Posted on 09/02/2005 2:54:29 AM PDT by jimbo123
As buses finally started arriving to pluck refugees from the Louisiana Superdome yesterday, a horrifying picture emerged of the squalor, violence and mayhem that they faced during the days spent huddled in the stadium.
Twenty-five thousand miserable people — many of whom lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina — hunkered down with little food and little water, overflowing toilets, stifling heat and the unbearable stench of human waste.
Children slept in pools of urine. Crack vials littered the bathrooms. Bloodstains smeared the walls near vending machines that had been pried open. Gunfire has ricocheted down the corridors.
There were two reports of rape, one involving a child. Three people died — one a distraught man who jumped to his death, saying he had nothing left to live for.
"We pee on the floor. We are like animals," Taffany Smith, 25, told the Los Angeles Times, while she gripped her 3-week-old son in her arms.
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Supplies were dangerously low, with one mother saying officials told her to reuse diapers by scraping them out when they got dirty.
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"There is feces on the walls," said Bryan Hebert, 43. "There is feces all over the place."
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It is easy to convert people full of hate to Islam, the religion of hate.
You might look at scientology and how easily movie stars are converted to it. Scientologists preach that anything your conscience can live with is fine as long as you have no regrets about it.
It pretty much says do whatever you like. Thats why
they join so easily.
Tyson and prisoners in prison are ripe for this religion because they have been taught hate since the day they were born.
DISedifying?
Thanks.
Why do I hear so many misinformed people around saying that Mohammedanism is a "religion of peace?"
Stalin defined peace as when the Communists get all the guns and the anti-Communists lose all the guns.
Is there some connection here?
Bueatiful post. Thanks, even for the tag line. You are an asset to Freerepublic.
Hitlery, Sewerdome, undocumented shoppers, such fascinating vocabulary here on FR.
I felt stupider for having listened to it.
Stupidity can be infectious, like disease. I feel that way after watching TV too often. Maybe the dictionary needs a new entry. Not a bad word, considering the circumstances. Thanks.
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