The American right reacts to Katrina: A Synopsis

[HalfBakedPrince]

Part 1:

http://freedomsocialist.blogspot.com...o-katrina.html

The American right responds to Katrina...
Warning:

This is not sappy feel-good PC mainstream media garbage: This is the hard truth about how the far-right's extreme corruption, outright contempt for human life, and unrepentant racism has fuelled about the most despicable response to human suffering since Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong.

The following links will disgust you and may even convince you that quite a few people deserve to spend the rest of their lives in unfathomable pain and misery. I can safely say that -- as far as I know -- none of these people are Black and that none of them were forced to bear the brunt of this devastating catastrophe.

You have been warned!

First, we visit The Nation, where we learn that Christofascist hate monger Pat Robertson and his friends in the GOP and in FEMA are up to their old tricks again:

Operation blessing is corrupt and fraudulent? I mean, we've only known that for about 2 decades.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050919/blumenthal

America's Conmander in Cheat is Hellbent on given his campaign manager, some bigwig ally in FEMA, and his corporate friends as much "disaster relief" as he can:

http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/nation...acts-0910.html

Meanwhile, Pretzeldent Dumbya intends to turn New Orleans into a giant Black sweatshop, complete with starvation wages and anti-union contracting policies:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090802037.html

Maybe El Bushblo really did need that oxycontin for anal cyst pain relief, as it certainly didn't mellow out his White supremacist tendencies. Just ask Mayor...ummm...Nagin? Nayger? Nigger? With apologies to Fox "News", I'll report, but I'll leave it for you to decide!

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/nager.mp3

Patronage-based incompetence in FEMA? Who knew? Even after Mulroney and Chrétien's fiascos, it seems we have pretty sweet North of the border.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_r...p-293718c.html

And since we're on FEMA, how about director Michael Brown's bullshitted resume? He's more horse dung than Arabian Knight, I'd say.

http://www.time.com/time/nation/arti...103003,00.html

Former Clinton advisor Dick Morris -- an extremely conservative Democrat -- more than lives up to his name by suggesting that Smirky the Chimp use Katrina "to anchor his second term and give him relevance and popularity far into his tenure."

http://www.vote.com/magazine/columns...60358755.phtml

Barbara Bush -- likely the most disgusting of the lot -- is apparently on the verge of panic, referring to Texas' influx of New Orleans refugess as "scary". More racism? I'll provide a quote and a link while you can be the judge.

"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this--this (she chuckles slightly) is working very well for them."

Yep. Losing everything in a catastrophe is surely the way to the good life.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001054719

Since we're on the topic of Republican politicians making light of this travesty, how about some choice words from Reps. Richard Baker (R-LA) and Tom DeLay (R-TX):

Baker praises God to some right-wing lobbyists -- "We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn't do it, but God did." Yep...Looks like another bonanza for developers.

And as for The Hammer?

The blog reported that DeLay "likened their stay to being at camp and asked, 'Now, tell me the truth, boys, is this kind of fun?' " The blogger said the youngsters "nodded yes, but looked perplexed."

Yeah! Losing everything is real fun, asshole.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090901930.html

I guess that's all folks.

Good night, and may your nightmares be less horrifying than mine will be.

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Part Two:

http://freedomsocialist.blogspot.com...-react-to.html

Right-wing politicians react to Katrina: Redux
You mean there's more?

Yep.

This time featuring Dick Cheney (who, like Mr. Morris, does a damn good job of living up to his name), Trent Lott (who proves just how much Bush loves African-Americans), and religious wackos of all stripes (who seem to consider Katrina one of their holy crusaders).

While the good people of New Orleans are starving to death in a ruined city or living under squallid conditions in refugee camps, often travelling without knowing which state the're being shipped to, Crashcart has taken it upon himself to shop for yet another stately manor in a posh resort town along Maryland's Eastern shore. But are you really that surprised?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090401391.html

This fine Southern gentleman says it better than I ever could: Fuck yourself, Mr. Vice President!

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/08.html#a4856

Meanwhile, Our Dear Leader decides to make light of Mississippi's plight by discussing the future of his good friend Trent Lott's house: "Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house ... there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch." Gee, Mr. Bush, wasn't it African-Americans who were hardest hit by this catastrophic storm? And was it not Senator Lott who stated that America would be better off had every state followed South Carolina's lead in voting for segregationist candidate Strom "Sir Lynch-a-Lot" Thurmond during the 1948 Presidential election? Hmmm...Yep...I think Bush is just suffering from a bout of cognitive dissonance and really does care about the plight of Black people. *snickers*

Anyways, here's the link:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...101329,00.html

Just for a bit of morbid fun, let's close things off with some comments from the fundamentalist peanut gallery: Prepare to be more disgusted than ever.

From prominent anti-abortion activist Steve Lefemine --

"In my belief, God judged New Orleans for the sin of shedding innocent blood through abortion," said Lefemine, who e-mailed the weather map to activists and put a message on the answering machine of his organization, Columbia Christians for Life.
"Providence punishes national sins by national calamities," it said. "Greater divine judgment is coming upon America unless we repent of the national sin of abortion."

Meanwhile, Kuwaiti official Muhammad Yousef Mlaifi wrote that "It is almost certain that this is a wind of torment and evil that Allah has sent to this American empire." in Arabic newspaper Al-Siyassa. The headline? "The Terrorist Katrina is One of the Soldiers of Allah ... "

Michael Marcavge, head of the Southern Baptist-endorsed fundamentalist organisation Repent America, seems to consider Katrina one of the weapons in God's homophobic arsenal:

"We take no joy in the death of innocent people, But we believe that God is in control of the weather. The day Bourbon Street and the French Quarter was flooded was the day that 125,000 homosexuals were going to be celebrating sin in the streets. ... We're calling it an act of God."

http://archives.seattletimes.nwsourc...&date=20050904

As disgusting as these comments have been, the bottom of the barrel comes from an unlikely source: Jewish extremists, who have traditionally been less vocal and less animated than their Christian and Muslim cousins.

Ariel Natan Pasko, a fairly mainstream Jewish analyst, had the following to say:

"America's support for the expulsion of Jews from Gush Katif in Gaza ran counter to G-d's plan, and it's clear that His 'payback time' came swift and furious, as Hurricane Katrina uprooted whole communities along America's Gulf Coast."

and

"Water is a symbol of 'chesed â?? kindness' according to the Torah, and the Torah itself is likened to water, according to Jewish tradition. Since America had no compassion for the Jews of Gaza, water was used to punish America just as the flood in Noah's time."

Even more disgusting, the former Sephardi (i.e. European Jew) chief Rabbi of Israel, Ovadia Yosef, made comments with some particularly nasty racist overtones.

"There was a tsunami and there were horrible natural disasters. It's all a result of too little Torah study Over there [Louisiana] is where black people live. Do blacks learn Torah? 'All right,' said God, 'let's bring a tsunami and drown them.'"

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satelli...=1006953079865

These comments are especially shocking, given the mass persecution that Jews have suffered throughout their history, culminating in the Holocaust, and given that among White demographics in the U.S., European Jews like Rabbi Yosef were by far the staunchest supporters of Martin Luther King Jr's Civil Rights movement...

Just sickening, really. This bastard's spending eternity watching graphic Holocaust videos at Chez Satan (Sorry conservatives: The devil's a Frenchy.) as retribution for his unrepentant racism and for his love of human suffering.