The Post Katrina Occupation of The United States
Linda Zoblotsky
September 29, 2005
If the waters of the Gulf of Mexico ever cool down, as the clean-up of The Gulf unfolds, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are going to continue to question how prepared were the Federal, State and Local governments? It is time to question what will the results of these investigations be, as far as strengthening the U.S.A. PATRIOT ACT and The Department of Homeland Security? People are awakening to the fact that the United States has been occupied since the 2000 Selection by a group of people that have combined their private wealth and power to be a force that is weakening freedom and democracy, not spread freedom in The Middle East or anywhere.
A year ago in the Red State/Blue State world, simple classifications of Conservative or Liberal facilitated separation of everyday people. A hurricane has separated those who live and die, those who have the ability to escape the hurricane on their own, those who are rich and poor, black and white. The mainstream news calls this the “blame game”. The people who are struggling to survive the devastation do not call it the blame game. They call it the Facts.
The Bush Regime, ever masterful in PR will now add to its roster of disasters, 9-11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Katrina and Rita to strengthen not only acts of counter-terrorism, but to strengthen acts and policies that counter the people.
The fact is tax payers, the middle and lower classes have been forced to pay for the burdens of the cost of the massive Homeland Security Department and the “War on Terror”. The American workers are being taxed to pay for the war in Iraq where our national guard made up of local citizens, who volunteer to be available to help out in a local disaster are killing people and destroying Iraq and Afghanistan. The poor people of The Gulf left behind, some with news cameras trained on their misery.
What in the world are the pro-life supporters thinking when they support Capital Punishment, the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in Iraq, if they only know what DU is and a 100 billion dollar missile stopper in Alaska that doesn’t work? In the end, it isn’t the threat of Osama or a nuclear warhead that is flushing New Orleans and the rest of this country down the drain. It is this “Ownership Society” menagerie of you're-on-your- own policies. It is the momentum of an Administration that takes care of multi-national corporations and refuses to hear the plight of the real people, the unemployed, the uninsured and the homeless.
It has been 4 years since 9-11. The war regime is able to mobilize military force, Blackwater Security and no-bid contractors into the areas affected by the storm. The administration supported by Congress is able to destabilize the lives of those affected by the storms, by refusing to offer a living wage in the reconstruction, by blocking out any laws to protect the environment to help speed up reconstruction, while the nation's poor are sent on a race to the bottom. What are the local leaders doing to fight for a voice for their people, so that they can decide how best to manage the lands along the levee, where many of them have lived all of their lives.
What is the projected outcome? That the people with means will decide what kind of New Orleans that they want to rebuild. And what is the cost - all of the colors of the people who are the real New Orleans. And what will be left of the storm-ravaged areas at the current military occupation along our gulf shores - war and police state games.
President Bush and this Congress wasted no time in calling for the passage of the U.S.A. PATRIOT ACT to restrict rights guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution and yet, this commander-in-chief played guitar while so many people in New Orleans were doomed.
Linda Zoblotsky is Writer, Producer and Director of the entertaining and educational one-woman play, LINDA ZOBLOTSKY IS LUVCHILD, about adoption and an adopted adults search for her Birthparents. There are 6,000,000 adopted people in the United States. LUVCHILD helps the non-adopted population understand the obstacles that adopted adults face when searching. In searching for intelligent designs of life, Linda was a volunteer for Kucinich for President and has been seeking to bring more people into awareness about the criminal regime that is occupying the United States from The Washitonian and Western White Houses
A year ago in the Red State/Blue State world, simple classifications of Conservative or Liberal facilitated separation of everyday people. A hurricane has separated those who live and die, those who have the ability to escape the hurricane on their own, those who are rich and poor, black and white. The mainstream news calls this the “blame game”. The people who are struggling to survive the devastation do not call it the blame game. They call it the Facts.
The Bush Regime, ever masterful in PR will now add to its roster of disasters, 9-11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Katrina and Rita to strengthen not only acts of counter-terrorism, but to strengthen acts and policies that counter the people.
The fact is tax payers, the middle and lower classes have been forced to pay for the burdens of the cost of the massive Homeland Security Department and the “War on Terror”. The American workers are being taxed to pay for the war in Iraq where our national guard made up of local citizens, who volunteer to be available to help out in a local disaster are killing people and destroying Iraq and Afghanistan. The poor people of The Gulf left behind, some with news cameras trained on their misery.
What in the world are the pro-life supporters thinking when they support Capital Punishment, the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) in Iraq, if they only know what DU is and a 100 billion dollar missile stopper in Alaska that doesn’t work? In the end, it isn’t the threat of Osama or a nuclear warhead that is flushing New Orleans and the rest of this country down the drain. It is this “Ownership Society” menagerie of you're-on-your- own policies. It is the momentum of an Administration that takes care of multi-national corporations and refuses to hear the plight of the real people, the unemployed, the uninsured and the homeless.
It has been 4 years since 9-11. The war regime is able to mobilize military force, Blackwater Security and no-bid contractors into the areas affected by the storm. The administration supported by Congress is able to destabilize the lives of those affected by the storms, by refusing to offer a living wage in the reconstruction, by blocking out any laws to protect the environment to help speed up reconstruction, while the nation's poor are sent on a race to the bottom. What are the local leaders doing to fight for a voice for their people, so that they can decide how best to manage the lands along the levee, where many of them have lived all of their lives.
What is the projected outcome? That the people with means will decide what kind of New Orleans that they want to rebuild. And what is the cost - all of the colors of the people who are the real New Orleans. And what will be left of the storm-ravaged areas at the current military occupation along our gulf shores - war and police state games.
President Bush and this Congress wasted no time in calling for the passage of the U.S.A. PATRIOT ACT to restrict rights guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution and yet, this commander-in-chief played guitar while so many people in New Orleans were doomed.
Linda Zoblotsky is Writer, Producer and Director of the entertaining and educational one-woman play, LINDA ZOBLOTSKY IS LUVCHILD, about adoption and an adopted adults search for her Birthparents. There are 6,000,000 adopted people in the United States. LUVCHILD helps the non-adopted population understand the obstacles that adopted adults face when searching. In searching for intelligent designs of life, Linda was a volunteer for Kucinich for President and has been seeking to bring more people into awareness about the criminal regime that is occupying the United States from The Washitonian and Western White Houses
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