Young Mother in FEMA Trailer Yearns for Home

by Ana Maria

Through stinging, burning eyes I listened as WLOX-TV 13 filmed a conversation between a young single mother of two living in a FEMA trailer and John Eaves, Mississippi’s Democratic Gubernatorial Nominee. Rare is the interview with FEMA residents.

The Bush Administration had created a FEMA policy that deliberately prevented press and FEMA residents from talking with each other. Bush’s policy violated our First Amendment Freedom of the Press that our nation’s founders put into our U.S. Constitution.

A year ago, FEMA representative James Stark spoke with The Advocate, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, paper that had published the article on Bush's FEMA tearing up our Constitutional right to a free press. Stark said, “we shouldn't be trying to muzzle the press.” No joke. This isn’t communist Russia. For clarification, this is the United States of America. Got it?! We value freedom even if the occupants of the White House do not.

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