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Sep. 4th, 2005 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jebbypalA brush with Bush in NO
It goes to show how overwhelming things are here right now that I encountered the First Lady yesterday and I almost forgot to put it in this e-mail. It actually couldn't have been a worse experience; a team of us were working to put up a website with directions to every Red Cross shelter in the region when we were evicted from the computer room by the Secret Service. There's only one room in the Cajundome with telephones and internet access for refugees, and Laura Bush shut it down for eight hours (along with the food service rooms to the side and the women's showers). You may have seen it on CNN; apparently seven refugees were allowed back so Laura could help them in front of the cameras.
WTF?? this is ridiculous. This was what I feared would happen from the Bushs' tour of the area. It was bad enough that the helicopters were grounded, but geez. You'd already searched everyone for weapons and such...would not a contingent of five or so secret service agents around Laura have been enough to protect her? Give me a break.
It goes to show how overwhelming things are here right now that I encountered the First Lady yesterday and I almost forgot to put it in this e-mail. It actually couldn't have been a worse experience; a team of us were working to put up a website with directions to every Red Cross shelter in the region when we were evicted from the computer room by the Secret Service. There's only one room in the Cajundome with telephones and internet access for refugees, and Laura Bush shut it down for eight hours (along with the food service rooms to the side and the women's showers). You may have seen it on CNN; apparently seven refugees were allowed back so Laura could help them in front of the cameras.
WTF?? this is ridiculous. This was what I feared would happen from the Bushs' tour of the area. It was bad enough that the helicopters were grounded, but geez. You'd already searched everyone for weapons and such...would not a contingent of five or so secret service agents around Laura have been enough to protect her? Give me a break.