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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:29 PM
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CNN Reporter: "Not allowed to talk to the refugees" in the Dome.
Curiously, he didn't say this with outrage, but as if it was perfectly natural.

How is this America? How can reporters be prevented from talking to citizens? WTF?
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Tyranny_R_US Donating Member (988 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:29 PM
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1. Are they being held?
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QuettaKid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:30 PM
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3. what was the reporters name!?!?!? nt.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:29 PM
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2. They arrested men for being in the women's shower
Were they raping? Or just trying to get clean?
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LisaM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:30 PM
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6. I don't think they have running water
so they couldn't have been showering.
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Bonobo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:32 PM
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8. Yes, Men in the Women's showers arrested they said. I thought that odd.
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Not_Giving_Up Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:33 PM
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10. The Astrodome in Houston
The water works there.
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Waya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:30 PM
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4. He can't ask them any questions...
...they can't tell him the truth....simple...
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TornadoTN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:30 PM
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5. Martial Law
Plus, there are no "civil rights" or the constitution in that city right now. Noone is there to enforce it.

This is beyond tragic, its criminal.
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pauldavid Donating Member (197 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:32 PM
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9. You've got it: Martial Law
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 01:32 PM by pauldavid
All rules are out the window. I bet they could shoot reporters if it came down to it.
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Tyranny_R_US Donating Member (988 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:34 PM
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11. There is no martial law....
This is what I heard someone in desert military uniform say during the DHS news conf.
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TornadoTN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:35 PM
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16. That's spin
There is martial law, and there are several sources around that indicate such:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/08/30/telecoms.katrina.reut/index.html

Just playing it down, trying to be revisionists and take back a little bit of the mess they created.
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:31 PM
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7. God forbid they should say ANYTHING negative about *
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:34 PM
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12. They reported this last night
When the first "renegade" buses arrived. The reporter was being allowed to go in and view the facilities, but it was on the condition that he would not speak to any of the refugees. The excuse the reporter was making up was maybe it was because they had been through enough. RIGHT!!!!! :eyes:
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Arkana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:34 PM
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13. Because they might express outrage at **'s utter failure to help
and then the thought police would have to arrest them.
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earth mom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:34 PM
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14. Looks like the spin is starting.
:puke: :puke: :puke:
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:35 PM
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15. I heard that also
why would they be shielded from the press?

This whole thing is absolutely baffling??????
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China_cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:40 PM
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17. Because they aren't citizens any more.
These people had the nerve to survive.
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