Law and order are breaking down along the path of the Hurricane.
Police have lost their homes too. There is no point in working for a living, as a policeman if the paycheck you receive cannot purchase any goods because there are none
The gravity of the situation is that people could start dying before help arrives. That’s going to make a lot of people angry, bitter and seeking revenge
The government’s response has been slow and indifferent and they are creating a homegrown insurgency of newly homeless people with no other avenue of interest but crime. These people will be angry at any authority, this nation and it’s leadership. They feel betrayed and they are right in my opinion
The rage that people feel and normally contain may start to burn and go out of control soon. I think it will start happening tonight and tomorrow night. . When that happens a Police State will be formed.
In New Orleans the Police have been reported to be “looting ” as well. Police will stop acting, as police and the army will be called in. Michael Brown head of FEMA said on Aaron Brown that he “hoped” that the tent cities that they have to open wont be open any longer than necessary. He also said he is negoiating with a cruise line for a cruise ship to hold people. He may announce something tommorrow. But I think this is publlic relations and most of the people will be housed in tent cities and not on costly cruise ships. I think the Head of Fema was saying he didn’t like tent cities but his superiors do.
FEMA is the same organization that is supposed to respond to this Hurricane with aid.
This is a very big deal.
this is your fourth diary in a 24 hour period. We have a limit of two diaries a day. You can see the rule by referencing the FAQ and looking at pastordan’s community guidelines.
No need to erase these. But please keep the rule in mind in the future. Thanks.
Boo.
Ok. No problem. I didn’t realize the limit.
“Concentration camps” is a slight misuse of the term since it is synonymous with ‘death camps.’
Refugee camps will be necessary for all the poor people who don’t have family or other means. I’m puzzled by the choice of the Astrodome, 350 miles away. The distance will make the flood victims feel dislocated. Families will get separated too. Since most of these people do not have transportation they will be ‘stuck’ in Houston.
And soon, the biggest looter of them all, Halliburton will move into New Orleans to clean it out, oops I mean clean it up.
Refugee camps could become concentration camps if the people are denied a ways and a means to rebuild their lives with adequate help. Then it would be concentration camps in the form of social control.
I really appreciate your diaries. I want to say fuck the rules at a time like this but I love this site and respect and like everyone here enormously. Perhaps you should consider setting up your own blog, or a temporary one on this issue? Your approach is extremely important, as your are dealing with the underbelly of the issue: you probably know the views of FEMA as a front for social repression and control.
Let me say to everyone, this could happen to you, at any time. Particularly to those who commented that we shouldn’t rebuild New Orleans. If you were in our shoes, you might not be saying this. I’m sure many will want to relocate from the city. However, a truly humane society would now solve, or would have solved, the wetlands erosion problem, and levee problem.
As someone pointed out, if the Netherlands can build dikes that actually do the job, why can’t we? Also, my attitude is: rebuilding will create jobs, and, hire the people who live in New Olreans.
Some of you might be Seth fans; I’m one from way back. the low income in New Orleans have been desperate for a long time. This disaster only serves to call attention to their desperation. THis summer, before the storm, has been a summer of murder in New Orleans: neighbors preying on neighbors, police killing citizens. It was reaching a sustained boiling point for months now. You had our city leaders preying on the poor by stealing and trying to steal their housing for the real estate that is underneath it. The Wal Mart that was looted in the lower Garden District was built on land stolen from the poor who lived there in a housing project a few years back.
From a Sethian point of view, I’m not surprised this has happened at all, in the sense that on a spiritual level, New Orleans was a disaster waiting to happen, with the poor feeling victimized every day of their lives, and now finally, their plight is national headlines.
Fuck, I don’t have any answers, except that capitalism is killing the soul of this country, and any country that calls itself a “free market”. Ain’t nothing free, and right now our social structure centers around consumption, rather than the true needs of people.
I have a blog with all kinds of stories. They all seem to come true, much to my surprise.
Here it is:
http://bushplanet.blogspot.com/