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Post by troutfarm on Sept 16, 2005 0:40:41 GMT -5
10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee Clara Barthelemy: "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city… to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed… people are afraid to speak out… everyone who was near there heard the bombings… they bombed seven times. That's why they didn't fix the levees… Evacuee Dianne Stafford: "They blew the levee to save the city…" Saying a barge broke the levee. She is from St. Bernard Parish. "More expensive places were saved at the expense of the neighborhoods that aren't as valuable… Rebuilding Bourbon Street matters more to the government… www.boingboing.net/2005/09/07/katrina_rape_murder_.htmlMore... I met a man named Robert. He invited me to take a seat beside him on a cot pushed against the wall... "After the storm," he told me almost as soon as I sat down, "they blew the levees up so they could flood New Orleans." "We survived the storm," Robert went on. "We survived the wind and the rain. After the storm passed, the water started rising, and all you heard was 'Boom!' " The explosions, he said, were the levees blowing. "Ask any of these people. The hurricane wasn't that bad, but the opportunity came up." www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/7/193317/1598Blasts heard before levee broke: p216.ezboard.com/frigorousintuitionfrm10.showMessage?topicID=802.topicLater -- deliberate flooding announced on radio: Williams only left his apartment after the authorities took the decision to flood his district in an apparent attempt to sluice out some of the water that had submerged a neighbouring district. Like hundreds of others he had heard the news of the decision to flood his district on the radio. The authorities had given people in the district until 5pm on Tuesday to get out - after that they would open the floodgates. www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/9/7/142315/5454/1#1 |
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Post by thetwins on Sept 16, 2005 13:49:20 GMT -5
Do you really think that this happened? Sad ...so sad
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Post by justcajun on Sept 16, 2005 14:19:45 GMT -5
omg that would be something if this is true! I am sure we will truly find out what type of goverment we have once all the stories come out. When there is diaster guess not just the people's true colors come out but our leaders also. Truly all is so very sad!
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Post by troutfarm on Sept 16, 2005 14:41:51 GMT -5
The senate does not seem to want to investigate........ I hope Michael Moore does something about Katrina and the mess. Oprah seemed to get down there on the ground before Bush (not that Bush seemed in a hurry to get there) and she was shocked by what went on.
trout
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Post by astrologydetective on Sept 18, 2005 17:30:24 GMT -5
I have never been to New Orleans so I dont know anything about the different neighbourhoods. BUt in ww2, the coutnries made an agreement that they wouldnt bomb the most beautiful cities or places of artistic/historic interest. The decision to kill was made, but they kind of added some humanity to it - as bizarre as that is.
Thats why cities like Milan, which had already been destroyed by Napoleon and rebuilt so was relatively "new", were bombed heavily, while Rome was hardly touched. And I guess now we can appreciate that when we admire the beauty of rome, even though its not fair really to the milanese people who suffered.
DO you think it was a similar decision? Since New Orleans was already going to flood and be destroyed, they decided to save the part that was of historical and cultural heritage for future generations? It is one of the oldest cities in the USA and very special... I am not trying to defend this action but just make sense of it... Maybe they flooded the newer sections of town instead? Am I being idealistic?
Maybe the sound of a levy breaking up by natural causes and water pressure would be quite similar to a bomb?
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Post by troutfarm on Sept 18, 2005 20:52:22 GMT -5
I have the feeling this whole thing is more about money and greed than saving anything nice just like our war.
I don't trust our government and I think just like 9~11 there is more to this flood mess than meets the eye. I refuse to belive the information they want to s-p-o-o-n feed us.
If you watch the news a lot of the houses where the poor lived were very old. I think the military wants more control of the port of New Orleans and when they get done fixing up the prime real~estate there the wealthy will be moving in and very few poor people will beable to afford it. Time will tell and hopefully a lot of the truth will come out.
trout
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Post by astrologydetective on Sept 18, 2005 21:08:34 GMT -5
sad indeed - or maybe they will build new housing for the poor far from the city limits or something like that and bus them in for the minimum wage jobs
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Post by troutfarm on Sept 18, 2005 23:59:31 GMT -5
I am sure Cheney has a plan for how he wants to rebuild New New Orleans.
I have noticed the Emmys/Academy of Television Arts & Sciences is not giving out the number for the Red Cross but Habitat for Humanity instead. I must say it makes sense flood victims will need new homes and the way Fema and the Red Cross have been mishandling things and treating people like David Perez who are acutally trying to get supplies in to people I would be more apt to donate to Habitat to Humanity.
trout
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