A friend passed this along, "My friend Preston Piccus was in New Orleans throughout the hurricane and aftermath":
The friend who sent this to me sends an pudate, "[Preston] got his shots, rubber boot and shotgun and is heading back in."Honestly folks, just got out last night, going back in tomorrow, the city is fucked. The people are fucked. We had 50, count em, 50 flat boats ready with firemen and relief workers and somebody started shooting at us, not my boat but firemen somewhere and they said, hey guys get the fuck out of here. So we left. People are still in their attics. People are still on their roofs. The place is a terrible mess and I've gotten in touch with some fellows who tell me that the entire thing was created by Local Government Corruption. Look it up, you bloggers. Local FEMA officials were even indicted because the money appropriated for readiness was squandered on personal luxuries. It's bullshit. The government was never preparing for the worst down here and the federal government couldn't give a shit about this town, well, for a handful of reasons. Mostly black, a conflicted electorate because the popular vote is super poor and black but the power is rich and white. Why is Mayor Nagin having such a hard time getting things done? He has none of the money behind him, he only has the people and right now those people are eating shit downtown. The army is in there now but we had a small a small gun fight just thursday night holding down a place to live. It is insane, and I'm too tired to do the research but let me assure you: this is NOT how the government forces present themselves. Fuck Bush and his sixty Photo Ops an hour and his five hundred hand shakes and his twenty thousand pats on the back. Where is the urgency little man? Why are you getting briefed on the situation by a bunch of know nothing fat fucking governors in front of cameras? Where are the Geniuses that fix this shit? I know some because I got out on a truck from Boh Brothers, a construction company fixing the 17th street canal. Those boys are working. They're going to fix the city and to Hell with the
politicians and the pathetic pandering I say. Real people do real work in there, and they're being held up by the degenerate scumbags elected to jerk each other off on national TV while mothers watch their children die of thirst twenty miles away. It's disgusting. I'm going back in, but I assure you it's too late. The time passed. Maybe we get out with only a couple hundred dead, a couple thousand dead, who knows. It's too many. People must be held accountable because it was a disgusting display. Bloggers and information diggers unite. I'll be in touch, I'm not letting this fucking thing die, but first we've got to do whatever we can to get the rest of those poor people out. It's disgusting in there, the water has turned to pure sewage and people are going to get real sick. I had trouble getting a Tetnis shot even here in Baton Rouge. Stay on them, stay on them, stay on them, one day it WILL be your city and then you'll be watching people die. Until then,Preston Pincus
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