[StBernard] very angry

[Westley Annis]

You're absolutely correct about Ed and friends who like many others never
get their due credit they deserve. Every time we see the same people being
honored as if a clique exists to pat each other's back, starting from
government on down.

When Ed and others took the podium, streets or websites they were the
forerunners in providing info, whether it was at meetings or in the St.
Bernard Voice, etc. Yet, the sun never shines on a place where it is shady.
Hardly recognition they deserve, when all they did was tell the truth about
what would happen.

Sad.. Because now the entire communities suffer because governments fail in
their duty to protect and serve.

"..too little.. too  late" ..indeed.

jer

-----Original Message-----

Westley, 

I have not been following the e-mails with this subject line, so I don't
know whether this opinion has been expressed.  I have no idea of the costs
involved in filing a lawsuit or hiring an attorney.  Knowing how devasting
Katrina was for all of St. Bernard, however, I can't imagine that many
individuals would have the funds to file a lawsuit -- against the Corps or
anyone else.

Actually, the point is moot.  It's too little, too late, folks.  

Until their efforts were halted by Hurricane Katrina, a group of citizens of
St. Bernard Parish, my father among them, worked tirelessly for many years
to get the MRGO closed.  These individuals spent personal funds in their
fight -- and in their efforts to convince the public of the urgent need to
close the MRGO.  As a matter of fact, the "Close the MRGO Now" group even
had a billboard at the corner of St Bernard Highway and Friscoville Avenue -
which they were forced to remove because it was "unsightly".  This group of
individuals received absolutely no support from the Parish council - and
precious little from other citizens of the parish.

What's even more difficult to comprehend -- but is certainly business as
usual for St. Bernard Parish politics -- is that not a single member of this
forward-thinking group of individuals was tapped for membership in the St.
Bernard "Citizens" Recovery Committee.

It's all too little, too late, folks, -- much too little -- and much too
late. 

Pattie Doody