{"id":46,"date":"2005-09-02T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2005-09-02T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/09\/02\/genocide-by-inaction\/"},"modified":"2005-09-02T13:09:06","modified_gmt":"2005-09-02T17:09:06","slug":"genocide-by-inaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2005\/09\/02\/genocide-by-inaction\/","title":{"rendered":"Genocide by Inaction"},"content":{"rendered":"

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-Ellen; calling in to Jerry Springer on Air America Radio<\/p>\n

It is genocide and it was foretold<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most genocides are the result of deliberate barbarous action. This one
\nis the result of deliberate barbarous inaction. Ned Sublette was right
\nacross the board. Everybody did know about it for years. the Army Corps
\nof Engineers, the then Senator, the local paper – The Times-Picayune<\/a>.   
\nLast year, CNN ran an public service announcement featuring the
\nplaydough figure Mr. Bill. “Gee kids, todays show will be cancelled
\nbecasue the levees are unsafe.”<\/p>\n

Overwhelmed rescue workers do not have time to recover the remains of
\nthe dead. One rescue worker was quoted as saying, “We have to push the
\nbodies aside. We have to focus on the living.”<\/p>\n

The human body can survive about a day without drinking water. Many of
\nthe people who lost all safe drinking water during the storm or shortly
\nafter are dead now. Push their bodies aside.  Some have been
\ndrinking the flood water. Contaminated with petrochemicals, sewage, and
\nvermin, many of the people who drank it are dying of diseases that will
\ngo untreated. Push their bodies aside. Some people in the Superdome
\nhave been evacuated to the Astrodome. But many remain and they are
\ndying They are coverd and left where they die.<\/p>\n

The mayor of  New Orleans says that there are a large number of
\ndrug starved addicts roaming the streets and they are armed. The
\nhospitals have been repeatedly looted for drugs. Charity hospital moved
\nit’s patients to the higher floors to protect them from looters. Now
\nthey are moving them to Tulane Hospital across the street. The rich
\npatients were evacuated days ago.<\/p>\n

“The best we can do is set up a perimeter around an area and hope we are not overrun.”
\n—-
“Let’s have a moratorium on press conferences until the people are here.
\nDon’t tell me there are 40,000 people coming. They’re not here.”
\n-Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleasns. The full interview<\/a> from Air America Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dick Chenay’s secretary “does not have handy” the date when he will return from vacation.
\nCondy Rice went to see Spam Alot on Broadway Wednesday night. Shopping
\nfor shoes yesterday, she had the Secret Service remove a woman who
\nasked her how she dared.<\/p>\n

Anderson Cooper saw a woman in the streets being eaten by rats. Telling
\nSenator Mary Landieau about this, “Do you see the anger here.”<\/p>\n

Even Ted Koppel was outraged last night.<\/p>\n

And it continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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