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.
And is there a single question in this "report" about why an African-American mayor would put 25,000 flood refugees in the Surpedome, for three or more days and not send enough security forces there - no matter what other priorities his security forces had? No, the media assumption is based totally on the visual presentation, not the facts. It is the element of lying that the great propagandist Michael Moore understands so well.
There is a problem in this nation and it is not racial, it is cultural and the "government planation society" of the Democrats have held back the progress out of that culure for too many blacks.
The vile acts we see, that scar the nation, are not acts of a racial group but are acts that are allowed to go unashamed in a culture of victimhood maintained by the liberal "government plantation society".
Conservative principles have the answers to our fellow Americans of all races, and most of that answer is not in the government.
Unlike other countries, the NATION in the U.S. is not the Government.
Man, did you ever say it. On Target!
People are asking a lot of good questions, and posing a lot of good, common sense insight on this thread, in response to this Australian article. I think the article is naive, yet the contents, reporting facts of what occured, seems very factual. It is actually quite clear "how this could have all happened."
I was talking about the same thing.
I can understand WHY the British students were begging for George W. Bush to come rescue them.
There are some who support those vermin for some queer reason. They know how horrific it is and that they cannot reasonably defend it so instead they try to deny it happened. They seem to have the same warped character as those they defend.
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