"We all wonder why no one lives there. FEMA spent $7.5 million to build it: electricity, gas, water, sewer, a lift-station, roads," said Morgan City Mayor Timothy Matte. "There's about 50 more new FEMA trailers in various mobile home parks around town, and no one lives in those, either. It doesn't really make much sense."
FEMA
I just have to put this stuff up quickly to get the word out. This is very troublesome to me. How about you?
"If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview," FEMA spokesperson Rachel Rodi is quoted in the article. "That's just a policy."
NoFreePress
FEMA Muzzling Hurricane Victims From Talking To Press
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.
UnderSiege
America the land of the free some say...RIGHT!
The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly shopping around the explosive idea of requiring Internet service providers to retain records of their customers' online activities.
CNET
PacketSniffing
U.S. funds chat-room surveillance study
ChatRoomSpying
Activists Take on Google, Yahoo, Others over Internet Censorship
NEW YORK, July 22 (OneWorld) - A prominent rights advocacy group has launched a worldwide campaign this week against "big brothers" trying to block information on the Internet.
BigBrotherYahoo
We are in serious trouble here on the internet if we don't fight for the freedom here and we are in big trouble outside this box if we don't get our asses together and restore our bill of rights and have this totalitarian type leadership removed and brought to trial very soon.
September 5th is the beginning CampDemocracy. BE THERE!
We are joining with organizations and individuals across the country to create an event on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from September 5 to 21 called Camp Democracy.