TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

It appears many people of South Louisiana are turning into well-trained monkeys of the police state. Sad. From Times-Picayune Sept. 2:

"New Orleans residents should not expect to return to their homes until Thursday morning at the soonest, a spokeswoman for Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday morning. With an estimated 77,000 Entergy customers blacked out across the city and hospitals still operating below capacity, Ceeon Quiett said New Orleans is not ready to welcome home as many as 300,000 residents who evacuated in advance of Hurricane Gustav.

City officials started allowing essential recovery workers back into the city Tuesday morning, she said. Categorized as Tier 1 under the city's re-entry plan, the group includes first responders, hospital and utility workers, government contractors and subcontractors that provide critical services and volunteer rescue and response organizations.

The city is still working on logistics with the state to bring home residents who left town on state-chartered buses through the city's free evacuation program, she said. That process should happen before week's end, she said.

The city likely will open Wednesday morning to Tier 2 workers, including employees of building supply companies, medical supply companies and financial institutions, Quiett said. Tier 3 personnel, including gas station operators, grocers and other retailers could get in by Wednesday afternoon, she said.

Quiett stressed that residents not carrying placards issued by the city to companies and organizations that requested priority reentry will not be allowed beyond checkpoints being manned at all roads into the parish by Louisiana National Guard soldiers and state troopers.

Until Nagin issues the order to allow ordinary residents back into the city, she said, a mandatory evacuation and dusk-to-dawn curfew remains in effect. . .

A pair of Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies used their vehicles to block off the westbound West Bank Expressway at Stumpf Boulevard. They were motioning most unidentified cars and trucks to the shoulder so they could question drivers.

Emergency and utility vehicles, including Cox Cable vans, were allowed to pass the barricade without stopping.

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Road blockages and police checkpoints are up on both sides of the Causeway bridge, as well as all major eastbound entrances into Jefferson Parish, including Interstate 10, Airline Highway and Jefferson Highway.

Other checkpoints include I-55 southbound at Louisiana 22 in Ponchatoula, just before the elevation Manchac Bridge, westbond U.S. 90 in eastern New Orleans, and U.S. 90 in Avondale at the Jefferson Parish/St. Charles line, according to State Police spokesman Joey Pigalia.

Checkpoints are currently in place on both sides of the Causeway bridge, Interstate 10 eastbound at the Interstate 55/Louisiana 51 interchange, Jefferson Highway and Airline Highway near Louis Armstrong International Airport.

Officials at the Airline Highway roadblock also reported a smoothly-running, fairly hassle-free checkpoint. Aside from a few stragglers being turned away, most residents appear to be following the rules and staying put until further notice
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Labels: police state, weather control

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