Posted on 09/03/2005 6:44:31 AM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
Rape and murder inside dome of despair (3 September 2005, from AUSTRALIA)
by Adam Harvey and Kim Sweetman
03sep05
IT is a nightmare landscape of roaming gangs and random rapes. Desperate, hungry refugees are forced to huddle in hiding from armed thugs who have killed for what little food can be scavenged.
This is how the richest nation on earth reacts to a disaster.
More than 30,000 National Guards were sent in to New Orleans last night with orders to shoot to kill.
Those who survived Hurricane Katrina inside the city's Superdome emerged yesterday from a second hell.
"They're raping babies in there," sobbed a haunted escapee to a television camera as she begged President George W. Bush to send help.
"They are raping women. They are stabbing. There were riots."
New Orleans has descended from tourist icon to something terrifying. A week after the first storm warnings and there are few signs of the sad order that was established after the South-East Asian tsunami.
There is only one small field hospital, a handle of water trucks and no central co-ordination of the evacuation.
And while Mr Bush has ordered a $10 billion rescue package, no level of government has been able to explain how the world's only superpower could have left a major city without a workable disaster plan.
Even the Red Cross has been unable to get in and get organised as they wait for military protection.
Survivors have turned on each other. The tales from inside the Superdome verge on incredible.
Inside was a mass of stinking, hungry, frightened humanity without water, sewerage, food or air. Strangers were crammed against others who robbed them, beat them and raped them while armed guards stood oblivious.
"The stench was unbearable. We were treated like animals," Baron Duncan said.
"There was shooting," she said. "Our lives were in danger. A seven-year-old girl and an eight-year-old boy got raped."
"One man couldn't take it. He jumped over the railing and died," claimed Audrey Jordan.
Keshia Gray, a 28-year-old resident said "people were dying off". "There were people shooting, fights broke out, the bathrooms were all clogged up and there was no water. Then the police started shooting. I couldn't stay in there."
Thousands were still waiting outside the Superdome amid at least seven dead bodies last night to be loaded on to buses to be taken to other cities. Authorities in Houston, Texas, announced that city's Astrodome was already full it is now home to 11,000.
New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS" for help as Mr Bush sent in more troops and the massive aircraft carrier Harry S Truman to serve as a command centre.
No one denies armed gangs have all but gained control of the city. On the outskirts, white residents sit with rifles near the broken wood and shattered bricks that mark the sites of their homes.
But it is the disabled, the poor who cannot afford cars, the sick and the elderly who have been left behind in the inner city. And most of those left behind are black.
Some white survivors have claimed their race makes them particularly vulnerable the authorities say everyone is in danger.
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco was blunt when she spelt out what the National Guard had to do.
"These troops are fresh back from Iraq, well-trained, experienced, battle-tested and under my orders to restore order in the streets," she warned.
"They have M-16s and they are locked and loaded.
"These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will." Police Chief Eddie Compass said he had sent in 88 officers to calm crowds waiting for evacuation at the city's convention centre but they were driven back by an angry mob.
"We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals wo are getting beaten," he said.
The sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement.
An old man lay dead on a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair.
Stop asking on each and every thread. No. It is not true. Robinson is wearing tin foil; we have no business spreading his conspiracy theories.
Who are the rapists, thugs, murderers, vandals?
How about a little reporting here?
I doubt the reporters are going to go ask the rapists, thugs, murderers and vandals who they are and what they do for a living. They want to go home after this disaster is over.
sidebar moderator intervened...I just couldn't takt it anyone.
Explanation: Liberalism
It's that simple
I'm saying that unless Steve Harrigan was faking the pictures coming from the Convention Center yesterday, food and water were being handed out there.
Anybody that watched Fox yesterday can attest to that fact.
Clearly raping women and babies is a normal human response to hunger. /dark sarcasm
I think it's cultural. Mix the redneck values from Deliverance with West African Voodoo, then stir with Jerry Springer and Jesse Jackson and gansta rap and you end up with what you got in New Orleans (and a whole lot of neighborhoods in U.S. cities).
Some fruitloop wrote a article claiming cannibalism which Drudge picked up and that's the entire source of the story.
Well it's now on Drudge and I think Drudge is ridiculous for giving Randall Robinson this audience. WHY OH WHY DO THE MEDIA LIKE PARADE BLACK MORONS AND NOT CONSERVATIVES?
Because many in the MSM hate America and want to see it weak and divided, and most of the rest are gutless fools.
The moderator immediately locked the thread before any more voices of reason could post.
Nam Vet
It's a small scale example of the trible warfare that we see in Africa where tens of thousands of people butchered.
As has been said, "racism" isn't hatred of African Americans, it is FEAR of them - or at least of young black males. It's why Clinton didn't send Chelsea to public school in D.C. He and Hillary are as afraid of young blacks, as a group, as David Duke is. The phenomenon of black violence is very tragic especially for the fine African Americans of good character who find themselves targets of fear and suspsicion because of the behavior of so many others of their race. And then we have immoral white businessmen in the music industry who encourage vile behavior among young blacks, by promoting rap music. And of course those white business people live far away from the blacks they are helping to degrade, so they don't have to suffer the cultural and crime consequences.
I re-read your post. I see your point. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
You make some good points.
Why work when you can recycle rumors and second hand quotes, including several here which are old and have been published elsewhere? This guy, like so many, just made up a good part of his "report." Do you think he really has been to the "outskirts" to see white people sitting around in the wreckage with rifles? I don't.
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