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Sep. 1st, 2005 10:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lapsedmodernistReporters begin to fear for their lives...doesn't this read like a story out of Baghdad?
"There was no crowd control," Russell said. "People were swarming. It was a near riot situation. The authorities have got to get some military down here to get control of the situation."
Well, actually...
Iraq-tested soldiers in New Orleans with shoot to kill orders
Aaron Brown just said 50-60% of police deserted, turning in their badges, saying they couldn't protect themselves, much less anyone else.
I know that on the tinfoil scale, with 1 being Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone and 10 being 9/11 MIHOP I am about a 7, but does anyone else think that in addition to this being handled tragically, atrociously and ttlly in character for this Ademonistration, there are some large, overarching ulterior motives, like oil price manipulation or a performance to convince Americans that federal agencies should be privatized or a setup to make Americans "choose"/"ask for" domestic martial law as precedent, like an auspicious flooding of the Reighstag?
Or is it really just catastrophic incompetence that has made the quantitative leap to evil?
"There was no crowd control," Russell said. "People were swarming. It was a near riot situation. The authorities have got to get some military down here to get control of the situation."
Well, actually...
Iraq-tested soldiers in New Orleans with shoot to kill orders
Aaron Brown just said 50-60% of police deserted, turning in their badges, saying they couldn't protect themselves, much less anyone else.
I know that on the tinfoil scale, with 1 being Lee Harvey Oswald Acted Alone and 10 being 9/11 MIHOP I am about a 7, but does anyone else think that in addition to this being handled tragically, atrociously and ttlly in character for this Ademonistration, there are some large, overarching ulterior motives, like oil price manipulation or a performance to convince Americans that federal agencies should be privatized or a setup to make Americans "choose"/"ask for" domestic martial law as precedent, like an auspicious flooding of the Reighstag?
Or is it really just catastrophic incompetence that has made the quantitative leap to evil?
