Links: Folks who've had the guts to raise their voices about NOLA

[Heidi]

Post 'em here.

- Kanye West departs from script, tells the truth at fundraising telethon: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Kayne-West-Bush-Black-People.mov

- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tells WWL radio that federal officials "don't have a clue." http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/9172420/ and http://www.atypical.net/mm/nagin.mp3

[jus_the_facts]

1. here's what the streets of New Orleans really look like.....

[Heidi]

2. Thank you.

I'm sick at my stomach. But thank you.

[Hugin]

18. Is there any doubt we're now a banana republic?

The have littles defending the have muches against the have nothings.

*sigh*

[Heidi]

19. Unfortunately, I've seen it coming for a while.

Hi, prag,

Here's a painting from a series I made shortly after the 2000 election, titled "Banana Republic." It's sad for me to think that my country has become this.

[Hugin]

20. BTW... Thanks for sharing your paintings with the lounge...

the past few days. They are unique and powerful
images.

Speaking through Art is a mark of true humanity.

Thanks.

:)

[Heidi]

21. Painting is the only thing that prevents me from

raging and/or crying this past week.

Thanks for your kind words, prag. :hug:

[bridgit]

3. from my friend Twyla on the gulf coast tx-la border...

http://wx.gulfcoastnews.com/katrina/status.aspx her son finally contacted her after he'd walked out of what was left of Biloxi, MS for miles until he found a bridge on which to locate a server that would carry his cell phone, she cried but he convinced her everything was OK & that he came out for water & food & will be going back...that was over 36hrs ago & she hasn't heard from him since...

[Heidi]

4. Thank you, my friend.

:hug:

[Heidi]

5. Kick. (nt)

[khashka]

6. I am so proud of Ray Nagin

Forget diplomacy, forget political expediency, forget everything except the truth.

Khash.

[Heidi]

8. Ida given him a big ol' wet kiss for his courage.

How ya' doing, Khash?

Heidi (dark horse ;) )

[khashka]

12. Aha! So you did see that post....

I'm doing much better than I was.

But this whole NOLA thing is rousing a righteous anger... I'm no longer sad about it, I'm fucking furious.

Khash.

[Heidi]

13. I've moved on to anger myself.

I'm hoping this will be the thing that brings Americans together and opens our collective eyes (or third-eye) about how our nation is falling to ruin. NOLA is horrible enough, but the underlying issues have been unfolding for a long time.

[LynneSin]

7. How about all of the Congressional Black Caucus?

Let's help expand their numbers in 2006!!

[Heidi]

9. Right on!

I'm collecting every possible link to quotes, videos, sound files, anything that shows courageous people standing up and telling the truth.

:hi: LynneSin!

[khashka]

15. Sometimes I think

they are the only ones with integrity and passion.

Khash.

[WilliamPitt]

10. Amazingly, a bunch of people from CNN

The woman with the interesting name I can't keep in my head, who rocked the morning show all yesterday with flint in her eyes.

That crotchety old Cafferty dude, who said in plain English that they gamed the relief to show up with Bush and said several times, "This is embarrassing."

I was like to faint.

[Heidi]

11. Cafferty videos: "This is embarrassing."

wmv: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The-Situation-%20Room-Cafferty-Bush-phot-op.wmv

QT: http://movies.crooksandliars.com/The-Situation-%20Room-Cafferty-Bush-phot-op.mov

[Heidi]

14. NOLA homeland security adviser: "This is a national disgrace."

From The Globe and Mail:

Officials in New Orleans said people there were becoming increasingly desperate and violent as they waited in vain for assistance.

The city's homeland security adviser, Terry Ebbert, slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is overseeing the massive rescue effort, saying its slow pace of relief and evacuation had created an explosive situation.

"This is a national emergency. This is a national disgrace," Mr. Ebbert said.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20050902.STORMMAIN02/TPStory

[khashka]

16. I think this might do it

I hate to even think of such horror in political terms, but I don't see how not to.

Over twenty countries and the UN have offered aid. And been refused. Hugo (Let's take him out) Chavez has offered to cut prices on oil to help. The mayor of Chicago is dumbfounded that the help his city offered has been refused.

There is no leadership. There is only incompetence and indifference. People are starting to see it. Shep on Hannity getting pissed and saying when Hannity said we should look at another perspective "This is the perspective! This is the only perspective you need!"

A few other quotes:

"This is a disgrace."
"This is an embarassment"

They said before Katrina hit that it would be a catastrophe... and we are seeing what that word actually means.

As Jerry Springer said bitterly "Is this our finest moment?"


Never mind everything else... BushCo should be put up against a wall and shot for this one. What price Homeland Security?

Khash.

[Heidi]

17. I don't want to see them put up against a wall and shot, because

I'd rather see justice played out according to the rules, with the perpetrators of such cruelty having to face their victims, one by one, in a court of law, domestic or international. What we see happening is an absolute outrage.

Further, the whole thing shows what a joke "Homeland Security" is. What's "secure" for the people of New Orleans, whose emergency management allocations were cut in order to fund Bush's war?

:loveya: Khash. Thanks for being a light in the Lounge, my friend.

[Heidi]

22. Times-Picayune blasts federal response

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- The Times-Picayune of New Orleans printed this editorial in its Sunday edition, criticizing the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina and calling on every FEMA official to be fired:

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/04/times.picayune.editorial/index.html

[KamaAina]

23. Aaron Broussard, Jeff. Parish president

has really been coming on strong this weekend. He's basically the Cajun version of Mayor Nagin. There's been talk for years about Aaron going for Governor. I think he should.

When in lived in N.O. years ago, Aaron was mayor of Kenner, the city west of N.O. where the airport is. He was the sole suburban official to actually -- get this! -- cooperate with New Orleans, at a time when the Jeff. Parish sheriff actually tried to block off a road that led into Metairie from the poor, black Hollygrove neighborhood in N.O. (then-N.O. mayor Sidney Barthelemy took a sledgehammer to the barrier from the N.O. side!)

[Left Is Write]

24. The video of his pleas left me in tears.