Response Priorities to Katrina Victims?

The love of my life, Ann Coulter, has published this incredible story about relief workers in New Orleans:

Firefighters: We Were Misused In Katrina Rescue Efforts
Firefighters Told Their Job Would Be To Hand Out Flyers

POSTED: 6:51 pm CDT September 7, 2005
UPDATED: 9:04 am CDT September 8, 2005

CHICAGO -- When a group of Indiana firefighters traveled to the Gulf Coast to help in the rescue efforts in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, they thought their skills in rescuing people would be put to use.

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"Our job was to advertise a phone number for FEMA," said Portage Assistant Fire Chief Bill Lundy. "We were going to be given shirts and hats with a phone number on it and flyers, and sent to shelters, and we were going to pass out flyers."

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Lundy and Calhoun's first task was an eight-hour course on sexual harassment and equal opportunity employment procedures, Rogers reported. Neither firefighter would be involved in technical rescues of trapped people or any of their other specialties.

"We're trained in tactical medicine," Lundy said. "We weren't being used for that. We were being used to hand out flyers."

TrekMedic's Musings:

This really bothers me because several of my friends and co-workers have been in Louisiana and several more are currently deployed to Texas for Rita relief work.

This is just another example of liberalism gone haywire. And I bet I can get a decent anti-ACLU rant out of it, too!