Yes, this was posted here before, but we need not to forget the title of this article.
Combat Operations...those words chill me to the bone.
The author also calls the people of New Orleans the
"insurgency".They are thinking of New Orleans, not as a disaster area, but as a combat zone. We have heard the word "war zone" bandied about, but they meant it literally.
Troops begin combat operations in New OrleansNEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy.
While some fight the insurgency in the city,others carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes.
Declaring
combat operations in a devastated city with thousands upon thousands dead is an alarming statement on what has happened to our country. Calling the victims an
insurgency is unbelievable.
Right under our noses it happened. To quote Milton Mayer in his book from the 1950's about how things were allowed to happen in Germany in the 30s:
"What happened was the gradual habituation of the people, little by
little, to be governed by surprise, to receiving decisions deliberated in
secret; to believe that the situation was so complicated that the government
had to act on information which the people could not understand, or so
dangerous that, even if people could understand it, it could not be released
because of national security. The crises and reforms (real reforms too) so
occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the
whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. To live in the
process is absolutely not to notice it - please try to believe me - unless
one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of
us ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential,
so well explained or, on occasion, 'regretted.' Believe me this is true.
Each act, each occasion is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You
wait for the next and the next. You wait for one shocking occasion, thinking
that others, when such a shock comes, will join you in resisting somehow.
Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have
done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done (for that was all that was
required of most of us: that we did nothing) . . . You remember everything
now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair." ~
A German professor describing the coming of fascism in They Thought They
Were Free by Milton Mayer
Many here saw it early on, and those who are still in denial obviously don't understand at all.
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