Posted on 09/09/2005 8:50:17 AM PDT by woodb01
KATRINA and the MEDIA COVER-UP by FORGING STORIES to destroy America... On nearly every news channel the drumbeat against the delay in Federal Intervention is mind-numbing. The disaster warranted drastic action, but what is appropriate? Do we want a Federal Republic of States or a National Government? And what's the difference? The national media and the democrats display a passionate hatred for the American Constitutional design of a Federal Republic of States. In a Federal Republic of States, Governors have tremendous power rather than being just administrators for a National Government. So much power that in massive disasters like Katrina, the Federal government can't just come in and take charge without some legitimate legal authority. The Federal Government must be INVITED into a state by the relevant law enforcement officials. The alphabet soup media wing (of the democratic party) is intentionally deceiving the American public about the delays in federal help; they were caused by Louisiana's Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D). For many thousands of the dead, the Governor of the State of Louisiana decided that she didn't want Federal intervention. This is one of the pitfalls of a Federal Republic of States. The Governor simply avoided help for PURE PARTISAN POLITICAL REASONS, even with thousands dying. And a willingly deceptive media propaganda machine are working overtime to try to hide the democrat failures from the American public. In fact, just like Dan Rather's CBS forged documents to attack Bush, the alphabet soup media outlets are FORGING STORIES FOR THE DEMOCRATS TO DECEIVE THE AMERICAN PUBLIC! As Fox News reported after doing a careful investigation (instead of engaging in forged democrat media spin) Governor Blanco (D) strongly suspected NEW ORLEANS WAS GOING TO BE A MASSIVE DISASTER AREA BY ASKING THE FEDS TO DECLARE A DISASTER TWO DAYS AHEAD OF THE STORM! O'Reilly notes: Now Governor Blanco also made major mistakes. After asking and getting the federal government to declare the hurricane zone a disaster area two days before the storm hit, the governor failed to send any National Guard troops in to secure New Orleans and the surrounding parishes before the storm. Why? She also failed to ask for more troops from the feds, knowing she only had about 6,000 to control the city of 1.3 million. Why not ask for more? Like the mayor, Governor Blanco has no explanation. Surely she knew the potential for chaos. Why not send the Guard in immediately? Then when the levees were breached, the Guard found itself unable to get into New Orleans. They're outside. It was not until Wednesday, August 31st, three days after the storm hit, that Blanco admitted she didn't have enough security in the city. What Really Happened in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina? Bill O'Reilly, Fox News; Wednesday, September 07, 2005. Recently on CNN, before their “blame Bush” rants, Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D), the governor admitted she decided to stop President Bush, and to STOP the Federal Government from being able to help in this disaster. While it is a tacit admission, it is certainly an admission that the Democrat Governor made a conscious decision to use the State’s National Guard Troops and to KEEP BUSH AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE SITUATION! Amazingly, the Democrat MAYOR of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, said that the Governor had been offered “two options, I was ready to move today, the Governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.” Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco (D):The first five days of the recovery were heroic, we had, we were the people who took control. The National Guard took control of the city, brought order out of chaos, because we have law enforcement authority, the Federal troops do not. I was very concerned about giving up law enforcement authority. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco defends her state's response to Hurricane Katrina. (Sept. 6) - CNN (video feed with a commercial first) After this unbelievable admission, and with some LEADING QUESTIONS from the interviewer, the Governor and former FEMA director got back on message with their blaming of the Federal government. CNN's Soledad O'Brien, rather than pressing on one of the largest stories ever, helped to distract from the major issue, that the Democrat Governor was directly responsible for the stupid decisions that likely cost thousands of lives. To demonstrate just how sick the Hollywood controlled Alphabet Soup media machine, it takes an Australian paper to report the FACTS that the democrat media machine is completely aware of: Facts? Who wants them when there's this chance to vilify George W. Bush?... It seems that telling the truth is now bad manners. ...Ray Nagin, delayed calling a mandatory evacuation of his flood-prone city until just 24 hours before Katrina hit, and only after Bush rang to urge him to get cracking. Nor did Nagin use the city's buses to get out around 90,000 of the poorest or sickest residents. And the 50,000 who crammed into the city's Superdome and convention centre found little food and water there, and no chemical toilets -- all Nagin's responsibility. Meanwhile the state's Democrat Governor refused at first to crack down on looters who were shooting at rescuers, and asked for a day to decide whether to accept Bush's offers of help. Bad enough? Now we learn a third of Nagin's police have deserted, and he's sending the rest to Las Vegas and Atlanta for a five-day break, with expenses. And remember all those victims in the Superdome, screaming for food and water? That suffering that proved Bush had failed? The American Red Cross says it tried to bring in supplies to them soon after the hurricane hit, but was blocked by state officials. It explained: "The (Louisiana) state Homeland Security Department had requested -- and continues to request -- that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. "Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city." Yes, that suffering you saw was deliberately caused by the Democrat state administration to starve the poor out of New Orleans. So explain to me again why Bush is to blame... Bush still not to blame. Andrew Bolt, The Herald Sun. September 9, 2005 The Washington Post, with its liberal slant, sandwiched the truth in between its "blame Bush" coverage as well: Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday. The administration sought unified control over all local police and state National Guard units reporting to the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request after talks throughout the night, concerned that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. Some officials in the state suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who does not have the authority to speak publicly. A senior administration official said that Bush has clear legal authority to federalize National Guard units to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act and will continue to try to unify the chains of command that are split among the president, the Louisiana governor and the New Orleans mayor. Louisiana did not reach out to a multi-state mutual aid compact for assistance until Wednesday, three state and federal officials said. As of Saturday, Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency, the senior Bush official said. "The federal government stands ready to work with state and local officials to secure New Orleans and the state of Louisiana," White House spokesman Dan Bartlett said. "The president will not let any form of bureaucracy get in the way of protecting the citizens of Louisiana." Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort. In a Washington briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said one reason federal assets were not used more quickly was "because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor." Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting - White House Shifts Blame to State and Local Officials. The Washington Post, Sunday, September 4, 2005; Page A01 (for a Saturday, September 3, 2005 story). It is very clear that Americans must turn off the Alphabet Soup media outlets. The only thing anyone will get from them are carefully scripted, anti-Conservative, anti-American, anti-Republican, centralized government rants. The alphabet soup media machine gives lots of airtime to the shrieking lunatic Nancy Pelosi to attack the President! Pelosi has got to be one of the most out of control democrat maniacs the country has ever seen... Always remember, every story, every appearance, every word spoken, and all of the content you see on the alphabet soup networks is carefully selected and screened by producers to ensure that the public only receives the message they want you to receive. No matter how "natural" it looks, these are Hollywood style production studios which carefully craft the democrat message. One of the shortcomings of America's Federal Republic of States is that it is based on distributed power and control. As a result, disasters like those created by incompetent Governors such as Kathleen Blanco (D) are an example. In contrast, in a National Government, the government would have just come in, taken over, brought in troops and resources and gone to work immediately. That is one small component of how a National Government works. But, the world's most brutal, ruthless, and bloody regimes were National Governments. All Communist governments are National Governments no matter what they call themselves. In a National Government there is no balance of power, the National Government is all powerful and supreme. Its dictates have no respect for any other authority. National Governments are based on tyranny. The bloody fascist - communist dictator Mussolini said it best "the trains run on time," if they didn't, the conductors were shot in the head. I have absolutely no doubt that Mussolini would have had the Katrina situation under control within hours--, anyone that didn't work like a well-oiled machine would have been shot in the head, anyone that didn't evacuate would have been shot in the head... Fascism (centralized, all powerful National Government) is what the alphabet soup media and the democrats are shrieking that they want. The constant media drumbeats about the failures that caused these deaths are carefully designed to distract from the DISASTER CAUSED BY GOV. KATHLEEN BLANCO (D) of Louisiana. With the exception of Fox News, all of the other media stations are parading out their democrat shills to shriek propaganda to hide the real failures, the failures of power hungry politicians like Blanco, Pelosi, Clinton, Reid, and others who will do anything to regain power. They will stoop to any level, no matter how deceptive, no matter how vile, no matter how trashy, no matter what. Because to a National SOCIALIST, POWER is all that matters! Wake up folks, we're talking about some of the same folks who have aided in possible TREASON! If the people of this country don't wake up to the sickness that is the "democratic party," America's destruction won't come from a natural disaster, America's destruction will come from within. For those who don't know, fascism is centralized government power and control. Fascism is the main ingredient in National Socialism (Nazi-ism), Communism, and Socialism. The media and the democrats are COMPLAINING BECAUSE BUSH DID NOT ACT LIKE A FASCIST! While it is too far-fetched for me to accept, I must note that some have speculated that the Governor's delay and the anarchy and chaos that came about were designed to cause Bush to intervene, even without proper authority, so that the democrats could demand his impeachment. Could the democrat's lust for power drive them to sacrifice thousands for a chance at regaining power? And why are most of the major networks INTENTIONALLY DECEIVING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC? Are they all that insane for power and control? History has shown repeatedly that those who want strong centralized forms of government routinely slaughter those who get in their way to gain power. I would certainly hope that the socialists in America that call themselves "democrats" haven't gone that far yet. What can you do? Every American must make it their mission to expose the Hollywood-style anti-American media machine. Expose every attempt by the leftist Alphabet Soup media outlets to filter, twist, distort, and manipulate the public message. It is unfortunate that the media has not learned their lesson about FORGERIES from Dan Rather. Instead of documents, now they forge entire stories to manipulate the public. 1. Every time you see a story demonstrating media bias, report it to the various outlets that track and record the bias. List of Media Bias Resources, or to add additional media bias links. 2. You can also make an effort to point out blatant types of media bias such as this to all of your friends. Or you can point your friends and relatives to alternative conservative media outlets. Take the time and send your friends and relatives an e-mail today encouraging them to just get their news from conservative sources on the Internet. Before long, the remaining Hollywood socialist news rooms will collapse. 3. Specifically target NBC, MSNBC, and MSN with tactics that will get Microsoft's attention and pressure them into stopping their support for leftist - socialist insanity. 4. Simply TALK to your friends and relatives about the culture war, ask them silly questions like "If the First Amendment is so important, why do so many people think you shouldn't talk about politics or religion?" or "Why does 'tolerance' only mean accepting everything that's bad, wrong, or immoral but if you bring up morals you're considered 'intolerant,' isn't preventing morals intolerant?" CHALLENGE THE POLITICALLY CORRECT CULTURAL ASSUMPTIONS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY!
NoDNC.com staff report
Soledad O’Brien (CNN Correspondent): Coming to terms meaning that you rejected after that 24 hour window that you… didn’t have any interest in federalizing the troops or turning power over to the President. Why not hand it over madam governor when the first five days, and I think that meeting was on Friday [September 2], the first several days of the recovery were clearly disastrous…
They are revealing their real goal and agenda and it is truly frightening. As horrible as this tragedy is, the Democrat Governor should [figuratively] have her head served up on a platter.
What is sad is all the attention paid to two days. All was well Tuesday, went bad Wednesday and Thursday and the help arrived on Friday so we are talking about a city and state and a people unable to take care of themselves for 48 hours and all this blame game.
Pretty sad when you think about the history of the world and what people went through. I know military folks in wars that went without food or water for as long.
EXCELLENT....
Maybe you can help with this. I've been trying to search through all the Katrina related posts, but well, there are quite a few.
Regarding the convention center. I remember some people commenting that the first stories about people at the convention center didn't come out until last Thursday or so. Now, everyone is making a big deal about FEMA learning about this after the rest of the world. As I understand it no one ever notified FEMA that they were using the convention center.
Do you have some links, timeline, etc. that can put this in perspective?
you take a tiger cub from the wild, domesticate him for 30 years then let him go... What happens? The tiger either dies because it doesn't know how to hunt, or it gets smart and learns to defend itself and survive.
The People of New Orleans are used to hand outs like the young tiger cub. Now, when the survival instincts are needed, they aren't there, these people relied too much on thier government and not on thier own. Who is going to die?
"The media and the democrats are screeching that Bush did NOT act like a fascist!"
Meanwhile democrats have led the way on forced evictions and gun confiscations in New Orleans.
What about the looters, I would guess as many of them came from the public dole. Instead of helping their fellow man their instincts did not not go asking for a handout but to violence.
I understand a lot of those that stayed and looted were in the drug trade protecting their territory but that percentage was moved to violence not survival or, coddled to do nothing.
Vote of us -- when times are tough, we promise we will act like Facsist Dictators. For your own good.
Which throws reason and logic out the window. i.e." What is a pair of rebocks going to do for you in this situation"?
I on the other hand do not believe in taking something that wasn't given to you, so I wouldn't touch a loaf of bread in a store in that situation. Here is the kicker... I wouldn't have been in the situation. Rule #1, make sure you are out of harms way and make shelter in high ground. - Meaning - I would have left New Orleans before the disaster struck. Of course, most of us with reason would have done the same thing...
It's plain that the Left and Ultra-Left cannot grab the power they so much insanely crave other than having an all powerful national government that overrides all the states' and citizens' rights to suit their wacko agenda. Animal Farm and 1984 comes to mind explicitly.
Once such a federal government is in place, the elite rich leftists running the national government, coupled with forced indoctrination of their sick ideals of a carefree homosexual, pedophile, drug laid en, socialist society will undoubtedly have it their way any time they so choose which includes all the children too.
If you think I'm crazy, then look at the cultures and countries of some of the now Middle East, some of Asia, current child labor abuse around the world, etc. and ancient history.
" Every time you see a story demonstrating media bias, report it to the various outlets that track and record the bias. List of Media Bias Resources, or to add additional media bias links."
This is excellent advice. Moreover, I'd add start calling these people the traitorous quislings they are. When people are trying to destroy you, you don't play make believe with them.
I believe what is going on in this situation is that people are confusing the Superdome with the Convention Center. I don't remember seeing any coverage of the people at the convention center but there was an incredible amount of coverage about the Superdome.
An easy question would be to ask someone to describe what the convention center looks like. If they describe the Superdome, they are confusing the issues.
Course, had you stayed and caused problems you get a $2,000 debt card from FEMA.
If you left and came back to no home or life, you get nothing.
In my lifetime I have seen many things. The attacks on this administration by the media and the Democrats is the biggest batch of horsesht I have ever seen.
Screams of racism, of not caring, of gross incompetence coming from the mouths of biased, bigoted, Congresscritters , race baiters and journalists are enough to turn the stomach of any decent human being.
Was there gross oncpompetence? Hell yes, but not by the administration, but by locals who had never read their own evacuation plans or made any preparations in the least, in spite of living below sea level and knowing a storm was on the way. Turning away help because they didnt want to attract the people who needed that help. Has anyone ever heard anything so stupid? Do we need investigations? We do but not investigations put forth by people who wish to hide the facts, and lay the blame anyplace other than with local authorities who are incopmpetent to the point of being criminal.
1. enthusiasm 2. Disillusionment 3. Panic 4. search for the guilty 5. punishment of the innocent 6. praise and honor for the non-participants
Don't forget CNN in this group. The first days after the storm, every other story was Bush-bashing.
Do you know when evacuees started arriving at the convention center? Isn't wasn't one of the original shelters was it?
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