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Me, too.  I'm scared.  They're doing nothing to help.  Martial law has been declared in I don't know how many areas, but huge chunks of three of our most impoverished states.  The military us/them attitude is taking root throughout.

The racial divide in this country has never been more on display, right down to calling white people "victims who found food" to calling black people "looters."  The wingnuts are already fomenting every kind of despicable racist, classist deplorable bullshit on the radio and blogs.

How long before a Pat Robertson makes national news saying some vile, racist statement?  if we're on a war footing with New Orleans and the refugees, how long before this explodes in the inner-cities?

We are in desperate, desperate need of leadership right now.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 03:11:48 PM EST
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very scary...and very, very sad...

"Once in awhile we get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if we look at it right" - Hunter/Garcia
by whataboutbob on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 04:02:36 PM EST
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The second charity listed as a preferred donation site by FEMA, after the Red Cross, is Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing. In all fairness it rates highly in terms of program expenses versus administration expenses...even so, it's high listing by FEMA seems a little hinky.
by northsylvania on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 09:02:10 PM EST
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TomPaine has this to say about Operation Blessing, which makes support of Church by State at a time like this even more peculiar.
http://tinyurl.com/2491
Disaster profiteering indeed.
by northsylvania on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 10:07:18 PM EST
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