They sure did a good job of keeping katrina off the TV *graphic*

[jollyreaper2112]

The real images, the dead bodies. The news media sure did a good job of covering this up. I seem to remember only seeing a couple of these pictures back when it occured. No bodies, no problem. Same reason why we don't see any of the dead from Iraq. If there are no pictures, it doesn't count as much.

[jollyreaper2112]

1. source document

http://cryptome.quintessenz.at/mirror/katdead-01/katrin...

[ariellyn]

2. Foley is news. Black people drowning? Not newsworthy in Amerikka. nt

[NMMNG]

16. Sex in any form is a scandal to be denounced by the neocon swarms

Human death is of no consequence, particularly when a consequence of "righteous" action in the name of God or the USA.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

3. Thank you, K & R.

Oh shit. Crying again. MKJ

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

4. Damn it, please K & R. NOLA sacrificed at the the alter of greed.

MKJ

[rsmith6621]

5. Again...What day was * *** told in a meeting about

Katrina By FEMA and NOAA that he says he doesnt remember????....anyone have a link to that for a resource..

[Glorfindel]

6. Kicked & recommended...my heart has broken over & over

as a resident of south Mississippi, I have some knowledge of the horror that was Katrina, and see daily evidence of the damage that was done, even 35 miles from the coast, even more than a year later. From the heartless B*shit administration to the the armed goons who blocked the bridge leading out of New Orleans and into safety, many vile and despicable people are going to have to answer for this, either in this world or in hell.

[lyonn]

32. The blocked bridge! Unbelievable and uncomprehensive

What was the town on the other side that refused safety?

Those pictures tell it all about bush & co.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

7. Another kick, for the fucked up shit that the cabal has visited upon NOLA.

MKJ

[roguevalley]

8. black and white. equal in death. equal in the indifference of their

country.

[Eric J in MN]

9. kick

kick

[jollyreaper2112]

10. theme song

A while back I got to thinking about what the real plan was for the lack of response to Katrina. Think of this as the GOP anthem (not the one about diddling young boys, not the one about kicking their ass and taking their gas, the other other anthem)

I see New Orleans and I want to bleach it white
No colors anymore I want them to turn white
I see the girls walk by dressed like freaks and ho's
I have to turn my head until my stiffy goes
I see a line of bars and they're all painted gay
With flowers and my love both never to swing that way
I see trannies turn their tricks looking for some play
Like a new born crack baby it just happens evry day
I look inside myself and see my heart is white
I see New Orleans and I have bleached it white
Fags and nigs will fade away and not have to face the facts
Its easy facin up when your whole world is white

No more will my green support diversity
I could foresee this great thing come to my city
If I work hard enough to get the bleaching done
This city will be lily white before my Jesus comes

I see New Orleans and I want to bleach it white
No colors anymore I want them to turn white
I see the girls walk by dressed like freaks and ho's
I have to turn my head until my stiffy goes
haaaaa-lleeeeee-leaaaaaauuuuu-iiii-yaaaa
I wanna see it bleached, bleach it white
White as pride, white as the Right
I wanna see the niggers blotted out from the town
I wanna see it bleached, bleached, bleached, bleach it white
Yeah!

[tblue]

19. That was brilliant, baby!

It's sung to the tune of Paint it Black, right? Wish I could hear it sung!

[Rex]

11. It screws with me bad, the neglect and on the scale that it is.

Media folk just go along and get along. Work for the masters of money.

[gulfcoastliberal]

12. There's a documentary that should be made about the "WalMart 16" - a bunch

kids that Wal-Mart hired to stay in their Long Beach, MS store during the storm to "protect" it. They all died. No one seems to know about it. This story must be told. I personally saw the "white bunny suit" teams behind the shell of the store looking for bodies. I have photos of them. And one of our heroic DUers who has spent so much of her time and energy down here after Katrina told me stories about what they found that would make your blood curdle - then boil in rage at how much value Wallyworld assigns to human life.

Please, if anyone in the Long Beach/Pass Christian area knows more about that particular tragedy, send me an IM. Their stories of dying for walmart should be told. The scenes I saw there (MS gulf coast) looked more like a post-atomic world than the USA.

[Kool Kitty]

13. God Almighty.

K & R. So much of the Katrina (and Rita, for that matter) story hasn't been told. The Walmart story is awful. And what has really been done on the Gulf Coast? If you see photos of the areas hardest hit, they look just about the same as they looked a year ago. Can't this government do anything but help rich people? Impeach this bastard and everyone associated with this administration.

[gulfcoastliberal]

14. Remeber, Hurricane Camille took 30+ years to rebuild from - and that was

when we had much more honest people rebuilding the state - locals helping one another, less corruption.. but it still took over 30 years to fully recover.

Look at Punta Gorda (before Charlie Punta Gorda rated in the top 10 best places to live) - still destroyed.

Here in Pensacola 2 years after Ivan there's still plenty of damage everywhere, including my condo building - but at least it's liveable. Too bad the board of directors have zero business acumen (except for the treasurer, I can't praise him enough). But it sucks living in an area where you know you could be nuked anywhewre, anytime each year during hurricane season. And now the the real estate bubble burst, it's a buyers market. The only advantage is my condo is maybe 5-10 minute drive to Pensacola NAS, so there's lots of militray folks who can rent if not buy. During the real estate frenzy we went ahead and got a 5th floor 2 bedroom waterfront unit that got flooded Ivans rain. We lost the roof of the building, lobby still looks like a bomb went off... it's a big mess. My advice to anyone thinking about buying coastal property: don't. Buy an RV, or camper, or book hotel rooms - do NOT buy waterfdront real estate. Especially in Florida, unless you enjoy $10,000+ yearly insurance premiums, with more rate hikes inevetible.

And then look at the stock tickers of the major insurance companies and tell me their record profits despite higher reinsurance rates justify their raping of Floridas homeoners.

If I could sell, I would and move back to N California in a second. I miss Davis, CA. College town, plenty of good food, culture, bike paths, wonderful public transportation.

If you want to see whwhat smart growth looks like, click this (and remember this community is over 25 years old! A very good, informative review of Corbett and Village Homes:

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC35/Browning.htm

[raccoon]

24. Thanks for your post. Ask that other Du-er to post her stories!

"And one of our heroic DUers who has spent so much of her time and energy down here after Katrina told me stories about what they found that would make your blood curdle "

[gulfcoastliberal]

36. Sent a PM. Hopefully she's able to talk about it.

She really is a hero for all she did.

[gulfcoastliberal]

37. Here's about the only thing I can find about it-on a CNN transcript

Now, clearly, the devastation here is matched up and down the Gulf Coast. And that's what we're hearing that is so astonishing about this storm, versus Camille, which was a bit more focused, more laser- like and more intense in its destruction.

This was, like people are saying, a wall of water. This is the Mississippi -- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama coast tsunami. And it's just hard to believe the devastation.

I will tell you that a couple blocks down to our left, we can -- we got some shots. We can see the back of a Wal-Mart that was on the beach in Pass Christian. We can see through the rear of the Wal-Mart, all the way to the oceanfront, to the water.

There is a very, very large drainage ditch that is behind it that is full of what had been inside the Wal-Mart: toys, refrigerators, tires, diapers. And we're sad to report that many of the neighbors -- and there is a guard who's watching that to try to prevent some of the looting -- they also report that there are some number of bodies in that culvert.

Here's a pic I took:

[raccoon]

40. Thanks. nt

[redqueen]

46. Jesus Christ.

[OneBlueSky]

15. never forget . . . all of these people were American citizens . . .

who were totally and thoroughly abandoned by their government to fend for themselves and, ultimately, die in the streets . . .

to BushCo, American citizens are as disposable as paperclips . . . just another "cost" to be minimized, whether in a corporate workforce or on the government "dole" . . .

to BushCo, American citizens are commodities that do not matter, except as consumers . . . they will have no problem imprisoning as many as may be necessary in the Halliburton camps if they in any way interfere with the BushCo agenda . . .

to American citizens, BushCo is a cancer on the body politic (though some of them just don't know it yet) that MUST be excised at the earliest possible time, by whatever legal means are available . . .

peace . . .

[Sapphocrat]

17. Every time I see such pictures of the dead...

...Katrina, 9/11, doesn't matter...

...I am reminded of the Whittier-Narrows earthquake of 1 October 1987. I was a school photographer at the time, and, just before 7:42 a.m., my partner and I were setting up in an empty classroom, in an empty building, in a middle school in Norwalk, about three miles from what would be the epicenter of the 5.9 quake.

When it hit, my first thought was that there had been an explosion under us; the floor, the walls, the ceiling, the trees and telephone poles I could see through the windows, shook up and down -- suddenly, violently, in a way I'd never felt in more than a quarter-century of California quakes.

My partner (an older, very Christian lady whose husband was not at all cool with the fact that she was partnered with a white woman) and I instinctively dropped everything we were holding and dove for the lone doorway.

As we braced ourselves against opposite sides of the jamb (I with one foot planted up against the doorframe behind her), we held hands in a deathgrip. She prayed aloud, and I found myself mumbling along with her (what, I don't know; probably the Act of Contrition, since that's what I was conditioned to do at the moment of death). I wondered if her words would be the last sound I would hear over the rumble of the earth beneath us, and if her face would be the last thing I ever saw.

And yet, in all this, the only thought that was clear to me was this:

I wish I hadn't worn this shirt today. I don't like this shirt. I don't want the news photos of my body lying in the rubble to be in this shirt. I knew I should have worn a different shirt.

So, when I see these pictures, I think of the shirt I didn't want to die in -- and how I never wore it again.

And then I think:

When s/he got up that morning, and picked a shirt out of the closet, or drawer, could s/he ever have dreamt s/he would die in that shirt?

Did s/he think, "Oh, God, I don't want the news photos of my body lying in the rubble to be in this shirt"?

You can all call me crazy now, if you like. I thought that thinking this way was crazy for a long time -- until I realized, it's the tiny, most unspoken things that make the unreal all too real.

All they did that morning was get up, maybe have breakfast, and pick out what clothes to wear. And they never knew those would be the last clothes they would ever wear... alive.

[tblue]

18. Oh that is the saddest thing I ever read, and those are the saddest

pictures I ever saw. I never saw most of those. But everyone ought to see them. They would make some campaign commercial. No words would be necessary.

Your post made me cry....

I know exactly what you mean. I think of things like that sometimes, too. They got up and went about their business, surely they were scared since they knew the storm was coming, and they boarded up their houses if they could the best they could, prayed they'd be alright, maybe decided to leave it in the hands of God, at some point they picked up the phone if they could to call 911 and got no answer or a busy signal.... Oh my Lord, does Bush have a lot to answer for. And Ms. Condi was shopping for shoes and getting dolled up for the Broadway show she was about to see.

If Bush & Co. had done NOTHING else, hadn't smeared war heroes and stolen elections, if they hadn't ignored all the warnings (written and face-to-face) and hadn't sat there like a muffin when the planes hit the towers, if they hadn't started this hellacious war without end, if they hadn't ripped off our seniors who need more affordable medicines, if they hadn't rendered and tortured people and sent them away for life with no day in court — if they hadn't done ANY of that, they would STILL BURN IN HELL for the victims of Katrina!

[Swamp Rat]

20. k&r

2-3 weeks ago I could still smell death by the London Canal as they razed more houses by where I once lived.

[malaise]

22. Katrina was a deadly symbol

of the stench of Bushco policies.

[deutsey]

21. If it don't happen on the tv it ain't for real

[raccoon]

23. Thanks for posting this. I wish every American could see this. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. I know one in particular that should see these images! Like he would

give a rat's a$$! Wait, he didn't!

[chat_noir]

25. If someone were to make a video from these pictures

what song would you recommend as an accompaniment?

A You Tube/Google video has a better chance of getting the word out than relying on the MSM.

[file83]

26. When I look at these photos - no music comes to my ear...

...just the harsh, cold reality of silence.

There was a time when a song came to my ear and I put pictures of this event to music, I hope you find it meaningful:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQRR5QTOdJs

[NoAmericanTaliban]

27. Spike Lee's 'When the Leves Broke' movie had sound track

that played when he showed a montage of bodies. Some of the same shots as above. Very eerie music - made me cry. Hard to watch, but necessary.

http://www.soundtrack.net/news/article/?id=786

Same deal with the lack of real coverage from Iraq. Very few bodies or funerals shown.

[civildisoBDence]

28. If you've never seen a drowning victim--or smelled one--just pray you

never do. Bacteria eat the body from the inside, then release gases that bloat the body like a balloon. Sometimes the body actually explodes like a popped balloon with a stench that could knock you over.

Those images made me remember a boy who drowned off the SC coast. I'll spare you the details. I can only imagine what it must have been like in NO, multiplying that one boy a thousand times over.

I don't mean to be gratuitous, just want to put the truth as starkly as I know how--like these photos do.

God damn Duhbya, and God damn the croneys and heartless, greedy pigs he surrounds himself with.

Newsprism

[earth mom]

30. NEVER forgot Katrina.

That line was in my sig line up until a week ago...and I will NEVER forget.

Katrina was proof positive that the Powers That Be do NOT care about any of us in this Class War that they aim to win...

[StClone]

31. All you need to about the Bush Regime

Is visible in those photos.

[Laurab]

33. I didn't want to look, but finally did

my heart breaks, for these people, their families, this country. And it's true, the one person who needs to see these pictures probably never will, or want to for that matter.

To think that even a semi-competent government could have prevented this, and/or saved so many lives needlessly lost, is sickening. It's mass murder, nothing less, and the hate I feel for this administration seems to know no bounds.

[LynzM]

34. Oh, god....

As was said, if BushCo doesn't pay in another life for anything other than what they allowed to happen during Katrina, they will still pay forever. Goddamn.

[Straight Shooter]

35. We all want death with dignity, don't we?

These photos show how little bush cares about whether we live or die with dignity.

[me b zola]

38. I will never forget

NEVER

[habitual]

39. I just had to write a quick note on this one photo:

I normally wouldn't ever mention this but that photo struck a very deep chord in me.

It was my first day of doing body recoveries in NO when we were called to this scene and had to pick these 3 people up. It was a very emotional recovery and I will never forget that situation. There was a trooper there with the bodies when we arrived and after we finished loading them in our van, he said to me "Where are you from?" I said "NYC". He said "I just want you to know how much we appreciate you coming down here to help us out with this." I nodded not knowing how to respond but very grateful for his words and we went on our way.

[raccoon]

41. I want to add my thanks for your doing that, habitual. nt

[LynzM]

43. habitual, I cannot imagine what that was like

Thank you for your service to the citizens of New Orleans.

[a kennedy]

42. I'm just so sad.......

I couldn't look at all the pictures. I'm just so sad. I hate this administration.

[peekaloo]

44. .

[bdamomma]

45. this regime just does not care about Americans or people in general

don't we have enough evidence already, look at the catastrophic events in the last 5 years of the Bush Crime Family, they have killed more people than Saddam. And what show the American people no, we have to be shielded from all this death, damn you Mr. Bush damn you.

Just a note: if anyone gets HBO November 18th will be airing Comic Relief with Whoopi, Billy and Robin all proceeds go to Katrina survivors, we should never forget this horrible event, another day when our government just did not give a shit about Americans.

[butterfly77]

47. POS doesn't like ...

blacks,hispanics,asians, Iraqis and poor whites evidently. How long Lord...How long... everytime I see these pictures it brings me back to every morning when I awoke to see the people begging for water,food and a rescue. It took five days the POS ...

[Xenotime]

48. It's so sad that * let that happen.

I hope he enjoyed his little guitar solo.

[bobbieinok]

49. Beck, Boortz, other RW radio hosts say 'US learned to wait for govt help'

NOT to take personal responsibility.

They still blame the deaths and the losses on the individuals, NOT the non-existent fed govt help that IS SUPPOSED to be there for those in need.

They especially blame blacks for being 'shiftless, no account, etc etc et...