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Sun Sep-04-05 01:03 AM
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It's really bothered me seeing all these people shoved on buses |
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Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 01:26 AM by Horse with no Name
and making them leave their personal items behind, women being separated from their babies, men being separated from their families. Tonight...it finally crystalized in my mind why it bothered me so much. It reminded me of the trains in Auschwitz. Now I understand the aversion I have had to seeing these people loaded up like this. Anyone else get that same chill up their spine?
Edited for disclaimer: This isn't intended to minimize or trivialize the people who were sent to Auschwitz. Merely to draw a parallel on the way that the human beings in both situation were being handled on their way to their destinations.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:04 AM
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1. spreading ice to my brain |
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:06 AM
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2. i understand... They aren't being treated with humanity... They are second |
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They don't get to bring anything or they die
They can't save their pets or they die
They must leave other people to die or they die
They must leave their family or they die
Kinda like slave ships and slave auctions...
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:08 AM
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It should have been relief to watch them be loaded on buses...but it just gave me a bad feeling.:(
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:07 AM
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3. Babies seperated from their mothers? |
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:09 AM
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:09 AM
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First story was a mom who gave her baby to a total stranger who was on the bus leaving, knowing her baby might not be alive to wait until the next bus. Second was a mother was separated from her child in a rescue and they put her 2 year old on a bus without her.:( link for 2nd: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4621633&mesg_id=4621633
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:13 AM
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12. So how are they going to find each other again???? |
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I hate this so much. :cry: Damn fucking Bush. I hope he burns in hell!
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:14 AM
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They are busing people all over the US it seems now. These families are being displaced.:cry:
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:46 AM
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25. WWLTV just reported that a woman, who knows |
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her relative is also in the Astrodome, cannot find her because there are thousands of people there.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:09 AM
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5. This is even more disturbing. |
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People, trying to leave, are greeted like this! http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050903/480/txhou11509030220&g=events/ts/080304tropicalweatheHOW ABOUT YOU HELP PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR BUILDINGS INSTEAD?!?!?!?!?!
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:11 AM
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10. Clearly, the STUFF must take priority |
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People are, like, secondary.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:12 AM
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What the hell is this?! Iraq?! Are they 'running a roadblock!?' :mad:
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:13 AM
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13. I thought they were specifically told to point their weapons down! |
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:20 AM
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21. I was stopped like that once. |
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I was driving from the city of Detroit (where I lived and worked) to stay overnight with my family in the 'burbs during the Detroit riots of '67. I had three carbines pointed at me and had to produce ID, describe my destination and reason, and allow my car to be searched.
It's not fun to have a loaded carbine pointed at you. I didn't even get used to it in Nam in '69.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:09 AM
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7. Headline news blurb. "Hotel guests were allowed to cut in front of the |
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Edited on Sun Sep-04-05 01:09 AM by oasis
lines for the buses". :wtf:
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:13 AM
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14. Yeah, they were in hotels, but got to leave before |
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the Superdome evacuees who had to live through rapes, murders and suicides...
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:16 AM
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20. Who ever gave that order will have some explaining to do at the senate |
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:14 AM
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:14 AM
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17. Exactly, THIS IS ALL ABOUT CLASS AND OR RACE |
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:10 AM
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9. That's what I thought too... |
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Initially the NG was asking "Are you together?" and was keeping families together... but now...
It's disgusting how these people are being treated.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:15 AM
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18. Yeah, I was thinking of cattle cars and internment camps. n/t |
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:21 AM
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22. On Houston TV tonight |
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On Houston TV tonight they had three little children with no parents at a shelter here. They had another couple looking all over town for a 4 year old child.
This is really sick.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:22 AM
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23. and they were all searched like they were terrorists |
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That's what took so long to get them out of there. They took away anything that looked new according to a WWL report I saw, concluding that new stuff had to be looted stuff.
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Sun Sep-04-05 01:27 AM
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...who was made to give up his little dog. "Snowball! Snowball!" he screamed over and over. Then he cried so hard he vomited. No one could tell him what would happen to his dog.
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