Thousands of people have drowned. There are no homes to live in, no places to work in. Get ready for the “CAMPS.”
There is going to be rioting and migration to the North from the South. People have nowhere to live. The government will continue to ignore them for the most part and they will become angry. The government is not inclined to help people domestically. This is a survivalist, paranoid administration and you are expected to survive by your own wits.
Where will all the thousands of people go for the next few months? It isn’t a question of days but really years. It takes about a year to build a home or an apartment complex. It takes only a few days to build a refugee camp.
The homeless will be put in camps. They will be refugees in their own nation and will be treated poorly by “a government that has no pride.” Some will migrate North. They will not feel welcomed.
Doesn’t anyone on TV realize this is going to create a massive social uprising that can only be put down by a Police State? Parts of the South are going to return to an earlier time. Black people and some whites without money will be herded into massive camps. They will be kept there for “their own security” and for the “security of the nation”.
We will not hear too much about this. It won’t be quite like being in Guantanamo but it’s going to be going in that direction.
I say this because I cannot think of any other possible scenario. Where are you going to put all the people who are alive and who have no homes. 40.000 homes were completely underwater in one neighborhhod in New Orleans. Those homes cannot be lived in. But a large portion of the South has been destroyed. Perhaps millions of homes. Hundreds of thousands perhaps millions of people have no homes, no place to go to work, no infrastructure, dead relative, orphans, sick dependent and injured people all around them.
They cannot stay in the Super and Astro Domes for any length of time. They have to build camps. The people in the camps are not going to like living in a camp for more than one or two weeks. It’s going to become obvious to them that they are not going to leave. It will become obvious too, that there is no intention to help them. Not really. They are going to rise up and they are going to be put down and this attitude will create disturbances in every major city and we will have some major rioting and revolution in this country.
The United States is about to turn the poor black and white people of the areas affected into the new Palestinians.
Can anyone else tell me how it could turn out any other way? Given the true story (which I tried to get out before the Hurricane struck ) that this was going to destroy New Orleans. I didn’t realize it was going to destroy a large part of the south too.
I’m not that smart. I understand the government has had for a long time a plan to put people into camps should there be rioting or an uprising of some kind. I would imagine that they will employ this scenario to deal with the problem.
Why isn’t anyone else thinking this through in the media? Why aren’t preparations being made to avoid putting people in “Camps”? It will lead to social disaster and domestic warfare.
I think you may have wanted to wait on this one until the buses start rolling from Houston….
I was with you all the way until this — tell me what your vision is here? If your point is that they will be abandoned, why in the world would the government feel the need to build camps?
There are already homeless, vets, immigants, people down on their luck, sick, dying all over this country — no one built camps for them, they just drive by them if they are unlucky enough to be somehwere that they actually have to see them, and HEY! if they aren’, they don’t exist. Camps?
No just complete neglect and denial. It’s gotten them this far.
No. People left homeless won’t be abondonded. The idea is to control the people by putting them in Camps. People are going to be rioting soon.
Sure there are homeless vets etc but not in a concentrated area and not newly displaced. That creates a problem. These people are going to be angry and they are going to fight. And there will be a sympathetic public and when they are put down for fighting there are going to problems in Northern cities…I think.
I mean there a perhpas well over a million people who are homeless. And it’s not just that they are homeless, they are hungry and they may even die from any combination of lack of water, food and infection.
Your vision is not without merit, but I have a great deal of faith in the American people to rise up and come through with financial and physical support. Already on Craigslist there are people offering their homes and cars, money, anything they can.
Yes, the displaced people will be put up in manufactured housing…trailer parks, apartment buildings etc. Yes, conditions will be less than ideal and they will most probably have to go through mountains of red tape and endure being away from their neighborhoods. But this story is too big to dissolve into the nightmare scenario you describe.
I think it is very likely, however, that those poor people will not rebuild in the same place they were before and that much more expensive homes will replace their meager ones. I think that is a travesty, and I hope that they are given every opportunity and every chance to rebuild that this country has as it’s disposal.
One the use of nigger in your title does little for me in wanting to read this diary, having grown up with a racist KKKer for a father who routinely called me a red nigger, I personally find that word distasteful and derogatory. I do understand your use for the pieces you have written, yet I personally find it reprehensible as a descriptor.
Secondly, they (the government) already have large camps in place all around the country, unfortunately, or fortunately, they do not have the man power to implement the mass deportation and holding of large numbers of people in those camps. Seems GWBush’s adventures in the Middle East are depleteing his arsenal of man power. I don’t know what will happen to all those people who have lost their homes. I will make this conjecture, the casino’s and anyone who makes 7 figures will be well taken care of by this administration and most of the beach front property will be reallocated to those who slavishly serve the republicans in power at the federal, state and local levels.
I don’t like the title word either and don’t feel it necessary.
This is not for you Ghost, just want to mention this:
Have any of you that complain about the casinos coverage realized that they are a big source of income for the state, and provide jobs for the local residents. Loss of jobs and income will have a devasting effect on their economy, one of the main sources of income for some towns and make recovery very difficult. So it is a very pertinent area to cover in my mind.
Looters, are not just taking food and water, but guns and valuables, having witnessed riots LA in the 90’s, looters are a big source of problems, and they are a danger to others that are not ‘looting’ especially if they have guns.
..and yet, I am not there and neither are you. I refuse to judge and I refuse to take anything that the media tells me at face value.
But you rock on, eternal optimist.
I don’t want to use it anymore either. So I won’t. It loses it’s purpose. It becomes trite.
There are already “camps.” One of them was known as east New Orleans.
Poor people from New Orleans will simply be herded into other camps throughout the South – camps in Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Miami, etc. They won’t be headed north. (Why would they? There aren’t any jobs here either, plus it’s colder than a witches’ tit. Besides, the Mexican day laborers would aggressively protect their turf on Long Island and New Jersey.)
I guess we finally get to find out if those FEMA internment camp rumors are true, huh?
You get a recommend from me, offensive title or no.
After reading the comments to this diary I understand your anger. And right now, I am not minding if you provoke people in this way, even if I would not do it myself.
I am going to have to rethink this whole thing. Several people have noticed and commented that in the media, white people breaking into a store is foraging for provisions, while black people doing it is looting. Now, the fact that, as I write this, anything that was not “liberated” in such a fashion is now underwater and useless, is truly beside the point. The point is that official America has become quietly, but openly, completely racist. We now have separate (but unequal) verbs for black people and white people. Our official attitudes are no longer the attitudes of the civil rights movement, but the attitudes of Jim Crow. This is a change. We don’t have a language for this change, but we had better find one, and quickly.
Most of us here realize that Bush is a psychopath. But while this word conotes “crazy” that isn’t quite right, because within their own warped frame-work psychopaths can be very, very rational. The problem is that they are devoted to evil.
And it is not just Bush. The people behind Bush have long since–well, since the Carter days, actually–rejected the small-is-beautiful, live-within-your-means philosophy. They intend to live extravagantly, off of others (and the Earth) like unsated vampires, and to do this a lot of little people will have to be looted, victimized, suppressed, or destroyed. (Including pretty much all of us on this blog, but really we are small fish in his picture.) For five years Americans have proven themselves dumber than dog dirt. Now Cindy Sheehan has given us some hope, and the early reactions to Bush’s negligence in the destruction of New Orleans and his incompetence in the relief may look like the start of a Great Awakening, but we have been here before: Let us wait and see before proclaiming The Turn Around.
I have no inside info. But consider: Why has Bushco promoted Michelle Malkin’s extoling of detention camps for the last few years? If they are paying her to run this bit of propaganda, it must be because they figure they need it, to make acceptable a scheme that they expect to be implementing in a couple of years. What scheme? Whatever it is, detaining people (without charges, indefinitely) in camps is certainly part of it.
What Stu Piddy is describing is a high-probability scenerio, not a low one.
Yes. The Director of FEMA on AAron Brown said although he may have announcement about a deal with a cruise line to house people on a cruise ship, we have to be realistic about the probablitliy of tent cities. He said he, personally would not like them to be open any longer than possible.
That means somebody else does and that somebody is calling the shots.
Thanks for your comments. I thought it was really well written and to the point.
My email is yocandra42@hotmail.com. You so need to have your own blog. Please keep in touch. Don’t let anyone shut you up. You are talking about things that are difficult for others to hear, and that is why you used the language you used: to shock others out of their complacency.
The refugee camps are likely and your scenario is very likely. Getting aid from FEMA is notoriously slow and/or non-existent, unless you live in Florida during an election year. THis has been well documented.
Remember, they steal elections now, so they can do whatever they want.