[lit-ideas] One Thing I Refused to Believe
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:41:14 -0400
They may have been too much of 'big picture' people--were
probably task-oriented and not able to see or believe that what
they were doing was a blessing--that by helping even one or two here
or there when there were so many around who needed help--was still
important.
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Hanging around with non-citizens, I sometimes hear the remark, "If
you want to find out what's happening in the US, you have to call
overseas."
Paranoia I thought. A foreigner's projection of their own mistrust
of the government onto the US.
Well not quite.
There were two Brazilians trapped in the Superdome. On Tuesday, one,
who had a cell phone, managed to get a signal and called her mother
in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She was in despair, and in the one minute
before her cell cut off, she managed to explain that she thought she
was going to die, there was no water, people were killing each other
inside the dome, the police had ran away...
That was Tuesday. The mother called Global TV in Brazil, who
deployed a crew to NO, the Brazilian Consulate got involved, and the
media there began reporting on the conditions late Tuesday, early
Wednesday.
The US media didn't start reporting on the killings inside the dome
until Thursday. I know because I was waiting for the news item to
get picked up here. Probably by Thursday, it was impossible to cover
up the story, the flood diaspora had become too widespread.
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