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WHITE MAN’S VIOLENCE IN NEW ORLEANS!
Just listened to Dutch radio, local time 10:40am, a Dutch photographer reported this as a witness account in Katrina aftermath in New Orleans.
The leader of the KKK was as vigilante active in the neighborhoods of the flood stricken city of New Orleans. In groups, the KKK men were driving around in their pick-ups. When they came together, the men were bragging how many niggers they managed to shoot.
The photographer, Kadir van Lohuizen, witnessed numerous dead bodies with gunshot wounds.
This is a story still developing, will not be covered in the coming issue of TIME magazine.
Can anyone corroborate this story with other reports or unsubstantiated rumors? Still need a second source, I trust BooTribers in the relief effort will respond. There was a city blogger active throughout the hectic, lawlessness days after the devastation of Katrina. Was there anything in his reporting that anyone recalls in support of this story?
VPRO Radio ‘Buitenland’
Will add translation later.
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LIFELINES – 7 RIVERS ::
Mississippi River 2002 – photos Van Lohuizen
Part1: The wind of change
Photographer Kadir van Lohuizen was in the Louisiana area for newspaper “Vrij Nederland” and TIME magazine. An earlier photo series he made called “Lifelines”, where Kadir made a portrait of World’s largest rivers, including the Mississippi. He flew by heli over New Orleans, the river delta and the marshes of New Orleans. A Shell refinery pipeline was broken and storage tanks were displaced by the storm, which caused oil spilling into the marshes.
Next issue of TIME will publish an article on large oil spill in the marshes of the Mississippi delta. A smurry of black, thick oil rests, spreading as the tide changes. Indication of amount spilled: 160k barrels. The photos to be published were made by Kadir.
RELATED BACKGROUND INFO
Friday, May 20, 2005 – Sunday, May 22, 2005
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans Conference 2005 Organized by white supremacist and former Klansman David Duke with his European American Unity & Rights Organization
Saturday, September 03, 2005
St. Amant, Louisiana
Klan rally and cross lighting Organized by Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
David Duke got off easy. Given the former Ku Klux Klan leader’s long and well-documented history as a high-rolling racial profiteer and tax cheat, the federal government’s negotiated felony conviction of Duke is more than a day late and a few dollars short. Worse, Republican Gov. Mike Foster’s continued failure to denounce his former secret political ally doesn’t help Louisiana’s reputation for political corruption and racial demagoguery.
Duke, 52, a neo-Nazi and former national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, will be sentenced by federal Judge Eldon Fallon on March 19, 2003, to 15 months in prison and a $10,000 fine, according to Duke’s plea agreement with prosecutors. Duke admitted defrauding his supporters of thousands of dollars in contributions and filing a false federal income tax return.
In the Sunday Edition of the Greater New Orleans newspaper, The Times-Picayune, on the eve of the President’s return to New Orleans this morning, the paper published an Open Letter to the President, saying:
- We’re angry Mr. President, and we’ll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry. Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not. That’s to the government’s shame.
- We learned seven years ago, when Hurricane Georges threatened, that the Dome isn’t suitable as a long-term shelter. So what did state and national officials think would happen to tens of thousands of people trapped inside with no air conditioning, overflowing toilets and dwindling amounts of food, water and other essentials?
