Comments on: Thousands Flee Rising Waters In Iowa, Ill.

Breaking Levees Flood Des Moines, Western Ill.; Streets In Cedar Rapids May Be Underwater For Two Weeks

[demwatcher]

We need to stop pouring money into that pit New Orleans and send it to Iowa where it will be used for what is intended for.

[cgb312]

Hey MyOpinion1, I bet you also won''t hear about sheriffs having their officers standing on the the edge of town holding people at gunpoint so they can''t leave, or resources arriving to help slower than in Thailand or Burma, halfway around the world. People could have walked out of there and gotten away if they weren''t contained forcibly.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/racist-police-blocked-bridge-and-forced-evacuees-back-at-gunpoint-506371.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4855611
and from this very news site:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/12/15/60minutes/main1129440.shtml

You can blame the local and state government as well, but the facts are the facts, and your thinly veiled racist comments won''t change the fact that racism trapped the people in that city and what could at best be called callousness by our federal government left them there.