News Analysis: How 9/11 Destroyed New Orleans

[Beam Me Up]

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=09-06-05&storyID=22240

Normally, in an international disaster, international relief organizations, trained and supplied to do this kind of work, would be sent in immediately. But we are not getting international help with this emergency. For one thing, we would need to ask for it. It may be bravado on the part of the president, or simply a matter of his being clueless, but the implication (in his speech today) that other countries are “welcome to send money ... but we can take care of this,” is a big problem.

Now that everything to do with emergencies in our country—from terrorism to earthquakes to immigration processing—is under one big umbrella called Homeland Security, one suspects that there is also a concern about foreigners getting into our country, and about what they might do.

Our president is afraid to relinquish control. So 9/11 has come to Louisiana and Mississippi, to tell our people that they must wait for help until we Americans can re-invent the wheel.

On Thursday we were for the first time seeing signs of movement, which was not soon enough for so very many people, sadly. The Red Cross was no longer saying “just send money,” and was taking names and numbers and calling back potential volunteers (the number to call is [phone], by the way).

In the meantime, however, we have lost that most valuable of resources: time. We cannot easily undo the mess that has happened. In some areas, like the Convention Center, things are apparently falling apart completely. There are, incredibly (they say on my TV) hospital evacuations that are taking place under sniper fire. No use crying over spilt levees, I guess (or at least this is not the moment), but to quote the movie, Animal House, our government seems to be saying to the people, “Hey, you screwed up. You trusted us!”

As the flood waters recede (at least where they can, in those places that weren’t built in a hole) so must our preconceptions about how together we are as a nation. Our expectations about the “good things in life”—the things that are really just extras—need adjustment as well.

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[Maple]

1. Isn't there any

national news there to show Americans what is going on?

Why is it that dozens of countries have sent help...professional, fully funded, state of the art help...and yet are still somehow 'invisible'??

[Beam Me Up]

2. I don't doubt it was sent. But was it allowed to fully operate?

Grasp the situation. From Tuesday before last onward the Federal government has INTENTIONALLY been impeding relief and rescue operations -- even by local authorities.

That is what is going on here.

It is madness and it is chaos and it is infuriating and only a small portion of the truth is getting out via the corporate owned media.

[Raster]

4. fact of the matter: bush* has blood on his hands. lots of it.

and he doesn't give a shit. we are at the mercy of a madman and his necon criminal cabal.

[iamjoy]

3. Maybe This Is The Terrorists True Plan

think about it, attack us every few years - it doesn't even have to a large scale attack, just enough to keep us scared, to keep terrorism a priority.

It diverts money away from other social programs (guns or butter) and other infrastructure and aid projects.

It makes our nation paranoid about security, so liberties are curtailed and we can't respond as well to other emergencies.

We'll destroy ourselves. We are destroying ourselves. Dubya is playing into terrorist hands.

[Beam Me Up]

5. I can't let that stand.

So, you don't know that al Quida was/is a CIA/ISI operation? You think * IS a president of the United States?

We don't share the same reality. The fascists already ARE in the W.H. and they use whatever terrorists there may actually be to operate their long range agenda which is the complete overthrough of our Republic.