Dear Senator Reid,

The Bush Administration showed a level of gross negligence and breathtaking incompetence in their handling of the hurricane Katrina catastrophe.  Every day I read new stories of FEMA officials turning away expert volunteers, including the American Red Cross.  A public official from Paquemines Parish reported that FEMA cut his emergency communications lines!  I believe that FEMA's actions amount to criminal negligence.  If the Department of Defense is responsible for blocking the rescue of thousands of Americans, the question is, what the hell were they thinking?  And why were they in charge?

I urge you to demand hearings to hold the Federal Government responsible for this disaster.

Mr Brown and Mr Chertoff should be fired immediately!  

President Bush and the rest of his Administration appeared to not even grasp the enormity of the impending disaster as it approached, when it made landfall, and for almost a week of seeing the pictures of people suffering and dying on the streets! Frankly, the President and Secretary of State Rice displayed shocking, callous indifference!

Now IS the time for finger pointing.  This is no politics as usual spinnable PR issue.  Thousands of people were killed as a direct result of the inaction of our Government.

The fact that most of the victims are Black and/or poor has escaped no one's notice.  The survivors should be paid a million dollars each as reparation for the horrible suffering they were forced to endure.

I urge you to address this issue forcefully in the Senate.  

Thank you,
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cc: D.Feinstein
B.Boxer, G.Miller

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