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I don't know what you're hearing in the mainstream media or in the press conferences from the city and state officials, but here is the truth:<br><br>"Bigfoot" is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the Iberville Projects because he knew he would be above any flood waters. Here is his story as told to me moments ago. I took notes while he talked and then I asked some questions:<br><br>Three days ago, police and national guard troops told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or somewhere else, out of this area.<br><br>It's been 3 days, and the buses have yet to appear.<br><br>Although obviously he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people are packed into and around and outside the convention center still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below. Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons being aimed at them.<br><br>There are many infants and elderly people among them, as well as many people who were injured jumping out of windows to escape flood water and the like -- all of them in dire straights.<br><br>Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint. Hour after hour they watch buses pass by filled with people from other areas. Tensions are very high, and there has been at least one murder and several fights. 8 or 9 dead people have been stored in a freezer in the area, and 2 of these dead people are kids.<br><br>The people are so desperate that they're doing anything they can think of to impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These things include standing in single file lines with the eldery in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the people are not barbarians.<br><br>The buses never stop.<br><br>Before the supplies were pitched off the bridge today, people had to break into buildings in the area to try to find food and water for their families. There was not enough. This spurred many families to break into cars to try to escape the city. There was no police response to the auto thefts until the mob reached the rich area -- Saulet Condos -- once they tried to get cars from there... well then the whole swat teams began showing up with rifles pointed. Snipers got on the roof and told people to get back.<br><br>He reports that the conditions are horrendous. Heat, mosquitoes and utter misery. The smell, he says, is "horrific."<br><br>He says it's the slowest mandatory evacuation ever, and he wants to know why they were told to go to the Convention Center area in the first place; furthermore, he reports that many of them with cell phones have contacts willing to come rescue them, but people are not being allowed through to pick them up. <br><br>I have "Bigfoot"'s phone number and will gladly give it to any city or state official who would like to tell him how everything is under control.<br><br>Addendum: Bigfoot just called to report that "they" (the authorities) are cleaning up the dead bodies at the Convention Center right now. <br><br>Anyway it now occurs to me that the stimply excerpt from earlier is from the same post, but I figure I'll leave this up for anyone who didn't link through. Also this post looks really big and impressive, apropos of my big impressive quasi-return to the blog. If I come up with anything else orth a shit I promise I'll post; it may take a while for me to get back into the swing of things, however.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/42309.html">www.livejournal.com/users...42309.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>"BIGFOOT" UPDATE<br>For those of you who have been reading for a few days, I had done an interview with a guy named "Bigfoot" who described the deplorable conditions at the Convention Center a few days ago. He is going to be on Rense (
www.rense.com) tonight at 7 pm Pacific, 10 Eastern. <br>(317 Comments |Comment on this)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------<br><br>start interview:<br><br>"Bigfoot" is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the Iberville Projects because he knew he would be above any flood waters. Here is his story:<br><br><br>We're going to now go to Arkansas...Talk with a gentleman...we're going to call him just " Bigfoot" ...who was there...who saw much...and we're very happy to chat with him for the first hour. <br>Are you there Bigfoot?<br><br>BF-allright, how y'all doing<br><br>q- I'm fine thank you...thanks, very much for being available and thanks to Mike Barnett for helping set this up as well.<br>The first question I have for you is... why didn't you evacuate when everyone else was...or most everyone else was. what urged you to stay on?<br><br>BF-It's not because I wanted to...First I had to try to get my family together, Then I TRIED to rent a car, rent a Uhaul, Limosine...anything...we couldn't get in touch with anybody. Everybody(rental companies) had done left like two days ago.<br><br>q- I see, and at what point did you try to organize this evacuation for your family..How SOON before the hurricane hit?<br><br>BF-Two days before it hit<br><br>q- so you, for TWO days. you tried to get the heck out of there and couldn't arrange it?<br><br>BF-couldn't arrange it...so then we tried to call friends but then they were all fullfilled up with their families and they had no room, so we bought up a whole bunch of supplies and said lets try to stick it out. And what I did was I left, my house is kind of rickety and went into the projects, cause the their built strong and the wind wasn't going to blown those projects down...So during the hurricane ..I mean...everything was fine. The wind ,the rain, came & then right afterward everything was fine...no flood or anything. And then a couple of hours later the water stated coming up.<br><br>q-Well it is said that, the hurricane of course, had achieved catagory 5 status...But that portion of the category 5 winds did not hit New Orleans...It hit east of city, quite a bit east, and what hit NOLA proper was about category 2 which is a windy rainy problem but not a catastophe neccesarily.<br><br>BF- No, not really...but it blew down a lot of trees, and the trees caused most of the damage to some of the houses. They knocked in roofs and everything, and some of the houses that didn't have tight stable roofs , they got blown away. Some of the bricks that were unstable too fell off the buildings from around the warehouse district.<br><br>q- I understand, ...that would be expected from a catagory 2 hurricane I woild think , sure.<br>Now, the actual number of people who left the city is in dispute. Do you have any figures or statistics on that? How many people were able to evacuate? what percentage? some people say 80% evacuated successfully before the storm hit..do you have any idea?<br><br>BF- I'd say it was most likely about 60%, that left. Alot of em were saying " I thought it was going to be like all the rest of them did" so alot of them waited, till like that morning or late that night before they decided to get outta here. Some of them just waited real real late before they left.<br><br>q- NOLA's been thru hurricanes before<br><br>BF- Yes<br><br>q- So OK. the hurricane comes...It hits...It's windy , its rainy, trees get blown down, roofs get blown off... But it's not a catastrophe<br><br>BF- No<br><br>q- How far past the peak of the storm did the water begin to show up, do you remember?<br><br>BF- Right after the hurricane, the only thing we had was water in the streets.. not alot of water, just a little water in the streets that came like right to your ankle, and then like a couple hours later...The water started rising, somebody said that some pipes had bust, underground...nobody told us anything about the levee. They just said some pipes had bust and that's where the water was coming from.<br><br>q- I see<br><br>BF- and then the water rose to like the steps, the first step, and that was about 3 inches.<br><br>q-OK<br><br>BF- and then that night, when everyone was about to go to bed, someone came runnin out their house "the water rising, the water rising" and from then it stared coming up like an inch every 20 minutes.<br><br>q- OK, is your family with you in the house at this time<br><br>BF- Yes. I had...we all moved to the second floor, I had my family and a couple other families from the first floor moved up into the second floor apartment<br><br>q- OK<br><br>BF - so it was like 3 or 4 families in one apartment at that time.<br><br>q- Did you still have power at that point?<br><br>BF- no power, just gas and water at this time.<br><br>q- Ok, were you listening to the radio?<br><br>BF- yeah, we had a bunch of small radios..and then ahh, then the next morning they said the levee broke and everybody should be thinking about evacuating<br><br>q- thats a good idea<br><br>BF-Yeah, they didn't say mandatory at the time<br><br>q- Oh really<br><br>BF- it wasn't mandatory at the time, no<br><br>q-and when you got up in the morning, if you slept at all, how high was the water then?<br><br>BF- It got to the forth step, and that was like ahh, I'm 6' 6" so like for me that was like knee high...To my knees but for everyone else that was almost to thier waist.<br><br>q- gotcha<br><br>BF- So then, so I decided, since this is not too high, My house was not flooded in the uptown area, just in the downtown area. So I decided to bring some of my stuff back to the house and everything to get it safe and to get my family out. When I did one load, I came back it was like everybody was sayin " ts a mandatory evacuation, a Mandatory evacuation, everybody has to get to the interstate" So everybody started panicking and we all started heading for the interstate like they said. They said we were going to be bussed out from the interstate.<br>That never happened<br><br>q- Ok, so that was the first time when panic really hit your family<br><br>BF-Yes<br><br>q- When they ordered the mandatory evacuation...How far. Bigfoot, is the interstate from your home?<br><br>BF-Uhh from my home? or where we were?<br><br>q- from wherever you were<br><br>BF-where we were... it was about 2 miles<br><br>q- Ok , so you're supposed to walk through...Water... 2 miles<br><br>BF- yes, we did, (chuckles)<br><br>q- and you're 6'6" and your kids.....<br><br>BF- I've got a 3 year old a 5 year old, I've got elderly people I've got handicapped people.<br><br>q- thats the point... what happened to them?<br><br>BF- OK, so we went toward the interstate, we ran into some Deputy Sherriff's I guess, In a boat. Then he said, go to the interstate. Wait there, then somebody gonna come in a bus and take y'all out of town.<br><br>q- excuse me, Is the interstate up on a much higher ground level? or is it up on posts, piers?<br><br>BF- Yes, it over most of the buildings<br><br>q- ok gotcha<br><br>BF-So, uhm everybody started going to the interstate, and there were millions , I mean thousands of people on the interstate. So we were like OK , and we saw some trucks... uhaul trucks and flatbed trucks, but they were just taking all day grabbing people....and we thought they were there to take people out of town...they brought everybody to the convention center.<br><br>q- Ohh , they didn't take you out of town<br><br>BF- Didn't take us out of town they took everybody to the convention center and told em there would be busses to pick them up from there, and that was Tuesday.<br><br>q- Was there any water near the Convention center, or was that totally high and dry.<br><br>BF- Nope<br><br>BF- High and dry<br><br>Q- Ok <br><br>BF- Totally high and dry<br><br>q- allright<br><br>BF- Uhm...The water really didn't start coming down Canal street until.... ahh....Wednesday. It was rising but it wasn't pushing up because Canal street is on like a slope. Almost, so it took awhile for it to push up.<br><br>q-Ok<br><br>BF-And cause again they were trucking everybody from the innercity , from the uptown area from Plaquemines parish, from all different areas to bring to the convention center, cause they said the superdome was full already.<br><br>Q- allright<br><br>Q- who's in charge at the convention center? was it organized at all?<br><br>BF- Nobody...They just put us there...I mean No military, no police officers , no officials, not even the people who run the convention center where there. I <br>don't even think they knew we were going there.<br>I mean, I think they did this as just a last ditch effort... to get people out the way, But they didn't tell anybody that we were there. Nobody knew we were there until Wednesday.<br><br>q- ha, ha, ha nobod-that's thats almost two days!<br><br>BF- Yah thats 2 days without food and water, So we had to break into the refridgerators and everything and feed ourselves off the Convention center(CC) food and everything that they had left in there.<br><br>Q- How many, about how many were there in the CC?<br><br>BF- At that time when we went from hall A...the halls go from A To J. We had this hall AF(?) it was setting about 3000 people at that time. That was Tuesday, By Wednesday we had about 10.000 people. All halls had filled from the inside to out.<br><br>q- In this kind of a situation, it's hard to imagine ahh how any kind of an organization could take place...were there people who tried to appoint themselves as leaders, organizers, did you have a commitee..did you have any cohesive effort in how to handle it?<br><br>BF- They had older people who were there saying the busses are on the way, they said they were coming and tried to keep everyone calm.<br><br>q-Uh huh<br><br>BF- and you know they said try to keep the area clean for when the busses pull up and everything and...we gonna get out of here.<br>We heard the same speech for FIVE days<br><br>Q- Uh Huh...Unbelievable... Stand by Big foot while we take a break<br><br>Q-Are Ok there now Bigfoot?<br><br>BF- Oh Yah, the people in Arkansas are awesome.. they are awesome out here.<br><br>q- And your family is allright?<br><br>BF- yes they're fine now...while we were there they lost their minds a couple of times. I was a..you know just a talking to my girlfriend and she like blanked out... didn't know where she was...didn't even know what her name was...I had to calm her down and the children just crying because they had dead bodies the were crossing over and everything. Just sleeping on the ground because they were tired.<br><br>q- Ahh were the dead bodies IN the CC?<br><br>BF- IN & OUT<br><br>q- People had expired right then and there from lack of food and water!!!<br><br>BF- And some people were killed... there's something they didn't say on the news... In the jails , they let loose all the low crime criminals<br><br>q- Huh!!!<br><br>BF- yeah, bet you didn't know that.<br><br>q- No<br><br>BF- so...they got caught up in the crowd where they got transfered to the CC and SD also<br><br>q- and they you feel were in substantial part, contributors to the violence?<br><br>BF- OH YEAH, because they ran into their friends...I overheard a couple of them talking...say "Man I thought you was in jail- Yeah man they let us out" and then they had got into a little group. <br>Well in the beginning everybody was fine. Everybody was working together, you know feeding everybody and giving out the water. Second day, same thing everybody was fine... you know we broke into stores and stuff like that to feed the elderly and the children and stuff. The third day...It got rough. They started selling the food then.<br><br>q- who?<br><br>BF- the younger kids... like from the 15-25 year olds. Like they had their own little gang<br><br>q- Sounds like a little mafia thing?<br><br>BF- Yeah close to it, you know...you want some good food you've got to buy it.<br><br>q- Ohh<br><br>BF- and they'll cook it for you and get it to you and stuff<br><br>q- I see<br><br>q- at this point 3 days into it, still no police, no help no nothing?<br><br>BF- No, No police... that's the funny part, this is another part... they had police but they were like... out of contact with each other...they were on walkie talkies.. so and the NOLA police they didn't have a clue as to what was going on because no-one was telling them anything either<br><br>q- No command and control...nothing!<br><br>BF- No, no control... But they had police officers watching us the WHOLE time we were there<br><br>q- But you didn't know it?<br><br>BF- we didn't know it until that...that Friday...we found out<br><br>q- where were these police officers?<br><br>BF- they were inside a hotel, right across the street from the CC<br><br>q- and they were just observing from over there?<br><br>BF- Observing and they had orders not to interfere<br><br>q-huh!!!!<br><br>BF- Yeah they had machine guns and everything, we had snipers on the interstate that overlooked the CC also.<br>We always saw them because they'd popped up every now and then. we saw their heads.<br><br>q- you were, you were PRISONERS!!!!<br><br>BF- Yeah... we couldn't leave...people would try to walk across the bridge to go across the river... they turned them around. They said you cannot leave, Nobody could come into town and pick us up.<br><br>q- and there was not one delivery of food, not one medical team, nothing that came to the CC.<br><br>BF- Not until Wednesday, and they didn't come in, they dropped it off the interstate overpass. We had to catch the food.<br><br>q- dropped it off How?<br><br>BF-MRE's and water, they dropped the cases off the interstate<br><br>q- on helicopter or truck?<br><br>BF- A truck, and it wasn't military or police either it was regular guys ...I don't know where they come from...they had plain clothes the would drop it off the interstate and then everybody would just grab what they could... and the water they dropped the water but half of that exploded... because once it hit the ground it went everywhere.<br><br>q- I understand<br><br>end part 1<br><br>"Bigfoot" is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the Iberville Projects because he knew he would be above any flood waters. Here is his story:<br><br>start part 2-<br><br>q- Uhm... how many dead people were there?...around the CC?<br>Just take a guess...<br><br>BF-we had like 8 in the freezer...cause when we saw some people were dead we put em in the freezer so they wouldn't start stinking. 8 inthe freezer, they had like 2 in the street that I knew of...and they had a few on the second and third floor, I don't know exactly how many they had, some of them were kids.<br><br>q- Any of em murdered?<br><br>BF-YES<br><br>BF- Most of the kids had been murdered...They were like RAPED and then their necks SLASHED...Slashed their throat<br><br>q- Who...who was doing the murdering? This other gang??<br><br>BF-It was a...we found him at the end... It was ONE guy...what he was doing was he...as a child would have to go to the bathroom and the mom was like sleeping or something like that..or not...you know talking to somebody. He told them I'll take you to the restroom then went second floor...we didn't see em again<br><br>q- and these were young boys?young girls?<br><br>BF- Yeah he was about like twenty... twenty eight years old... the one that was doing it... the kids were 3, 4, 5 ...8. <br><br>q- He was killing little kids????<br><br>BF- YES ...RAPING THEN KILLING THEM<br><br>q- Did anybody, did anybody catch this guy?<br><br>BF- We caught him at the end, we caught him Friday<br><br>q- and what did you do with him?<br><br>BF-We didn't have no jail...so you know... an eye for an eye<br><br>q- I think alot of people would support that<br><br>BF- Ya, you know ....what goes around comes around man...<br><br>q- I hear ya<br><br>BF- Like I said we had Police officers watching us the whole time.. come Thursday, people got tired , they started breaking in cars and picking their families up and trying to drive them out of town... and you know we broke in Budget(sp?) , we broke in all kind of buildings... but they had a rich area around the CC.. where rich people stay at... once they started migrating over there hittin those cars...<br><br>q- Um huh<br><br>BF- eight police cars came out of nowhere!<br><br>q- OH...OK<br><br>BF-And that when they all started coming around the CC pulling their guns out ...ONE POLICE OFFICER GOT SHOT<br><br>q- By whom?<br><br>BF- By a pedestrian(?) trying to get the hell out of there... and they took him away, and they took all the cars away that the people had hotwired... and then they all disappeared.<br>Just because we went in that area... thats the only time they came out, they never talked to us or anything...They would roll by... with their guns drawn, but they would not talk to you.<br><br>q- and these were Black officers and white officers?<br><br>BF- Black officers and white officers YES<br><br>q- Ok .. standby... a fascinating look at horror that is almost unimaginable<br>we will continue with "Bigfoot" in a couple minutes.<br> <br>end part2<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=onoi812>OnoI812</A> at: 9/10/05 11:32 am<br></i>
by OnoI812 » Fri Sep 09, 2005 5:47 pm