Friday, October 21, 2005
Desperate messages go unanswered
Everyone in American should read the pager email message exchanges between Marty Bahamonde, the one FEMA official in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck, and aides to FEMA chief Micheal Brown.
While Bahamonde tried to communicate the urgency of a rapidly deteriorating situation in New Orleans, Brown's press secretary worried that her boss have enough time for dinner at Ruth's Chris in Baton Rouge before appearing on the Joe Scarborough show on MSNBC.
"Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome with 30,000 other close friends, so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move the pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I'm trying to sleep," he wrote.
While Bahamonde tried to communicate the urgency of a rapidly deteriorating situation in New Orleans, Brown's press secretary worried that her boss have enough time for dinner at Ruth's Chris in Baton Rouge before appearing on the Joe Scarborough show on MSNBC.
"Just tell her that I just ate an MRE and crapped in the hallway of the Superdome with 30,000 other close friends, so I understand her concern about busy restaurants. Maybe tonight I will have time to move the pebbles on the parking garage floor so they don't stab me in the back while I'm trying to sleep," he wrote.
"And when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcome, but when we are silent we are still afraid. So it is better to speak remembering we were never meant to survive." -- Audie Lorde
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