Iowahawk: Every Little Bit Hurts

Iowahawk Special Guest Commentary
by Joshua Markos Mikos Atrios
For the Angels of Indignation

Two weeks ago, millions of Americans watched in horror as the city of New Orleans was savaged by the relentless, pollution-fueled fury of Hurricane Katrina. Later, we witnessed the human rights atrocity as George Bush's incompetent racist henchmen dynamited the levees, unleashing a tidal wave of contaminated Halliburton turdwater which forced thousands of our fellow citizens to flee into the dank slave ship-like bowels of the Superdome.

Now, as the floodwaters recede, the survivors of Bush/Katrina face an even greater danger: the danger of complacency. Even as you read this, Chimpy's pals in FEMA and the Red Cross are buying off evacuees with food and cheap blankets and debit cards, slowly robbing the survivors of God's most precious gift -- the gift of focused political rage.

The statistics are staggering. If we do not act soon, tens of thousands of Katrina victims will soon succumb to false hope. Many will return to Louisiana and begin rebuilding, lacking even the most basic idea of BushCo's culpability. Worse, many other poor and minority survivors will remain where they are, anonymously absorbed into the overwhelmingly Repugnican districts that were suspiciously ready to "set up" evacuee "help" "centers."

That's why we in the online progressive community have teamed up to form the Angels of Indignation, a new charity dedicated to getting the survivors of Bush/Katrina disaster back off their feet and on the road to class action. Angels of Indignation is proudly supported by a coalition of some of the top reality-based political sites -- sites like FrenzyBloc, RetardedChimp, Don't Bogart That Truth, BushTard, ConspiraScream, Puke Uprising, Dubyacide, Sanity Underground, Zit Popper, ScreamPukeRageScream, Screamette, and my own online community diary, The Daily Shriek.

Together, we represent the "can-do" sites that millions of progressives like you turn to for clear, level-headed political insight and activism to help you survive the coming holocaust schemes of the Rupugnican Xtian Jihadis in Washington. And now, we are asking for your financial help on behalf of the needy people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. As you think about your decision, please consider just a few of the things Angels of Indignation can achieve with your one-time contribution of $100 :

And that's just for $100; just think of what larger contributions can accomplish! For example, your generous gift of $1000 will make a thoughtful campaign donation for a needy progressive Senator on an important investigative committee; a Founder's Level gift of $10,000 will retain a top plaintiff's attorney for almost two days.

Whatever level you choose, your gift will prove the cynics wrong: sometimes a tragedy can bring out the best in people, as we all unite in a joyous harmony of blame. So please, give what you can, whether it is $10,000, $100, or even $1. In the fight against premature Hurricane recovery, every single bit hurts the cause of the illegal BushCo regime.

PS - remember, your gift is probably completely tax deductable. At least according to Al Franken and the Air America lawyers.

Here is the Babel Fish translation of precious Mikey's screed to the young commies of Cuba:

Opinion

To those who voted by Bush

Michael Moore

IN this fourth anniversary of the 11 of single September I am peculiar: how you feel? How you feel to the knowledge that the man that you chose to guide to us after we were attacked put in charge of FEMA (Federal Agency for Manejo de Emergencias) to a type whose greater qualification was to have administered shows of horses? He is correct. Shows of horses.

I really want to know - and I ask with all the sincerity and which had respect -, how you feel with the total scorn that Mr. Bush has shown in relation to your security? We go, dame solely a little while of honesty. You do not begin to complain whereupon this disaster in New Orleans was fault of one of the poorest cities in North America. It forgets your hatred to the liberal democrats and and to anyone whose last name is Clinton. Single mírame to the eyes and tell me that our president did the correct thing after the 9/11, naming to an administrator of shows of horses as the maximum man to protect in case of an emergency or catastrophe to us.

We are safer now than before the 9/11? When you know that behind the administrator of shows of horses, second and third in charge of emergency situations they have zero experience in emergency situations, you think that we are safer?

When you see Michael Chertoff, to the front of the Department of National Security, a man with little experience in national security, you feel safe?

When men who never were the military and never have seen young people die in combat send to our young people to the war, you think that they know how to handle a war? Think that they know what means that they destroy the legs to you by a threat that never was there?

You really think that to give important services from the government to private corporations it has been in better services for people?

With the debt of the nation in its historical point more stop, you think that the exemption of taxes for the rich ones is still a good idea? You would give back yours so that hundreds of thousands without house in New Orleans can have a home?

Believe in Jesus? Reamente? Perhaps did not say he that we would be judged by how we treated to the most needed between us?

The Katrina hurricane came and destroyed the facade of which we were a nation with freedom and justice for all. The wind howled, the water rose and the revealed thing was that the poor man in North America must suffer and to die while the President of the United States is entangled and he said to them that they eat pie.

That is not a joke. The day that the hurricane struck and the docks they broke, Mr. Bush, John McCain and their rich friends filled they themselves with pie. Day after the docks were broken (such docks whose bottoms of repair he had cancelled), Mr. Bush was touching the guitar that some singer of country had given him. All this while New Orleans sank under the water.

Another complete day was necessary before the President flew over the area in his Jumbo jet, showing itself slightly by the windows on 2 500 feet, while it flew of return to his second house in Washington D.C. Later would require two days more before the troops and the federal aid arrived.

My republican friends: he does not bother to them that we are to hazmerreír of the world?

And, in this sacred day of memory, they think that we honored or we shamed to which the 11 of September of 2001 died? If we did not learn anything and we recognize that each part of us so vulnerable and is incapacitated as we were that sunny morning, then 3 000 died in vain?

Our vulnerability is not solely to in front of do terrorists or natural disasters to him. We are vulnerable and uncertain because we allowed that one of each ten North Americans lives in a horrifying poverty.

We accepted an education system where one of each six children never will graduate and the majority not even can pronounce a coherent oration. The middle-class cannot pay the loans or the accounts of the hospital and 45 million do not have medical cover of any type

I know you better. You gave the country and to the world a man who was not to the height of the work and who everything what does is to contract people who are not to the height of the works for which they are named. Yes, you did this to us to us, the world, the people of New Orleans. Please corrígelo. Bush is yours. And you know, by La Paz and the security, that this must be corrected. What you propose?

I have an idea, and it is not a show of horses.

Yours,

Michael Moore

(Fragments)

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