| September 2005 As I’m waking up I’m listening to George W. Bush tersely tell American public that 7000 more troops from 82nd Airborne Division will be arriving to try and save the current disaster situation in New Orleans where at least 50,000 people are still waiting to be evacuated almost a week after Hurricane Katrina has devastated the gulf coast, especially New Orleans where one of the cities major levies broke spilling water throughout the whole city and creating an emergency situation for the 70% black impoverished community. Everyone is criticizing the president for slow response, and it’s really showing how America’s own homeland security is under danger, being stretched to the point of breaking in due part I believe to the overextending of American troops abroad. We have 150,000 in Iraq, and probably another 20,000 in Korea and who knows how many stationed all over the world. We are seeing what can happen when America overextends herself. When chaos hits at home we are going to be unable to deal with it if this current foreign policy of trying to police the world continues. It’s also been said by many of the residents of New Orleans that they felt their president was being racist in not responding sooner to the unbearable conditions existing in the wake of New Orleans. Intense looting and shootings have occurred in the near anarchist climate that has sprung up in the wake of civil chaos. Even the mayor of New Orleans has gone public about being more than upset by the situation, cursing on national t.v. at the governor and the federal governments delayed, even lacksadaisical approach to the emergency. Imagine being without food or water for 5 or 6 days, people dying around you, children and elderly people, armed renegades roaming through the streets taking whatever they want from whoever they want, random shootings, beatings and rapes. In the Super dome 20,000 people are still waiting to be rescued. It looks like a lot more people are going to die and civil unrest will continue until the water recedes or the majority of people are evacuated which will take weeks. Unfortunately they are concentrating on the violence, although necessary, rather than the lives that need to be saved from the water which seems to have created unsanitary conditions, the stench of death has been filling the air in recent days as decomposing bodies float in the water and contribute to the dangerous conditions for infectious diseases to catch hold. Also caskets have been floating out of their resting places and spilling out into the water and available lands around the Mississippi and Louisiana. I only can imagine what is really happening down there as the heat exposes everyone to the same muggy air and airborne illnesses begin to take hold. This is a disaster many times more terrifying than what is being reported. Potentially the death toll could rise very high after the city is fortified and cleaned up, if that is even possible, emergency crews must be increasingly wary of the living conditions down there as it is uninhabitable and everyone may soon be exposed to diseases from long deceased bodies that have recently been uncovered due to the force of the storm. Who knows what to expect now from the water, it could become a cesspool of small pox or influenza or anything that anyone may have died from in the past one hundred or so years. This will most likely become an epidemic claiming several thousand if not at least several hundred lives post rescue. The fact that Texas has been calling it’s own neighbors refugees is a numbing fact, since we are all Americans how could any of us be considered refugees in our own country. Texas has actually limited the amount of people it will accept over its borders. I can only imagine what it will be like for the first person beyond that quota to be denied entrance into a state in the “United” states of America, especially when many of the Louisiana residents have family located just across the border in Texas, more prominently than any other state. This could size up to become almost a conspiracy enveiling the de-federalization of the “United” states, the seperatism may soon become clearer where it has never been unveiled before in this country. The fact that one state could deny another states citizens sounds more like Bosnia and Serbia contending with the ravages of Albanian’s former breakdown of government and the anarchistic conditions that arose there , creating bands of armed “soldiers” who roamed the streets raping and pillaging in the during and after the aftermath of civil chaos there. What is this going to say about our country, that we could view its inhabitants as unequal, though the black population may already feel this, I believe we will see some real critisicm of the federal government and current Bush administration now, unlike any president has ever experienced since the founding of the union of States, hearkening back to the days of James Madison having armed citizens protesting outside his house in the early days of the colonies. -- Harry Pierce |