Bush is sending troops down to there to shoot people in the street

[MrScorpio]

Marines?!? 82nd Airborne?!?

Expect concentration camps and blood in the streets next.

[SouthernDem2004]

1. Get a clue.

[MrScorpio]

2. Are you saying that I should trust George W. Bush?

Especially when the first words out his mouth are "Law and Order"?

Let's see what happpens

[SouthernDem2004]

3. I am saying you have no idea why we need thte troops. Check into

things before you make such outrageous statements.

They are coming here to help with food dist. centers and to guard buildings and supply centers. They will be station at intersections to control traffic. They will help search for and recover bodies. This is necessary so Police can be freed from these details so they can patrol and enforce.

[MrScorpio]

12. I'm from Detroit, a city that has experience with soldiers shooting black

People in the street.

If it happended before in America, you can bet dollars to doughnuts, it'll happpen again.

When the rioting starts (And it will start if nothing is done very, very soon), I hope that you're prepared for the coming bloodbath.

If the dead aren't removed, sanitation improved, medicines administered and survivors evacuated because of the quarantine, and done by yesterday, those people are dead one way or the other.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. Bush himself said looters should be shot

Did you not see that??

[SouthernDem2004]

7. Of course I did not. We have no power, no cable nada. A few

places are starting to get power but its going to take time.

[proud2BlibKansan]

22. As I told you on another thread,

a lot has happened since the hurricane. The politics of this disaster have greatly offended good hearted liberals and progressives. In NO, people are being treated worse than animals.

If aid had been provided as quickly as it was to the tsunami victims, there would have been fewer looters and less of a need to shoot people on sight who are doing nothing more than trying to feed themselves and their families. You're a cop. Surely you realize folks get a little crazy when they go without food and water for 4 or 5 days.

[against all enemies]

4. He said law and order? They need FOOD AND WATER. idiot

[musette_sf]

6. Exactly, my friend...

Anyone with half a brain and half a heart KNOWS that if aid had been in place when it was supposed to be there, knows that this anarchy never would have happened.

If the Congress, the Cabinet, the SCOTUS, the POTUS, and Vampire Cheney were locked in a boiling hot airplane hangar for 6 days with no electricity, no running water, no food, no medicine, no hope, and promises day after day of evacuation... along with 20K freepers and christo-fascists all in the same state... I suspect the current situation as it is now would look like a sunday school picnic, compared to the venality that this crew could descend to in a few short days.

If this had happened in Miami, the suitcases full of cash would have been on the ground before the hurricane made landfall.

This is genocide. :cry:


Jazz Fest 1980

[DS1]

9. wait

I thought the area was mostly democractic, now you're saying there's 20 thousand freepers in there?

Either I'm completely nuts, or DU is seriously lacking some constistency.

[musette_sf]

17. I was hypothesizing

about the level of behavior and civility which would preval, were it 20K freepers and christo-fascists abandoned to die.

[DS1]

8. And the Air Farce would do it all differently, yes?

:eyes:

[Allenberg]

10. Yes

We bus drivers/flight attendants are much more efficient :D

[DS1]

11. Aim High

:smoke: :-)

[MrScorpio]

13. I know that you're trying to lighten the mood

But I can't help but thing about NO becoming the worse public health emergency crisis in the modern era, suffered by poor black people who have nothing else to lose except their lives.

Plus the introduction of the most deadliest military ground forces to the area in our arsenal.

No evacuation, but a quarantine.

I can't see anything coming good out of this

[sundog]

19. that was my first thought when they waited so long to respond

they are trying to guarantee enough sickness to justify a quarantine

no one out

bad shit coming down

[bliss_eternal]

24. Hi Mr. Scorpio--

I was concerned about people being shot, too--until I saw that the col. that is down there is a native of the area. He's in charge and I personally saw him on CNN ORDER his troops to stop pointing their guns at citizens. He was having NONE of that!

His name escapes me for the moment, and the system is on alert, so I can't pull up the specific threads that spoke of him for you right now, I'm sorry. But they were calling him "The Ragin' Cajun."

I was very relieved to see him tell them to stand down. He yelled at the troops on the tanks and said,"These are human beings--put those guns DOWN NOW!"

HTH--
bliss :hi:

[texanwitch]

26. What bothers me is that the troops had to be told not to point their guns

at these people. How many have been to Iraq? I hope he can keep the troops under tight control.

[WCGreen]

27. I with you... to s degree...

But it looks as if things are getting better, at least where everyone is congregated...

But you are right....

What's stopping them from setting up work camps for these folks....

Nothing....

The media are part of the ruling elite...

They don't see what we see....

[AVulgarianHue]

14. Victims wanting medical help after Hurricane Andrew

were threatened with pointed guns. It was a concentration camp.

Harsh treatment added to the underreported death count.

What we saw was Daddy Bush surveying the wreckage like General Sherman looking at the country side after a march.

We are all now living on an Indian Reservation

[lpbk2713]

15. New Orleans = Gitmo North

Only worse.

[sundog]

16. yes, i expect areas to be 'fenced off'

yes, there will be concentraton camps with some sort of bullshit name

[bridgit]

18. "Criticism of Bush Mounts as More than 10,000 Feared Dead"

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0903-05.htm

[joe_sixpack]

20. It's not just Bush, now even dems are turning on the people

I read this somewhere, trying to find the link:

Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco has warned rioters and looters in New Orleans that National Guard troops are under her orders to “shoot and kill” to end the rampant violence in the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

[solinvictus]

25. That is reasonable..

if the authorities don't restore order, even through lethal means, there will be no help for the people trapped there. I would have issued shoot to kill orders on day one.

[Jara sang]

21. In violation of the Posse Comitatus act.

[sakabatou]

23. F for fascism!