NY Post: "Looters will be shot. Bush sucks. Where's FEMA!"

[KeepItReal]

"Hope was raised yesterday as National Guard troops poured in to restore order. But the hope soon turned to anger as soldiers herded the crowds like so much cattle and left the sick, old and dying to swelter another day under a merciless sun. "They're treating us like we're the enemy!" roared refugee Elton Washington as armored Humvees and troop carriers rumbled by outside the convention center and moved crowds off the street to make room for a supply staging area.

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All day long, as a burning chemical warehouse belched acrid plumes of smoke into the sky, helicopters buzzed overheard and emergency vehicles — some towing boats — raced in every direction. But there seemed to be no centralized plan. After National Guard troops arrived at the convention center, most milled around aimlessly. Some unloaded supply trucks. Others napped on Humvees. Many stood guard, holding back seething, shouting masses of refugees. "I don't why I'm here. I'm just following orders," said one soldier who wouldn't give his name. "My orders are to stand right here."

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On the outskirts of town, fearful homeowners barricaded themselves in their houses with guns and watched for looters. In the historic — but ravaged — neighborhood of Algiers, Alexandra Boza patrolled the streets on a red Honda scooter, wearing flip-flops and clutching a .38-caliber pistol in her left hand. Looters had been wandering the area, and her eyes were wide with fear. She stopped near a boarded-up house with graffiti that read: "Looters will be shot. Bush sucks. Where's FEMA!"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nypost/20050903/cm_nypost/39i39mterrifiedireallyamifeelliketheworld39sgonenuts39

[indepat]

1. They are trained to threat the people like the enemy: it's a mindset

that come from the top-down.