Can we say genocide? Can we say Nazi now?
40,000 dead, Randi Rhodes said on the radio, mass graves, bodies shovelled in, no dental records to identify, no autopsies, no body count.
They got away with it in Croatia didn't they? Why not on home turf?
The genocide victims, 'young black men' about whom the press was spreading the infamous black blood libel which far too many white Americans are still ready to believe, to give credibility - child rape rampages, savagery against the weak - were, as anyone would expect, running around trying to save everybody, she says. And succeeded a bit. The police just mowed them down in cold blood. A truck full of the rescued was stopped and the armed agents of the state just dragged them out and shot them. As 'marauders.' Like in Haiti.
What's that, anyway, to create, as the guy said, the biggest slush fund of all time?
People back in their homes are now being driven out of NO. Threatened. Frightened with absurd rumours of crazed predatory rapists. The clean up operation, cleaning up humanity, driving the remainder out of their uninsured homes, off their uninsured property. So they can burn down the city, destroy all the people's assets, extort taxes to build it up gorgeously, and sell it wholesale to themselves.
That shocking 'liberal' supreme court decision about imminent domain exercised for commmerical development was not for nothing.
Pentagon: USS Bataan Waited Days For Orders to Help Out- democracynow
Criticism of the federal government's response is also coming from some unlikely sources including the Pentagon. Lt. Commander Sean Kelly, a Pentagon spokesman for Northern Command, revealed on the BBC that NorthCom was prepared to send in search and rescue helicopters from the USS Bataan almost immediately after the hurricane hit. He said, "We had things ready. The only caveat is: we have to wait until the president authorizes us to do so." That authorization didn't happen for days even though the ship was docked just outside New Orleans. On board the ship had doctors, hospital beds, food and the ability to make up to 100,000 gallons of water a day.
U.S. Rejected Cuban Offer of 1,100 Doctors
The Cuban government has also announced that the U.S. State Department rebuffed its offer of aid. Last Tuesday Cuba offered to send 1100 doctors to assist in the crisis. Cuba said the doctors could have been on the ground by last Wednesday.
Rep. Lewis: Marshall-type Plan Needed For New Orleans
Congressman John Lewis is calling on the Bush administration to launch a massive Marshall-type plan to rebuild New Orleans and urban America as a whole. He said, "By next year we'll have spent $400 billion to $500 billion in Afghanistan and Iraq. That money could be used to help rebuild the lives of people. If we fail to act as a nation, I don't think history will be kind to us."
Look at those numbers. Recall that Carlyle Corporation was worth about a billion on 9/11.
THERE IS A PLAN.
