A Requim For Crescent City

Just finished watching Spike Lee's "When The Levees Broke", his most recent HBO documetnary, and it perhaps is the most damning thing of the white elite that run this government in the Bush administration. Simply because the way the Feds mobilized for Iraq was like some crack force as personified in the movies, and the way the treated the niggas in New Orleans (all the white who got caught up in the aftermath are considered niggers, too, by the likes of Dubya and Mike Chertoff and Mikey Brown).

What's most gut-punching is all the home video footage Lee culled or the international news agency footage that was more hard-hitting that what the US media outlets opted to broadcast to the cowardly general public of the US... as if they know that Americans can't deal with a certain amount of reality, and the purpose of a lot of video news is to assuage potential fears and keep people under control.

Honestly, I don't think the US is the superpower that it wants the world to believe that it is. Everything that the US has touched since George H.W. Bush's invasion of Panama has been a major fuck-up... and guess what? That was the last major military action during the Cold War. It seems as if the US needed the Soviet Union to prove that it was better than something, somebody, anything.



After Bush's recent speaches to Congress demanding that the Geneva Convention be reinterpreted and that Gitmo be set-up as Judge-Jury-&-Execution spot, it makes me wonder what's going to happen to any US soldier or agent is hemmed up while out in the world... I don't think there have been any US POWs in Iraq (shit, they'd get their hands drilled by a Craftsman powertool while their balls are hooked up to a Honda generator, and that's before they have any questions asked of them!).

Spike's flick got me thinking about why Crescent City gets the short end of the stick... has to be because its a nigger city (like Detroit); there was something pointed out in the flick that tripped me out. Apparently, all the taxes and other potential revenue streams that come from the oil off Louisiana's coast don't go to the state or the city of New Orleans, but to Washington, DC and Texas (where the oil company's HQs are). Why the Fed fuck the state like that? Maybe now that the Lower 9th Ward had its ass handed to it, and the niggers are forced the fuck out, Big Business and Haliburtons are the country are going to take control of all that waterfront property.

Only time will tell.

I wonder if Ray Nagan is going to get re-elected after this current term is up. He was defiant to the last about what kind of ass-fucking the city WAS NOT going to take. He needs to be praised for dealing with some outrageousness on the level that no place outside of WWII era Japan and Germany have dealt with in the last few hundred years...