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"Rape and Murder Inside Dome of Despair" (Australia) Foreign Reporters In New Orleans' Report
The Courier Mail News (online) Australia | 3 Sept 2005 | Adam Harvey & Kim Sweetman

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.


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: anarchy; anarchydome; australia; chaos; disorder; embarrassment; fiasco; hurricane; hurricaneaussies; incompetence; katrina; katrinafailures; libs; neworleans; rape; rapedome; superdome
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Comment #21 Removed by Moderator

To: 2harddrive; Admin Moderator
Has anyone heard if the CANNABILISM reported Friday by Randall Robertson, liberal black activist and president of Transafrica, is true?

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.

22 posted on 09/03/2005 7:12:09 AM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: Baynative
Who is THEY?

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.

23 posted on 09/03/2005 7:12:43 AM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: mhking

sidebar moderator intervened...I just couldn't takt it anyone.


24 posted on 09/03/2005 7:13:04 AM PDT by cyborg ("I want to know how God created this world. I want to know His thoughts..." A.Einstein)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
...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.

Explanation: Liberalism

It's that simple

25 posted on 09/03/2005 7:22:49 AM PDT by Popman (In politics, ideas are more important than individuals.)
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To: gitmo

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.


26 posted on 09/03/2005 7:33:04 AM PDT by dawn53
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To: AmericanInTokyo
"They're raping babies in there...They are raping women. They are stabbing. There were riots."

Clearly raping women and babies is a normal human response to hunger. /dark sarcasm

27 posted on 09/03/2005 7:34:45 AM PDT by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: cyborg

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).


28 posted on 09/03/2005 7:41:46 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Some fruitloop wrote a article claiming cannibalism which Drudge picked up and that's the entire source of the story.


29 posted on 09/03/2005 7:43:55 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: Tribune7

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?


30 posted on 09/03/2005 7:45:28 AM PDT by cyborg ("I want to know how God created this world. I want to know His thoughts..." A.Einstein)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Image hosted by Photobucket.com the dome etc. should of been WOMEN and CHILDREN and ELDERLY ONLY!!! with just enough men to keep things safe and operating smoothly... the rest should of been standing guard. but that's just if i were running things.
31 posted on 09/03/2005 7:46:08 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: cyborg
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.

32 posted on 09/03/2005 7:48:24 AM PDT by Tribune7
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To: mhking
DU bought eagerly into the cannabalism claim, racking up post after hate-filled OMG post until one lone black member posted "BLACKS ARE NOT ANIMALS. WE CAN GO 4 DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. THIS IS BULL****."

The moderator immediately locked the thread before any more voices of reason could post.

33 posted on 09/03/2005 7:50:31 AM PDT by Sender (Team Infidel USA)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
Too late, NO effort will be made to discuss the socialist policies of LA, in N.O., or any big cities that have been run by liberals and Black officials, for 40 years.

All the effort is going towards ignoring it, for the better and faux "story" that the President of the United States is a racist and failed to send help on time.

The myth-makers have already won, because we, ie, Freepers and therefore our reps in DC, have caved to MSM pressure, as usual.
34 posted on 09/03/2005 7:50:52 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: AmericanInTokyo; Admin Moderator
Just as a note to all. Google maps has satellite images AFTER KATRINA as one of the view choices now. Moderator, possible new thread material so all here will know? It really is great and you can see exactly all the different neighborhoods as they are now.

Nam Vet

35 posted on 09/03/2005 7:54:01 AM PDT by Nam Vet (There are two theories to arguing with women. Neither one works.)
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To: ExitPurgamentum

It's a small scale example of the trible warfare that we see in Africa where tens of thousands of people butchered.


36 posted on 09/03/2005 8:01:11 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: cyborg

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.


37 posted on 09/03/2005 8:08:12 AM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: dawn53

I re-read your post. I see your point. Sorry for the misunderstanding.


38 posted on 09/03/2005 8:09:23 AM PDT by gitmo (Thanks, Mel. I needed that.)
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To: churchillbuff

You make some good points.


39 posted on 09/03/2005 8:11:34 AM PDT by cyborg ("I want to know how God created this world. I want to know His thoughts..." A.Einstein)
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To: Baynative
How about a little reporting here?

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.

40 posted on 09/03/2005 8:18:07 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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