I thought I'd seen the worst. Now I know I have.

[Redstone]

As horrible as I felt on 9-11 and the days after; no matter the virulent despair that seized me when the invasion of Iraq began; not even counting the hideous things I saw in Southeast Asia in the early 1970s; THIS is, for me, the tipping point; the point beyond which I am not certain I can take any more. I genuinely fear for my sanity.

I simply cannot comprehend the enormity of evil in the hearts of the men who could be capable of killing American citizens for a public-relations stunt such as the disgraceful one we witnessed today.

Part of my anger is in asking how stupid these cynical bastards think we all are. Like magic, a magnificent convoy of THOUSANDS of trucks appears on Fox News cameras. If this convoy was rolling today, at least half of it was in place yesterday. But it didn't roll yesterday, did it? It waited until it could serve as the cynical prelude to the arrival of the Savior Bush, descending from the clouds like God Almighty, striding through the wreckage to anoint himself the Savior Of New Orleans.

I'm going to go outside now so I can punch something without waking up my wife and kids.

My friends, countrymen, and fellow DUers: We have been granted a vision of pure, unalloyed Evil. There is no room for hyperbole now, and we owe an apology to the ones we dismissed as "tinfoil hatters" in the past.

Bush and his crowd are every bit as depraved and inhuman as we've been told they were.

God help America. My country, for which I damn near died a long time ago (though for all the wrong reasons), is no more.

Redstone

Edited for misspellings produced by blinding anger.

[Melodybe]

1. My heart screamed every time I saw black people today

I have never felt more disgusted and ashamed as I did today.

I yelled "racist pigs" at my tv all day.

I don't know where to begin, I am so angry, so just stay strong.

[Lifelong Protester]

2. I know what you mean

I lived through the cuban missile crisis in a bomb shelter. I lived through the assassination of a president, a civil rights leader, a progressive presidential candidate, riots in the streets of our major cities, the war in southeast asia, the lies, corruption, and finally resignation of a president, oil embargoes, hostages in Iran, and then 9/11....

And this is by far the thing that has left me with the least hope and the most fear for the decline of our country.

[OKDem08]

5. I am totally disgusted

and distraught by this administration's handling of this disaster. Hearing add'l racist comments by my mom has totally taken me over the edge! I will no longer be tacit at bush's incompetence and corruption. I may lose my job. I may lose my family. I don't care any more.

[Redstone]

6. It's goddamned sad, isn't it? Through all those things that you and I

both experienced, we would have thought that we'd seen the worst.

But nothing is as bad at this. The cluelessness, the indecision, the dithering, all things we thought were just incompetence on the part of government bureaucrats.

But we were wrong. It was all just buildup for a photo-op.

Excuse me, but I have to go vomit again.

Redstone

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

16. I lived through everything from the Cuban missile crisis to 9-11-01.

I keep wondering when will this nightmare that began on December 12, 2000 ever end?

I might have the date of the selection of GWB wrong, please excuse me, I've had a few drinks tonight.

I want my country back. I want humanity back.

One week ago tonight as I was watching the weather forecast on the local NBC channel here in Chicago, I had a very bad feeling about the storm that was brewing 1,000 miles away from where I've lived my entire life.

I knew one week ago that the Gulf Coast of the United States was being threatened by a monster storm. I wasn't sure exactly where it would make landfall, but it sure looked to me that it had New Orleans or possibly the coasts of Mississippi and Alabama in its' sight.

I'm a 51 year old white woman that lives in a suburb of the City of Chicago and I figured this out.

I've been listening to arseholes, especially "Baghad Bob" Mike Brown, our supposed Director of Homeland Security Mike Chertoff and then the biggest arsehole of them all today, GWB or as I prefer to call him the 21st century Nero, the sniveling yellow coward that he is and always has been; make excuses why there was no planning in place to make sure that American citizens who pay taxes and depend on the protection of their government and deserve this protection when they are placed in harms way and yet the bare minimum was done.

I don't blame the Mayor of New Orleans or the Governor of Louisiana for this total clusterf*ck, I blame "Nero" and the rest of his evil cabal.

There was a story tonight on our local news about how Richard M. Daley, the Mayor of the City of Chicago, which is probably the 4th largest city in the US, offered men and equipment to FEMA to help out in this disaster.

Guess what "Lil Richie" was told by his friends in FEMA, send us one (1) tanker truck. Excuse me, but how would one tanker truck help out in a disaster of this size?

If this doesn't prove that the people in charge right now, don't give a FFF about the poor and disadvantaged in this country, what does?

BTW, FFF means flying fiddler's fuck.

[txindy]

3. It was all staged. A pure ploy for propaganda purposes.

KKKarl has been busy. He kept the Red Cross out, too, and made the need greater so that the emotional impact of seeing that convoy arriving would be heightened.

Too bad for KKKarl and his pet monkey, Junior, that the emotion most Americans experienced at those pictures was pure fury. At them.

Is it election time, yet? When is Fitzgerald handing down those indictments? We need some relief from evil here.

[wellstone_democrat]

4. my husband wept

I saw the travesty when it occurred and told him about it this evening. With all that was on then I don't think it really penetrated. I walked in the living room a while ago and they were showing it on some show---overhead shots of dramatic train of trucks through the water and I realized he was crying and he simply said: "how many died while those were being arranged for effect?"

He's a good man, a good hearted man and I've seen him cry before but I realized that for us as well, something broke today that will never be fixed.

[nonconformist]

8. Mine has too

And that takes a LOT.

[Redstone]

13. Me, too. My parents thought there was something wrong with me,

because I flat stopped crying when I was three years old.

But I wept today. This is truly the end of my America. I fought and was wounded in combat three times for my country, and my country is no more. It's been siezed by the soulless, and it's just...gone.

Redstone

[nonconformist]

7. I feel the same.

I am completely in SHOCK. I'm more ANGRY than I think I've ever been in my LIFE. My heart is BREAKING. I'm hardly sleeping or eating. This is all just so utterly unreal.

[Horse with no Name]

9. And they locked up the Superdome tonight

posted armed guards and rolled out of town tonight.
:(
I just can't see how HARD it is to get those people out of that hell on earth.
It's like some fucking kind of experiment to see how far they can push the human psyche before they break.
It's just not right.:cry:

[Eloriel]

10. No, no, this is much more than a publicity stunt, IMO

Otherwise, why are they STILL locking people in the conv center?

ATTN DU RESEARCHERS -- LIHOP/MIHOP evidence stacking up
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4588088&mesg_id=4588088

[Just Me]

11. I have felt like I could lose it, from time to time. You know that.

Witness of so much abuse and tragedy, the burden of knowledge feels like a damned curse. But, I love people so much that, there is no room for giving up on the light and potential of humanity,...it's just not within my realm.

America is still alive, in you and me and billions of people within and outside this country. She is being oppressed. The whole world sees it.

Trust. Trust in humanity.

[DBoon]

12. A military parade in a banana republic

as George Will (George Will!) described the second inauguration of Bush.

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. Yes it is evil we are seeing

The only good thing about this is that the entire nation sees it too. Even Matt Lauer today said the pictures from NO were like something you expected to see in Somalia, not in the US.

The emperor is wearing no clothes.

[TahitiNut]

15. Agreed, word for word, 100%, bro!

There is no hole deep enough to bury these depraved, arrogant bastards. (I wonder how much it'd cost to buy Devil's Island -- and completely remove all creature comforts of any kind.)