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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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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