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  From: BadIYE at aol.com
  To: dynagroove at dynagroove.com
  Subject: [Dynagroove] Too electric not to post
  Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 17:50:06 EDT
  >sorry. this is not about any parties going on this weekend or
  anything like
  >that. I just felt it was too important not to share. Here's the full
  >transcript of CNN interviewing Mayor Nagin of New Orleans. (there is
  an audio clip
  >of the interview on Washingtonpost.com) Also the transcript of what
  CNN's
  >Anderson Cooper said on Larry King. Anyone that can donate something
  anything,
  >I hope you do. Thanks.
  >
  >imad
  >housesaladla.com
  >
  >Nagin's Nightmare: Full Transcript
  >CNN just sent out the full transcript of the New Orleans Mayor's
  emotional
  >and (understandably) expletive-laden interview on local radio
  yesterday:
  >"excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed."
  >
  >CNN airs WWL Radio interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray ;
  >
  >This is a rush transcript and may not be in its final format.
  >
  >RAY NAGIN, MAYOR OF NEW ORLEANS: I told him we had an incredible
  crisis here
  >and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice.
  And that I
  >have been all around this city, and I am very frustrated because we
  are not
  >able to marshal resources and we're out-manned in just about every
  respect.
  >
  >You know the reason why the looters got out of control? Because we
  had most
  >of our resources saving people, thousands of people that were stuck
  in
  >attics, man, old ladies. When you pull off the doggone ventilator
  vent and you look
  >down there and they're standing in there in water up to their
  freaking necks.
  >
  >And they don't have a clue what's going on down here. They flew down
  here
  >one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras,
  AP
  >reporters, all kind of goddamn -- excuse my French everybody in
  America, but I am
  >pissed.
  >
  >GARLAND ROBINETTE, WWL CORRESPONDENT: Did you say to the president
  of the
  >United States, "I need the military in here"?
  >
  >NAGIN: I said, "I need everything."
  >
  >Now, I will tell you this -- and I give the president some credit on
  this --
  >he sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done,
  and his
  >name is General Honore.
  >
  >And he came off the doggone chopper and he started cussing and
  people
  >started moving. And he's getting some stuff done.
  >
  >They ought to give that guy -- if they don't want to give it to me,
  give him
  >full authority to get the job done, and we can save some people.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: What do you need right now to get control of this
  situation?
  >
  >NAGIN: I need reinforcements, I need troops, man. I need 500 buses,
  man. We
  >ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they
  were
  >talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here
  and bus people
  >out here.
  >
  >I'm like, "You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster.
  Get every
  >doggone Greyhound busline in the country and get their asses moving
  to New
  >Orleans."
  >
  >That's -- they're thinking small, man. And this is a major, major,
  major
  >deal. And I can't emphasize it enough, man. This is crazy.
  >
  >I've got 15,000 to 20,000 people over at the convention center. It's
  >bursting at the seams. The poor people in Plaquemines Parish.
  They're air-vacing
  >people over here in New Orleans. We don't have anything and we're
  sharing with
  >our brothers in Plaquemines Parish.
  >
  >It's awful down here, man.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: Do you believe that the president is seeing this, holding
  a news
  >conference on it but can't do anything until Kathleen Blanco
  requested him to
  >do it? And do you know whether or not she has made that request?
  >
  >NAGIN: I have no idea what they're doing. But I will tell you this:
  You
  >know, God is looking down on all this and if they are not doing
  everything in
  >their power to save people they are going to pay the price. Because
  every day
  >that we delay, people are dying and they're dying by the hundreds,
  I'm willing
  >to bet you.
  >
  >We're getting reports and calls that are breaking my heart, from
  people
  >saying, "I've been in my attic. I can't take it anymore. The water
  is up to my
  >neck. I don't think I can hold out." And that's happening as we
  speak.
  >
  >You know what really upsets me, Garland? We told everybody the
  importance of
  >the 17th Street Canal issue. We said, "Please, please take care of
  this. We
  >don't care what you do. Figure it out."
  >
  >ROBINETTE: Who'd you say that to?
  >
  >NAGIN: Everybody: the governor, Homeland Security, FEMA. You name
  it, we
  >said it.
  >
  >And they allowed that pumping station next to Pumping Station 6 to
  go under
  >water. Our sewage and water board people -- Marcia St. Martin (ph)
  -- stayed
  >there and endangered their lives.
  >
  >And what happened when that pumping station went down, the water
  started
  >flowing again in the city and it starting getting to levels that
  probably killed
  >more people. In addition to that, we had water flowing through the
  pipes in
  >the city. That's a power station over there. So there's no water
  flowing
  >anywhere on the east bank of Orleans Parish. So our critical water
  supply was
  >destroyed because of lack of
  >action.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: Why couldn't they drop the 3,000-pound sandbags or the
  containers
  >that they were talking about earlier? Was it an engineering feat
  that just
  >couldn't be done?
  >
  >NAGIN: They said it was some pulleys that they had to manufacture.
  But, you
  >know, in a state of emergency, man, you are creative, you figure out
  ways to
  >get stuff done.
  >
  >Then they told me that they went overnight and they built 17
  concrete
  >structures and they had the pulleys on them and they were going to
  drop them.
  >
  >I flew over that thing yesterday and it's in the same shape that it
  was
  >after the storm hit. There is nothing happening. And they're feeding
  the public a
  >line of bull and they're spinning, and people are dying down here.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: If some of the public called and they're right, that
  >
  >there's a law that the president, that the federal government can't
  do
  >anything without local or state requests, would you request martial
  law?
  >
  >NAGIN: I've already called for martial law in the city of New
  Orleans. We
  >did that a few days ago.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: Did the governor do that, too?
  >
  >NAGIN: I don't know. I don't think so.
  >
  >But we called for martial law when we realized that the looting was
  getting
  >out of control. And we redirected all of our police officers back to
  >patrolling the streets. They were dead-tired from saving people but
  they worked all
  >night because we thought this thing was going to blow wide open last
  night.
  >And so we redirected all of our resources and we hold it under
  check.
  >
  >I'm not sure if we can do that another night with the current
  resources.
  >
  >And I am telling you right now: They're showing all these reports of
  people
  >looting and doing all that weird stuff, and they are doing that, but
  people
  >are desperate and they're trying to find food and water, the
  majority of them.
  >
  >Now, you got some knuckle heads out there and they are taking
  advantage of
  >this lawless -- this situation where, you know, we can't really
  control it,
  >and they're doing some awful, awful things. But that's a small
  majority of the
  >people. Most people are looking to try and survive.
  >
  >And one of the things people -- nobody's talked about this. Drugs
  flowed in
  >and out of New Orleans and the surrounding metropolitan area so
  freely it was
  >scary to me, and that's why we were having the escalation in
  murders. People
  >don't want to talk about this, but I'm going to talk about it.
  >
  >You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking
  for a
  >fix, and that's that reason why they were breaking in hospitals and
  drug
  >stores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their
  jones, if you
  >will.
  >
  >And right now, they don't have anything to take the edge off. And
  they've
  >probably found guns. So what you're seeing is drug- starving crazy
  addicts,
  >drug addicts, that are wrecking havoc. And we don't have the
  manpower to
  >adequately deal with it. We can only target certain sections of the
  city and form a
  >perimeter around them and hope to God that we're not overrun.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: Well, you and I must be in the minority. Because
  apparently
  >there's a section of our citizenry out there that thinks because of
  a law that
  >says the federal government can't come in unless requested by the
  proper people,
  >that everything that's going on to this point has been done as good
  as it
  >can possibly be.
  >
  >NAGIN: Really?
  >
  >ROBINETTE: I know you don't feel that way.
  >
  >NAGIN: Well, did the tsunami victims request? Did it go through a
  formal
  >process to request?
  >
  >You know, did the Iraqi people request that we go in there? Did they
  ask us
  >to go in there?
  >
  >What is more important?
  >
  >And I'll tell you, man, I'm probably going get in a whole bunch of
  trouble.
  >I'm probably going to get in so much trouble it ain't even funny.
  You
  >probably won't even want to deal with me after this interview is
  over.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: You and I will be in the funny place together.
  >
  >NAGIN: But we authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick.
  After 9/11,
  >we gave the president unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take
  care of New
  >York and other places.
  >
  >Now, you mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is
  coming
  >through, a place that is so unique when you mention New Orleans
  anywhere around
  >the world, everybody's eyes light up -- you mean to tell me that a
  place where
  >you probably have thousands of people that have died and thousands
  more that
  >are dying every day, that we can't figure out a way to authorize the
  >resources that we need? Come on, man.
  >
  >You know, I'm not one of those drug addicts. I am thinking very
  clearly.
  >
  >And I don't know whose problem it is. I don't know whether it's the
  >governor's problem. I don't know whether it's the president's
  problem, but somebody
  >need to get their ass on a plane and sit down, the two of them, and
  figure
  >this out right now.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: What can we do here?
  >
  >NAGIN: Keep talking about it.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: We'll do that. What else can we do?
  >
  >NAGIN: Organize people to write letters and make calls to their
  congressmen,
  >to the president, to the governor. Flood their doggone offices with
  requests
  >to do something.
  >
  >This is ridiculous.
  >
  >I don't want to see anybody do anymore goddamn press conferences.
  Put a
  >moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference
  until the
  >resources are in this city. And then come down to this city and
  stand with us
  >when there are military trucks and troops that we can't even count.
  >
  >Don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. They're not here. It's
  too
  >doggone late.
  >
  >Now get off your asses and do something, and let's fix the biggest
  goddamn
  >crisis in the history of this country.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: I'll say it right now, you're the only politician that's
  called
  >and called for arms like this. And if -- whatever it takes, the
  governor,
  >president -- whatever law precedent it takes, whatever it takes, I
  bet that the
  >people listening to you are on your side.
  >
  >NAGIN: Well, I hope so, Garland. I am just -- I'm at the point now
  where it
  >don't matter. People are dying. They don't have homes. They don't
  have jobs.
  >The city of New Orleans will never be the same in this time.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: We're both pretty speechless here.
  >
  >NAGIN: Yeah, I don't know what to say.
  >
  >I got to go.
  >
  >ROBINETTE: OK. Keep in touch. Keep in touch.
  >
  >READ MORE: CNN , katrina , ray nagin , top
  >Change in WH Sked?
  >CNN is reporting that Bush will meet with Mayor Nagin today. If he
  could
  >bring some troops and money with him that would be nice.
  >
  >READ MORE: george w. bush , katrina , ray nagin , top
  >Ray Nagin for President, Anderson Cooper for Secretary of Take No
  Shit
  >Anderson Cooper shows what happens when take away a man's Kiehl's
  for a
  >week: He skin gets dry but the scales fall from his eyes.
  >
  >KING: Anderson Cooper in Biloxi, Mississippi and you were an angry
  man
  >today, Anderson at what?
  >
  >ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I wouldn't say I'm angry, you
  know. I
  >think I'm tired of hearing the politicians say that, you know, they
  understand
  >the frustration of people down here. To me, you know, it's not
  frustration.
  >It's not that people are frustrated.
  >
  >It's that people are dying. I mean there are people dying. They're
  drowning
  >to death and they drown in their living rooms and their bodies are
  rotting
  >where they drowned and there are corpses in the street being eaten
  by rats and
  >this is the United States of America.
  >
  >In a similar vein, N.O. Mayor Ray Nagin gave indignation an elegant
  if
  >slightly blue gloss yesterday on local radio:
  >"After 9/11 we gave the president unprecented powers to take care of
  New
  >York and those other places.... you mean to tell me that a place
  where thousands
  >of people and thousands more people are dying, we can't figure out
  [how to
  >get them help]. . . Somebody needs to get their ass on a plane and
  sit down
  >and sit down the two them figure this out."
  >And he offers a fine suggestion:
  >"I don't want to see anybody to anymore more goddamn press
  conferences. Put
  >a moratorium on press conferences. Don't do another press conference
  until
  >the resources are in this city."
  >
  >The President will be speaking at the New Orleans airport at 2:50PM.
  >
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