Watch the Hands, Not the Mouth
Sep 2nd, 2005 at 7:08 am by Susie
Am I crazy? It seems to me it’s time we seriously consider whether this “rescue” effort isn’t just a veiled attempt at genocide. From the Situation Room (the blog, not the TV show):
I’ve previously blogged about how we’re receiving e-mail from CNN viewers because our blog has the same name as Wolf Blitzer’s new show.
This latest message — addressed to CNN’s Jack Cafferty — is one of the most startling I’ve seen yet:
In today’s segment of The Situation Room, you gave a personal response to the federal government’s handling (mis-handling) of the unprecedented tragedy in Louisiana. Of specific note is the absence of coordination of the government’s response by means of FEMA.
For your information:
FEMA called in a company that owns and operates a fleet of air boats, to aide with the search and recovery of citizens trying to survive the disaster and who are still in their homes, etc. A friend of mine (from Arkansas) is one of the owner/operators of an air boat in that fleet. He responded to FEMA’s request and went down to assist, all at his own expense. When there,
he reported to a FEMA manager or supervisor who told him, and I quote: �We need your assistance and can use your help every day, there’s a lot of folks who have not been found. But, you will have to pay for your own gasoline for your air boat.�The cost of gasoline for that air boat, for each day, amounts to approximately $550.00 per day, minimum. With the current gasoline crisis, it could cost considerably more, up to $600 - $700 per day.
This young man volunteered his time AND his boat to help - and was then told by FEMA that he would have to pay, additionally, out of his own pocket, all of the costs for his gasoline - to find the people who were in flooded homes across the entire flooded area in the City of New Orleans, where FEMA is assigned.
This young man doesn’t have the money to donate his costs for gasoline for FEMA’s project, so, guess where he is right now: yup, on the way back to Arkansas.
Honestly, I like you blog, but the genocide comment is really too much.
When we throw words like that around carelessly, they start to lose their meaning.
Think Rwanda, Think Kosovo, think Dafur, think Baghdad, think Uganda, Think Israel/Gaza.
Look at the faces. they look familiar don’t they?
Oh. You think I was being casual?
This keeps coming to mind:
“The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight” — Dead Kennedys, 1980
Where DID that pesky Clinton surplus go? Down the Iraq drain?
Where did the helicopters go? The Guardsmen? I-rack?
Bubble Boy sez: first things first!