The

Times Picayune reported this article and it is truly troubling.

Bush visit halts food delivery

By Michelle Krupa Staff writer

Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard
Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge
Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit
to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville,
and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as
Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made
landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon’s chief of staff, Casey
O’Shea.

“We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and
now the food is sitting in trucks because they won’t let helicopters fly,”
O’Shea said Friday afternoon.

The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the
president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.

If national security prevents helicopters from flying in order to deliver aid
then was it so imperative that the President travel to the region? This is a
total outrage and an addition to the growing mountain of questions that demand
answers. Here in Ohio there is a law prohibiting the interference of emergency
personnel when it comes to life and death. Most states have similar laws. If
Louisiana has this same law, then it would appear that George Bush and/or his
subordinates are guilty of it.