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i somewhat agree
its total bull they searched everyone
how many guns do you thing the national guard brought?
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/...Superdome.html
The Louisiana Superdome of shame
08/30/2005 15:10
Can you imagine New Orleans' wealthy elite meekly submitting to such microscopic searches of their persons and property for drugs?
Watching news coverage of the refugees trying to enter the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans for safety from the approaching force-five Hurricane Katrina, It was incredulous how the people attempting to enter the stadium were being treated by the national guard troops and local police. The people were made to stand for hours outside in the awful Louisiana climate while they were admitted one or two adults at a time so they could be searched "for firearms and alcohol."
The frail elderly, many grasping walkers and others in wheelchairs seemed to be near collapse. They, along with hundreds of small children needing water and rest-room relief, were forced to wait as long as four hours to get to safety. It was often repeated during the video reports that the last time the Superdome was used as a hurricane shelter, a few of the temporary occupants removed some furniture. But this time, they had a large security force on hand, so that was NOT going to happen again, no-siree-bob.
During coverage by Geraldo Rivera Sunday night, Fox News' video cameras zoomed inside the foyer deck of the Superdome and viewers could see a national guard person going through a powder compact from of a woman's purse that was 'way too small to hold a liquor bottle or a gun. It was obvious that they were looking for drugs in warrantless searches. They instructed all the refugees far back in the seemingly endless lines to have their prescription-pill bottles out when approaching the security checkpoint and also a photo ID to prove that they belonged with the prescription.
There were thousands of poor, mostly black citizens of the lower Louisiana area, many of them little children and sickly elderly, being forced to stand for hours while the government violated their civil rights with forced searches that were patently uncons utional, unjust and unreasonable under the dire cir stances. 'Don't want to be searched? That's okay....now turn around, go outside and die!' Big choice.
Can you imagine New Orleans' wealthy elite meekly submitting to such microscopic searches of their persons and property for drugs? Heads would roll. But poor people who had no money to escape the deadly storm's onslaught had no choice. They had nowhere else to go to save their children's and parents' lives. They were humiliated just for trying to survive. Their grandfathers and grandmothers suffered as slaves on Southern plantations decades ago, while today, they suffer as slaves to the state, the state that cancels their human rights and dignity in the name of 'protecting' them.
Did you see that, America? Nothing has changed in the South. Poor people of are still being herded and treated as criminals because of the color of their skin. The Sheriff and Louisiana National Guard knows the profile of likely drug users: black people and anyone associating with them; they were searched just as if they were entering a state penitentiary visiting a death-row prisoner. Maybe the refugees would have fared better if they had had season tickets in their hands.
Think about it. They can allow in 30,000 screaming fans with fifty-dollar bills and costly NFL tickets in their hands in a few minutes, but poor black people fleeing for their lives, four hours. Four hours!
None of the news people I saw on the major cable and broadcast networks noticed this outrage. Apparently, they are still "embedded" with the government and couldn't possibly risk dislodging their heads long enough to report the truth right before their eyes.
We let morons take away our rights to person and property at the airports, all for the false 'protection' they promised us and can't possibly deliver, so now we see them doing it to helpless citizens even when the citizens' lives are in danger. 'First, we got to check you for weapons and drugs......pull your dress up, lift up your arms....' --let those old people collapse and those kids soil themselves-- 'This is for your own safety.'
God forbid that anyone have a hip flask to calm their nerves during a traumatic life-and-death experience. Someone else might actually toke up or take a non-prescription pill! And a few might take their right to keep and bear arms seriously, when everyone knows that only government employees deserve self-protection, not their citizen 'bosses.' The cons ution doesn't apply when the government thinks it can make you safer by judging you, disarming you, and denuding you of your rights.
Who gave the order to make all these exhausted, miserable poor people wait for hours while they were searched so illicitly? Under what actual law did they search these refugees for anything whatsoever on their person? Do they search football game fans this thoroughly and for this long? Suuuuuure they do....
Could all this form a mass tort against the State of Louisiana? Maybe. Some of the Superdome refugees must be hopping mad.
Let's face it. If you're poor in America, you're a 'suspect,' maybe. If you're poor and black in America, you're a 'criminal,' definitely. Even if your life is in peril, no excuses. Your rights don't count as long as any badge or weekend warrior in BDU's says they don't.
This is the real story of the Louisiana Superdome. Hurricane Katrina can certainly destroy the environs of the Louisiana and her neighboring states, but that can all be rebuilt. [B]What will never be rebuilt is the dignity of the poorest citizens of that region,[/B] since the government acted with a greater destructive force than a hurricane. The lamp of freedom has been blown out by force-five bureaucrats, their sycophants and their head-embedded media enablers who will insure that it will never get re-ignited. For our own good, of course.
Heads should roll in Louisiana, for all those whose civil rights were violated on Sunday, August 28, 2005, outside the Louisiana Superdome of Shame.
actually this was written by an American, but printed in Russia
i somewhat agree
its total bull they searched everyone
how many guns do you thing the national guard brought?
I agree they didn't need to be so tedious in the searches. I just think the comparisons to the old south are ridiculous. The writer has gone way overboard.
really
can you imagine them pulling over Tahoes on the way out of town and searching everyone?
I thought I read somewhere that the last time they Superdome was used as a shelter for a hurricane, there was quite a bit of violence and looting, thus the searches and heightened security.
what are they searching for?
do they think people are gonna start snorting coke or having gun fights in the superdome
and really how many guns do you think the NG brought?
police state
Gun searches are understandable. Drug searches are pretty ridiculous. At most, that's something that can be reported to a guard later if someone is causing a disturbance.
I heard they found and confiscated quite a few gund and other assorted weapons.....
those peopel are going ot be in thier untill next MONDAY..i personally would not want ot be stuck in a buildging with thousands of other poeple for 1 week with no a/c no showers, 2 rations a day.. tempers flaring... nerves fraying.. and ontop of that there are people with booze and guns.
noway not me. search my bags all you want.
Guns and drugs
Yes. Cram several thousand people together and tempers can flare. Best to keep weapons out of it. And best to keep drugs out of the mix as well.
Oh, so the Guard isn't allowed to protect either themselves OR others?
No sympathy from me. Deal with it.
thats the wrong at ude to have
and the reason the government can pass blatently uncons utional laws
the Military is "protecting" us by searching our bags and having guns
i see thank god
that would have been physically impossible and wouldn't make sense since you don't search people leaving on open highways
It does make sense to search people that are all going to gather together in a confined space.
Listen, the racism thing is BS. Searches have become commonplace these days, and not just at airports. At the last few 4th of July celebrations at the mall in DC, they conducted the same type of search. Two years ago, I had someone going through my purse VERY thoroughly and even opened a tube of lipstick. My friend had someone open her water bottle and sniff. Last year, I took nothing but the clothes on my back. Many others have learned to do the same. This year, I didn't even go...too much of a hassle. The problem is people brought everything and the kitchen sink to the Superdome, hence the long wait.
its not racism
its class wars at their worst
The should have let the drugs in. Personally, I'd want to be stoned out of my mind if a CAT 5 hurricane was gonna take me away like Calgon.
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I think getting searched to that degree was excessive....the only thing I'd be concerned about were weapons. In groups of thousands in desperate situations it's seriously a recipe for disaster.
In any case, I wouldn't have been allowed in. With all of the stories of one of the biggest dangers being poisonous snakes looking for higher ground too, I'm not going ANYWHERE without a shovel or machete. that.
This article is such bull . Such absolute thankless bull . The situation in the Superdome is awful as is now. The National Guard is taking responsibility for tens of thousands of people in that facility under brutal conditions. This isn't a three-hour Saints game in nice, 70-degree controlled comfort. The place is a freaking refugee camp. The last thing they need is to deal with weapons and drugged-out people endangering the rest of the refugees.
God damn mother ing liberal pieces of with no ing clue about reality. If only we could bring back one of the victims whose life was worth something in exchange for this inhuman liberal .
^^ you you piece of Bush sucking neocon
we have a ing cons ution and your ing cronies pissed all over it
why dont you take your Tahoe down to the local pd and let them search your asshole
um...okay....
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Come on Mookie, you're trying to say you actually agree with ridiculous, overwrought garbage like this...
"They were humiliated just for trying to survive. Their grandfathers and grandmothers suffered as slaves on Southern plantations decades ago, while today, they suffer as slaves to the state, the state that cancels their human rights and dignity in the name of 'protecting' them.
Did you see that, America? Nothing has changed in the South. Poor people of are still being herded and treated as criminals because of the color of their skin. "
BTW - it probably escaped the writer's attention that the mayor, other key political figures in New Orleans, and those who sanctioned and organized these searches were mostly black.
It's another example of someone having an issue that might possibly be worth discussing, but presenting it in such a way - with his timing, rhetoric, and outlandish hysteria - that his credibility is destroyed and discussion is moot.
i didnt say i agreed with that
i would bet none of the peoples grandmothers or grandfathers were slaves
but the government is drunk with power and the first people they use it on is always the poor
where did i go hysterical?
its a fact this country is becoming a police state
that may have been the the most "crazy" thing i said
Not you, the writer.
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