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Laura PourMeADrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:41 AM
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Our Country is guilty of Genocide
Pure and simple. This is the saddest day in our history. People begging for a drop of water.
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 09:51 AM
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1. I agree with you.
:grr:
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Pachamama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:14 PM
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2. Tens of Tousands will be dead within the next 24-72 hrs if they do nothing
The next 24-72 hours are the most critical to save those lives and they are more concerned about looters? The so-called "leader" of the free world isn't even going there until tommorrow, almost 5 days after the disaster and he's flying over it in his helicoptor?

This is genocide folks....pay close attention...its lots of black poor people and they don't care....And next time they tell you that we are at risk of a terrorist attack and that because of them your safer....don't believe it...if they can't even get rescue operations into New Orleans, how could they get FEMA and Rescue operations into say New York or San Francisco if a nuclear bomb or chemical weapon was used?

I am so sick I can barely type.... :puke: :grr: :puke: :grr:
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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:16 PM
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3. Yep, he can't complain that Saddam is the only leader
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 01:17 PM by calipendence
that's committed genocide on his own people any more!
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gypsy11 Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:16 PM
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4. Oh yes
No doubt about it.
bush et el are inhuman monsters.
all they do is kill. :mad:
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foo_bar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:18 PM
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5. the Trail of Tears wasn't a piece of cake neither
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beetbox Donating Member (428 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:21 PM
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6. You are right on the mark
Edited on Thu Sep-01-05 01:22 PM by beetbox
This is an out and out showcase for the racist nature of this country. It's not so easy to notice when people of color are dying slow motion deaths due to systematic and institutionalized racism. But this disaster just totally highlights and magnifies the nature of the systematic brutality that is visited upon colored people every day in this country.

This is important as it is historically and at present a rationalization for invading and slaughtering people around the world.

Heart of Darkness

But some places would be left outside the levee because corps engineers have determined it would cost too much to build the barrier around them. Cocodrie is out of luck, as are half of the homes and businesses along Bayou du Large. So is Isle de Jean Charles.

"The politicians all know about this, but it hasn't done us much good. Not much money comes from this place," said lifelong resident Lonney Dardar, 78. "But just leaving it open for a hurricane, it's not what God would do for his people. This island would be drowned."

As coastal erosion, subsidence and sea-level rise bring higher waters farther inland each year, all of south Louisiana will become ever more dependent on the federal government for more spending for protection that is less and less effective. At some point, local officials fear, the cost-benefit analysis can turn against anyone.

The corps could theoretically build a 30-foot-high wall that encloses all of south Louisiana, shielding it from the highest imaginable hurricane storm surges. But levee building is not just an engineering feat, it's a political process. Congress would never approve such a gigantic project: It would cost tens of billions of dollars, cause ecological problems and drive maintenance costs into the stratosphere. So the agency has to choose how much levee protection to offer and whom it can protect.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf?/washingaway/writtenoff_2.html
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:23 PM
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7. Yes, you're so right
And we know this for sure because other countries have offered help and Bush hasn't gone on their offers. Canada and Chavez have both offered aide. Damn bastard!
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sundog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:24 PM
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8. nothing short of genocide
again
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Blue_In_AK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:27 PM
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9. Exactly...
I was just commenting to my husband that we always hear about how aid that's sent to poor countries in Africa or wherever can't get through because of their governments. Now, it's OUR government that won't let the aid through. I'm just sick. This is absolutely war on the poor black people of New Orleans, and I can't stand it.
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Minstrel Boy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 01:28 PM
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10. BUSH KILLED HIS OWN PEOPLE
Though he doesn't think of them that way.
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beetbox Donating Member (428 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:18 PM
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11. kick
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MojoXN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 07:19 PM
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12. No, our GOVERNMENT is guilty of genocide.
Keep the difference in mind.

MojoXN
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ObaMania Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:13 PM
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13. Correction.. it's our government, not our country. n/t
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