[IMC-Boston-Editorial] New Feature Proposed: Cops and Troops Attack Survivors of Katrina

[Matthew Williams]

I don't know about you all, but this doesn't seem worth centering to 
me. It just seems like a sensationalist, black-and-white interpretation 
of what's going on. While there are important political aspects to the 
disaster, Gould's writing isn't nuanced enough to capture them. And the 
plug for socialism at the end seems decontextualized and disrespectful. 
-- Matt

On Sep 2, 2005, at 4:01 PM, Alex Gould wrote:

> [As events unfold over this weekend, my observations and analysis are
> being borne out. The government is committing a monstrous crime of
> genocide against the black people of New Orleans -- Alex Gould,
> Pawtucket, RI]
>
> As New Orleans Drowns and Rots
> Cops and Troops Attack Survivors of Katrina
> Bosses' Property Rights Supercede Rescue Efforts
> by Alex Gould
>
> http://boston.indymedia.org/newswire/display/41066/index.php
>
> Politicians from Bush to New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin offered no
> transportation or housing when they ordered the population of New
> Orleans, Gulfport, Biloxi, and the Delta to evacuate. The hundreds of
> thousands of stranded, homeless survivors struggle for life's barest
> necessities in the toxic floodwaters of New Orleans and the near-total
> destruction of the Mississippi gulf coast. The dead are only beginning
> to be counted, and are being left on the roads and in the rubble to rot
> for the time being. Lacking electricity, food, clean water, medical
> care, and communication with the outside world, hours are the
> difference between life and death for the majority black working class
> population of New Orleans, especially the elderly, the ill, and young
> children.
>
> But former cable TV executive Ray Nagin on Wednesday, August 31 ordered
> 1,500 of his police to stop their rescue efforts and control "looting".
> Shotguns drawn and backed up by National Guard troops, the capitalist
> state has turned against the desperate survivors of Hurricane Katrina
> to protect its number one concern: the private property of business
> owners. Oilman Bush has declared "zero tolerance" for "looters". While
> he also mentioned gas price gouging, the executives at Exxon Mobil
> needen't fear national guardsmen at their doors with shoot-to-kill
> orders. ...
>
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