On Wednesday 07 September 2005 23:06, RC Macaulay wrote:
> BlankJohn Coviello wrote..
>
> >Our preparedness and response was utterly inept.
> >No reason to snipe about who's to blame at this point, we need to focus on
> >ensuring nothing like this ever happens again.
>
> John,
>
> Anuone ever try to do business in the state of Louisana ?
>
> Richard
Our performance in Louisiana as a disaster response was not inept. It was
purposefull. We sacrificed on orders from high places people of color and
people of economic disadvantage. We pointed guns in the faces of the poor
while the rich were boarding transport in plain sight of and within easy
walking or wading distance of those poor. At the Morial Convention Center
where so many died, and maggot ridden corpses rotted in plain view of FEMA
officials that purposely ignored them, a bus convoy rolled up to luxury
hotels less than a block away to take away the rich guests that had never
missed a meal or a dark room thanks to emergency generators and caches of
food and fuel that were and continue to be openly kept and openly denied the
poor in their faces and in the face of a national emergency.
Just in case any of those poor would have had the guts to ask, like
Charles Dicken's 'Oliver Twist', for a simple ride to safety, there were
troops with machine guns all pointed in the direction of those poor. I am
sure that those troops had orders to shoot to kill them if they attempted.
This pattern was repeated over an over. It was only when Mr. Brown of FEMA
was cornered on national television in a scene that he obviousely never
dreamed of happening to him; and when this Mr. Brown was forced to look
at, to 'officially look at' --there is a difference as here there is NO
plausible deniability-- the poor, the black, the creole, and the
dead.......was any action ever taken. Shortly after this troops started to
arrive in large numbers. Their first mission, however was to not to feed
people, but to point guns at them (taking control of the situation and
validating an administratively sanctioned assessment of wild looting when
it was for food that the people looted). The next mission was to eliminate
the press from the area. This failed when CNN sued and was granted an
injunction enjoining the government from preventing access to the area
to the press. The third mission was 'damage control'. I mean 'political
damage to Republican and moneyed interests. This generated the visits by
seniour administration officials to the area for photo opportunities and
public relations propaganda. This did not really succeed, as the public
is smarter than the republicans think. They know who the republicans left
for dead. With reporters on the ground in the area, it will become a
politically dangerous tactic to let the dead rot to unidentifiability, then
claim that 'it would be better to bury them in a common grave as their
presence is now (suddenly) a health hazard. Common graves are where guilty
governments and crooked civilians bury their secrets so they can lie and
deny. The biggest lie will be a 'low body count'. That will 'lessen
political damage' and serve those who would blame the victims. The people of
New Orleans elected Democratic governance. The State of Louisiana did the
same. Notice the difference in how quick aid came to Mississippi?
Mississippi is republican!
What I have mentioned is not made up. It came to me freely over the news
media that was there for all to see and be appalled. Those republicans who
say: "O do not play the blame game!" are merely latter day Nazi war
criminals who spouted a similar mantra when they were tried at Nuremburg:
"We were just following orders.....!?".
WE WILL REMEMBER NEXT NOVEMBER, IN 2006 AND 2008 WHAT YOU
WEALTHY AND YOU REPUBLICANS DID IN NEW ORLEANS IN 2005!
We will be reminded every time we fill our gas tanks. The nations poor will
remember when they can't fill their propane and furnace oil tanks this winter
and watch their pipes freeze and thier elderly loved ones die in their
presence.
What are the first words of the 'Marseillaise'?
Le Papillon
