First they get victimized by the Government’s inactions during Katrina. Now they get their Constitutional rights shredded by FEMA:
Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana aren’t allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.
In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out of a trailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules were enforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish.
FEMA spokeswoman Rachel Rodi wouldn’t say whether the security guards’ actions complied with FEMA policy, saying the matter was being reviewed. But she confirmed that FEMA does not allow the news media to speak alone to residents in their trailers.
“If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview,” Rodi told the newspaper for its July 15 report. “That’s just a policy.”
This is absolutely ridiculous. These people have gone through hell time and time again and this is how our government treats them – like some communist nation! The Democrats in Congress need to put this out in the public more so and take action to stop this censorship. This shows the type of government we have when Republicans are in charge.