you've GOT to be kidding!
okay, i know i was going to post next about christmas, but i heard something this morning that got my blondness in a twist- congressional testimony about the "katrina aftermath".
the woman whose testimony i listened to, i will not refer to by name- both to NOT contribute to her 15 minutes of fame, and to erase her humanity as sure as she is attempting to erase the humanity of the many people who rushed to new orleans to help after the hurricane...
the central theme of her "testimony" was that the sports stadium that many of the refugees were sent to was a concentration camp. no, she did not say "like" a concentration camp- she actually called it a concentration camp, like in world war II, complete with gestapo guards. no, i am not exaggerating or making this up, but i wish i was...
one senator asked her something like this, "umm, please, if it um, wouldn't offend you or make you upset in any way on any level, umm, could you maybe possibly, um sort of, if it's okay... not say that it was a concentration camp??????????????? pwetty pweeeease? if it wouldn't offend you?" good thing i wasn't there, cuz i might have had to "offend" that congressperson...
how about, "Saying that the temporary refuge camp, set up to feed, house, and protect the evacuees was a concentration camp is not only the stupidest thing i have ever heard, it also completely belittles the real victims of the real concentration camps, shows that you have no grasp of either history or real suffering, and offends me so greatly that i am going to have you arrested for hate speech..." just a thought...
anyway, this woman not only said it was a concentration camp, she also said that the national guardsmen there to protect them from the looting and lawlessness that was going on outside (and not by the gestapo, either...) were rednecks, that the army (the only people there who could restore any semblance of order to absolute chaos) was the gestapo, and that they were, in fact, tortured. she did not elaborate, but i guess that not having adequate food or water- which is a total bummer, don't get me wrong (but still better than drowning, getting eaten by aligators, or actually being in a concentration camp...)- is equivalent to being systematically hunted down, rounded up, stripped, raped, humiliated, beaten, taken away from family on purpose, demoralized, starved, worked until death by exhaustion, medically experimented on, completely dehumanized in every way, and finally exterminated and thrown into mass unmarked graves.
yeah, the sports place was totally like that.
so, it's the same question as the holiday question: WHY ARE PEOPLE SO AFRAID TO OFFEND SOMEONE THAT THEY LET THE IDIOTS OFFEND EVERYONE??????????????????
there is a quote- wish i could remember who said it- that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
so, i'm asking- where are all of the good people, and why are they so silent in the face of sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much evil?????????????????????????????
is it really so offensive to tell the truth?
the woman whose testimony i listened to, i will not refer to by name- both to NOT contribute to her 15 minutes of fame, and to erase her humanity as sure as she is attempting to erase the humanity of the many people who rushed to new orleans to help after the hurricane...
the central theme of her "testimony" was that the sports stadium that many of the refugees were sent to was a concentration camp. no, she did not say "like" a concentration camp- she actually called it a concentration camp, like in world war II, complete with gestapo guards. no, i am not exaggerating or making this up, but i wish i was...
one senator asked her something like this, "umm, please, if it um, wouldn't offend you or make you upset in any way on any level, umm, could you maybe possibly, um sort of, if it's okay... not say that it was a concentration camp??????????????? pwetty pweeeease? if it wouldn't offend you?" good thing i wasn't there, cuz i might have had to "offend" that congressperson...
how about, "Saying that the temporary refuge camp, set up to feed, house, and protect the evacuees was a concentration camp is not only the stupidest thing i have ever heard, it also completely belittles the real victims of the real concentration camps, shows that you have no grasp of either history or real suffering, and offends me so greatly that i am going to have you arrested for hate speech..." just a thought...
anyway, this woman not only said it was a concentration camp, she also said that the national guardsmen there to protect them from the looting and lawlessness that was going on outside (and not by the gestapo, either...) were rednecks, that the army (the only people there who could restore any semblance of order to absolute chaos) was the gestapo, and that they were, in fact, tortured. she did not elaborate, but i guess that not having adequate food or water- which is a total bummer, don't get me wrong (but still better than drowning, getting eaten by aligators, or actually being in a concentration camp...)- is equivalent to being systematically hunted down, rounded up, stripped, raped, humiliated, beaten, taken away from family on purpose, demoralized, starved, worked until death by exhaustion, medically experimented on, completely dehumanized in every way, and finally exterminated and thrown into mass unmarked graves.
yeah, the sports place was totally like that.
so, it's the same question as the holiday question: WHY ARE PEOPLE SO AFRAID TO OFFEND SOMEONE THAT THEY LET THE IDIOTS OFFEND EVERYONE??????????????????
there is a quote- wish i could remember who said it- that all that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.
so, i'm asking- where are all of the good people, and why are they so silent in the face of sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much evil?????????????????????????????
is it really so offensive to tell the truth?
posted by BlogBlond @ 7:53 AM
6 Comments:
At Wednesday, December 07, 2005 9:30:00 AM,
Sarah said…
I saw that testimony last night on the news, too. Even the newscasters said that some of the people were making ludicrous claims. I have no doubt that there was genuine suffering involved after Katrina, but I really don't think it could've been avoided (unless the geniuses who built the city below sealevel had chosen a higher and dryer location for the Big Easy).
Oh, and did you catch the testimony of the lady who said that she hadn't seen it, but she heard the levee in the black neighborhood get bombed and that's why it broke? Might it not occur to her that the levee breaking of its own accord may make a bomb-like sound?
At Wednesday, December 07, 2005 7:23:00 PM,
Josh said…
Wow, you don't sound blonde at all. This reads like Instapundit. Keep sharing!
At Thursday, December 08, 2005 5:58:00 AM,
BlogBlond said…
anysara- what do you think of them pouring in new money to rebuild that perfectly located city? and i heard our favorite calypso louie a few weeks ago rant about the levee getting bombed... maybe it never crossed his mind that, if someone was going to set off a bomb to kill the black people they would have just bombed the black neighbohood and eliminated the guesswork????????
josh- thanks (i think...)and welcome aboard!!!
At Thursday, December 08, 2005 6:23:00 AM,
Sarah said…
I thinks it's absolutely ludicrous to spend billions of dollars to relocate a city on land that is consistently eroding away into the ocean.
Honestly, even if it were my own hometown (and you KNOW how I feel about it), I would also not be in favor of rebuilding on the same sight.
I can see placing some shipping docks/warehouses/etc, but not homes.
Calypso Louie strikes again!
At Monday, December 12, 2005 11:44:00 AM,
Dimmy said…
It was the English philosopher Edmund Burke who said that bit about evil's triumph.
On a happier note, did you hear about the violence by the returnees towards the members of Army Core of Engineers? Cuz it was their fault all along, right?
At Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:33:00 AM,
DMartin said…
We have a bumper sticker here in Columbia, SC (where I live)that pretty much sums things up down there....
"It's a flood plain you idiot!"
That was not in response to N.O. it was a developer here in town that wanted to build a subdivision on land that floods at least once a year due to rainfall and snow melting up north. That being said, I think it should be taken up by the residents of N.O. as they relocate to higher ground.
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