The real difference between NOLA and San Diego [View All]

[Elspeth]

The real difference is that the people in San Diego are expected to stay and rebuild and the people in NOLA were, I believe, targeted for removal.

The attitude towards San Diego evacuees is the typical one we usually have for people displaced by some kind of natural disaster. We assume that they will stay in the area and rebuild, and will probably need help to do so. All levels of government also assume this.

The attitude of the White House toward the NOLA evacuees, however, was a shocking and vicious change from the status quo. That is why the journalists were shocked, America was shocked and the world was shocked.

To see the NOLA evacuees MOVED OUT OF THE STATE so quickly and not helped to return to their homes meant that the current administration did not see then as evacuees at all. The use of the word "refugee" was deliberate: evacuees return to their homes; refugees leave their home for somewhere else.

NOLA was a Federal Crime involving Federal levees which broke on Monday night after the hurricane. The Feds did NOT inform the citizens and let them die or struggle to escape, in some kind of sick Darwinian fascist mind game.

The plans to move these people were probably in place before the hurricane hit. The MSM started calling them refugees almost immediately, distancing their plight from the general public and getting people used to the idea that they would be moved.