As we view the NOLA Mayoral race, Remember these wacko liberal posts on Katrina
Here are a few paragraphs written by some extremist wacko.
It would be funny if it were not so disturbing at the same time.
The Katrina holocaust was calculated. This is why assistance–ambulances, trucks of water and other essential supplies were turned away, why no amphibious military vehicles or boats rescued people from the Superdome, which backs right up to the water, why 5 days late the Federal ‘rescue’ is guns, tanks and Martial Law. In the context of the US history’s non-stop genocidal crimes, subjecting 70% of the population to terror after first evacuating property-owners, is just business as usual. On the Sunday of “mandatory” evacuation, the people who left were rich enough and well enough to get out– minimally, they could get to a car. The greyhound bus terminal and Amtrak had shut down on Saturday night, so everybody without wheels was forced to stay. The people who were directed to the Superdome were treated like criminals and not allowed to leave after the hurricane passed. Right now they are basically prisoners en route to the Astrodome, another “prison”, in another state, Texas.
What’s different this time is that the entire world is seeing the racist & hypocritical nature of this ‘democratic beacon that invades other countries under the pretext of exporting democracy while treating the oppressed in the “homeland” with fascistic brutality. People who have never seen and thus never understood the barbaric nature of this system are shocked –because with class & race privilege such treatment by the state is ‘foreign’, ‘not american’. Which is true because american, as Toni Morrison explained [in “Whiteness & the Literary Imagination: Playing in the Dark”] has always been code for white. A Spanish politician tourist & spouse trapped in the Dome said to the camera –[some reporters & cameramen after days in the midst of the horror seem genuinely angry willing to go out on a limb more than usual by airing such comments]–this is genocide imprisoning tens of thousands of people without food, water, sanitation, medical care… Shortly after the couple was removed by a small army of troops as thousands of mostly Black, all very poor people, barely clinging to life without food or water for days,watched in despair and anger.
New Orleans is part of the US agenda which frames and conditions every single aspect of life everywhere now–part of a fascist war of terror against all who impede or resist their goal of global dictatorship. The barbaric degradation and dehumanization, orchestrated by the “Dept. of Homeland Security”, is designed to crush the dignity, courage, spirit and survival of the most oppressed.
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May 21st, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Well, I see that Mayor Ray Nagin’s incompetency has been rewarded by the voters of New Orleans. Not that I think Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu would necessarily be any better at the job. It seems that the Landrieu family has been in charge down there
for a very long time, and yet New Orleans has always been one of the most corrupt and crime-ridden cities around.
Douglas Brinkley has a new book out on Katrina, titled “The Great Deluge”:
From Publishers Weekly
“Historian Brinkley (Tour of Duty, etc.) opens his detailed examination of the awful events that took place on the Gulf Coast late last summer by describing how a New Orleans animal shelter began evacuating its charges at the first notice of the impending storm. The Louisiana SPCA, Brinkley none too coyly points out, was better prepared for Katrina than the city of New Orleans. It’s groups like the SPCA, as well as compassionate citizens who used their own resources to help others, whom Brinkley hails as heroes in his heavy, powerful account”and, unsurprisingly, authorities like Mayor Ray Nagin, Gov. Kathleen Blanco and former FEMA director Michael C. Brown whom he lambastes most fiercely. The book covers August 27 through September 3, 2005, and uses multiple narrative threads, an effect that is disorienting but appropriate for a book chronicling the helter-skelter environment of much of New Orleans once the storm had passed, the levees had been breached, and the city was awash in “toxic gumbo.” Naturally outraged at the damage wrought by the storm and worsened by the ill-prepared authorities, Brinkley, a New Orleans resident, is generally levelheaded, even when reporting on Brown’s shallow e-mails to friends while “the trapped were dying” or recounting heretofore unreported atrocities, such as looters defecating on property as a mark of empowerment.”