I spoke with an official who I knew at a Labor Day party from the “Office of Communications” for the State of Illinois who described a meeting where “a bunch of us were sitting around trying to figure out what to do” and they decided to place 11.000 people from New Orleans in a Military Base in Illinois. This hasn’t been announced yet. Illinois is pretty far North of New Orleans.
So much for Emergency Planning. Everything is being done on an improvisational level. Probably all across the country. The government is composed of incompetent appointees like Fema head Mike Brown and Michael Chertoff of Homeland (Fatherland?) Security. Neither have any real experience. They just like their job title. The only entity that is helpful right now is the military. It suddenly occurred to me why in South American countries many people are relieved when there is a military junta that displaces corrupt politicians. The Military is organized and generally not associated directly with business.
Perhaps a junta here would prove in the short term preferable to Bush. It’s actually worth thinking about, if for no other reason than to consider just how much a danger Bush is. (Just kidding….I think)Another individual with heavy political connections described a conversation with Hilliary Clinton where Hilliary said “Be Patient” with Howard Dean. Meaning his views were too radical. And Hilliary said something to the effect that “we are trying to reign him in”.
This Democrat who is connected to all the Illinois heavy hitter contributors indicated that Russ Feingold was “too liberal”. That seems to be the take on Feingold from the people with money who are democrats. Though this person is a friend I think I am begining to understand what is going on with democrats. From my point of view ,Democrats are quite confused, uninformed and naive. They actually believe in the individual honesty and integrity of certain politicians and their “good will” . These people populate the Daily Gloss where people actually believe the world and the politicians who live in it is real. That’s my opinion anyway.
The businees/political system however does not allow anyone, no matter what their intentions to survive outside of it’s own limited framework of business interests and conservative values that emanate from those business interests.
Fresh faces and fresh ideas are out. I think I caused a little bit of a muted snickering when I announced that the placement of people in these places all over the country is placement essentially in concentration camps. Concentration Camps are places where people are put in large numbers where access, from and to those on the outside is limited or restricted by beaucracy. That is one definition found in the dictionary of concentration camps and that is what these camps or Internment domes all across the country are, I beleive. And I think it’s use is proper as the conditiions these people are going to live under should be heavily scrutinized.
These camps will become the ignition for civil unrest. I suppose the unrest will further divide the Democrats on issues of law and order.
All this I think because no one took a stand against the war in Iraq. It has so muddled the thinking of politicians and the people who vote for them.
