Posted on 09/03/2005 9:05:30 AM PDT by atomic conspiracy
An LGF reader forwarded these quotes about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900:
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Looters found despoiling the dead were stood against the nearest wall or pile of debris and shot without hindrance of a trial. The grisly work of collecting the dead continued by torchlight. The workers were issued generous rations of bourbon and strong cigars. They breathed through handkerchiefs soaked in bourbon and smoked cigars to mask the smell.
In the sweltering heat that followed the storm, decomposition was rapid. The bodies soon lost the rigidity of rigor mortis and had to be shoveled into carts. At times the fixed bayonets of the militia were all that kept many of the men at their work. Superintendents of the work gangs were finally given permission to torch the wreckage wherever found rather than try to extricate pieces of flesh from the ruins and cart them away.
It was like living in a battlefield. The fuel-oil smoke hung over the city, day and night, and the heavy air was never free of the smell of carbolic acid, of lime, of putrefaction.
Death from the Sea: The Galveston Hurricane of 1900, Herbert Molloy Mason, Jr.
Looters found despoiling the dead were summarily executed by the militia - stood against the nearest wall or pile of debris and shot without the hindrance of a trial. The same brutal justice was delivered to amateur photographers. Word received from Galveston today indicates that Kodak fiends are being shot down like thieves. Two, it is stated, were killed yesterday while taking pictures of nude female bodies.
Dallas News, September 14, 1900.
The following links will give anyone a sense of what went on, the aftermath, the carnage, the clean up, the raising of the island some 13 feet.. 8,000 dead out of some 38,000 residents.
Photos are available at the following link
http://www.1900storm.com/photographs/index.lasso
The 1900 Storm with several links
http://www.1900storm.com/
The Galveston Storm of 1900
http://www.noaa.gov/galveston1900/
Read all about them and their madness here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476428/posts
Not long ago I read the history of the JOHNSTOWN FLOOD. Looters there were shot on sight and the newspapers reported that most of the looters were "Eastern Europeans, Italians and Hungarians".
One would think the newspapers were anti-Immigrant.
So, here's what the funny little foreign people see ~ a large white soldier cradles a small black child as he is pulled out of the flood to safety in a helicopter.
You don't need any other image than that one. It puts the lie to all the propaganda peddled by the poverty pimps and their Democrat running dog lackeys.
From any point of view anywhere in the Third World, it all looks good!
I hope you are right!
Thanks for the reassurance.
It's pretty clear a large white guy is rescuing a tiny black child ~ and that's the way it is.
So much for this hideous race card LIBERALS love to play!
THAT sickens me.
I think we know who the REAL racists are - LIBERALS!
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