{"id":229,"date":"2005-09-10T13:08:59","date_gmt":"2005-09-10T20:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=229"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:47:45","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:47:45","slug":"new-orleans-the-untold-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/10\/new-orleans-the-untold-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans — The Untold Stories from NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is America going to do without NPR<\/a>? <\/p>\n

Sitting in my car during lunch break, I was listening to This American Life<\/a>, a weekly program aired every Saturday on NPR. I am glad I caught the first two acts of the program. These are the stories the American mass media never bothered to investigate and report.<\/p>\n

The first act was about a woman’s expericne at the New Orleans Convention Center. Other than describing just how terrible the conditions were there, she also shared other stories relating to the situation. The mass media (CNN, NBC, Fox News… etc) has been reporting that some looters were gang members taking advantage of the lawlessness in New Orleans. But what the mass media failed to uncover was what really happened with the looted goods! <\/p>\n

The woman described that the only people who were looking after the sick, elderly and women with children were none other than the gang members with guns. Those gang members organized themselves and took on responsibilities to patrol various areas of the Convention Center and made sure that people were being cared for. They looted food, water and juice for children and the elderly. They also wore yellow raincoats so that they could be easily recognized for assistance. <\/p>\n

Sounds like they were more organized than any local or Federal law\/emergency agencies. It throws a different spin on the phrase “organized crime”.<\/p>\n

The second act of the program was about a paramedic who was in New Orleans for a convention. She told of a story of how her group of people were repeatedly lied to about the rescue buses that never showed up by different police agencies (just to get them off of their backs). Worst yet, when they tried to cross a bridge to go to a neighboring town for shelter, the Sheriff Department of that town had already set up a blockade at the bottom of the bridge to stop refugees from seeking shelter in their town.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff told them, “I am not going to let our town turn into another Super Dome”. Translation: If you are poor or black, back off.<\/i> Worst yet, the Sheriffs were pointing their guns at the people and firing warning shots in the air to fend the refugees from crossing the bridge. Later, the woman and her friends went to a different highway to setup temporary shelter. Yet another Sheriff came screaming and ordered them to get off the bridge. Shortly after, a police helicopter came and flew just low enough to the ground to make sure everything was blown away from the camp so that they couldn’t stay. WTF!<\/strong> Assholes. Yeah, “racism-is-not-an-issue” my ass. <\/p>\n

All we heard from the mass media is that police were shot at<\/a>. But now this gave me a different perspective as to why they were. I wonder why the mass media is not picking up stories like this. Instead, it is infacuated with the sensationalism of the politics and the material destruction of the hurricane. Isn’t journalism about investigating the truth from all perspectives<\/a>? <\/p>\n

In many ways, some police officers are really jackasses to begin with. They don’t act like the public servants they were sworn to be. They act more like bullies with a license. They are rude, mean and impolite (ones I have seen and dealt with… not to mention all the stories I have heard from friends and relatives). And oh, don’t forget that 60% of the New Orleans police force who abandoned their posts. Some servants of the public, huh?<\/p>\n

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