You sound rational and I have reviewed your posts in the past - they sound rational. My only problem is that part about the government hiding bodies of illegal aliens during Andrew. All we have in this story is your credibility. Can you give us a single plausible scenario where the government would hide (as opposed to temporarily embargo) information about who died in a hurricane?
The Andrew story is that of common knowledge to those in south Florida which is where I was living at the time when it happened.
You could see video of the local networks bringing in the trucks to Homestead AF Base and there were locals who said bodies were all over the place in Naranja. I am not saying major thousands died in Andrew, but a hell of a lot more did die and were cremated and or buried in places where homeless are buried.
I remember interning at a local television station a few years later where we got to discussing what was seen firsthand and it was a political decision on 2 counts
1. To keep people coming to Miami in the future and to build there. Because giving a high death toll in one particular region means that more than likely people will not move back to that spot because of fear of a repeat.
2. Illegals were and are huge down in that area especially hundreds and thousands of migrant workers who live in small 2-bedroom homes that they put like 12 people in each. Also labor camps as well which were known about but looked past for the sake of supplying local jobs.
I am the last person to jump on the tin-foil bandwagon. Believe me...I am all about the source. My only thinking is families coming down to Miss and LA who have not heard from loved ones will find out for themselves after the rescue operation is over. This will take a lot of time to get organized. But the state wants to use this land again for building homes and businesses along the gulf coast. Not put the fear of God into people from moving away and not rebuilding.
The only problem with that is...we live in 2005 and communications and sources such as blogs and cell phones plus computers all over...just makes it different than when Andrew had hit. It will be much harder today to contain info.