Rescuers idle thanks to feeble-minded leaders

1,000 trained rescuers who went in to relieve over-worked local New Orleans emergency crews spend the day in sexual harassment class and handing out fliers for FEMA.

I'm just getting more and more angry about how the Katrina After-Disaster is being handled. I know corporations run America but in the middle of rescue operations is it really necessary to submit the responders to the corporate BS environment that the rest of us have to deal with?

Let them get to work! These are professionals of action and they are not ones to sit around when people need help. They are so determined, in fact, that a strong leader is needed to make sure they don't do anything fool-hardy. Hopefully that kind of leader will step forwards soon and ignore the photo-ops and get on the job.

I promise you I'm going to be recalling these past and future weeks and taking this anger with me to the polls next time (especially after seeing the BBC footage that American networks will not air due to the horrifying content of the images). The next group in your offices won't be any better, but at least they won't be you.

Right now all Americans outside the event see is people homeless and property damaged, and the impact of that will fade over time. The media reports that people have died, but there are not (and should not be) any visuals. People know it intellectually but not viscerally, and I hope they don't forget what has happened.

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