BlackFrancis
3rd September 2005, 17:36
This is an article released in yesterday's (Sep. 2nd) issue of Galway's (Ireland) weekly news read, "The Galway Radical".
A call for global unity
As we all know, hurricane Katrina has devastated us all in many ways. But allow me to begin on “ground zero”. The disaster zone has degraded into anarchy. Rapes, beatings, mugging and murder go unpunished. Looting is also ramprant, but in this situation ‘Looting’ of financial structures can be understood as people are in desperate need of what would otherwise root on the shelves.
It may seem like rhetoric, but most of the victims appear to be black, old, or poor which really shows for who was able to escape, and who wasn’t. The sad thing is, America is in plentiful supply of doctors, medical equipment, food, helicopters and buses, and if America was truly a country of the people all these resources would have been mobilized days ago! But they weren’t. Cuba is not too far from the disaster scene, and they have many capable doctors. But they’d refuse to help because of the attempted assassinations of Fidel. (But they did hold a moment silence, if that’s anything to ya). This disunity over trade disagreements and economic-systems has left the American people starving on the streets, the ill awaiting a promised evacuation and their situation is declining.
I foresee riots on the streets. But don’t take my word for it, 10,000s of reserve troops are being drafted in to install “zero-tolerance” (martial law).
The New Orleans flood WAS predicted 10 years ago. Well learned engineers begged for money to upgrade the levees, but that never arrived. If this doesn’t say something for our ‘beloved’ capitalist way of life, I don’t know what will.
Even in central Florida the poor are taking the lashing. My correspondent tells me that the local authorities have suspended public-school transport in light of the up-coming fuel shortage. A service which is relied on by many of those who cannot afford to transport their kids to school each day. And she also pointed out the clear stupidity of deciding not to fuel ONE engine that serves 40 kids, but to fuel 40 engines to transport each kid! I smell corruption! Wonder how far up it goes?
Goods certainly don’t float on thin air. With a lack of fuel, weather it be short or long term goods will be stuck in the factories and ware-houses, and there will be a lack of practical resources. This will not just affect the quality of life in the South, but the rest of the continent possibly!
The best local and national authorities can do at this stage is drop sand bags (like grains of sand on a beach) and enforce martial law. This is a quickly spreading problem as South-East Europe was flooded out not to long ago and weather conditions are starting to take on stranger forms each day. The time for complacency and awaiting our ‘leaders’ to get us out of this mess is over!!!
As those who built this world, the workers and the intellectuals, we own these people, and we can get rid of them over-night if we so choose. We’ve come to a point in our development where Democracy is no longer to be pirated by the rich. We must take power for ourselves!
I call upon ALL worker, students, and plebians of the globe UNITE!
- Jay Acra
A call for global unity
As we all know, hurricane Katrina has devastated us all in many ways. But allow me to begin on “ground zero”. The disaster zone has degraded into anarchy. Rapes, beatings, mugging and murder go unpunished. Looting is also ramprant, but in this situation ‘Looting’ of financial structures can be understood as people are in desperate need of what would otherwise root on the shelves.
It may seem like rhetoric, but most of the victims appear to be black, old, or poor which really shows for who was able to escape, and who wasn’t. The sad thing is, America is in plentiful supply of doctors, medical equipment, food, helicopters and buses, and if America was truly a country of the people all these resources would have been mobilized days ago! But they weren’t. Cuba is not too far from the disaster scene, and they have many capable doctors. But they’d refuse to help because of the attempted assassinations of Fidel. (But they did hold a moment silence, if that’s anything to ya). This disunity over trade disagreements and economic-systems has left the American people starving on the streets, the ill awaiting a promised evacuation and their situation is declining.
I foresee riots on the streets. But don’t take my word for it, 10,000s of reserve troops are being drafted in to install “zero-tolerance” (martial law).
The New Orleans flood WAS predicted 10 years ago. Well learned engineers begged for money to upgrade the levees, but that never arrived. If this doesn’t say something for our ‘beloved’ capitalist way of life, I don’t know what will.
Even in central Florida the poor are taking the lashing. My correspondent tells me that the local authorities have suspended public-school transport in light of the up-coming fuel shortage. A service which is relied on by many of those who cannot afford to transport their kids to school each day. And she also pointed out the clear stupidity of deciding not to fuel ONE engine that serves 40 kids, but to fuel 40 engines to transport each kid! I smell corruption! Wonder how far up it goes?
Goods certainly don’t float on thin air. With a lack of fuel, weather it be short or long term goods will be stuck in the factories and ware-houses, and there will be a lack of practical resources. This will not just affect the quality of life in the South, but the rest of the continent possibly!
The best local and national authorities can do at this stage is drop sand bags (like grains of sand on a beach) and enforce martial law. This is a quickly spreading problem as South-East Europe was flooded out not to long ago and weather conditions are starting to take on stranger forms each day. The time for complacency and awaiting our ‘leaders’ to get us out of this mess is over!!!
As those who built this world, the workers and the intellectuals, we own these people, and we can get rid of them over-night if we so choose. We’ve come to a point in our development where Democracy is no longer to be pirated by the rich. We must take power for ourselves!
I call upon ALL worker, students, and plebians of the globe UNITE!
- Jay Acra