No Photos of Dead “Cockroaches” Allowed in New Orleans

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No Photos of Dead " Cockroaches " Allowed in NO

 

 

 

 

 

 

No Photos of Dead " Cockroaches " Allowed in New Orleans

 

Kurt Nimmo | September 14 2005

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/140905deadcockroaches.htm

 

 

 

Let CNN sue the Bush administration all it wants. It will make no

difference in the new New Orleans, where the Pentagon is in control

(along with Blackwater mercenaries and militarized cops) and the

First, Second, and Fourth Amendments of the Constitution no longer

exist. " On Saturday, after being challenged in court by CNN, the Bush

administration agreed not to prevent the news media from following the

effort to recover the bodies of Hurricane Katrina victims, " reports

the San Francisco Chronicle. " But on Monday, in the Bywater district,

that assurance wasn't being followed. The 82nd Airborne soldier told

reporters the Army had a policy that requires media to be 300 meters—

 

 

 

more than three football fields in length—away from the scene of body

recoveries in New Orleans. If reporters wrote stories or took pictures

of body recoveries, they would be reported and face consequences, he

said, including a loss of access for up-close coverage of certain

military operations. " No doubt journalists are relieved—in Iraq, when

the media ventures too close to " certain military operations, " they

are often shot dead.

 

 

 

In the new New Orleans, an American city now sharing ominous parallels

to Baghdad, the " insurgents, " that is to say residents who refuse to

leave their homes—likely understanding that if they do so their homes

will be bulldozed, not unlike the homes of Palestinians in Gaza and

the West Bank—

 

 

 

are now considered on par with common household pests. " The

cockroaches come out at night, " Dean Nugent, of the Louisiana State

Coroner's Department, said of the residents who have defied military

orders to " evacuate, " or surrender their homes, possessions, and pets

to the government (no word on what exactly will happen to the

possessions, but pets are systematically exterminated). " This is one

of the worst places in the country. You should not be here. Especially

you, " he told a female reporter, insinuating that the remaining

residents are not only flat-bodied insects of the family Blattidae,

but also rapists and possibly murderers. Cecilia M. Vega of the

Chronicle adds: " Nugent, who is white, acknowledged he wasn't

personally familiar with the poor, black neighborhood, saying he only

knew of it by reputation. "

 

 

 

Not documenting and possibly never reporting the actual death toll in

New Orleans is apparently not a concern for most Americans, who remain

almost completely in the dark, if we can believe polls conducted by

the corporate media. " A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey finds that 58%

of Americans say they are following news coverage of the hurricane

disaster—

 

 

 

and a vast majority give the media high marks, " reports Editor &

Publisher. Even more disturbing is the fact far too many Americans

seem to not be troubled that Bush (or anybody else in government) will

never be held to account for the fact thousands of people waited days

to receive urgent water, food, and medical attention. " At the same

time, only 43% of Americans give President Bush a passing grade in

response to Hurricane Katrina, with 54% disapproving, and 7 in 10 call

for an independent probe of the federal response….

 

 

 

Americans are also more likely to believe that the slow response was a

result of bureaucratic inefficiency (49%) than a lack of adequate

preparation (40%). " Of course, CNN and Gallup did not ask if Americans

believe the government deliberately left the victims of Katrina to

their fate. It is simply unthinkable government would do such a thing—

 

 

 

Operation Northwoods, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Navy bacterial

experiments on the people of San Francisco, CIA experiments with

Serratia marcescens and Bacillus glogigii on the unwitting people of

New York, U.S. military releasing mosquitoes infected with Yellow

Fever over Savannah, Georgia and Avon Park, Florida, the nuking of

Hiroshima and Nagasaki (and the fire-bombing of Tokyo and Dresden),

and countless other examples not withstanding.

 

 

 

Indeed, the New World Order crew considers millions of Americans as

little more than " cockroaches, " although they are not as forthright as

the racist Dean Nugent. Our neoliberal rulers (and the current

neocon clique) are adamantly opposed to the idea of the " public good "

(as in saving hurricane victims) because for the global elite the

" market rules " and no appreciable larger community or social

consciousness exists outside of their own narrow economic interests—

 

 

 

thus neocons and so-called " conservatives " (who are reactionaries, not

traditional conservatives) blame the impoverished victims of Katrina

for their own lack of resources and class-bound ineptitude (such not

being able to afford a car or a motel room out of harm's way). But

regardless of this facile blame game, the neolibs and neocons consider

Katrina a sort of naturally occurring structural adjustment program

that will punish the " useless eaters " (Untermensch) and ultimately

reward the financial elite as they invest in a radically transformed—

 

 

 

" demographically, geographically and politically, " as the elitist

James Reiss unabashedly informs us—new New Orleans, now earmarked to

become an upscale tourist destination minus a troublesome under class

deemed expendable (or easily displaced).

 

 

 

It is the task of the Pentagon to make certain the corporate

media—instinctively sniffing around ghoulish stories, such as the

sensationalistic prospect of the New Orleans dead—are not allowed

access, and for good reason: it is not so much the dead or the bogus

claim of respecting the families of the dead, but rather the

Pentagon's desire to conduct operations under an impenetrable dark

cloud of secrecy. In essence, Katrina is an exercise—call it a war game—

 

 

 

to test out operational methods that will be used down the road as

martial law (or martial law without martial law, as in New Orleans) is

rolled out elsewhere in the country under the guise of a terrorist

attack or some other tenuous (and manufactured) excuse. CNN and the

alphabet corporate news ministries—even though they faithful serve the

Bushian agenda on most occasions—

 

 

 

will not be permitted to snoop around, as they are not allowed to

snoop around Iraq where lessons in covert warfare (engineering

" pseudo-gang " terrorist groups led by phantom terrorists such as Abu

Musab al-Zarqawi) are learned and archived in databases. In the

meantime, in true Orwellian fashion, the Army 82nd Airborne Division

will threaten journalists as they claim to follow U.S. District Court

Judge Keith Ellison's temporary restraining order against a " zero

access " policy announced by Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, a " John Wayne

dude " who can " get some stuff done, " namely reduce a constitutional

republic to a totalitarian nightmare in short order.