[DrRichBoylandReports] holding accountable those in charge

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Subject: [DrRichBoylanReports] holding accountable those in charge
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 09:55:01 -0700
From: Richard Boylan PhD drboylan@sbcglobal.net
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Friends and Star Kids,

In view of the fact that the Star Visitors have indicated that Hurricane Katrina is the American beginning of the mainstream flow of events known popularly as Earth Changes, foreshown to many by the Star Visitors, and in view of the fact that George W. Bush is pure Cabal, and we as lightworkers need to not only build a Fifth World society, but also tactically confront the Cabal when timely and necessary, I share the following letter of mine to the "President".

- Richard Boylan, Ph.D.

From: Richard Boylan PhD [mailto:drboylan@sbcglobal.net ]
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 2:41 PM
To: 'PresidentGeoWBush'
Cc: FirstLadyLauraBush; 'GovernorArnoldSchwarzenegger'; SenBarbaraBoxer; SenDeborahOrtiz; Vice-PresidentCheney

Subject: Help for victims of Katrina NOW!!!

President George Walker Bush
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear Mr. President:

The disaster that occurred when Hurricane Katrina came through New Orleans and adjacent Southern seaboard is dwarfed by the human tragedy that followed as many tens of thousands of persons are dispossessed and displaced.

You have relinquished your moral authority as President by your shilly-shallying, delayed, and inadequate response, which _continues_ too little, too late.

The National Guards are off on Rumsfeld's adventurism in Iraq and Afghanistan, when we need them home helping here.

FEMA has squandered its funding building secret underground cities for the "elite" to remove to when mega-disaster strikes topside, and so FEMA doesn't have enough money, planning and attention concentrated on Americans who need help now!

You delay for days a Declaration of Disaster, and in dispatching disaster relief, because after all, the only people left in New Orleans are poor Blacks, and they vote Democratic. A little ethnic cleansing-by-delayed-assistance.

Mr. Bush, it's past time. "Let's roll!"

In the light,

Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D.

Richard J. Boylan, Ph.D., LLC
Director, Star Kids Project, Ltd
Author: "Star Kids: the Emerging Cosmic Generation"
P.O. Box 22310
Sacramento, California 95822, USA
drboylan@sbcglobal.net
http://www.drboylan.com

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Notes From Inside New Orleans

by Jordan Flaherty

Friday, September 2, 2005

I just left New Orleans a couple hours ago. I traveled from the apartment I
was staying in by boat to a helicopter to a refugee camp. If anyone wants to
examine the attitude of federal and state officials towards the victims of
hurricane Katrina, I advise you to visit one of the refugee camps.

In the refugee camp I just left, on the I-10 freeway near Causeway, thousands
of people (at least 90% black and poor) stood and squatted in mud and trash
behind metal barricades, under an unforgiving sun, with heavily armed soldiers
standing guard over them. When a bus would come through, it would stop at a
random spot, state police would open a gap in one of the barricades, and people
would rush for the bus, with no information given about where the bus was
going. Once inside (we were told) evacuees would be told where the bus was taking
them - Baton Rouge, Houston, Arkansas, Dallas, or other locations. I was told
that if you boarded a bus bound for Arkansas (for example), even people with
family and a place to stay in Baton Rouge would not be allowed to get out of
the bus as it passed through Baton Rouge. You had no choice but to go to the
shelter in Arkansas. If you had people willing to come to New Orleans to pick you
up, they could not come within 17 miles of the camp.

I traveled throughout the camp and spoke to Red Cross workers, Salvation Army
workers, National Guard, and state police, and although they were friendly,
no one could give me any details on when buses would arrive, how many, where
they would go to, or any other information. I spoke to the several teams of
journalists nearby, and asked if any of them had been able to get any information
from any federal or state officials on any of these questions, and all of
them, from Australian TV to local Fox affiliates complained of an unorganized,
non-communicative, mess. One cameraman told me "as someone who's been here in
this camp for two days, the only information I can give you is this: get out by
nightfall. You don't want to be here at night."

There was also no visible attempt by any of those running the camp to set up
any sort of transparent and consistent system, for instance a line to get on
buses, a way to register contact information or find family members, special
needs services for children and infirm, phone services, treatment for possible
disease exposure, nor even a single trash can.

To understand this tragedy, its important to look at New Orleans itself.

For those who have not lived in New Orleans, you have missed a incredible,
glorious, vital, city. A place with a culture and energy unlike anywhere else in
the world. A 70% African-American city where resistance to white supremecy
has supported a generous, subversive and unique culture of vivid beauty. From
jazz, blues and hiphop, to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, Parades, Beads, Jazz
Funerals, and red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of
art and music and dance and sexuality and liberation unlike anywhere else in
the world.

It is a city of kindness and hospitality, where walking down the block can
take two hours because you stop and talk to someone on every porch, and where a
community pulls together when someone is in need. It is a city of extended
families and social networks filling the gaps left by city, state and federal
governments that have abdicated their responsibility for the public welfare. It
is a city where someone you walk past on the street not only asks how you are,
they wait for an answer.

It is also a city of exploitation and segregation and fear. The city of New
Orleans has a population of just over 500,000 and was expecting 300 murders
this year, most of them centered on just a few, overwhelmingly black,
neighborhoods. Police have been quoted as saying that they don't need to search out the
perpetrators, because usually a few days after a shooting, the attacker is shot
in revenge.

There is an atmosphere of intense hostility and distrust between much of
Black New Orleans and the N.O. Police Department. In recent months, officers have
been accused of everything from drug running to corruption to theft. In
separate incidents, two New Orleans police officers were recently charged with rape
(while in uniform), and there have been several high profile police killings
of unarmed youth, including the murder of Jenard Thomas, which has inspired
ongoing weekly protests for several months.

The city has a 40% illiteracy rate, and over 50% of black ninth graders will
not graduate in four years. Louisiana spends on average $4,724 per child's
education and ranks 48th in the country for lowest teacher salaries. The
equivalent of more than two classrooms of young people drop out of Louisiana schools
every day and about 50,000 students are absent from school on any given day.
Far too many young black men from New Orleans end up enslaved in Angola Prison,
a former slave plantation where inmates still do manual farm labor, and over
90% of inmates eventually die in the prison. It is a city where industry has
left, and most remaining jobs are low-paying, transient, insecure jobs in the
service economy.

Race has always been the undercurrent of Louisiana politics. This disaster is
one that was constructed out of racism, neglect and incompetence. Hurricane
Katrina was the inevitable spark igniting the gasoline of cruelty and
corruption. From the neighborhoods left most at risk, to the treatment of the refugees
to the media portrayal of the victims, this disaster is shaped by race.

Louisiana politics is famously corrupt, but with the tragedies of this week
our political leaders have defined a new level of incompetence. As hurricane
Katrina approached, our Governor urged us to "Pray the hurricane down" to a
level two. Trapped in a building two days after the hurricane, we tuned our
battery-operated radio into local radio and TV stations, hoping for vital news, and
were told that our governor had called for a day of prayer. As rumors and
panic began to rule, they was no source of solid dependable information. Tuesday
night, politicians and reporters said the water level would rise another 12
feet - instead it stabilized. Rumors spread like wildfire, and the politicians
and media only made it worse.

While the rich escaped New Orleans, those with nowhere to go and no way to
get there were left behind. Adding salt to the wound, the local and national
media have spent the last week demonizing those left behind. As someone that
loves New Orleans and the people in it, this is the part of this tragedy that
hurts me the most, and it hurts me deeply.

No sane person should classify someone who takes food from indefinitely
closed stores in a desperate, starving city as a "looter," but that just what the
media did over and over again. Sheriffs and politicians talked of having troops
protect stores instead of perform rescue operations.

Images of New Orleans' hurricane-ravaged population were transformed into
black, out-of-control, criminals. As if taking a stereo from a store that will
clearly be insured against loss is a greater crime than the governmental neglect
and incompetence that did billions of dollars of damage and destroyed a city.
This media focus is a tactic, just as the eighties focus on "welfare queens"
and "super-predators" obscured the simultaneous and much larger crimes of the
Savings and Loan scams and mass layoffs, the hyper-exploited people of New
Orleans are being used as a scapegoat to cover up much larger crimes.

City, state and national politicians are the real criminals here. Since at
least the mid-1800s, its been widely known the danger faced by flooding to New
Orleans. The flood of 1927, which, like this week's events, was more about
politics and racism than any kind of natural disaster, illustrated exactly the
danger faced. Yet government officials have consistently refused to spend the
money to protect this poor, overwhelmingly black, city.

While FEMA and others warned of the urgent impending danger to New Orleans
and put forward proposals for funding to reinforce and protect the city, the
Bush administration, in every year since 2001, has cut or refused to fund New
Orleans flood control, and ignored scientists warnings of increased hurricanes as
a result of global warming. And, as the dangers rose with the floodlines, the
lack of coordinated response dramatized vividly the callous disregard of our
elected leaders.

The aftermath from the 1927 flood helped shape the elections of both a US
President and a Governor, and ushered in the southern populist politics of Huey
Long.

In the coming months, billions of dollars will likely flood into New Orleans.
This money can either be spent to usher in a "New Deal" for the city, with
public investment, creation of stable union jobs, new schools, cultural programs
and housing restoration, or the city can be "rebuilt and revitalized" to a
shell of its former self, with newer hotels, more casinos, and with chain stores
and theme parks replacing the former neighborhoods, cultural centers and
corner jazz clubs.

Long before Katrina, New Orleans was hit by a hurricane of poverty, racism,
disinvestment, de-industrialization and corruption. Simply the damage from this
pre-Katrina hurricane will take billions to repair.

Now that the money is flowing in, and the world's eyes are focused on
Katrina, its vital that progressive-minded people take this opportunity to fight for
a rebuilding with justice. New Orleans is a special place, and we need to
fight for its rebirth.

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Jordan Flaherty is an editor of Left Turn Magazine
([http://neworleans.craigslist.org/about/help/katrina_cl.html] (URL:

http://www.leftturn.org)