Katrina: Authorities bar Red Cross from NOLA; Blackwater gets carte blanche

Armed with assault rifles, contractors from private security firm Blackwater are patrolling the black-water-flooded streets of New Orleans.

Meanwhile, unnarmed Red Cross workers toting food and medicine have been unable to enter the city for days.

with some great reader comments:

Why do the police in New Orleans clear the city of the last remaining residents? Why can’t these residents stay in their homes if they are able to stay? And why do the authorities do this with guns?

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Since it would seem the goal of this project is to demolish the city… then give Halliburton billions to rebuild it for corporations and whites only… People need to realize that this is the biggest LOOTING operation since the fall of Baghdad - and the looters are NOT the poor blacks.