Baghdad on the Bayou Redux: Wasting the Wetlands COA News

Modern Orleans and the Gulf Seaside hog instantly joined the ranks of "Third World" countries - Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Guatemala, Haiti, Somalia, Congo - suffering the shocks of America"s permanent strife agenda. This global apartheid sanctions vicious actions toward subjects who resist.

The humans of Fashionable Orleans agglutinate the ranks of the homeless, indigenous bodies suffering genocide, the refugees and internally displaced and other victims of globalization - millions of nation fix adrift in a sea of nowhere, with no rights, no possessions, no safeguard and immature future for survival.1 Catastrophe capitalism is showing its teeth in America, and the picture isn"t pretty. It was not a hurricane named Katrina that displaced an complete population from the lower Ninth Ward of Dewy Orleans.

It was a flood of biblical extent and a version of racism and elitism that created bareness and vulnerability in counterpart with cash and privilege. The calamity followed decades of affair as typical and a "war on terror" that establish the folio for a brisk intervention project in urban and social re-engineering.

After decades of injustice - born elsewhere of American slavery - the victims of the storm fell prey to an all-out military invasion involving aircraft carriers, Boeing Chinook and Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters, M-1 Abrams battle tanks, M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles, amphibious assault ships, state-of-the-art weaponry, Blackwater mercenaries, U.S. Especial Forces, and the determinate Bollinger "SWIFT"-the U.S.

Navy"s interim Mine Battle Order and Backing catamaran.3 High-tech military command and bridle centres were locate up all over the place, some at Lockheed Martin facilities in the Gulf.4 They couldn"t inspire community out, on the other hand had no problems stirring troops and weaponry in.

For most coal persons this was no rescue, it was a roundup, much at gunpoint. According to the U.S. 60,000 active and reserve U.S. Original Orleans in response to Hurricane Katrina, "which affected tens of thousands of citizens in Current Orleans and the Gulf Coast.5 Hurricane Katrina "affected tens of thousands" of people?

Thousands of family were displaced and there has been hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to lives and belongings along the Gulf Coast," reads a United Approach general relations buletin on Dec 4, 2007. Copious of those who evacuated annex pdq settled in fresh areas -thanks to the muniticence of divers - and may never return."

6 The United Contrivance abstract above suggests that the helping fist of community has blessed the mankind displaced from Cutting edge Orleans, nevertheless the inability of hundreds of thousands of heads to reimburse to Dissimilar Orleans is a travesty.

The independent movie Embrace to Virgin Orleans produced by Rasmus Holm shows blanched vigilantes in Different Orleans bragging approximately the "open season" on dingy people, admitting openly and brazenly "we gunfire "em!" There has been no accountability, and no transparency. There is no available database that documents correct where the "thousands" of internally displaced humanity are located - or much whether they are much alive.

Meanwhile, there are log contracts and profits for Bollinger, Lockheed Martin, Textron, Northrup Grumman and other corporations in Contemporary Orleans that endure to manufacture, criterion and deploy weapons of bulk destruction. This is definitely Baghdad on the Bayou.

Target Counts in Fresh Orleans" Carmine Area "Tanks arrived by train and were seen on Canal Street downtown by Sept 1, 2005," says Contemporary Orleans resident organizer Kali Akuno. The tanks are even in Recent Orleans. We"ve matchless seen them on unusual occasions on account of The middle of summer 2007. They are reported downtown at the Marriott from duration to bout and as well in the Ninth Ward."

Private military forces were paid in the hundreds and regularly thousands of dollars diurnal to commit atrocities with the accreditation of our immediately privatized U.S. As one witness who worked encircling the mercenary forces in Latest Orleans revealed, "these were known paid killers. They talked about their adventures in Asia and Africa. They had phenomenal weaponry.

Killing is allotment of their vernacular." 8 No one testament ever be schooled the fair oppose count from the Advanced Orleans Blush Zone. Naomi Klein paper money in The Shock Meaning that Kenyon was accused of improperly tagging bodies and that assorted bodies were father mummified in attics a year after the flood.

Bush crony and crusade contributor, Robert Waltrip, is the chairman of SIC"s board of directors. In 2005, SCI listed revenues of $1.7 billion. FEMA outsourced the object count from Hurricane Katrina to a firm - SIC - involved in one of the biggest funeral habitation scandals in United States history.

In a 2001 Florida investigation, the Menorah Gardens grave yard chain was sued for dumping hundreds of bodies into woods where the bodies were devoured by barbarian hogs.

Witnesses swear that bodies riddled with military calibre bullets were buried in mass graves with the rest of the lies.11 Survivors of Katrina, both murky and white, unconsciously iterate the bible as they draw their experiences.