![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sep. 1st, 2005 02:20 amThe poorest 20% (you can argue with the number -- 10%? 18%? no one knows) of the city was left behind to drown. This was the plan. Forget the sanctimonious bullshit about the bullheaded people who wouldn't leave. The evacuation plan was strictly laissez-faire. It depended on privately owned vehicles, and on having ready cash to fund an evacuation. The planners knew full well that the poor, who in new orleans are overwhelmingly black, wouldn't be able to get out. The resources -- meaning, the political will -- weren't there to get them out.
Also if you've read Blindness, this will sound creepily evocative
Gunmen are roaming the streets.
(NB: One thing is certain: if they are looting, they are probably black! If they were white, they would probably be Steven Siegal in: VIGILANTE DEFENDER, Rated R for Ponytail)
The best part is, according to the Mayor, New Orleans flooded post facto largely because the helicopters with that were supposed to salvage the 17th street canal levee never arrived to deliver their sandbag cargo on account of "too many frickin' chiefs calling the shots."
Mayor Nagin in a telephone interview with WDSU:
Because of the failure to sandbag the levee as agreed, it will take at least an additional 4 weeks before New Orleans is drained.
That's four more weeks of interrupted oil production. That ought to drive up the prices even higher. I'm just sayin'.
He also said: "we're TRYING to reach the White House"
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Oh, right, I forgot, never mind. This is the White House that, as Keith Olbermann said on Monday, "three months ago, the federal government cut the budget of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project by 70 percent, and eliminated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study to determine how to protect the New Orleans area from a category 5." Good thing it turned out to be a category 4, then! It's totally fine, it's a festive HURRAYcane!
I forgot. This is THIS White House.
Relatedly, does anyone else wonder how Keith Olbermann hasn't been Dan Rathered yet?
Seriously, though, let's talk about the manipulation of oil prices.
Also, I find it interesting that while the Nat'l Guard is in Iraq, relief management is being handled by NorthCom, the military arm of Homeland Security, designamed for domestic deployment, and under command of the Pentagon. This is the model of martial law enforcement that features a professional mercenary institution, rather than Your Friends and Neighbours the National Guard, which is more of a localized, community model. And just to kick up the festivities one extra notch, the recently restwhile First Commander (how Orwell/Kim Jong Il does THAT sound?) of NorthCom was the 9/11 NORAD head, General Ralph Eberhart, y'know, the person who probably knows some stuff we don't about the how come of the planes not being intercepted on time on na-na-la-la. I am not making conjectures here, but I think this is circumstantially indicative of where Creepy NorthCom maps.
LIHOP II, Electric Boogaloo?
I just keep thinking, "watch this drive," although Fiddle-Dee-Dee works better for the South, I suppose.
Fiddle: Rome = Guitar: ...well, do the SAT thing. At least Nero supposedly knew how to play the fiddle. And it's totally not like that AT ALL, because Rome BURNED and New Orleans FLOODED, you see, water:fire like papre:rock, what are you suggesting here,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
anthrochica, are you RETARDED, are you binging on historical analogy? 'Sokay, I will hold your hair later.
Any similarities between the dead of the past and the dead of the present are purely coincidental. Any claims to the contrary and we will get litigious on History's ass, sue it for everything it's got, that capital H and all.
Also if you've read Blindness, this will sound creepily evocative
Gunmen are roaming the streets.
(NB: One thing is certain: if they are looting, they are probably black! If they were white, they would probably be Steven Siegal in: VIGILANTE DEFENDER, Rated R for Ponytail)
The best part is, according to the Mayor, New Orleans flooded post facto largely because the helicopters with that were supposed to salvage the 17th street canal levee never arrived to deliver their sandbag cargo on account of "too many frickin' chiefs calling the shots."
Mayor Nagin in a telephone interview with WDSU:
Because of the failure to sandbag the levee as agreed, it will take at least an additional 4 weeks before New Orleans is drained.
That's four more weeks of interrupted oil production. That ought to drive up the prices even higher. I'm just sayin'.
He also said: "we're TRYING to reach the White House"
??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
Oh, right, I forgot, never mind. This is the White House that, as Keith Olbermann said on Monday, "three months ago, the federal government cut the budget of the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project by 70 percent, and eliminated the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study to determine how to protect the New Orleans area from a category 5." Good thing it turned out to be a category 4, then! It's totally fine, it's a festive HURRAYcane!
I forgot. This is THIS White House.
Relatedly, does anyone else wonder how Keith Olbermann hasn't been Dan Rathered yet?
Seriously, though, let's talk about the manipulation of oil prices.
Also, I find it interesting that while the Nat'l Guard is in Iraq, relief management is being handled by NorthCom, the military arm of Homeland Security, designamed for domestic deployment, and under command of the Pentagon. This is the model of martial law enforcement that features a professional mercenary institution, rather than Your Friends and Neighbours the National Guard, which is more of a localized, community model. And just to kick up the festivities one extra notch, the recently restwhile First Commander (how Orwell/Kim Jong Il does THAT sound?) of NorthCom was the 9/11 NORAD head, General Ralph Eberhart, y'know, the person who probably knows some stuff we don't about the how come of the planes not being intercepted on time on na-na-la-la. I am not making conjectures here, but I think this is circumstantially indicative of where Creepy NorthCom maps.
LIHOP II, Electric Boogaloo?
I just keep thinking, "watch this drive," although Fiddle-Dee-Dee works better for the South, I suppose.
Fiddle: Rome = Guitar: ...well, do the SAT thing. At least Nero supposedly knew how to play the fiddle. And it's totally not like that AT ALL, because Rome BURNED and New Orleans FLOODED, you see, water:fire like papre:rock, what are you suggesting here,
anthrochica, are you RETARDED, are you binging on historical analogy? 'Sokay, I will hold your hair later.Any similarities between the dead of the past and the dead of the present are purely coincidental. Any claims to the contrary and we will get litigious on History's ass, sue it for everything it's got, that capital H and all.
