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The Lie Machine in motion....

Well, it didn't take long for our government to remember one of their favorite tools, the gag order. You don't need to see all the bodies floating in New Orleans. It would be bad for you as it just might make you wonder how they manage to keep talking about 100s of bodies with a straight face when the real numbers are easily in the high thousands. A friend of mine has a relative who works for FEMA and is in the middle of the clean-up in the midst of New Orleans. He tells me that she tells him (heresay, granted) that the workers have stopped even trying to count the number of floating bodies they are finding.

The sight of American bodies tends to get the American people asking the question "why", and thats something our government doesn't want. They don't want you asking why our men are dying in the middle east, Ergo they don't allow pictures of those bodies. They don't want you asking why people were drowned in New Orleans, so they don't want those bodies shown either.

The question the Bush adminstration has posed for us to ponder instead is "who is repsonsible for the imperfect reaction to the disaster" and wants to pin it on the Democratic governor, even though he has already had the director of FEMA fall on his sword to cover his own butt on this issue.

While that is certainly a good question, it isn't the most important one, Far from it. In point of fact, its a distraction and I would hazard a guess a purposeful one. The most important question is why did this disaster occur at all? The disaster wasn't the hurricane, we've had plenty of those in the past without nearly this much destruction or loss of life.

The disaster was the failure of the levees. This is what drowned the City of New Orleans and thousands of its poorest citizens. And it was a disaster the Bush administration was warned of, and yet courted by cutting funding for the repair of those levees over and over again.

And thats is something our president doesn't want to talk about. Are you surprised? You can make a difference though by reminding the media, as many times as necessary, that this is the real story and the one the people of the US need investigated.

Posted at 11:11PM Sep 11, 2005 by gameguy in Java  |  Comments[1]