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People are talking about some of these things, like the communications lines being cut, people being turned away by armed guards, etc. And they're talking about it on the news, and many of the newsies want to know what the hell was going on.
I understand what you're saying and why you said it, because 9/11 was definitely whitewashed. And if left solely in the hands of the federal government to "investigate" what happened, then I would agree with you.
But, as I have said in some other posts -- the Katrina mess is different than 9/11. Yes we saw video after video, picture after picture, of people physically and emotionally devastated by what happened on 9/11, but the biggest difference is that 1) Katrina was a natural phenomenen that anybody who had access to a weather report knew about, and 2) the monumental screw-ups by the government, and what I see as the deliberate attempt to keep help and assistance away from those who so desperately need it, was not part of 9/11. (I'm going to leave the LIHOP and MIHOP arguments out of this.)
And there are many people on the "inside", that is, those directly affected by Katrina, who can tell stories of being kept from getting away, being locked down in domes, not getting food and water, and there are also many people on the "outside" who were trying to get into the area to help people who were kept out. I just don't think this one is going to be as easy to sweep under the rug.
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