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Begin forwarded message: Date: July 24, 2006 10:15:59 PM PDT Subject: [cia-drugs] Re: Fwd: OUR POLICE STATE: FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents]
http://donklephant.com/2006/02/10/fema-trailers-still-in-arkansas/
--- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, "muckblit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The 11,000 trailers built in Arkansas were originally said to be for
> parking beside damaged homes. They were to house residents while they
> rebuilt their homes a few feet from these trailers.
>
> This story takes the blame off of Bush and any cronies profiting just as
> much from unused trailers and utilized trailers. The blame is projected
> on residents who are supposedly at fault for choosing not to use the
> trailers in trailer parks.
>
> For residents, the choice is the same as for the Abramoff prison cruise
> ships. New Orleans residents chose not to use them, either, because
> they, like these trailer parks, are far from the damaged homes they want
> to restore, and far from potential jobs.
>
> Did any Bush cronies profit from the unused Abramoff prison cruise
> ships, or the 11,000 unused trailers built in Arkansas?
>
> -Bob
>
> --- In cia-drugs@yahoogroups.com, Kris Millegan RAMillegan@ wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: "Dstacey" don.stacey@
> > > Date: July 22, 2006 7:12:18 AM PDT
> > > To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
> > > Subject: OUR POLICE STATE: FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park
> residents]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > =====================
> > > From: GlobalCirclenet webmaster@
> > > Date: 2006/07/21 Fri PM 03:30:15 CDT
> > >
> > > http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=17178
> > > FEMA muzzling La. trailer-park residents
> > > By The Associated Press
> > > 07.20.06
> > >
> > > MORGAN CITY, La. - Residents of trailer parks set up by the Federal
> > > Emergency Management Agency to house hurricane victims in Louisiana
> > > aren't allowed to talk to the press without an official escort, The
> > > (Baton Rouge) Advocate reported.
> > >
> > > In one instance, a security guard ordered an Advocate reporter out
> > > of a
> > > trailer during an interview in Morgan City. Similar FEMA rules were
> > > enforced in Davant, in Plaquemines Parish.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > "If a resident invites the media to the trailer, they have to be
> > > escorted by a FEMA representative who sits in on the interview,"
> Rodi
> > > told the newspaper for its July 15 report. "That's just a policy."
> > >
> > > Gregg Leslie, legal defense director for the Reporters Committee for
> > > Freedom of the Press, said FEMA's refusal to allow trailer-park
> > > residents to invite news media into their homes unescorted was
> > > unconstitutional.
> > >
> > > Morgan City Mayor Timothy Matte told The Advocate that he was
> > > surprised
> > > residents were being barred from talking to reporters.
> > >
> > > "I would think anyone who lives there would be allowed to have any
> > > visitor they wanted," he said.
> > >
> > > FEMA leases the land for the trailer park from the city, Matte said.
> > > "It's public property. There's no question about that. You would
> think
> > > the people would have the same freedom there as everyone else has,"
> he
> > > told the newspaper.
> > >
> > > Hundreds of trailers at FEMA parks sit empty and unused in
> Louisiana,
> > > according to The Advocate.
> > >
> > > Officials in Morgan City estimate that FEMA has spent about $7.5
> > > million to build the trailer park but that only about 15 of the 198
> > > trailers are being used.
> > >
> > > "We all wonder why no one lives there," Matte said.
> > >
> > > FEMA officials refuse to say how much was spent to build the park or
> > > why 183 of the trailers are vacant.
> > >
> > > "We're not going to talk about cost," Rodi told the newspaper.
> > >
> > > As in Morgan City, the 334-trailer FEMA park in Davant in
> Plaquemines
> > > Parish is greatly underused.
> > >
> > > The north side of the park is empty, and 92 families live in the
> south
> > > side, Rodi said, adding that the empty trailers would be removed.
> > >
> > > "We put them there at the parish's request," she said. "Now we've
> > > found
> > > that the need is not as great there or that people don't want to
> live
> > > there."
> > >
> > > The trailers are going to be put on private property or in private
> > > parks in the parish as needed, Rodi said. She refused to disclose
> how
> > > much the park cost to build.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile, Plaquemines Parish President Benny Rousselle blamed
> > > FEMA, in
> > > part, for the slow return of residents to the parish.
> > >
> > > Rousselle said FEMA knows where many evacuees relocated after the
> > > storm
> > > but won't give that information to parish officials.
> > >
> > > "FEMA told us because of privacy issues, they can't give us the
> > > addresses of our residents who are spread out in all 50 states. And
> no
> > > one but FEMA has that information," Rousselle said. "If we could
> > > contact them, I think a lot of them would come back if they knew we
> > > had
> > > places for them to live."
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
>
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July 13th, 2006 at 9:19 pm
I would like to know what is happening to the smaller trailers that were sent to Louisiana? I met hundreds of them on I-59 20 last of 05 and early 06 now I am meeting them going back North some of them in good shape and some of them that looked like they have been stripped. So what is going on? Is Fema selling these trailers and not telling the public? I would like to buy some if I could get information on what is going on.
April 27th, 2006 at 1:50 am
I live in the town(Hope,AR) where the trailers are being held, its at the Hope municapal (sp) Airport, FEMA is paying Hempstead County 25,000 dollars a year to have them placed here. The total amount of trailers to date is 15,000. Last week they had a meeting on what to do with the trailers and so forth. Not sure what they came up with but thats the deal so far that Im aware of. They are concerned with Tornado season coming up and what not…go figure they decided to plant it right in Tornado Alley…..
February 27th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
I know a little about this issue as I was one of the drivers that delivered some of the houses that are in Hope, Arkansas. I would like to comment on some of the above statements. Returning the trailers to the manufactures would cost tax payers more than just keeping them down there. trailer paid up to eight dollars (and in some places in Kentucky they paid for the truck fuel) a mile to move these trailers when regular freight on one of these trailers is around two dollars a mile. What happened is, people such as Jackie Williams from Ga created his own company, and then contacted trailer for a contract to supply X amount of houses for the victims. FEMA then paid these individuals, or their companies, large amounts of money to supply the houses and deliver them to the FEMA holding areas. The individuals then contacted the manufactures and contracted to buy thousands of homes. By the time it got to the driver we received around five dollars a mile. When this happened everyone wanted in on the money making deal. Drivers that owned their own trucks rushed to get mirror bars and house hitches welded on their trucks so they could start pulling trailers. By the way these are the same guys that usually cussed us for being on the interstate when they came up behind us. Fly-by-night house haulers it what I usually called them. The government waived many laws regarding transporting of manufactured houses for the hurricane victims. We could pull them at night, no permits required, no pilot cars required, there were drivers out there that had no idea on how to safely pull one of these things now pulling them 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, with no requirement to keep up with our log books. Don't get me wrong, I was in line like the rest of them, but I have 15 years behind the wheel with 9 years experience pulling Arkansass. Arkansas must have seen a golden opportunity here because Little Rock decided to put a stop to any night movement, issue tickets for log books, all equipment must be exact. They even put a DOT (department of transportation) officer on the lot inside the gates in Hope, Arkansas. He gave more tickets out to drivers over little things than the whole state gave out in speeding tickets. Now as for the Arkansass setting, I delivered a couple of trailers, to Tallahassee Fl. at the old Blue Angles AFB. They stated that they have houses that were delivered last year for the hurricanes that hit in 2004 still sitting around, and what is sick they stated they still haven't received all of them. So Hope is not the only place these houses are stored. Hope is the only place that is sinking and destroying them. In Selma Alabama, not only do they have an abundance of houses they have travel trailers stacked in rows that go on forever. Arkansas bought 150 brand new Ford F350 Dually pick-up trucks to move these around on the lot. A little much don't ya think? Brand new Gators, four-wheelers, you would not believe the things I have seen. Now to the issue of trailers going bad, no they do not just go bad they have to be damaged first. See Fly-by-night house haulers above. Also Arkansas decided they wanted to store as many houses as they could (more houses more money I guess) so they had us park them as close as we could get them to one another, sometimes about 6 to 8 inches apart. This is fine if they are on stable ground. What's happening now is when you mix the rain in with the soybean field the ground is soft so the houses are now falling into one another. Another thing, not only are these houses filled with new couches, refrigerators, stoves, mattresses, and bed frames in every home they also have microwaves, kitchen tables, dressers, nightstands and the heat and air units along with all the duct work to install the units. This is something FEMA demanded and would not accept any trailer with out them. I have many pictures of the Hope, Arkansas confusion if anyone would like to see them. The government wasting our money? The public doesn't know the half of it! Sorry this was so long, I just needed to vent!
February 21st, 2006 at 12:58 pm WE TRIED TO CONTACT CNN 360 TO GET ANDERSON TO ASK THE ABOVED QUESTIONS TO GET SOME ANSWERS . WE WERE TOLD TO ONLY CONTACT ABOUT NEWS ITEMS.
June 14th, 2006 at 9:28 am
One question, we need the trailers in Louisana, why in hell did we park them in Arkansas? DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
February 20th, 2006 at 2:12 pm
Why has nobody noticed that the trailers are being stored in Bill Clinton's home town. (Not a joke). Check it out. http://www.hopeusa.com/clinton/believe.html
February 21st, 2006 at 1:03 am I believe someone is getting rich on this trailer deal
February 25th, 2006 at 4:24 pm I work for a major manufactured home company located in Kentucky. This whole situation brought several jobs to people who needed them. My company personally built well over a thousand of these mobile homes that are sitting in Arkansas. FEMA rushed us for months to push these homes out the door, which we did at a rate of about ten houses per day. They are well built homes and are designed to specifications to withstand high winds. They also have new couches, refrigerators, stoves, matresses, and bed frames in every home.