Why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?

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Why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?

 

 

 

 

 

Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina's death count. Estimates are

now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648

for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush

Administration order 75,000 body bags?

 

by Lynn Landes

 

http://www.opednews.com

 

9/14/05

 

 

 

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_lynn_lan_050914_who_are_the_75_000_b.htm

 

Along that line, other things don't add up. For instance, why did

FEMA contact a crematorium in the local area; how could people

identify their loved ones if only ashes remain? Why did FEMA rebuff

efforts of volunteer morticians? Why did the feds try to ban

reporters from covering the body recovery effort? Why have the feds

employed mercenaries in New Orleans? Don't we have plenty of

volunteers, police and military in the U.S. to get any job done that

needs doing? What's really going on?

 

I don't know with any certainty, but here are some theories:

 

Maybe the Bush Administration doesn't want us to know how many people

died because they just can't take the political heat for being

completely incompetent. That's somewhat understandable. Maybe they

ordered 75,000 body bags and hired Houston-based Blackwater

mercenaries as more pork barrel projects. Nothing new there.

 

Or, maybe the feds want to hide bodies in an effort to grab land for

their developer friends, or deny insurance claims for their friends in

the insurance industry, as some people assert happened last year after

Hurricane Charley in Florida. The Bush Administration can't count on

the police or military to carry out their dirty work, so they use

private security firms. That's in keeping with the Bush

Administration's MO (modus operandi).

 

Or, maybe they don't want us to know exactly how some of these folks

died. Maybe some New Orleans police did not abandon their stations.

Maybe they were murdered while trying to protect their city. After

all, Mayor Ray Negin made public statements saying, " The CIA might

take me out " . What was that all about? There are reports that there

was a shoot-out between New Orleans police and contractors. And

rumors are rampant that the 17th Street levee was bombed to protect

the wealthier parts of New Orleans. Something along those lines

occurred in the Great Flood of 1927.

 

Or, maybe the body bags have little to do with Katrina. Maybe the

bags are for us. On September 11th, the Bush Administration announced

a new Pentagon guideline to allow pre-emptive nuclear strikes. Most

people think that means an attack on Iran. However, some observers

believe that some place in America (perhaps off the Carolinas' coast)

will be the Bush Administration's first target.

 

Under the cover of Katrina, maybe the Bush Administration hopes no one

will notice an order of 75,000 body bags.

 

 

In support of these theories, here are some news articles, opinions,

and information for your reading pleasure:

 

April 1927: THE GREAT FLOOD OF 1927 --New Orleans dynamites Poydras

levee -- The Great Flood, New Orleans -- " Communities on both sides of

the river know that if the levee breaks on one side, the other side

will be spared. Each side of the river fears sabotage, and sets up

levee patrols to prevent intruders from dynamiting their levee. The

patrols are prepared to shoot to kill.... National Guard is called in

to patrol the refugee camps in Greenville. Word filters out of the

camps that guardsmen are robbing, assaulting, raping and even

murdering African Americans held on the levee. ...April 29: The

torrent has moved south. With the river almost at the levee tops, New

Orleans dynamites the Poydras levee, creating a 1500-foot break at an

estimated cost of $2 million, to direct the flood waters away from the

city and its half million inhabitants. "

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/flood/timeline/timeline2.html

 

Aug 15, 2004: HURRICANE CHARLEY -- Did FEMA spirit away corpses in

Florida? Michael Edward reports, " The mass media, in collusion with

government and insurance companies, purposely under-report the death

tolls. FEMA simply spirits away the corpses in body bags before

relatives can get into the area to identify their deceased. " ... " By

10:00 p.m. on Friday, August 13, both Washington City and Tallahassee

knew of the real devastation and of the many hundreds of local EDS/EMS

confirmed deaths in the wake of Hurricane Charley. As a part of the

emergency S.O.P, specific MP (specialist) command units were sent to

Charlotte County from Ft. Leonard Wood and Ft. Stewart, most arriving

just before dawn on Saturday, August 14. Their specific orders were to

secure all the mobile home parks from the local and State authorities,

and to seal off these areas from all but " authorized " personnel. By

the time JEB BUSH arrived on Saturday, this had been fully

accomplished in both Charlotte and Desoto Counties. Every County

Deputy, city Police Officer, and all other local Emergency Services

personnel had been " relieved " from their mobile home park duties by

the Military Police command and re-assigned to other areas. ...The

second purpose was to carry out search, recovery, and transport

operations by " authorized " Federal teams. While residents were kept

off the public streets, perimeters were established and non-residents

were denied entrance, the mobile home parks were lit up by Army field

generator units, searched, and bodies recovered. Those bodies were

then transported out of the area on I-75 in refrigerated trucks marked

" Emergency Response Services " with magnetic signs on the doors. "

http://worldvisionportal.org/wvpforum/viewtopic.php?p=467

 

Sept 7: 2005: HURRICANE KATRINA - The Great New Orleans Land Grab -

" What is being implemented now is nothing less than a sophisticated

scheme to purge and ethnically cleanse what Whites have termed " Black

and 'welfare bloated' New Orleans " . "

http://www.aztlan.net/new_orleans_land_grab.htm

 

Sept 2: FEMA bars volunteer morticians from entering New Orleans

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862 & brd=1817 & pag=461 & dept_id=6856\

1 & rfi=6

 

Sept 5: FEMA contacts local crematorium -- Jacksonville Beach,

Florida, First Coast News (ABC 25 and NBC 12) reported, " With the

gruesome prospect of handling the disposition of as many as 10,000

bodies, FEMA is contacting local crematoriums " ... " The remains need

to be taken care of professionally and swiftly, " said Michael Shalz of

the Quinn-Shalz Funeral Home in Jacksonville Beach. " Although Shalz

conceded the most relatives need time to identify the dead, he added,

" ...this would be an opportunity that could take care of the immediate

needs, hopefully reduce any problems with public health. " Who or what

constitutes an immediate need?

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=43732

 

Sept 9: Authorities report far fewer corpses than 10,000 -- AP

reported, " Alarming predictions of as many as 10,000 dead in New

Orleans may have been greatly exaggerated, with authorities saying

Friday that the first street-by-street sweep of the swamped city

revealed far fewer corpses than feared. "

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/12595117.htm

 

Sept 9: FEMA orders 75,000 body bags --The Modesto (California) Bee

(working with the Associated Press-AP) reported, " The federal

government is trying to purchase an additional 50,000 body bags for

use in the Hurricane Katrina cleanup and in Iraq, according to an

official for a Modesto manufacturer. Previously, the Federal

Emergency Management Administration purchased 25,000 body bags and

shipped them to New Orleans. "

http://www.modbee.com/local/story/11196519p-11948351c.html

 

Sept 11: U.S. can't ban media from New Orleans searches, judge orders

- CNN filed suit for right to cover search for bodies of Katrina

victims. CNN reported, " U.S. District Court Judge Keith Ellison issued

a temporary restraining order Friday against a " zero access " policy

announced earlier in the day by Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, who is

overseeing the federal relief effort in the city, and Terry Ebbert,

the city's homeland security director. In explaining the ban, Ebbert

said, " we don't think that's proper " to let members of the media view

the bodies....Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal

government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from

reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans. "

http://www.cnn.com/2005/law/09/10/katrina.media/index.html

 

Sept 10: Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans - Heavily armed

paramilitary mercenaries from the (Houston-based) Blackwater private

security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling

the streets of New Orleans.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005a.shtml Contractors 'Run

Loose' in Iraq - Recent shootings of Iraqi civilians, allegedly

involving the legion of U.S., British and other foreign security

contractors operating in the country, are drawing increasing concern

…Their heavy presence stems in large part from the Pentagon's attempts

to keep troop numbers down by privatizing jobs that would once have

been performed by American forces.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005e.shtml

 

Sept 11: Dead Contractors and Levee 'Explosives Residue' Story

http://www.rense.com/general67/exple.htm " NEW ORLEANS, La -- Divers

inspecting the ruptured levee walls surrounding New Orleans found

something that piqued their interest: Burn marks on underwater debris

chunks from the broken levee wall. By Hal Turner 9-9-5 "

Also see: An Associated Press report, which has now disappeared,

stated that at least five USA Defense Department personnel where shot

dead by New Orleans police officers in the proximity of the breached

levee. (Please Note: The original media reports concerning the

shootout are now being changed or " cleansed " in a cover-up. We found

one original report at

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5256023,00.html

AND http://www.aztlan.net/new_orleans_land_grab.htm

 

Sept 11: Pentagon Studies Pre-Emptive Nuclear Strikes -- " The Pentagon

is preparing new guidelines governing the use of nuclear weapons that

foresee possible pre-emptive strikes against terrorist groups or

nations planning to use unconventional weapons against the United

States. " http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/politics/11nukes.html

 

Lynn Landes is publisher of Ecotalk (www.EcoTalk.org) and a news

reporter for DUTV in Philadelphia, PA. For the past year she has been

covering voting technology and democracy issues. Formerly Lynn was a

radio show host for WDVR in New Jersey and a regular commentator for a

BBC radio program. She can be reached at lynnlandes This

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