A MUST Read: It’s Not Just NEW ORLEANS . . .

(excellent new commentary at 911Truth.org)

It’s Not Just New Orleans That Needs Rebuilding
By Bryan Sacks


So now, horribly, we know what it takes to stir disgust and outrage directed at the federal government, in the hearts of the corporate press corps. It takes a catastrophe of biblical proportions unfolding right before their eyes, right here in America, right in front of their cameras and camera crews, amid the stench of rotting corpses and a heaving mass of literally thousands of sick and dying.

Katrina’s aftermath has exposed the ‘most powerful country in the world’ as literally powerless to address the most basic needs of the most highly visible suffering people on the planet. This monstrous failure could literally be paradigm-shifting in its effect on the public consciousness.

The power of this story is evident in the accounts from on-location cable correspondents, who usually have no difficulty avoiding serious criticism of the powerful in any situation. But in New Orleans yesterday, several of them could not.

Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith, for instance, veered wildly off script while reporting from the watery grave New Orleans has become. It took only a few hours holed up in the Superdome to provoke outrage in both of them—not only at the inhuman conditions inside the Louisiana Superdome, where the dead lay rotting next to the living, but that ‘hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of survivors were being denied exit. Have we forgotten already that these people were encouraged to head for the Superdome by authorities? How on earth could they be denied the right to leave an open cesspool?

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http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050904221329705

Slidell, Hattiesburg, Jefferson Parish, nobody got help and many still aren't.

AS THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING, WILL NO-ONE BE HELD RESPONSIBLE SO THAT WE NEVER-EVER EXPERIENCE SUCH A TRAVESTY AGAIN? kARL ROVE WOULD BE HAPPY TO SIMPLY REPLACE ANOTHER DEM SENATOR AS HE ATTEMPTS TO SWAY THE BLAME IN THAT DIRECTION.

http://downingstreetmemo.com/

The government has the power. What it lacks is the will and/or the ability to organize in a way that actually saves lives instead of oil company assets.