[lit-ideas] Re: Essay on New Orleans
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 13:04:45 EDT
On my TV a crisp and fresh, cool, hydrated, and fed Bush is hugging and
gingerly kissing residents in a destroyed neighborhood in Mississippi. Great
photo-op.
Julie Krueger
too sick to eat
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Everyone must watch TV today. You must see the video broadcasts from New
Orleans.
This morning, NBC journalists at the Superdome said "There is no authority
here. No one.
Nobody from FEMA, the state, the government. Nobody."
The government's best response so far: Shoot to kill.
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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> Infants are dying. People in the Convention Center have not had water
for 5
> days. There are piles of human feces 2 feet tall on stairways. Mothers
are
> giving birth in the locker rooms. With no electricity, no water. Elderly
> are dying because their oxygen tanks have run out and concentrators
require
> electricity. Military police are going in with M16s "locked and loaded"
and
> given permission/orders to shoot to kill. Part of the city is burning
down,
> whatever is left to burn. Small children, yes, small children, have been
raped
> in the convention center. I am beside myself with fury as I read and
watch
> the news. I can't remember ever being this angry about anything. America
> has the most technologically sophisticated military in the world. We can
bomb
> Baghdad to smithereens with "smart" bombs. We can "access" Mars and the
> moon. But we can't get water to Louisiana?!?! What in the world
happened to
> helicopters? They can go anywhere. They flew into Viet Nam, for God's
sake.
> Why weren't they dropping massive loads of cases water the first day??
They
> managed to do food drops in Afghanistan -- you're going to tell me
Louisiana
> is more dangerous than Afghanistan was when the war was raging with bombs
and
> all kinds of weaponry?? Why aren't there massive trucks parked on the
dry
> parts of the highway, pumping water into large barrels? It's a crime, a
sin,
> an obscenity. And Bush's cronies & buddies are going to get rich off of
the
> tragedy. If nothing else comes of this, I pray that the eyes of even the
> most die-hard of republicans will be opened by it. One reporter on
Koppel last
> night said he was surveying the situation and chatting with another
reporter
> on the scene. He found himself saying "when we get back to the
States.....".
>
> Julie Krueger
>
>
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> Orleans Date: 9/2/05 10:44:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time From:
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> Friday, September 2, 2005, 2:45:35 AM, Robert Paul wrote:
>
>>> Fats Domino is missing, and another musician's at the Dome, hoping to
>>> get a bus out...
>
> RP> Fats has been found.
>
> thank you, Robert. I'd read an account that suggested he was missing
> but probably that was because he'd left his house to go to the Dome.
>
>
> Judy
>
>
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