Author: Jeremy Sapienza

In a well-written account by two communist San Francisco EMS workers on their survival of Hurricane Katrina and Earthquake Government, one realizes something very ironic. In the wake of compounding disasters, ordinary people spontaneously kept a whole city fed, clothed, watered, and in some instances, even powered. At every turn, these civilizational functions were halted by slobbering subhumans with big guns, unlimited funds, and a license to kill — collectively known as the State.

The ironic part is that even these megastatists from one of the most state-ridden cities in the US experienced that the State was their enemy, and that people, even those of comparatively meager means, can provide for themselves and many others, with beneficial effects overlapping and covering even babies, elderly and sick, even in a horrendous catastrophe.

Anyone want to mock the “invisible hand” now?

I’m watching the City Attorney of New Orleans talking specifically about evacuating the city. She just said something to the effect that “At this time there have been no forced evacuations. Force is not being used.”

Well, then who was that frail old lady who was calmly talking to a bunch of cops in her kitchen when the fattest one of them hurled himself on top of her, crushing her into the corner between the wall and the floor, knocking kitchen items all over the place, and then dragging her, crying, out of her own home? Was she just over the border in Metairie? Huh? Her street was completely dry. Were they just trying to drag out somebody white to dispell the racial bias myth?

Thousands are dying because the government is a gaggle of morons and incompetents. They each have ONE job to do, and they’re too stupid to do them even halfway correctly. And then they have the balls to lie about something recorded and broadcast across the world the day before. It even makes an anarchist flinch.

Why did FEMA block Wal-Mart shipments of water to the New Orleans area?
Why did FEMA block fuel shipments to the New Orleans area?
Why did FEMA cut emergency communication lines from the New Orleans area?
Why wouldn’t FEMA let the Red Cross deliver food to the New Orleans area?
Why wouldn’t FEMA let the people in downtown New Orleans leave?
Why wouldn’t FEMA let others come in to deliver relief supplies or transportation out from New Orleans?
Why did it take the government 5 days to give a “yes” to airlines who had asked to ferry refugees out of New Orleans for free, immediately after the storm?

The problem isn’t that FEMA botched rescue efforts — it’s that they PREVENTED rescue. They PREVENTED survival. They didn’t just “oops!” screw up — they actually CAUSED death by their actions, not through their lack of action. They have actually slapped sanctions on the city of New Orleans and are slowly finishing off any hold-outs. I wonder how many people will die getting shot for refusing to be removed from their own homes?

The best we could have hoped for from any level of government was the get the hell out of the way, but how can they resist the opportunity to absolutely ruin absolutely everything they touch, and then say “See? We needed more money and power”? Breathtaking.

Hat tip to James Redford at ASC.

So sue me: people who riot and kill and swear jihad against an entire country because some drooling gap-toothed Lynndie-type flushed a wad of paper that had religious stuff written on it down a toilet are A-N-I-M-A-L-S. I don’t care if it was their holy book. I don’t care that it hurt their feelings and allegedly offended God. I don’t even care that it was done as part of a torture session — people are being tortured and all anyone can think to focus on is a handful of words about flushing a Koran!?!?

Journalist and friend Margaret Griffis says, “The Newsweek story did nothing to alleviate anything while at the same time providing psychos with a fresh reason to kill us.”

The blame for the riots and deaths is on the nutballs who participated. Someone needs to send a few truckloads of rabies shots to Afghanistan along with the “reconstruction”aid.

As soon as the final touches of translation are completed, Venezuela is to formally submit a request for the extradition of Luis Posada Carriles, accused (and pretty much known even by the CIA) of bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976, killing the 73 people on board. He is also an admitted accomplice and planner of multiple bombings of tourist areas in Havana, including one which killed a young Italian tourist. The plane bombing was planned in Caracas.

The Venezuelan ambassador to the US expressed concern over Washington’s silence on the issue, and the Venezuelan VP complained of the US’s ambiguity on the issue of terrorism.

Though the US State Dept. says it has no information on whether Posada “is, was, or has been” in the country, his lawyer confirms that he did indeed cross the border from Mexico and is now seeking asylum in the US.

Washington may see an anti-communist terrorist as a non-threat to Americans, but that is clearly not the case, as the late 70s/early 80s bombings in Miami prove. If and when the embargo comes down and Americans begin flying to Cuba from Miami, nutballs like Posada will remain a real threat to those flying to Cuba to exchange experiences — and goods — with the people of that island. He and his ilk do not necessarily want an end to dictatorship — just the end of Castro’s and the beginning of theirs.

Just look at the way they run Miami.

Quiere Ud. que cubramos más las noticias de latinoamérica? Mándeme los links que tiene sobre el imperialismo (americano o otro), intervencionismo, guerra y guerrilla…y también unas otras cosas que cree que les interesen los hablantes de inglés. Claro que estoy buscando links en español que no pueda encontrar en inglés en otro lugar. Los resumaré en el inglés y los fijaré aquí en Antiwar.com una vez por semana — si recibo bastante noticias.

Gracias!