Julia Thompson wrote: > Ronn!Blankenship wrote: >> At 10:50 AM Tuesday 9/6/2005, Dan Minette wrote: >> >>> A friend of ours who works at a local clinic (just north of >>> Houston) said they are getting a number of people from New Orleans >>> there. The most disturbing story were two women who came to >>> their >>> clinic because they were >>> raped....but who would not report the rapes to authorities. >> >> >> >> Many people do not trust the authorities to do anything in such >> cases in normal times. Why should they trust them more in these >> circumstances? Particularly if they are some of the ones reported >> to >> have been raped at the convention center after having gone there >> expecting shelter . . . > > Or possibly having been raped by "authorities" -- uniformed people > there to keep order at the shelter? This would be *extremely* > disturbing.
Considering the report I saw on WWL about police officers who participated in the looting and then hid the stash on the tenth floor of a hotel that they commandeered (terrorising the occupents in the process), I would not doubt that particular scenario is very possible. Some of the law enforcement folk in NO just plain lost it over the last week (no excuse though) and a couple commited suicide. When the finger pointing starts in earnest I suspect they will have to open up a couple of higher dimensions and parallel universes just to make room for all the digits. xponent Alligator MREs Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
