Military occupation turns New Orleans into WAR ZONE

[theearthisround]

http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=1043

New Orleans is under military occupation as well as underwater, and people wave in delight at the huge convoys of troops rumbling by, some of their vehicles in desert camouflage either back from or on their way to Iraq.

As in a war zone, military bases are being established in a city divided into sectors, while the navy has moved warships up the Mississippi for helicopter operations.

Martial law and curfews are in force. This, with the arrival of thousands of troops a week after Hurricane Katrina submerged large areas that were below sea level, has heartened intensely angry residents who were living in the chaos of mass destruction and the fear of looters and criminal gangs.

Yet despite the enormous influx from across the US of National Guards, reservists, units of the federal army and marines, the coastguard, airmen, firefighters from Los Angeles and even Texas game wardens in boats, the logistics of evacuating the remaining residents from the flooded suburbs, and collecting possibly thousands of bodies, present enormous challenges. They also expose flaws in management structure and communications.

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[tanyev]

1. Yeah, my local weather guy was just talking about the two new

hurricanes out there and he said, "neither one is expected to attack the United States". I thought, WTF?

[...of J.Temperance]

2. The military, 60,000 of them, they're never going to leave

I may as well just admit to myself, what I've been DESPERATELY trying to pretend isn't happening.

Those 60,000 troops are there to seize control of NOLA for the Carlyle Group, and that's why Cheney's going there on Friday...they own it now.

There's no need for all of those troops to be there, Louisiana NG would suffice because there's NO VIOLENCE, there's NOTHING to "get under control"

The MONSTER let's tens of thousands of people DROWN, and tens of thousands he lets starve...and then he just STEALS their city for his cronies.

This is getting TOO depressing. It's gut destroying.

[tabasco]

3. I was active duty military for Hurricane Andrew.

A brigade from the 10th Mountain Division and a brigade from the 82nd Airborne were sent down there to clean up after the storm. We were on the ground in Homestead 2 days after the storm hit. Because we were regular army, we were not allowed to perform security missions, so we left our weapons at home. Only the National Guard can perform security / police type missions due to the Posse Comitatus statute. 2 days after Andrew hit, we were distributing food, water, and supplies to people in South Florida. We did not stay there to take it over for Carlyle Group or anyody else.

The problem is not the military in New Orleans, the problem is that they were not there sooner.