"A gross violation of human rights." Says UN expert regarding New Orleans

[jus_the_facts]

....from LBN...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1886567&mesg_id=1886567

After listening to Hurricane Katrina victims and disaster relief workers for several hours Friday, as well as touring parts of New Orleans, United Nations expert on human rights Arjun K. Sengupta, called America's response to the disaster "shocking."

"Something went wrong and it appears to be a gross violation of human rights," said Sengupta, United Nations independent expert on human rights and extreme poverty


"The people in New Orleans and the worst affected areas were very poor and what you have to do is a social responsibility of the federal, state and local governments," he said.

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/102905/new_poverty001.shtml


....the illusions continue to defy reality...so things change...so they stay the same. :nopity:

[opihimoimoi]

1. NOLA was the scab removed...revealing a festering infection

condoned by the Haves

They care not for the HaveNots knowing they hardly vote...

If those HaveNots started to vote ...you can bet this shit wouldn't happen.

The squeacky wheel thingy...make noise, get grease.

[jus_the_facts]

2. Yeah as the sayin' says....go ahead and wish in one hand....

....and shit in the other...see which one fills up fastest...sigh. :dilemma:

[opihimoimoi]

5. I gatta remem that...sending cold beer and smoked sausages....

[jus_the_facts]

8. Thanks Opi.....and Aloha from Louisiana!

:loveya: :hug:

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. FEMA was AWOL. I believe more and more that Scott Ritter was right

That these people in the Bush administration are "not Americans."

[Porcupine]

6. Genocide! FEMA hindered honest attempts to render aid.

Google USS Bataan. This military amphibious assault ship was offshore off of New Orleans as soon as Katrina cleared with food, water, medical facilities, boats and the ability to put all of that onshore in hours. They were ordered to stand down by FEMA.

Find out who ordered that and you have the whole pack of a-holes.

[jus_the_facts]

9. The very same fucktards who ordered the stand down on 9/11 I've no doubt..

.....THE PENTAGON o'course...the Alpha to Omega of evil incarnate. :nopity:

[Nikki Stone 1]

10. I agree. That requires another special prosecutor

I don't think any of it was an accident.

[Neocondriac]

4. They feel they are doing us a favor...

by conditioning us now to the fact that there won't be responses from a Federal government in the future.It will be flat broke soon. This has been part of the plan all along.It's their wreckless version of tough love.Get used to it!

[Erika]

7. I agree. The govt is telling us only the rich may apply for aid

and the rest of us who pay taxes will be damned if we need help in a national emergency. W is screwing the middle class big time and decimating the low income people. He, and his elitists GOP, could care less about the average American citizen. You know, we are only peons to them.