BUSH PLAN TO MASSIVELY UNDERSTATE DEATH TOLL

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W PLAN 2 MASSIVELY UNDERSTATE DEATH TOLL,COOK BODY COUNT,/The

Sport of God

 

 

 

 

Medical Worker -Sept. 6,

43,000 body bags used in NO alone (not all of them for single bodies)

Pathologist involved in body ID-ing forbidden to talk about body count

 

 

 

BUSH PLAN TO MASSIVELY UNDERSTATE DEATH TOLL

 

'A rumor from inside FEMA states that the Bush administration has

devised a strategy to try to handle the death count issue...it plans

to " lowball " the figures (that's already come true with the statement

by Brown's replacement), and to dribble the figures out, released not

as cumulative totals, but in groups of several hundred...over a

prolonged period time. All the while blocking the release of any

graphic photos, putting a gag order on all people involved in the body

recovery, and not listing unclaimed bodies (in some cases, whole

families died and there is no one to claim them) with the " official

count. " '

 

 

 

 

BUSH ADMIN PLAN TO COOK BODY COUNT BOOKS

 

Fri Sep 9, 2005 22:11

64.140.158.5

http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?disc=149495;article=90987;title=APFN

 

BUSH ADMIN PLAN TO COOK BODY COUNT BOOKS

 

from Cheryl Seal

 

 

A rumor from inside FEMA states that the Bush administration has

devised a strategy to try to handle the death count issue...it plans

to " lowball " the figures (that's already come true with the statement

by Brown's replacement), and to dribble the figures out, released not

as cumulative totals, but in groups of several hundred...over a

prolonged period time. All the while blocking the release of any

graphic photos, putting a gag order on all people involved in the body

recovery, and not listing unclaimed bodies (in some cases, whole

families died and there is no one to claim them) with the " official

count. "

 

 

So the first thing Brown's replacement does is state that Hey, it

wasn't that bad afterall! and that the body count will be way less

than 10,000. Of course, the day before this announcement was made, the

news was released that the military wasn't allowing anyone to take

photos of the dead, and were beginning to make it harder for

journalists to operate in the area. Journalists have been barred

completely from the Superdome and other sites where bodies are being

kept (it is now a temporary morgue).

 

 

Of course, we're given the usual spin job to cover the truth: they

aren't lying about the body count and covering it up - Of course not!

They are just " treating the dead with dignity. " Since when is it being

treated with dignity to be a " statistic " that someone needs to sweep

under the carpet like so much dirt?

 

 

Louisiana state U scientists - who used models to accurately predict

that the levees would likely be breached as a consequence of this

storm....who accurately predicted that once breached, New Orleans

would fill like a bowl until level with Lake Ponchatrain, these same

researchers also predicted that the body count would be over 10,000,

possibly far higher. The evidence of eyewitnesses - rescuers on the

ground, doctors in makeshift hospitals, body processors, etc - all

support this prediction.

 

 

 

But now, FEMA, et al have also sent survivors to the four corners of

the country (now some are as far afield as Maine and New Hampshire),

making it far harder for survivors to return and to get information

about lost loved ones - and thus making it easier for the government

to cook the books re: casualties without detection.

 

 

Are we going to allow the dead to be forgotten - worse yet, swepth

under the Bush administration carpet like so much dirt? Or will

someone - specifically someone in the MEDIA - finally speak up and

demand answers.

 

 

 

Here's a few significant bits:

 

Journalists barred from areas where bodies are being stored

 

(scroll down to Sept 7: " Making the Quarter Rounds " :

 

 

 

" the fact that the National Guard now bars entry (by journalists) to

the very places where people last week were barred from LEAVING (The

Convention Center and Superdome) is a kind of perverse and perfectly

backward postscript to this awful chapter in American history. "

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9216831/#050907c

 

 

 

Medical Worker said that by Sept. 6, 43,000 body bags had been used in

New Orleans alone (not all of them for single bodies)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/7/02749/28047

 

 

 

Pathologist involved in body ID-ing forbidden to talk about body count

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050909/NEWS01/50\

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9/11 And The Sport of God

 

Bill Moyers

September 09, 2005

 

 

This article is adapted from Bill Moyer's address this week at Union

Theological Seminary in New York, where Judith and Bill Moyers

received the seminary¡¯s highest award, the Union Medal, for their

contributions to faith and reason in America. Bill Moyers is a

broadcast journalist and former host the PBS program NOW With Bill

Moyers. Moyers also serves as president of the Schumann Center for

Media and Democracy, which gives financial support to TomPaine.com.

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050909/911_and_the_sport_of_god.php