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U.S. T.V. & Bush Admin. Lied to the American People about Hurricane Katrina.
Instead of Citizens' Rights, the Black Community Got [late] "Compassion."
Blow at the Military-Entertainment Complex was Covered Up

• Katrina's path and expected punch had been traced and followed by the weather pundits as it moved across the warm water after striking Miami.
• Katrina actually spared New Orleans. Instead of hitting the city head on, the hurricane veeered to the right [east] and went on to the air force base in Biloxi and the "tourist" resorts of Mississippi and Alabama.

1. They did not provide any connected information on EXACTLY WHAT had been hit in the Mississppi and Alabama areas. None of the casinos, night clubs, hotels, liquor stores or places of entertainment were specified. Presumably, photos of all these areas BEFORE they were hit are available but were not shown. Why?
2. No specific information [in fact hardly any] was provided on the air and naval installations which were reportedly devastated by the storm.
3. Fox TV reports that 800 air force personnel have been moved back from Iraq and Afghanistan to take care of their families in the Biloxi area and other areas. Again the media have shown no pictures of these air force men re-uniting with their families.

1. The lights in New Orleans went out at 2 AM before the hurricane actually hit on late Monday morning [August 29].
2. The two have stayed through previous storms so they boarded up their house and waited out Katrina.
3. The next morning there was about a foot of water in places and even less in most places. They could have easily driven out in their powerful auto. They stayed on, thinking this was no big deal, as did thousands of others.
4. The levee on the lake broke. The people were not informed although a LOCAL RADIO STATION STAYED ON throughout the crisis. There was no announcement at all although most people have battery operated radios.
5. The water poured in. By the next day, it was 12 feet high and was rising into the second floor of L's house.
6. Most people do not know how to swim and therefore could not escape. Ms. N. and Mr. L are very strong swimmers. They realized that the only way to escape was to swim. So they swam for a mile through floating trees and debris and got to higher ground near the highway.
7. Helicopters kept paassing overhead. The people would wave at them [or at night wave flashlights]. The choppers would come down, look at them with their lights and leave. They were going to the areas which are predominantly White.
8. White racism was very much evident. On the water logged highway, white people in hummers and other powerful vehicles would pass by, the stranded people would wave and none of them would stop.
9. Ms. N. has a photo of their White neighbors leaving in a motor boat. They didn't say a word to ask how N. and L. would survive.
10. Finally our witnesses reached the superdome. Conditions there were chaotic and just terrible. About two twenty thousand African American people were waiting outside for hours, sometimes in heavy rain, being mistreated and ordered around by security forces.
11. Our witnesses then decided to leave the superdome and wade/swim to the Convention Center about six blocks away. Here conditions were even worse. People were starving, children were crying. Many seemed to be dead or had simply lost consciousness. THERE WAS NO HELP OF ANY KIND COMING FROM ANY GOVERNMENT AGENCY.
12. Finally, on a relatively drivable part of the highway, the two were picked up by a Muslim family although they had children in the car and were crowded. Thus they reached Baton Rouge.
13. In Baton Rouge, they became friends with an air force officer who showed them a MAP which the government issued. On the MAP were marked areas of New Orleans with priority for relief and evacuation. These were all predominantly White areas, while the predominantly Black areas were marked for the lowest priority.
14. Two plane loads of White elites and a few Black elites were flown out of New Orleans all the way to Washington, DC.
15. By contrast, and few people know this that New Orleans has an impressive train station, the easy transportation of people by train was ignored. The entire stranded population could have easily been taken out by train.
16. At Baton Rouge too our witnesses saw poor Black people being mistreated by security guards, being given army rations as if a favor was being done to them.
17. One point is not clear yet. Why was the broken levee not repaired quickly? There seems to have been an argument that if the water flow did not go into the city it would go into the opulent Metaire suburb. We hope the government will clarify this. In any case, a massive effort could have repaired the levee right away
    [as seen in levee breaks in numereous western town on big rivers in previous years.]
18. After getting out of Louisiana, our witnesses for the first time saw TV coverage of the hurricane aftermath. They noticed that the reports did not show the behavior of the rich White people towards the population. Also, the media tried to show as if the Black people are all illiterate, extremely poor and basket cases begging for help. Our witnesses say that this is far from the truth. Most Black people are proud, self-sufficient, hard working people. They are not rich but are not dirt poor either.
19. Our witnesses think that the government is deliberately dispersing the Black population and is planning to re-build New Orleans as a White, Middle Clas city.

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