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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-20-08 11:58 PM
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Unimportant Topic: White Vigilante Groups Blockaded New Orleans Town, Killing Black Folks.
I'm sorry to interrupt The Most Important Topic EVER, but I just noticed this. Possibly there's one other person out there who is as evil as I am for daring to think about something other than Warren, and has missed this story - as unimportant as it is.

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/20/the-nation-katrina/

Earlier this week, A.C. Thompson of The Nation revealed that after Hurricane Katrina, white vigilante groups patrolled New Orleans, blockaded streets, and shot at least eleven black men. It “was like pheasant season in South Dakota. If it moved, you shot it,” said one vigilante. Color of Change is organizing a campaign to tell Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) and state officials to investigate the shootings, as “Louisiana’s broken law enforcement agencies have refused to investigate these crimes.” Watch Thompson’s video on his report:



Sheesh.
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HopeFor2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:01 AM
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1. Investigation is definitely warranted
If it moved you shot it- was darth cheney among the vigilantes?
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HopeFor2006 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:01 AM
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2. K&R
:kick:
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:02 AM
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3. sorry I deleted my response here I made another idiotic statement
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 12:03 AM by cliffordu
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:03 AM
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4. I'll kick & recommend - again
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:07 AM
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8. Aw fuck - didn't even realize that was there - thanks!
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Peacetrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:04 AM
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5. Oh My God!
I can't download videos..I will have to look for text on the story..
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Truthiness Inspector Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:06 AM
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6. Most white folks, 'specially Southerners are racists
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 12:10 AM by Truthiness Inspector
They just can't wait to shoot them darkies.

What else you got?


On edit: My post is sarcasm, forgot to add the appropriate smilie. I am not buying this BS.
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Terran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:56 AM
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13. You obviously missed the report about this on
Democracy Now the other day. There are witnesses who saw this happening. Bodies of dead black people who'd been shot lay around rotting for weeks after the hurricane was over because the civil authorities didn't 'have time' to pick them up.
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:06 AM
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7. this is just coming out now?
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Posteritatis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:09 AM
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9. This particular one I've only seen show up in the last day or two
Here and on other sites. We all know things went south when New Orleans got wiped out, but I didn't hear anything at the time going to the point of people trying to ignite Rahowa or something like that. Yargh.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 01:07 AM
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15. Amy had one of the earliest reports and she had Malik on more than once
iirc.
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:09 AM
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10. Defending yourself, family and property is no excuse for murder or racial intimidation
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 12:14 AM by aikoaiko
I read the article and an investigation is warranted. Those were crazy times in NOLA, but the laws governing self-defence and murder still apply.

eta: this hasn't been ignored on DU. This is the 3rd thread, at least.
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 01:06 PM
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25. actually defending your family is a reason for murder
if it was them or me; I'd pick me and mine
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aikoaiko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:19 PM
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27.  I understand murder to be defined, in part, by the homocide being legally unjustified.

I'd pick me and mine too.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:10 AM
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11. Its frightening to see what people will do when they think
they can't get caught for it. This is sickening. I hope the murderers are held accountable.
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:05 AM
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20. I think Lord of the Flies is more accurate than we want to believe.
"Civilization" is really just a thin veneer. People at their most basic are awful. I hate the human race, I really do. Nothing worth saving in us at all. Not a damn thing.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 12:22 AM
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12. Kick
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blueraven95 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 01:01 AM
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14. clearly this is important, shocking, upsetting...
and absolutely demands action.


But there was no reason for you to take a potshot at other members of our community who are currently feeling vulnerable while reporting it. In fact, doing so reduces the (obviously valid) sympathy, concern, and outrage you are looking raise.
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:13 AM
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16. What the hell??
Edited on Sun Dec-21-08 04:17 AM by Number23
Bloo, thanks for the link and the comments.

Oh my God...

Edit: How reliable is ThinkProgress? I've been out of the States for waayy too long...
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 09:59 AM
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18. They're reliable.
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Number23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:55 PM
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30. Video from Democracy Now about this story is posted in Pol Vids
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=252150&mesg_id=252150

Thanks very much to you for pointing this out. This is a very important story. Shame I would probably have never heard of it.
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 05:27 AM
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17. K&R
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alarimer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:03 AM
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19. I heard about this on Democracy Now.
These people are subhuman, talking about hunting other people. They need to be thrown UNDER the jail.
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ecstatic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 10:55 AM
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21. Isn't that what Cynthia McKinney had been saying
and she was derided, even right here on DU?

SMH.
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Bluenorthwest Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:15 AM
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22. Been hearing about this for several days now
and other stories like it since the day itself. The election cycle was devoid of any discussion about what happened and is happening there. I for one noticed that.
And to me this is a story that should not be cheapened by using it to create a false division. This story is important. Reducing it to a rhetorical tool to make another point has no value in my eyes. People were murdered. They should not be used as a device for any agenda but that of bringing the killers to justice.
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glitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:19 PM
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32. Excellent post. nt
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:18 AM
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23. No shit, we were talking about that over here as well...
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JustAnotherGen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 11:38 AM
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24. Truth Hurts Alot is correct . . .
As much as we wanted to frame it up as 'Blackwater' - there WERE not Blackwater individuals involved in the b.s.

But - I thought everyone knew this . . . i.e. that this had happened?
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 01:13 PM
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26. This is on Laura Flanders Air America Show right now.
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:30 PM
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28. Where is the FBI ?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:21 PM
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33. Captured by the BFEE. n/t
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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:26 PM
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34. Well yeah, what I was thinking was that you probably don't want Louisiana running the investigation
and then trying whatever cases that might arise from this report in state courts. The civil rights angle of the case should bring the Federal agencies into it from the start.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:42 PM
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35. It will be nice to have a functioning DoJ again although Mueller will stay
for a while.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 03:47 PM
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29. horrific
evil - and shameful that no criminal investigation has been launched.
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Sophree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-21-08 04:03 PM
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31. Good Lord.
I hadn't heard about this- must have been living under a rock. How awful.

I'm disgusted, but not surprised.
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