Disparate facts?
Fact 1: The first 100 National Guardsmen of a contingent that will eventually grow to 300 in number arrived in New Orleans today. They will be joined by 60 state police being also deployed. Reason? To help keep the peace after a violent weekend in which 6 people were killed. The Guardian.
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Fact 2: In New Orleans, residents of a tent city outside the 1,300 unit St. Bernard public housing development, which the government has barred them from and plans to demolish, have vowed on July 4th to storm its fences and barbed wire in order to return to their homes. Democracy Now!
Are these two news stories unconnected, or could they be set to collide in fireworks this Independence Day?
2 comments:
I dunno, dada, I wish new orleans post-katrina's pathetic remnant of a once-great population good luck July 4th or any other day.
Your title of 'ethnic cleansing' has triggered my wondering where the rest of the population ended up? Isn't it true they've been mostly disbursed to "blue states" where their radical bush-hatred could be easily absorbed without changing the demographics? That only a trickle was sent to "red states" for the same purpose? Or, as in the case of Houston, which received more refugees than Texas would have liked, the recent floods will have spurred them to move on to friendlier "bluer" grounds? Can we detect a pattern & possible master plan for us all here? D.K.
Aha! Invade Canada!
Thanks D.K., you read my mind.
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