From: The Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 22:42 Subject: THIS . . . IS . . . WRONG
All,
As I have said, there were reasons we left Baton Rouge. I am beginning to wonder that if, as some Experts in Holiness contend, such cataclysmic events as Katrina are indeed chastisements from the Almighty, whether it didn't destroy the wrong damn city.
I am ashamed for my hometown. Deeply, unspeakably ashamed. These are human beings, created in the image of God. How much must Job be made to suffer?
From: The Mighty Favog To: Listserve Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 18:23 Subject: Re: [Listserve] Third Day (Katrina Mix)
>> Here's something I produced today you may be interested in airing to >> support your on-air efforts to stay topical about the aftermath of >> Katrina. It's the new Third Day single, with news and survivor soundbites >> mixed in. Feel free to pass this link onto anyone else you think might be >> interested in airing it.
All,
Being a native Louisianian watching beloved New Orleans destroyed and the Gulf Coast washed away, my emotions are pretty raw this week. Nevertheless, let me try to be delicate about this. I realize that folks are trying to be helpful, trying to be relevant and are doing so with good hearts.
But y'all have to realize that, sometimes, the proper reaction to great tragedy is not to hand out a tract. Sometimes, the proper reaction is merely compassion -- to suffer with, to enter into victims' Passion, their collective submersion into the sorrowful mystery of Christ's agony and death.
If nothing else, those trapped in New Orleans, those staring at empty lots where their oceanfront homes used to be, those whose homes have been crushed by venerable pines and oaks have been doing NOTHING BUT crying out to Jesus. As have both those natives who evacuated with only what could be stuffed into vehicles and those, like me, who moved away years ago.
This thing, this damnable hurricane, has been bad. Cataclysmic. Friday, U.S. Sen. David Vitter said his best guess was that 10,000 may have died IN NEW ORLEANS ALONE. The economic loss, according to preliminary estimates, will reach $100 BILLION.
We -- all Americans -- will see economic and political upheaval that we can barely begin to fathom at this point.
Tracts are insufficient. Only Christ's love, channeled through His people, and elbow grease is sufficient.
And if you really have to play a song, play one that has come to mean much to folks of the area: "Louisiana 1927" by Randy Newman. There have been wonderful covers, as well, by Marcia Ball and Aaron Neville. It's a song that hit many Louisianians where they lived even before this week.
No, I'm not talking about Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, busted by Officer Mancuso in the Minneapolis airport john. The "family values" senator is one sick puppy deep in denial . . . not a hypocrite.
And his wife needs to get tested. Now.
The lousy, rotten, hypocritical Republican poltroons I'm talking about are all those outraged -- outraged! -- by the senator's alleged toilet-trolling ways. They want him to resign tout de suite as a betrayer of "values voters" and an embarrasser of the party.
These folks are lousy, rotten hypocrites and scumbags because -- apparently in their book -- it's one thing for a Republican social conservative to engage in illegal conduct with female prostitutes (complete with an alleged diaper fetish) and lie about it, but entirely another for a Republican social conservative to engage in illegal conduct with another man in a public-bathroom stall and lie about it.
IN SHORT, where are the Republican senators and congressmen calling for the head of "Diaperman," a.k.a., Sen. David Vitter, R.-La.? (Insert sound of crickets.)
After all, last I checked, boinking a high-class whore is no more or less illegal than a tawdry, anonymous assignation between two men in an airport latrine. The only thing saving Vitter there is the statute of limitations.
And last I checked my catechism, homosexual acts are no more or less gravely sinful than screwing around on your wife with a prostitute.
Neither the law nor the Catholic catechism offers any guidance on diaper fetishes.
And Vitter's wife needs to get tested. Now. Still, when the poor old Idaho poofter gets caught by the Twin Cities potty patrol, we are subjected to twaddle such as this from Sen. John McCain, taking a break from his flagging presidential campaign to spew thusly:
“My opinion is that when you plead guilty to a crime, you shouldn’t serve. That’s not a moral stand. That’s not a holier-than-thou. It’s just a factual situation.”
NO, SENATOR, that's just self-righteous bull. Factual is that you'll never, ever be president, and that's probably a good thing.
“Exit polls show that was the No. 1 factor in depressing Republican enthusiasm. There is an expectation that leaders who espouse family values will live by those values. And while the values voters don’t demand perfection, I do believe they want leaders with integrity.”
Of course, when the malefactor was the promiscuously heterosexual Vitter -- an old buddy from their days in the Louisiana Legislature -- Perkins was singing from a different page of the hymnal:
The statement by my friend and former colleague, Louisiana Senator David Vitter, was very disappointing. He admitted to a “serious sin” in a statement he released to the press on Monday, prior to news reports revealing that his phone number appeared on a long list of client’s numbers of the now infamous DC Madam, Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
In the release David assumed complete responsibility for what he did and that he “asked for and received forgiveness from God and [his] wife in confession and marriage counseling.” These allegations first surfaced about 4 or 5 years ago when David was considering running for governor of Louisiana. He backed away from the race admitting to marital problems and he and his wife sought counseling. This public revelation coincides with that time frame.
While I commend him on assuming personal responsibility and working to make things whole in his life, I cannot defend David’s behavior. Adultery is a serious matter that affects not only the individuals involved but families and the well being of the entire community. Voters have the right to consider issues like this when they assess the character of an elected official.
Having said that, the American people have shown themselves to be very forgiving toward a public official who admits their failures and takes redemptive steps. And despite what some have said since he released his statement, so does God. Proverbs 24:16 reads “For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.” I hope to see David back on his feet again.
SIN IS SIN. Illegal is illegal. Vitter's no better than Larry Craig.
Both should go.
And, come to think of it, so should the dishonorable men who have so little legal or moral vision that they cannot discern the obvious when it kicks them right in their Kinsey Reports.
President Bush appeared today in New Orleans to commemorate the second anniversary of his screwing over the Crescent City in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Here are some excerpts from his remarks this morning at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School for Science and Technology in the Lower 9th Ward.:
Madam Principal, thank you for having us. Laura and I are honored to be here.
From: The Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 02:52 Subject: Re: The impact of Katrina: One city
****,
The anarchy in New Orleans isn't the only thing that's starting to scare me here. The wild rumors that are spreading in city after city, and the reaction to all of this make me wonder if it isn't only among a portion of the urban underclass that the veneer of civilization is starting to come completely undone.
You don't remember the South in the '60s. I do. And what I'm hearing from all over is starting to remind me of some VERY bad s*** when Watts, Detroit and Memphis burned at the very same time white folk were being told they had to send their kids to school with "the nigras."
I remember in 1970, when Baton Rouge was about to be subjected to "neighborhood schools" as a mandatory integration plan. At that time, BR schools were being integrated by the grade-at-a-time "freedom of choice" method, starting in '63 (I think) with 12th grade. The scheme clearly was a joke. I was in fourth grade, and I had gone to legally segregated schools all my young life.
Anyway, I remember sitting in Joe Guillot's (Mister Joe to everybody) barber shop as some guy -- horrified that his boy was going to have to go to Istrouma High with the "g**damn niggers" -- vowed that he would make sure Junior was packing heat. Many things I've heard in the last few days are giving me serious flashbacks.
****, with two little ones , don't have a pistol in the house. It's far more likely that they could get a hold of it and shoot themselves than it is ******* would suffer "New Orleanism" and you'd have to fend off the rampaging hordes.
Besides, you probably would be seriously outgunned anyway.
Maybe things are all going to hell in a handbasket. Then again, maybe not. At least not to THAT extent.
What folks need to do is to just stop it. Stop it, settle down, get a grip on their fear/reason disconnect and take a long, deep breath. Because what we might do in reaction to our worst fears could surpass our worst nightmares.
From: The Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 14:56 Subject: Prescient political commentary of the day
Here is the commentary, which is way better than anything by Fox's "All Stars":
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."
-- Favog
From an AP dispatch:
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered with a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
"I don't treat my dog like that," 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. "I buried my dog." He added: "You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here."
The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.
"They've been teasing us with buses for four days," Edwards said.
People chanted, "Help, help!" as reporters and photographers walked through. The crowd got angry when journalists tried to photograph one of the bodies, and covered it over with a blanket. A woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm.
John Murray, 52, said: "It's like they're punishing us."
From: The Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 23:57 Subject: Re: Bush blows it
Dear ***,
Here's the president's political problem:
Louisiana soldiers are dying for George Bush's sins. New Orleans is dying for George Bush's sins (cutting all the flood-protection money to fund tilting at windmills in Iraq). And then the SOB gives a laundry-list speech of all the great stuff the Great God W. is doing for the Gulf Coast, when just a FRACTION of it is plainly evident on the ground, where refugees are plucked off of roofs just to f***ing die of thirst and hunger because no one can seem to get food and water where people actually can eat and drink it.
I freakin' saw one too many people crying into the WWL-TV camera lens, begging for food and water today. Saw too many hard-assed sheriff's captains and parish poobahs with agony written on their faces, almost in tears, begging the state, the feds, ANYONE to send food and water because people are falling out on Interstate ramps and the tops of levees . . . because evacuation shelters are full of refugees and devoid of food and water because no one will resupply them.
The longtime cameraman who shot one such piece said it was the only time he's ever wept while shooting a story. And then he broke down in tears on the air.
I broke down in sobs at my computer.
Next year in Nebraska, we have pro-life Democrats running for 2nd District U.S. House and U.S. Senate (Ben Nelson). They both have my enthusiastic support.
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 13:46 Subject: More apocalypse . . . at least hundreds dead in N'Awlins. Maybe thousands.
Again, from the invaluable WWL-TV.
-- Favog
Updates as they come in on Katrina 01:40 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Tom Planchet
1:39 P.M. -- Hoss: Airline Highway is still underwater.
1:28 P.M. -- WWL-TV's Mike Hoss said the I-10/Causeway interchange has turned into a massive first aid station. 50 ambulances are stationed there, and those who need immediate medical attention are being kept there in tents. Black Hawk helicopters and other rescue copters are constantly ferrying evacuees in to the area.
1:20 P.M. -- (AP) Mayor Ray Nagin says at least hundreds of people are dead -- maybe thousands -- in New Orleans. "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," and others dead in attics, Mayor Ray Nagin said. Asked how many, he said: "Minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands."
1:12 P.M. -- WWL-TV's Josh McElveen describes the stench coming from the bathrooms in the Superdome as horrific.
1:03 P.M. -- Mayor Nagin: Medical ship on the way to New Orleans.
12:56 P.M. -- Governor Blanco - Time is not on our side for stopping the levee break. There were two breaches, when we thought there was only one. Communicatiion, or lack of same caused the problem.
12:55 P.M. -- MIAMI (AP) -- Miami-based Carnival Cruise Lines says it is considering a federal request that the company use some of its cruise ships as emergency shelters or help in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in some other way.
12:53 P.M. -- Governor Blanco - thousands still need to be rescued.
12:52 P.M. -- Governor Blanco: We will rebuild.
12:51 P.M. -- Governor Blanco: The magnitude of this is overwhelming.
12:15 P.M. -- Army Corps: 1,200 sandbags that are 20,000 pounds each are being brought in to bridge gap...water level is no longer rising.
12:11 P.M. -- Army Corps: Water has become level with the Lake in the city so no more water should flow into the city, except at high tide.
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:59 Subject: New Orleans facing the apocalypse
All,
I just saw Jefferson Parish Emergency Operations chief Walter Maestri on TV, via the Internet. He looked and sounded desperate and frustrated. As I understand from the reporters and anchors, this is not a man given to desperation or frustration.
From what I hear, conditions are no better re: food and water on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
God save the people of the Gulf Coast, because the feds and state aren't enough so far. Alas, I can't help but wonder how many Guard and regular Army resources that might be brought to bear are now tilting at windmills in Iraq.
-- Favog
From WWL-TV:
Updates as they come in on Katrina 11:42 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Tom Planchet
11:40 -- (AP) Roving bands of looters are breaking into stores in Carrollton area to get food and supplies. They've also stolen guns and armed themselves.
11:33 A.M. -- Director Walter Maestri: We have no food or water for the evacuees. Says emergency workers have seized the food and water and drinks from Sam's Club, Wal-Mart and other groceries for evacuees, but he said that is all gone. Says water supply is gone. More water expected, but its not there right now. Says evacuees are getting upset and harried.
11:32 A.M. -- Director Walter Maestri: FEMA and national agencies not delivering the help nearly as fast as it is needed.
11:30 A.M. -- Emergency Operations Director Walter Maestri: Evacuees from New Orleans and the east bank of Jefferson are flocking to the west bank, overwhelming the facilities.
10:58 A.M. -- (AP) The New Orleans International Airport has reopened to allow humanitarian flights in and out, officials said Wednesday.
From: The Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 01:14 Subject: Mercy Now
All,
This news photo from the WWL-TV website, I think, says it all. (http://www.wwltv.com/)
-- Favog
Mercy Now by Mary Gauthier
My father could use a little mercy now The fruits of his labor Fall and rot slowly on the ground His work is almost over It won't be long and he won't be around I love my father, and he could use some mercy now
My brother could use a little mercy now He's a stranger to freedom He's shackled to his fears and doubts The pain that he lives in is Almost more than living will allow I love my brother, and he could use some mercy now
My church and my country could use a little mercy now As they sink into a poisoned pit That's going to take forever to climb out They carry the weight of the faithful Who follow them down I love my church and country, and they could use some mercy now
Every living thing could use a little mercy now Only the hand of grace can end the race Towards another mushroom cloud People in power, well They'll do anything to keep their crown I love life, and life itself could use some mercy now
Yeah, we all could use a little mercy now I know we don't deserve it But we need it anyhow We hang in the balance Dangle 'tween hell and hallowed ground Every single one of us could use some mercy now Every single one of us could use some mercy now Every single one of us could use some mercy now
From: Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2005 19:04 Subject: New Orleans is lost.
Go to: www.wwltv.com
From an emergency notice put on the TV station's web site, which mirrors a bulletin they just had on TV (I'm watching online):
****ALL RESIDENTS ON THE EAST BANK OF ORLEANS AND JEFFERSON REMAINING IN THE METRO AREA ARE BEING TOLD TO EVACUATE AS EFFORTS TO SANDBAG THE LEVEE BREAK HAVE ENDED. THE PUMPS IN THAT AREA ARE EXPECTED TO FAIL SOON AND 9 FEET OF WATER IS EXPECTED IN THE ENTIRE EAST BANK. WITHIN THE NEXT 12-15 HOURS****>>
As all of us native Louisianians know, the "entire East bank" constitutes all of New Orleans, Metairie, etc.
The question of New Orleans' survival as a city was in some question an hour ago. Now, I think the question may have been answered. New Orleans will not be habitable for a very long time, and then only after the expenditure of unfathomable treasure.
May God have mercy. Lord have mercy. I am out of words for prayer other than that. Lord have mercy.
From: Mighty Favog To:***@***.com Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 22:39 Subject: Lord have mercy
Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, miserere nobis, Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, miserere nobis, Agnus Dei, qui tolis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
From: Mighty Favog To: "'Listserve'" Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 19:59 Subject: Re: Prayer
Dear ***,
Thank you for that. New Orleans well may cease to exist as a habitable city tomorrow, and many will die. May God have mercy on them all, and on their immortal souls.
I'm from Baton Rouge, and I well remember Hurricane Betsy, which devastated N.O. in 1965 and was no walk in the park 100 miles inland in B.R.
For folks who've never experienced a hurricane, it's hard to grasp the power of even 100 m.p.h. straight-line wind (not counting the imbedded tornadoes). Try picturing a two-inch, heavy-gauge steel pipe used as a birdhouse pole or antenna mast. (Something MUCH sturdier than your average TV-antenna mast.) Picture it turned into a mini-Gateway Arch, bent all the way to the ground.
Now grasp that Hurricane Betsy was a Category 3 and Katrina is a strong Category 5. Now picture that the only things emerging from the waters covering New Orleans quite possibly could be buildings of more than three stories.
And remember that the Mississippi Gulf Coast also will be utterly devastated.
From: Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 19:41 Subject: Re: This really is the Big One.
Dear ***,
Compared with New Orleans, Baton Rouge ought to fare just fine. Channel 4 is saying strong tropical-storm to minimal hurricane-force wind in the BR area.
But, yes, we will watch on television as New Orleans -- quite possibly -- is wiped out tomorrow. Many people will die, bless their souls. And the whole country will pay dearly . . . the price of oil surpassed $70 a barrel today.
BTW, I'm watching Channel 4's streaming video on the Internet. Go to www.wwltv.com.
I've been trying to impress upon Mrs. Favog the utter awesomeness of such a force of nature, but she's having a hard time grasping the magnitude, or how that even could be. I was four at the time, but I vividly remember Hurricane Betsy in 1965 . . . and that was riding it out in BR.
Folks describe that kind of wind as sounding like a jet engine. That is true, but incomplete. The SUSTAINED WIND sounds like a jet engine. The gusts sound like screaming demons from the bowels of Hell.
From: Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2005 19:24 Subject: Re: This really is the Big One.
Dear ***,
You can't do anything about the drunken fools in the Quarter, but I'm heartbroken over the poor folks who just won't be able to get out of Da City, and for the folks at, say, Channel 4 and Channel 6, who are going to try to broadcast as long as they can stay on the air.
Doing their journalistic duty well could be a death sentence. By the time they *try* to get to higher ground (or to a high-rise), they might not be able to.
From: Mighty Favog To:***@***.com Date: Sunday, August 28, 2005 00:03 Subject: It doesn't get worse than this . . . at least short of Armageddon
Y'all,
Amid the horror of contemplating what may be about to happen here are public-policy considerations that are going to wash across the country like a storm surge: What happens if we lose an entire major American city?
-- How do we maintain refugee camps for what could be hundreds of thousands of people for God knows how long?
-- Where do we put them all?
-- What happens to the rest of the country when we lose as much oil and gasoline production as we're about to lose?
-- When those supplies are cut off indefinitely?
-- When there's no fuel-oil shipments because there's no more Port of New Orleans -- the second biggest in the U.S.?
-- When ag, raw-material and manufactured-goods imports and exports on the Mississippi are disrupted for who knows how long?
-- Is the military prepared (and do we have enough of it left?) to go in and immediately double the size of the Port of Baton Rouge?
-- Will we, in a month, be paying $5 a gallon for gas, and will that tank the whole economy?
-- Is the U.S. government prepared to rebuild New Orleans?
-- What happens to the insurance industry if the worst happens here?
From: Mighty Favog To: ***@***.com Date: Saturday, August 27, 2005 11:41 Subject: Re: Uh-oh
Dear ***,
If that thing ends up tracking just a hair -- and I mean just a hair -- westward of the dead-center forecast, and if it comes in as a Category Four, New Orleans will be obliterated. If it comes in dead center of the forecast track, it will be bad enough, but probably not 20-feet-of-water-in-the-city bad.
Ray Nagin and Kathleen Blanco had better get off the pot. They only have two days -- they need to start getting the poor and the elderly out while there's a chance in hell of doing so. Set them up in shelters in Hammond, Baton Rouge and Lafayette -- all the arena-sized places they can get. The National Guard needs to be starting on that today.
If you keep rolling the dice, figuring "Naw, it CAN'T get THAT bad," sooner or later, you'll crap out. Besides -- and this isn't exactly the Scientific Method, but what the hell -- I think this country has reached a level of depravity and extreme materialism where God is going to keep getting more and more drastic in an effort to get our attention.
Like I said yesterday, you saw the headline here first:
Big Easy's last dance: Katrina and the waves
And I was only half joking about sending Jonah to Bourbon Street.
You know, the company you'd have to keep makes it really hard to come out foursquare for enforcing this country's immigration laws, securing the southern border and generally doing what sane countries do when they're serious about being sane, cohesive countries.
OK, I'M FOURSQUARE for enforcing the United States' immigration laws and securing the southern border. I don't want to see this country overrun by illegal immigration from any country. I want America to be serious about being a sane, cohesive country -- and society.
But you're not going to see me at a protest involving some of the nativist-leaning wingnuts that such demonstrations already attract. And when the National Socialist Movement -- that's the Nazi Party, by the way -- gets involved, the only way you're ever going to see me anywhere near such a protest (for example, Sunday Saturday in midtown Omaha) will be behind the wheel of Elwood Blues' second-hand police special.
“We just got one on our front door. It was pretty anti-immigration, not Nazi propaganda but my friend who is from South Omaha got a Nazi flyer,” said Sam Martin.
Sam is one of a number of Omaha residents who were recently inundated with flyers advertising a neo-Nazi anti-immigration rally to take place at the Mexican Consulate on Sept. 1.
Organized by the National Socialist Movement — the disarming moniker of the official Nazi party of the United States — the rally will also include local members of supremacist group White Revolution and is also certain to attract the Minutemen, who held their own anti-immigration rally at the consulate Aug. 17.
“The United States was founded exclusively by whites, and the founding fathers specifically say they were founding this place for the security and happiness of the themselves and their descendants – not that of Mexico,” said Billy Roper, Chairman of the White Revolution, a national organization that has been “leading America to a whiter future since 2002.”
Jeff Scoop, Commander for the National Socialist Movement (NSM), shared a similar sentiment, “When our forefathers came over here from Europe they were not saying, ‘Ok, everyone else has to learn our language.’ They said they had to assimilate. Now there are unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants reaping the benefits of life in the United States and instead of being prosecuted for being here illegally, they are being rewarded. They aren’t coming here to make a better life or become good Americans or assimilate, they want us speaking Spanish.”
“This country was founded by immigrants,” said Cooper Moon, housemate and fellow Midtown leafletee of Sam Martin’s. “This country’s entire existence is based on immigrants. Why should it be any different now? The whole illegal issue? You wanna talk about our forefathers, the colonists? They were storm troopers of death coming over and obliterating the Native Americans, destroying an entire ecosystem. The Mexicans coming over, getting jobs and raising families? Not even in the same ballpark.”
(snip)
The neo-Nazi groups in the last year and a half have organized hundreds of events. In Dayton, Ohio members of National Socialist Movement appeared in Nazi uniforms at a pro-immigration march to protest, in their words, “the illegal wetback scum and Shabbat goy mud lovers.” Most recently, NSM organized a march on the capitol building in Columbia, S.C. where, according to NSM commander Scoop, “dozens and dozens” of supporters turned out.
When they cannot organize in person, the supremacist groups plaster communities around the country with crude anti-Hispanic and anti-immigration fliers like the ones left in South Omaha.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, in Bakersfield, Calif., for example, one community was littered with National Vanguard fliers that read, “Civilization: One Job Mexicans Won’t Do.” Residents of Pasadena, Texas, discovered racist fliers that urged people to burn down the homes of people thought to be illegal immigrants.
“We intend to send a message to the U.S. government that is if they don’t do something about this illegal immigration problem we will replace all of them,” said NSM’s Scoop. “They are political whores to the Israelis, or special interest groups, whoever is paying them enough money to buy off their souls. Even Americans who don’t necessarily believe in our methods are coming to us. People are sick of being lied to. With us there is no lying. We are concerned about white interests and the way America used to be. If the founding fathers were with us today they would be behind us.”
The rhetoric is popular and it’s working. Recruitment numbers are up, money is rolling into the organizations and white power is getting multimedia diversified. It’s not just about rallies and cross burnings; the National Socialist Movement develops and distributes its own video games, podcasts and radio shows. They maintain a Web site, operate a record label and have recently started NewSaxon.com, a white only version of the social networking site, Myspace.
Scoop claims that NSM, the largest pro-white group in the country, has nearly 50 percent or more of their membership placed in the armed forces with others in law enforcement.
The National Socialist Movement can even boast its very own Nazi presidential candidate, John Taylor Bowles, whose first campaign promise is to provide “all White families in the USA, (husband, wife and minor children)” with zero interest mortgage loans “to buy homes fitted with all necessary household gadgets like fridge, TV, computers, etc.”
(snip)
There is no disputing that the immigrant community in Nebraska is growing. According to census date, approximately 41.2 percent of the total population increase between 2000 and 2006 in Nebraska is attributable to immigrants. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) – an organization that is very questionably fair or accurate – estimates the illegal alien population in 2005 at 39,000.
A report issued from the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Office of Latino and Latin American Studies earlier this year indicates that, between 1990 and 2000, Nebraska’s foreign-born population grew faster than that of any other Midwestern state. From 2000 to 2005, Nebraska experienced the eighth-largest proportional increase of foreign-born individuals of all U.S. states, accounting for more than 60 percent of overall population growth.
Many point to Nebraska’s abundance of jobs, a lack of labor force to fill those jobs, and a low level of competition for jobs within labor migrant populations as other major factors contributing to the growing foreign-born population in the state.
(snip)
“Some people may argue that the people organizing and attending this rally are extreme,” said Lee, the Omaha leader of the White Revolution. “But given the projections given by the U.S. Census Bureau, that says non-Hispanic whites will be a minority in this Country by 2050. I think this calls for extreme measures if we are to remain a first world nation and secure the existence of our people and future for white children. I, nor any other average American wishes to see our Nation transformed into an extension of Mexico.
“Already we are a minority race in over 50 of America’s largest cities. By the time our children reach adulthood, we will have more Hispanics in the USA than in Mexico itself. What kind of future will that be for our children and grandchildren?”
“Stupid people make Third World countries,” said White Revolution’s Roper. “Third World countries don’t make stupid people. The more the United States allows these people in, the more we become like a Third World country. That is not something we want to hand down to our children. We don’t want the United States to become a Third World cesspool.”
Some pretty negative sentiments. But the swastika-wearing interviewees insist that their anti-immigrant stance isn’t about hate.
“I myself, nor anyone I know, ‘hate’ anyone,” said Lee. “This isn’t about ‘hate’ for me, it is about love of my country and my people. It is about securing a future for our children and our grandchildren.
“It’s about preserving our heritage, our culture and history. This isn’t immigration, as our grandparents knew it – no, this is an invasion. An invasion like the world has never before seen in all of recorded history.”
“Most Nebraskans and Americans want common sense immigration reform that treats people with dignity and provides a path to citizenship for people who are paying their taxes,” said Darcy Tromanhauser, Program Director for Nebraska Appleseed, an organization that promotes the integration and participation of immigrant communities. “I think there is a small but vocal minority who doesn’t want to see any immigration at all. They drive from views that are racist and what most people don’t believe. I think this rally and its sponsors betray the roots of some of the more vehement anti-immigrant voices. Many of those who first take an interest in these groups out of a concern over immigration quickly leave when they discover the ugly core of the perspective. Most Nebraskans don’t think this way and believe that if someone is working hard and paying taxes, they should have a path to citizenship and full participation in society, no matter the color of their skin.”
“We understand that they are entitled to say whatever they want. As long as they don’t do any damage to the building, that’s fine,” said Jose Cuevas, head of Omaha’s Mexican Consulate. “I believe that they are mistaken as to what we do. But the First Amendment gives them all the right in the world to demonstrate and say whatever they like.”
New Orleans is my hometown. And it's dying. Despite billions of dollars in aid, recovery programs with catchy names and an outpouring of volunteer effort, New Orleans is not recovering from Hurricane Katrina.
Beyond the happy mayhem of the French Quarter, entire neighborhoods are in ruins and the business district sags from the shattered economy. Thousands of people are homeless and squatting in vacant and storm-damaged properties, some just a few blocks from City Hall.
More than 160,000 residents never returned. For those who did dare to come back home, little resembles normalcy.
For the people with the power to save it, New Orleans is a forgotten place.
It's a national disgrace. People should pay attention. The next time, it could be your town.
NO, NO, NO, you don't understand. It's far more sinister than that.
The feds, and the American public, are kind of like Michael Vick. They brutalize the dog because they can, because it's in their culture now, because they think they can get away with it.
New Orleans is the dog. The battered, bloodied, chewed-up dog that's not worth much to anybody anymore. Trouble is, it was pretty much that way before Katrina.
What's happening -- or, rather, not happening -- there is just "Michael Vick" putting you downafter the dogfight's done and the accounts settled.And I'm not talking insults.
