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03. Sep 2005

Borgerkrigsagtige tilstande?

 
Fallujah New Orleans
Eller hvad ... Kamptropper med erfaring fra Irak er på vej til New Orleans for at genoprette ro og orden i byen. Er jeg mon den eneste, der synes, udtalelser som nedenstående fra Army Times lyder mere end en lille smule skræmmende?
"This place is going to look like Little Somalia," Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. "We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control."
Selvfølgelig er man nødt til at gøre noget for at genoprette ro og orden i byen - men er det ikke overkill at sætte kamptropper (der slet ikke er særligt gode til at løse politimæssige opgaver - som man til overflod har set i Irak) ind mod selv nok så forbryderiske civile?

Update:
Dette ville være utroligt, hvis ikke det desværre var så alt for troligt - you just can't make these things up. Journalisten fra Associated Press overværer evakueringen af Superdome, men kan så berette, at:
At midday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when school buses rolled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line - much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since Sunday.

``How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead of us?'' exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The National Guard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests with their luggage.

The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, next to the Superdome, but conditions were considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitary crush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Every pane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.
Lad os rekapitulere: De fine hvide mennesker rykkes automatisk frem i køen, foran andre, som ganske vist lider under betydeligt dårligere forhold, men til gengæld "kun" (der skulle vist alligevel ikke have været citationstegn om det kun) er fattige og sorte. Hvor meget klarere kan det siges?

Vi redder alle de, vi kan, men vi redder de rige og de hvide først.

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