Well 4 of them, at least.Four out of.....gosh we don't really know the exact numbers, with all the delays in rescue and recovery, and the likelihood there would be no remains for any number of reasons.
In case you thought that the culpability for Katrina deaths might be laid at the hands of brownie, chertoff, or bush--well disabuse yourself of your naievete:
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"A doctor and two nurses have been charged with murdering hospital patients in the US city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina last year."
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Yes, no doubt, taking advantage of the worst natural disaster in US, history, these canny--all females, a doctor and 2 nurses had the chance to take out their homicidal impulses on two 90 year olds and two 60 year olds in a critical care unit, by, allegedly, determining that these patients, who were unlikely to survive the ordeal---where there was no sign help was coming, and the dead bodies were already stacking up in the hallways, may have been given doses of the mega pain-killer, morphine, to end their lives.
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as the ever-righteous...
"Louisiana Attorney General Charles C Foti said: "This is not euthanasia. This is homicide."
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He added: "While I am aware of the horrendous conditions that existed after Hurricane Katrina... I believe that there is no excuse for intentionally killing another living human being."
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and who could argue with him? Why weren't these people allowed to be found face up in flooded waters, where strangers watching the news probably saw their dead bodies before their family did?
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why were they not allowed to die in a wheelchair at the Superdome, where a stranger had to throw a blanket over them for their final rites?
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why indeed, did these vicious, witchy, bitchy medical people alledgedly give the least likely survivors a painless way out of a life of suffering, and deprive their heirs of going back to their homes "for closure", months later, and screaming when they find the dead kin still upstairs in the bedroom, where their long dead skin sloughed off when they removed the blanket thrown over them because there wasn't a better end for people who were not even sick, just elderly?
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How dare they play goddess, when all responsibility was their's with a hefty dash of no hope?
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I can find very little on the story, aside from their charges and their lofty atty. general's pontification.
no defense fund stuff, which I had hoped for.
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and yes, I sure don't know all the facts, I only know a possible scenario from having worked with doctors and nurses, in many instances when they were caring for the least cuddly elements of our population.
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and can only hope that these women can tell their story to explain how complicated justice is for people who really care about it.And that they should not be punished for their country's betrayal of them.
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from Lou Lipsitz:
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"Walker of streets,
have you entered them?
Are you the eyes
of chimneys or a broken lamp;
the mouth of deserted shoes?
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Does the city
create your face?
Does the oil of burning children
smear your forehead?
Is there in your cheek
the breath of a bird destroyed by loneliness?
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And when you see the black river
in the blood of men,
are you a disaster of the stars?