>>Last I heard, there are women, and even children being raped in the Super Dome - 20,000 people inside and not enough cops or supplies, and none of the promsised buses to evacuate them. Man, this seems worse than the relief the Tsunami hit countries received!
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>Makes one wonder... Cuba, the low-tech country, gets hit by hurricanes about five times more - most of them drop by there before proceeding north - and if any such thing happened there, I'm sure the Western media would be all over them. But can't remember any such story.

From here it looks like a shot at a helicopter and some looting was a damned useful event to claim "personal safety issues" as reason for delay in moving 'security' into place.

After all, reporters from every network/cable channel are there talking from every part of the city and you don't hear a lot of shots in the background and they aren't wearing flak jackets and they aren't reporting shooting.

I've seen only one frustrated/sapped NO cop say anything about rape in the Superdome or Convention Centre.