The Katrina and Rita Hurricanes: The Real Fraud is Hiding From America
I love the United States of America. I have since I began life here, 53-years ago in Colorado as a fourth generation American. I’ve taken her for granted in many ways, especially in critical thinking. I believe in the framework of our Constitution and still do.
What I no longer believe in is the perversion of the Constitution by way of wealth, whether individuals, corporations, or the religious. The owners of our political and news systems are wealthy, very, very wealthy.
Politics is an ugly game of disguise, smoke screens, covering, and bait and switch. No one talks honestly or openly. Behind what they're talking about is financial influence; how that power is leveraged. Heck, I love money. I'd love to have a ton of it. You do, too, whether you do, are getting along well, or even if you don’t. Greed trumps meaning and integrity across many issues today. One of them surrounds the games in play regarding the hurricanes of August and September in the South.
I’m not someone with an axe to grind. I could care less if the government comes out smelling like a rose or a pile of mushroom fertilizer. I don’t care about Mike Brown, the FBI, whether George Bush is viewed as a great president, an idiot, a manipulator, a conservative-Christian soldier, or an American hero. I’m no one, just like you; a nameless, powerless (beyond my own life) individual who rides along in America.
I happen to be a professional, a lucky break by way of my father becoming a professor after living in poverty in the early 1900’s. When the hurricane Katrina disaster hit, I received an e-mail out of nowhere, asking mental health professionals to volunteer. I am a psychologist by training, although I’ve worked as an executive for several years in behavioral healthcare. I don’t have some big ego about it. I’m just someone whose work and education went this way. Mainly, I’m a Dad, a husband, a sports fanatic, still love rock-and-roll, a quiet about it Christian, an action movie follower, a lousy shopper, lazy around the house kind of guy. I’m nothing special in my mind or in some form of grandiosity. Anyway, this horrific catastrophe pushed me into going. I'd never done anything like it before.
I went to Mississippi, 90-miles above New Orleans. I was in hurricane Rita, having the crap scared out of me. The whole thing was mind-boggling. There are tens of thousands of people whose lives have been completely obliterated by the hurricanes. All of their belongings, records, access, information, in many cases family members, dogs, cats, barbeques, cars, trucks, credit cards, pictures albums, TVs, VCRs, radios, electricity, water, gas, toilet paper, toilets, food, resumes: you name it, it’s gone. I participated in the first financial and bulk goods “assistance” site after Katrina, and from the day I arrived until the last volunteer left, miles and miles of cars, with people inside, lined-up for help.
I know it would be much easier to look at them as losers, folks who are scamming the “system,” and view Nagin, Blanco, Brown, etc, as the “reason” why they haven't been taken care of. Certainly that’s what the Press and government want you to believe. So would I if I hadn’t been there. In fact, I find it hard to believe now, given what I hear and read from the Press and our government.
But it’s much, much worse in truth. I don’t want to write about this. I don’t want any attention personally. I don’t want to wind up on some “list” or hear that I’m being “un-American” or not an okay "Christian." However, it’s hideous to know that something is truly happening and every effort is being made to play “bait and switch.” There hasn't been a recovery: That's why 150,000 people are being booted out of hotel rooms, tens of thousands still roam the areas I worked in without ANY help, 2,500 people are missing, and the odds of pigs flying exceed those of abandoned thousands returning to rebuild.
I just want to go back to watching TV, enjoying my family, complaining about my job, keeping in reasonable shape, seeing my kids through college, watching sports and seeing action movies, and going on vacations. But I can’t, because I was there, the non-relief and non-recovery are hidden but true, and I’m going back. There is something here that America should wake-up to: it may not, like it hasn’t so many times before, because there isn't any money in it.
Fraud "news" focuses on the American Red Cross’ delivery of money to non-confirmed recipients, or whether FEMA, Homeland Security, or the White House heard first of the levee failures. The FBI is investigating. If there’s an actual investigation into the Katrina and Rita situation, thousands of professional and non-professional people volunteered there and thousands are still: Why not talk with them? They're not on anyone's payroll.
Then there are all of the speeches about how to move on, to rebuild, and so forth. Of course the planning is needed. However, the larger reality is that over 200,000 citizens of the United States of America are either living out of there cars (if they have them) or are being evicted (for no apparent reason) from the allocated hotel rooms they had after their lives were erased. What were they supposed to do during this time, and what are they going to do now? Put yourself in their shoes. How would you get by? What if everything you have, every record, every connection, your cars, your belongings, in many cases your family members, were suddenly gone? What would you honestly do? What would you be able to do?
While spin churns on and on to protect political parties and the powers financing them, the people who survived Katrina and Rita have been abandoned. You and I go along obliviously living with it. What about them? Yet should we just sit by and watch?
I’m going back, but with a very different perspective. I believed in the news and the politicians, in their words about relief, recovery, and rebuilding. I've kept in close touch with many who were and are there. It isn't happening and what I read and hear about is focused on burying it. I guess its yet another issue that we're supposed to pass into American history and pretend never happened. Never know; never act. Just go along and walk on by, like sheep.
common cause
www.commoncause.org
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021000267.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/politics/10katrina.html?hp&ex=1139634000&en=914abcf6c2b5fc5a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/politics/10katrina.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/28/AR2005112801681.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021000267.html
Louisiana
New Orleans
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9729481/site/newsweek
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101409.html
New
Katrina
Hurricane
we are not ok
What I no longer believe in is the perversion of the Constitution by way of wealth, whether individuals, corporations, or the religious. The owners of our political and news systems are wealthy, very, very wealthy.
Politics is an ugly game of disguise, smoke screens, covering, and bait and switch. No one talks honestly or openly. Behind what they're talking about is financial influence; how that power is leveraged. Heck, I love money. I'd love to have a ton of it. You do, too, whether you do, are getting along well, or even if you don’t. Greed trumps meaning and integrity across many issues today. One of them surrounds the games in play regarding the hurricanes of August and September in the South.
I’m not someone with an axe to grind. I could care less if the government comes out smelling like a rose or a pile of mushroom fertilizer. I don’t care about Mike Brown, the FBI, whether George Bush is viewed as a great president, an idiot, a manipulator, a conservative-Christian soldier, or an American hero. I’m no one, just like you; a nameless, powerless (beyond my own life) individual who rides along in America.
I happen to be a professional, a lucky break by way of my father becoming a professor after living in poverty in the early 1900’s. When the hurricane Katrina disaster hit, I received an e-mail out of nowhere, asking mental health professionals to volunteer. I am a psychologist by training, although I’ve worked as an executive for several years in behavioral healthcare. I don’t have some big ego about it. I’m just someone whose work and education went this way. Mainly, I’m a Dad, a husband, a sports fanatic, still love rock-and-roll, a quiet about it Christian, an action movie follower, a lousy shopper, lazy around the house kind of guy. I’m nothing special in my mind or in some form of grandiosity. Anyway, this horrific catastrophe pushed me into going. I'd never done anything like it before.
I went to Mississippi, 90-miles above New Orleans. I was in hurricane Rita, having the crap scared out of me. The whole thing was mind-boggling. There are tens of thousands of people whose lives have been completely obliterated by the hurricanes. All of their belongings, records, access, information, in many cases family members, dogs, cats, barbeques, cars, trucks, credit cards, pictures albums, TVs, VCRs, radios, electricity, water, gas, toilet paper, toilets, food, resumes: you name it, it’s gone. I participated in the first financial and bulk goods “assistance” site after Katrina, and from the day I arrived until the last volunteer left, miles and miles of cars, with people inside, lined-up for help.
I know it would be much easier to look at them as losers, folks who are scamming the “system,” and view Nagin, Blanco, Brown, etc, as the “reason” why they haven't been taken care of. Certainly that’s what the Press and government want you to believe. So would I if I hadn’t been there. In fact, I find it hard to believe now, given what I hear and read from the Press and our government.
But it’s much, much worse in truth. I don’t want to write about this. I don’t want any attention personally. I don’t want to wind up on some “list” or hear that I’m being “un-American” or not an okay "Christian." However, it’s hideous to know that something is truly happening and every effort is being made to play “bait and switch.” There hasn't been a recovery: That's why 150,000 people are being booted out of hotel rooms, tens of thousands still roam the areas I worked in without ANY help, 2,500 people are missing, and the odds of pigs flying exceed those of abandoned thousands returning to rebuild.
I just want to go back to watching TV, enjoying my family, complaining about my job, keeping in reasonable shape, seeing my kids through college, watching sports and seeing action movies, and going on vacations. But I can’t, because I was there, the non-relief and non-recovery are hidden but true, and I’m going back. There is something here that America should wake-up to: it may not, like it hasn’t so many times before, because there isn't any money in it.
Fraud "news" focuses on the American Red Cross’ delivery of money to non-confirmed recipients, or whether FEMA, Homeland Security, or the White House heard first of the levee failures. The FBI is investigating. If there’s an actual investigation into the Katrina and Rita situation, thousands of professional and non-professional people volunteered there and thousands are still: Why not talk with them? They're not on anyone's payroll.
Then there are all of the speeches about how to move on, to rebuild, and so forth. Of course the planning is needed. However, the larger reality is that over 200,000 citizens of the United States of America are either living out of there cars (if they have them) or are being evicted (for no apparent reason) from the allocated hotel rooms they had after their lives were erased. What were they supposed to do during this time, and what are they going to do now? Put yourself in their shoes. How would you get by? What if everything you have, every record, every connection, your cars, your belongings, in many cases your family members, were suddenly gone? What would you honestly do? What would you be able to do?
While spin churns on and on to protect political parties and the powers financing them, the people who survived Katrina and Rita have been abandoned. You and I go along obliviously living with it. What about them? Yet should we just sit by and watch?
I’m going back, but with a very different perspective. I believed in the news and the politicians, in their words about relief, recovery, and rebuilding. I've kept in close touch with many who were and are there. It isn't happening and what I read and hear about is focused on burying it. I guess its yet another issue that we're supposed to pass into American history and pretend never happened. Never know; never act. Just go along and walk on by, like sheep.
common cause
www.commoncause.org
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021000267.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/politics/10katrina.html?hp&ex=1139634000&en=914abcf6c2b5fc5a&ei=5094&partner=homepage
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/politics/10katrina.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/28/AR2005112801681.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021000267.html
Louisiana
New Orleans
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9729481/site/newsweek
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/11/AR2006021101409.html
New
Katrina
Hurricane
we are not ok
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