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Are we beyond excuses yet?
« on: 2005-09-08 14:47:53 » |
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http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/006754.html#006754
Throughout, the official relief effort was callous, inept, and racist. There was more suffering than need be. Lives were lost that did not need to be lost.
Perhaps the tense is wrong, but the balance of the content is worse. I suggest that this provides a competent context through which to observe those attempting to defend the indefensible.
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liberal adj. favorable to progress or reform, maximum individual freedom esp. in matters of personal belief or expression, free from prejudice or bigotry, open-minded, tolerant, not bound by traditional ideas, values, etc., characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts. [Webster]
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Re:Are we beyond excuses yet?
« Reply #1 on: 2005-09-09 04:55:19 » |
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Why the fences? Why the Roadblocks?
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/08/katrina_fema_evacuee.html
<snip>...a communications team to keep reporters as far away from actual news as possible.
It probably was easier for a reporter to get inside Gitmo on Tuesday than to penetrate the force field around Lowry. But survivors occasionally breached the lockdown and came to the fence to tell their stories, each one astonishing. </snip>
Why block the community radio station? Where's the harm?
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/08/katrina_contact_info.html
It's harm because the information wants to be free. It's harm because the truth is their enemy. It's harm because It's da Nu 'n Surge 'n C.
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Re:Are we beyond excuses yet?
« Reply #2 on: 2005-09-12 04:23:54 » |
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[Hermit] And just in case you thought that the story first posted on this thread was an hysterical exaggeration, here is a follow-up from a "conventional" resource (my emphasis in what follows):
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liberal adj. favorable to progress or reform, maximum individual freedom esp. in matters of personal belief or expression, free from prejudice or bigotry, open-minded, tolerant, not bound by traditional ideas, values, etc., characterized by generosity and willingness to give in large amounts. [Webster]
'Racist' police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back at gunpoint
Source: The Independent
Authors: Andrew Buncombe
Dated: 2005-09-11
A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and force escaping evacuees back into the chaos and danger of New Orleans. Witnesses said the officers fired their guns above the heads of the terrified people to drive them back and "protect" their own suburbs.
Two paramedics who were attending a conference in the city and then stayed to help those affected by the hurricane, said the officers told them they did not want their community "becoming another New Orleans".
The desperate evacuees were forced to trudge back into the city they had just left. "It was a real eye-opener," Larry Bradshaw, 49, a paramedic from San Francisco, told The Independent on Sunday. "I believe it was racism. It was callousness, it was cruelty."
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With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. - Steven Weinberg, 1999
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