loveless for New Orleans
oh my fucking god.
Sydney Morning Herald article about New Orleans
"Troops have been given shoot-to-kill orders in a bid to stop looting and restore law and order....As authorities only guess at a death toll - it could be in the thousands - there are reports of women and a young boy and girl being raped in the New Orleans Superdome, while other refugees there are terrorised by rioters....The Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, said that troops were "battle-tested".
"They have M-16s and are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will."
I wish I didn't even have to suspect that this is pretty much a race issue.
New Orleans, population 485,000, is 67.5 per cent black. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't be ordering the troops to "shoot to kill" in Wisconsin.
I feel disgusted.
Seriously considering moving back to London in a few weeks. I'm getting a bit sick of NYC and this fucking country in general.
it's a shame that I never got to see New Orleans. Anything they rebuild won't be the same city.
In happier news, Loveless was a huge success last night, Paul worked on a catpower video yesterday and says that Chan (which is actually pronounced 'sean'?! who knew!) is getting portly, and I'm interviewing Adam Franklin from Swervedriver.
Sydney Morning Herald article about New Orleans
"Troops have been given shoot-to-kill orders in a bid to stop looting and restore law and order....As authorities only guess at a death toll - it could be in the thousands - there are reports of women and a young boy and girl being raped in the New Orleans Superdome, while other refugees there are terrorised by rioters....The Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, said that troops were "battle-tested".
"They have M-16s and are locked and loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will."
I wish I didn't even have to suspect that this is pretty much a race issue.
New Orleans, population 485,000, is 67.5 per cent black. I'm fairly sure they wouldn't be ordering the troops to "shoot to kill" in Wisconsin.
I feel disgusted.
Seriously considering moving back to London in a few weeks. I'm getting a bit sick of NYC and this fucking country in general.
it's a shame that I never got to see New Orleans. Anything they rebuild won't be the same city.
In happier news, Loveless was a huge success last night, Paul worked on a catpower video yesterday and says that Chan (which is actually pronounced 'sean'?! who knew!) is getting portly, and I'm interviewing Adam Franklin from Swervedriver.