re: What's the truth on Katrina/Blackwater, etc.

Convention Center first hand:

At first seemed like everyone was getting along. Looked like thousands waiting for a parade at first.

I actually had two young men help me with chairs to bring to some elderly.

Lots of neighborhoods mixed together. During the middle of the night, things got testy.
Gunfire broke out twice with fighting rolling out to the street where I was.

I saw the guy who was stabbed and bleeding out. Saw the person dead in the wheel chair.

Was threatened wth violence because I was escaping. So many people dependent on others and didn't know how to help themselves. They got really angry.