Dumber 'n a Box o' Hair
CINDY oh CINDY, you didn’t let me down
"CINDY“ [or someone who purports to be she] [emph. mine]
The people in LA who were displaced have nice, if modest homes that are perfectly fine. I wonder why the government made them leave at great expense and uproot families who have been living in their communities for generations. ...After living in a country your entire life it is so difficult to see such callous indifference on an immense scale.
...After we arrived at Camp Casey III, we took the Veterans for Peace “Impeachment Tour Bus” into New Orleans after stopping at the distribution center to pick up some supplies in Covington.
The VFP took me to the city of Algiers on the West Bank. The part of Algiers we went to was very poor and black. The people of Algiers know what hard work is.
Algiers had no flooding. All of the damage was from winds. There are trees knocked over and shingles off of roofs. There are signs blown over and there was a dead body lying on the ground for 2 weeks before someone finally came to get it. Even though Algiers came through Katrina relatively unscathed, our federal government tried to force (mostly successfully) the people out of the community. Malik Rahim, a new friend of ours and resident of Algiers, told us stories of the days after the hurricane. The government declared martial law, but there was no effective police presence to enforce it. Malik said the lawlessness was rampant. People were running out of food and water and they were being forced to go to the Superdome. They didn’t want to go to the Superdome, because their homes were pretty intact: they wanted to stay and have food and water brought to them.
...The people who were supposed to look after its citizens, our government, failed them.
In Algiers, in the space of 2 short weeks, Malik and his community has opened a clinic which also doubles as a food and supply distribution center. ...But when I see what the people of Algiers are doing to help themselves and the people of America are doing to help them help themselves, it gives me hope.
Ok, CINDY-poo; pick one. Are they starving and helpless, waiting for someone to come bring them stuff, or are they helping themselves and distributing food and supplies?
Silly, confused, pedantic; she continues her decent.
One thing that truly troubled me about my visit to Louisiana was the level of the military presence there. I imagined before that if the military had to be used in a CONUS (Continental US) operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed them, shelter them, and protect them. But what I saw was a city that is occupied. I saw soldiers walking around in patrols of 7 with their weapons slung on their backs. I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me. Sand bags were removed from private property to make machine gun nests.
Ok—one [1] crew, a military crew rescued 499 people in one day—not sufficient fer ya, eh? At this stage, Honey, I think I could line folks up around the block who’d be willing to shoot ya—for free.
The vast majority of people who were looting in New Orleans were doing so to feed their families or to get resources to get their families out of there. If I had a store with an inventory of insured belongings, and a tragedy happened, I would fling my doors open and tell everyone to take what they need: it is only stuff.
I see—but only well insured “just belongings.” I see… ‘Sides, feedin’ yer kids plasma TVs, bling and size 13 Nikes makes ‘em fat. Bad idea, CINDY. Not even orgaaaaanic.
I was told that Pat Boone was on a conservative radio talk show in San Francisco (yes they do exist) with Melanie Morgan (who has a vendetta against me) [she thinks you’re a moron—different thing] and he told the listeners that after we “stole the supplies” from the Red Cross [interesting charge… maybe they just “found” the stuff.], we gave them to the “enemies of America who are like the people who want to fly airplanes into our buildings.” Boone says that we were giving them to enemies of America, because we were distributing the supplies from a Mosque. First of all, accusing me of stealing is slander, I think, and second of all: we were helping Americans. Just because their government abandoned them, we shouldn’t feed them and give them medicine and supplies? I thought Pat Boone was supposed to be a Christian man? Thirdly, isn’t Freedom of Religion one of our Constitutional guarantees?
Why are they having a 13 year old girl write these things? They don’t have a spare Barnard girl or twelve hanging around?
George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq, and excuse his self from power.
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