Thursday, June 6, 2013

They Should Be Yelled At

From The LVRJ: The National Park Service got taken to the woodshed on Thursday by members of Congress infuriated after hearing that red tape at Lake Mead prevented a family from recovering the body of a slain Las Vegas cabdriver for almost a year.
Struggling to keep her composure, Jodi Goldberg told lawmakers that the volunteer Red Rock Search and Rescue team conducted nearly 50 searches over 200 square miles of the Southern Nevada outback for her missing brother, Keith, but was not allowed onto the Lake Mead National Recreation Area until it obtained $1 million in liability insurance.
“I don’t think I need to explain how gut-wrenching it was to know that all that stood between my family and peace of mind was a $1 million insurance policy that Red Rock couldn’t afford because they are a nonprofit organization,” Jodi Goldberg told the House public lands subcommittee.
In February, 13 months after Keith Goldberg, 54, had gone missing, and nine months after searchers applied for a park permit, affordable insurance was found and the family had to raise money to buy it.
When the search and rescue team finally deployed to the park on April 14, Goldberg’s remains were found in less than two hours. To this day, the team continues to look for further remains.
“Families of missing loved ones go through so much pain and despair,” Jodi Goldberg said at the witness table, her husband and her other brother seated behind her. “Keith and our family are victims, not only of a terrible crime but of bureaucratic roadblocks that impeded search efforts and prolonged our pain and suffering.”  http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/government/park-service-ripped-over-red-tape-lake-mead-search
The fed people who run Lake Mead are a bunch of out of control power hungry tyrants who care more bureaucracy than saving lives or recovering victims.
It makes you wonder if there have been cases where bureaucracy has trumped life saving measures and people have died at Lake Mead because the petty little tyrants who run the place.

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