you know the pentagon's' nation building'? here's their 'city building'

[donsu]

http://www.blackcommentator.com/175/175_bruces_beat.html


Walkin' to New Orleans

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Hence in BC's September 8, 2005 Radio BC commentary broadcast on a number of stations around the country, BC co-publisher Glen Ford was among the first to note that the way the evacuation of black New Orleans was being carried out was creating facts on the ground which might inhibit their ability to ever return. By the following week, the pattern of unfolding ethnic cleansing was unmistakable, and the September 15 Radio BC declared that all of us, especially our representatives in the Congressional Black Caucus ought to be upholding the rights of Gulf Coast residents to Return, to Rebuild and to Remain. As Mr. Ford wrote:

”Iraqis in Des Moines and Detroit were allowed to vote for the new government in Baghdad. The people who have been displaced from New Orleans, Mississippi and Alabama should certainly have the same right, to direct the Reconstruction of their region. They have the Right to Return, the Right to Rebuild, and the Right to Remain. We demand that the Congressional Black Caucus treat these as inalienable rights.”

From the first, the radical right has seized the opportunity to make the Gulf Coast a laboratory for its favorite schemes, most famously closing 120 of the city's 125 public schools, firing all the city's teachers and staff, voiding their pension and health care agreements and going to an all-charter system in which working class residents must scramble for the small number of available slots in schools that are still underfunded, and run by teachers and administrators with fewer professional qualifications and less effective oversight than before. But obstacle after obstacle is being thrown in the path of residents who want to return and rebuild their lives in the city of their birth, as powerful forces seek to ensure that displaced city residents including small property owners but most especially those who lived in rental property, are never compensated for any loss or allowed to return.

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“Every bomb dropped over Iraq explodes over the Gulf Coast,” declares Robinson.

“Survivors and veterans, more than anybody else are entitled to point out the easy and simple connection between the evil our government does in the Middle East and the good it fails to do at home. If a fraction, just a fraction of the resources we spend on the killing machine in Iraq could be harnessed here in the Gulf Coast we'd be well on the way to making people's lives better than they were before.
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[Initech]

1. Really, a competent nation would have kicked its leaders out of office...

for what happened in New Orleans. Or what happened during 9/11. Or after lying to their people about the Iraq war.

What these fuckers have done to New Orleans is inexcusable. Each and every one of them should have been kicked out of their cushy jobs for this.