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AMERICAN SHAME: The Edgar Hollingsworth Story

by RobertInWisconsin

 

Wed Sep 14th, 2005 at 09:51:05 PDT

 

Today is Day 17. Two and a half weeks. Tomorrow President Bush will show up

in New Orleans for another photo-op, this time to try to rescue his own

sorry, lazy, incompetent, negligent ass with a televised address to the nation.

 

I don't care if he does a TV address every night live from New Orleans for

the rest of his presidency.

 

It will NEVER -- NEVER -- change the fact that Mr Bush abdicated his sacred

responsibility to the American people for five excruciatingly long days.

 

Yesterday Mr Bush said 'I take responsibility' for the abject failure of the

federal government of the world's most powerful and wealthy nation.

 

Let's put a face to that failure. Please meet Edgar Hollingsworth, age 74, a

resident of New Orleans.

 

First : What I will always call 'The Photo'

Second : My summary and my rant.

Finally : Some excerpts from the news story and a link to the source.

 

America, 2005

 

[ update ] Poster chachabowl calls it : " American Pieta "

 

" ...whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers, that you do unto Me. "

 

 

Photo by Bruce Chambers, Orange County (Calif.) Register

 

Source:

http://www.ocregister.com/newsimages/news/2005/09/14rescue.a1.jpg

 

Mr Hollingsworth was pulled unconscious and emaciated from his home in New

Orleans by members of the California National Guard YESTERDAY - Day 16.

 

While Mr Hollingsworth lay on a couch in his home -- apparently alone,

forgotten, without food or water, sinking into unconsciousness -- Mr Bush was

doing

the following :

 

 

Golfing

 

Licking cake frosting off his fingers

 

Strumming a guitar

 

Giving a propaganda speech in San Diego comparing Iraq to WWII and himself to

FDR

 

Flying 2,000 feet overhead

 

Dragging his feet - sitting on his LAZY ASS - for FIVE LONG DAYS, while he

and his gov't were in a state of PARALYSIS

 

Telling that horse's ass, 'Brownie you're doing a heck of a job'

 

Engaging in a pissing match with the Governor of Louisiana

 

Playing the Blame Game to try to pin his own inaction and negligence on

everyone else

 

Finally - Taking full responsibility for the federal government failure to

save people like Mr Hollingsworth ( Will Mr Bush receive consequences for his

deadly inaction ? WILL HE ? )

 

 

The story of Edgar Hollingsworth brings me to tears. This man could be my

late father. Did Mr Hollingsworth work his entire life, then retire ? (like my

father)

 

Did Mr Hollingsworth honorably serve his country in the armed forces (like my

father) (unlike Mr Bush) ? Did he serve a country in its time of need that

failed to serve him in HIS time of need ?

 

Did Mr Hollingsworth live in the Deep South during the days of segregation,

Jim Crow, lynchings, KKK ?

 

Will Mr Hollingsworth survive ? Or will he die ? ( My father died recently,

which is probably one of the reasons why this story tears at me )

 

The photo alone outrages me. It's from the Orange County Register, and it's

also on the front page of my area morning newspaper which gets more and more

conservative every year.

 

In my area morning newspaper it's below the headline 'BUSH TAKES THE BLAME'.

 

It ought to outrage you.

 

The story ought to outrage you even more.

 

Mr Bush MUST resign or be impeached.

 

 

Survivor rescued 16 days after the hurricane

 

By KEITH SHARON

The Orange County Register

September 14, 2005

 

NEW ORLEANS - . . . A human foot arching at an odd angle was visible through

the front window of a locked and dark home.

 

The National Guard team of searchers was about to call in a " DB, " or dead

body . . . in the Broadmoor district when Lt. Frederick Fell decided to

investigate.

 

In the past few days, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered

searchers not to break into homes. They are supposed to look in through a window

and knock on the door. If no one cries out for help, they are supposed to move

on. If they see a body, they are supposed to log the address and move on.

 

< snip >

 

Fell broke the rules and ordered his men to bash open the door, launching a

series of events that would save a man's life and revitalize California Task

Force 5 from Orange County.

 

< snip >

 

.. . . 16 days after Hurricane Katrina smacked this aging community in the

face, an unconscious and emaciated man identified as Edgar Hollingsworth, 74,

was

rescued. The man is expected to survive.

 

< snip >

 

Medics from California Task Force 5, which had been searching in the same

neighborhood, were eventually able to get intravenous fluids through a vein

under

the man's clavicle in an intricate curbside medical procedure that may have

saved the man's life.

 

The man had been lying on the couch in his locked and sweltering home.

 

< snip >

 

They pulled him out of the house and laid him on the sidewalk. He looked as

if he weighed less than 80 pounds.

 

< snip >

 

" They were surprised at the hospital that anyone in his condition would still

be alive, " Czuleger said. " In 24 hours, he would have been dead.

 

" I think the young Army guy that found him saved his life. "

 

< snip >

 

Hollingsworth had been lying naked on his blue-green couch. It was unclear if

he had eaten or drunk anything for several days. He was not surrounded by

food or water containers. His house was still in disarray from the storm. A

chair

had landed on top of the kitchen table.

 

< snip >

 

A pit-bull puppy was also pulled from the house. It appeared to be healthy

and was transported to the hospital along with Edgar Hollingsworth.

 

Earlier, they had been frustrated when FEMA delayed their deployment for four

days, housing them in the Hyatt Regency in Dallas.

 

They were frustrated further when they were given the FEMA order that they

weren't allowed to force their way into houses to search them.

 

< snip >

 

 

Thank you, California National Guard. Too bad that half the Louisiana

National Guard -- and their equipment -- were halfway around the world fighting

George W Bush's illegitimate war, instead of saving the lives of people like

Edgar

Hollingsworth.

 

For shame, Mr Bush. For shame. RESIGN NOW ! ! !

 

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/14/12516/3649

 

 

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