge it for long enough. I am so afraid that they may be right.

We must continue to rage.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Get out your carnival beads. Wear 'em. And if someone asks why, say "Remember New Orleans".

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Every level of government just completely screwed the pooch on this crisis.

And now it appears that our FEMA director lied on his resume.

One of my professional organizations is now sending out e-mails to members asking for housing, etc for surgeons and their families made homeless and jobless.

*shaking head*
Pitiful, just pitiful.

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, did he? Cripes! You'd think for a position that far up in government, someone would have called his references!

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Carol Costello was talking about it on CNN this morning - new Time Magazine story actually did go check some of his references. Claiming to be an 'Outstanding Professor' at a university - when he was basically a student teacher in his senior year. Claiming to have been an assistant city manager in charge of disaster preparedness - when he was an assistant to the city manager, apparently just an admin position with no direct oversight over anything. And apparently he claimed he was on the board of some organization that he never worked for and noone in their office knew him.

Nice, huh?

[surgicalsteel.livejournal.com]

Here's a link to the story.