"I'm Tired of Being Diplomatic"

St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack Stephens, interviewed on WDSU-TV, continued the Parish's assault on state and, particularly Federal, authorities, for their lack of response to the parish's near-demolition by Katrina. Com;plaining that his force's entire supply of tactical equipment had been wiped out by the storm, Stephens recounted examples of sigtnificant assistance to his parish being vetoed by a FEMA bureaucrats. An example of his renunciation of diplomacy: "I'm gonna find out the name of that son-of-a-bitch, and I'm gonna make him famous."