Posted on 09/28/2005 5:58:36 AM PDT by yankeedame
Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2005 9:55 p.m. EDT
Mayor Nagin in Secret Sitdown with Farrakhan
Racially polarizing Nation of Islam chief Louis Farrakhan claimed on Friday that he had a private meeting with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, where Nagin gave him the information that Farrakhan later used to claim New Orleans' levees had been deliberately blown up.
Speaking to a gathering of his supporters in Memphis while promoting his upcoming Millions More March, Farrakhan said he met with Nagin in Dallas, Texas where the New Orleans mayor has relocated his family.
"We did a whirlwind tour where we hired a chartered jet, we flew to Dallas, Texas - members of the Millions More Movement - where we met with Mayor Nagin," Farrakhan claimed, in videotape of his Memphis speech posted to his Millions More Movement web site Tuesday.
It was during that meeting, Farrakhan said, where he obtained evidence that he would later use to claim New Orleans' levees were blown up.
"Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee," Farrakhan explained, before cautioning that the New Orleans Democrat "didn't say there was a bomb. He just said there was a crater." Farrakhan then added: "I say they blew it [up]."
News of Nagin's meeting with the incendiary black leader first surfaced Monday, Sept. 19, when Nashim Nzinga, chief of staff for the New Black Panther Party, told Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes":
"Minister Louis Farrakhan charted two planes and put 16 people on them and flew to Dallas, Texas; Houston, Texas; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Jackson, Mississippi, on a fact-finding mission. And he met the mayor of New Orleans in Dallas, Texas, and was told these things directly from him."
On Tuesday Sean Hannity aired some of Farrakhan's quotes from the Memphis speech on his ABC Radio show.
Citing an Internet report, the Nation of Islam chief explained how the information he got from Nagin led him to conclude that the levees had been deliberately destroyed:
"Divers inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found something that piqued their interest - burn marks on underwater debris chunks from the broken levee wall," Farrakhan said.
"One diver - a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - saw the burn marks and knew immediately what caused them."
Though Farrakhan detailed his meeting with the New Orleans mayor at an open forum, the press has kept word of the Farrakhan-Nagin summit under wraps. In the same address to the Memphis Millions More rally, Farrakhan said Nagin told him that white racists used attack dogs and machine guns to keep blacks from escaping the Superdome.
"Mayor Nagin told us that those poor brothers and sisters that went to the Superdome, these were the ones who made it out of their houses but didn't have any money or means to get out of the city . . . So when the water began to rise around the Superdome, Mayor Nagin told them to get out and start marching over the bridge, the I-10, and get out of here. So they started marching. And when they got over that bridge into the next parish, which was white, they were met with attack dogs and machine guns."
Farrakhan claimed that Mayor Nagin told him warning shots were fired to keep the black evacuees at bay.
"This is Mayor Nagin talking to us," he told the Memphis gathering. "They fired the machine guns over the heads of the crowd. They accepted any white people that were there, but no black people."
Since his alleged meeting with Farrakhan, Mayor Nagin has had no public comment on the Nation of Islam chief's claim that his city's levees were deliberately destroyed.
Nagin is a fool but Farrakhan is a liar. I suspect that Farrakhan made up the majority of his story all by his lonesome.
These guys are their own worst enemies. They're making this too easy!
I bet the Grand Canyon was created by lots and lots of explosives set by white men in order to make the water hard to get at for the native Americans.
"Calypso Louie" and "I Got No Willie" - critical mass for a "Black Hole" ??
"Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee," Farrakhan explained,
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How would numbskull Nagin know where craters were when HE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHERE THE BUSES WERE!!
And FarraCON is sheer mysogynis evil.
It was created by a white guy named Paul Bunion when he dragged his giant axe in the heat of the desert.
I should have figured there was definitely a white man behind it. There always is... ;-)
These guys are their own worst enemies. They're making this too easy!
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Yes, I listened to Calypso Louie on Fox -- his statement -- and later heard the nutjob racist from the Black Panthers spew out more professional racist crap, not even being able to answer ANY rational question from Hannity or Colmbs.
These charlatan liars are nothing but professional troublemaking racists -- just put them on the pile with Jesse J. and minless Al...
Not just any white man, the JOOOOOOOSSSSSSS!!!
;-)
The small grain of truth from which the lie grows: people were turned back when trying to walk to the next parish, because they had no way to accomodate or control them and did not wish to be looted. Machine guns? Maybe assault weapons.
The only actual eyewitness account I have heard of such treatment came from a group of white people who were refused entrance into Gretna. Farrakhan is an evil man.
And it can happen in hours, not years
What was the Lake Bonneville Flood?
Floods are generally considered climatically controlled episodes originating from heavy rainfall. The great ancient catastrophic floods however have involved collapses of natural dams with subsequent draining of lakes, unlike any witnessed in modern human history.
The Bonneville Flood was one of these ancient catastrophic floods that occurred approximately 14,500 yrs. ago, the result of catastrophic failure of one of the natural dams at Red Rock Pass of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville.
Pleistocene Lake Bonneville covered most of Utah and parts of Idaho and is estimated to have been over twelve times greater in size than the modern Great Salt Lake. When the dam broke, the flood waters involving approximately 4,750 km3 of water, traveled at an estimated 45 miles/hour, carrying 935,000 yds3 of water/sec. eroding the Snake River Canyon to over 500 ft. deep and over a mile wide in some places.
This catastrophic event changed the landscape of the Snake River Plain to what we visibly see today. Several geologic features that resulted from this spectacular event including large bar complexes, fine-grained slack water deposits, scoured and eroded basalt and scabland topography are visible along the flood route.
http://imnh.isu.edu/digitalatlas/hydr/lkbflood/whatlbf.htm
About 15,000 years ago, in the waning millennia of the Ice Age, a vast lake known as Glacial Lake Missoula suddenly burst through the ice dam that plugged it at one end. In the space of just 48 hours, geologists believe, the collapse sent 500 cubic miles of water cascading across the Pacific Northwest, creating overnight such unusual landscapes as the scablands of eastern Washington
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/megaflood/fantastic.html
The irony of it all is, as long as blacks listen to this man and Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, they will get no where in any man's world. Opps, I am starting to sound like Bill Cosby...
Mayor Nagin in Secret Sitdown with Farrakhan (Warning: Duct tape alert!)
(Warning: Two idiots in one room trading bulls**T stories alert!) is more like it.
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