The Feds are in Baton Rouge right now holding a press conference out of the Governor's office and they are going absolutely apeshit.
WARNING: RANT-LIKE
Very well spoken apeshit, but they are going out of their minds in with indignance and promising Holy Retribution for the New Orleans drug trade which apparently is responsible for the reports of violence out of New Orleans.
The reason, and I'm paraphrasing - just watching it now on WWLTV.COM, was that things are in New Orleans which would wipe out the the Southeastern United States. They are parading a few other speakers in front, a few in back, of the FBI guy staring daggers into the camera that gave the grave news, so no friggin reporter is following up. WTF was he talking about that required, apparently, the entire compliment of Federal Law Enforcement Agencies of New Orleans to ride out a Category 5 Hurricane?
I'll update with sound bites, but what the heck are they talking about with such indignance? Apparently it was some heavy-duty shit that required the evacuation of apparently the facility of whatever the fuck this was?
And the indignance is at these drug traders, and I'm just speculating, which apparently these Feds had to evacuate through...
The SWAT teams that were called in from Baton Rouge were brought in to ""respond to specific Federal requests".
I always wondered what sent Blanco into that Nazi tirade, was it Wednesday morning?, issuing shoot-to-kill orders for folks with no food or water. They all blend together now... It was probably a Federal briefing requesting more assets.
WHAT THE FUCK WAS SO FUCKING GOD-AWFUL THAT REQUIRES THIS SHITSTORM?
UPDATE They just touched on it again - apparently the evacuation took them through a undamaged area - or in the highly technical Federal Agent language - "through areas with undamaged facilitites and infrastructure, facilities and infrastructure we could utilize to accomplish our mission (these are all rough paraphrases of course)" - And I hate to speculate on these matters, speculation has been the cause of a lot of grief these past days.
But it is news to me that real live bad news shit went down, and not only that, it apparently involved the continued well-being of the entire "Southeastern United States". Jesus Christ.
UPDATE These reporters are so effing infuriating - maybe they were forbidden to follow-up - this was a press report out of the State Emergency Operations Center. Again, the tone of this FBI guy was almost fictional - Tom Clancy shit.
UPDATE OK, that did it, I cried. I kept it mostly together - the follow-up speaker is a Congressman representing New Orleans residents. He begged Louisiana to take the evacuees - they didn't want to go to Idaho - that's what got me - I wouldn't want to go to no Idaho either. Very sincerly emotional. They propose tent cities in Louisiana. If the timing of the speakers in follow-up to the Feds was important, they spoke specifically of going to the Fisher projects in Algeirs and encountering "no violence" and passing out life saving supplies. Very emotional. They begged the Red Cross to establish a presense there.
UPDATE
Sorry to the commenters complaining of unreadability. Going on the fly. But upon re-reading I should have mentioned that apparently the complained of activity was a car-jacking of some sort. The rest of the press conference disclosed how other employees, the DEA, remained as well (hence the quick identification of the perpetrators) and they have a "holding facility" downtown to throw folks in jail. They said everything but they would security-sweep the town.