The desperate call of a leader for his people. . . that has gone largely unanswered.

The MP3 interview with the Mayor of New Orleans

To hear this man cry for the citizens of his town, because his pleas for help are being ignored, is simply heartbreaking.

There has never before been a time when I have been ashamed to be an American. Today might see that change.

How is it that the WEATHERMAN knew this storm was coming, yet none of the government resources to aid in the recovery efforts were poised and waiting?

It has been FOUR days! All that the US government can supply is a couple of dozen trucks of food and water? We're talking BASIC human needs! There are 10's of thousands of people stuck down there.

Even the buzzards will circle over a dying animal. . . are we that blind and stupid, that we can't see a city full of people dying and flock to the area? Or are we just circling overhead waiting for them to die?

Where is the protection that the government has sworn to supply? Where is the leadership of "homeland security" that we take on their word to provide HOMELAND SECURITY?
Perhaps they are waiting for the dying to be dead. Maybe they are waiting, like buzzards, circling overhead in their dazzling clean suits, in their protected dry airplanes, drinking their clean cold water. The people of their country below them, wait sweltering and dying in the filth and decay of their negligence.