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Burma disaster vs. Katrina
by Amber Perez
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I was surprised to hear that the Bush Regime was criticizing the government in Burma for not allowing foreign aid and foreign citizens to enter the country after the disaster.
Burma (Myanmar): An unbending regime still blocks aid
Have the Bushes no shame? No memory? No sense of irony?
Politicizing the tragedy in Burma| |
Excerpt: Once the disaster had already occurred, it was especially unhelpful for the First Lady to focus on the irrelevant matter of whether the Burmese government had issued adequate advance warning. Furthermore, the secretive junta was slow to open the country to outside relief workers and supplies, but the U.S. president's public criticism certainly was not going to -- and did not -- help matters. Not surprisingly, the junta's "slow roll" on admission of relief workers and badly needed provisions continued. As should have been learned during Jimmy Carter's administration, |
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The Katrina "response" was pure evil.
The evil was not "incompetence" but the deliberate actions taken to magnify the disaster. It was Disaster Capitalism taken to an extreme.
By corking the victims inside the disaster zone and preventing aid from reaching them, the Bush Regime created a total catastrophe such that the victims voluntarily ethnically cleansed themselves -- just hopped on those buses to Texas and other states, never to return.
New Orleans went from Democratic to Republican, and in the aftermath the property was redistributed from the poor to Friends of Bush.
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The Bush Regime did exactly the same thing after Katrina hit -- and worse, even! Foreign aid was delayed or rejected and even Americans wishing to help evacuate survivors were turned away by the American Thugocracy. Sheriffs shot people trying to evacuate, much like Iraqis fleeing Fallujah by swimming the river were gunned down like rats when the US exacted its "justice".
The criminal history of Katrina is all right here on one page, as if we didn't remember the horror ourselves (and Bush playing guitar and eating birthday cake celebrating at John McCain's birthday party in Arizona while New Orleans drowned!)
Hurricane Katrina: A criminal catastrophe| |
Sept. 19, 2005:
Truckloads of ice for Katrina victims trucked everywhere except to victims
Sept. 16, 2005:
Mayor of Gretna says “whole community” backs bridge-blocking racist police
Sept. 16, 2005:
Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims
Sept. 14, 2005:
Feds delayed Nat'l Guard's hurricane response for days
Sept. 13, 2005:
As bodies are recovered, reporters are threatened: 'No photos, no stories'
Sept. 12, 2005:
Air boat volunteers, turned back by authorities, rescued 797 anyway
Sept. 11, 2005:
Sheriff threatens to arrest FEMA officials
Countermands FEMA order that stores remain closed
Sept. 10, 2005:
FEMA sent back German plane carrying fifteen tons of food for hurricane victims
Sept. 7, 2005:
International offers of help came immediately, but U.S. approval was delayed by days
Sept. 7, 2005:
Navy pilots reprimanded for rescuing hurricane victims
Sept. 7, 2005:
More doctors turned away from
helping in Katrina aftermath
Sept. 6, 2005:
No food drops planned for New Orleans
Sept. 5, 2005:
Firefighters waited five days for FEMA's OK to
enter New Orleans, then gave up, returned to Houston
Sept. 4, 2005:
FEMA turns down water, fuel for New Orleans, cuts area's emergency communication line
Sept. 4, 2005:
Navy hospital & water purification ship anchored on nearby coast, underused
Sept. 3, 2005:
Homeland Security stops Red Cross from bringing food for New Orleans
Sept. 3, 2005:
Bush declares "zero tolerance" for New Orleans survivors seeking food and water
Sept. 3, 2005:
FEMA turned back 500-boat rescue flotilla
Sept. 2, 2005:
FEMA won't allow airboats to rescue Katrina victims
Sept. 2, 2005:
Emergency crews turned back by FEMA: They lacked "the required paperwork"
Aug. 29, 2005:
As Katrina strikes, FEMA urges first-responders not to respond |
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And there was no outcry, effectively no investigation, no official giving a damn at all. For me Katrina looms as a turning point, the moment when America accepted tyranny as the new ordinary.
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The Katrina "response" was pure evil. The evil was not "incompetence" but the deliberate actions taken to magnify the disaster. It was Disaster Capitalism taken to an extreme.
By corking the victims inside the disaster zone and preventing aid from reaching them, the Bush Regime created a total catastrophe such that the victims voluntarily ethnically cleansed themselves -- just hopped on those buses to Texas and other states, never to return. New Orleans went from Democratic to Republican, and in the aftermath the property was redistributed from the poor to Friends of Bush.
This is important to understand because it is being applied again in the aftermath of the Mortgage/Credit Crisis. Bush has vowed to veto bills that would actually help the individual victims even as his posse has allocated up to a trillion dollars to bail out the banks and brokers.
Eventually, if their scheme works out the way they hope, the government will eat most of the losses and establish a new Resolution Trust Corp., which will redistribute the abandoned properties to Friends of Bush -- for pennies on the dollar.
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Amber Perez
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