[Split Thread] Michael Brown and Katrina

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Originally Posted by sunmaster14 (Post 10683495) I've never heard anybody accuse FEMA director Brown of being criminally negligent. Not literally anyway.

Let me be the first.

FACTS:

• A direct hit by a hurricane was at the top of the list of things for Brown to take care of.
• Brown did NOT take care of it. People died even though Browne knew it was likely they would.

That is criminal negligence. There is no argument here. He was the head of an agency that determined that a direct hurricane on Louisiana would result in a catastrophe the like of a nuclear explosion in New York.

Don't believe me? Her's an article from the National Geograpic printed one year before Katrina.

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When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great.

Read it again. And again. It doesn't matter how many times you read it, the facts cannot change.

Now, look at the time line for Katrina (wiki for info only, sources provided on request though they are at the bottom of the article).

1. America spent enormous resources to assess potential disasters.
2. America spent enormous resources to create a system that could save lives.
3. Brown knew the risks of a hit on Louisiana (it was his job to know).
4. Brown knew there was a significant risk that Katrina would strike Louisiana.
5. Brown did nothing.

Brown (and Bush) are criminally negligent. Both showed depraved indifference.

Scapegoating of Ray Nagin in 3... 2.. 1.

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