Thoughts on Katrina
by Valhall
ATS Weekly, Edition 008, September 06, 2005
When William One Sac asked me to write an article on my feelings of what I have witnessed in the past week, I was more than glad to as I saw it as
another opportunity to work through my feelings. But I officially refuse to write the article now. And I have good personal reasons for doing so.
Because if I had written that article I might have said...
Attack of the Killer B's!!!
My childhood spanned the 70's. A decade of the "disaster" genre movies such as Earthquake, Poseidon Adventure, and Airport movies, but also the
"attack of the (fill in the animal species)" genre movies. One of those was a made for TV movie called The Savage Bees in which a load of killer bees
makes it to New Orleans on a cargo boat and precedes to savagely attack citizen after citizen. The climax of the movie takes place when the heroine of
the movie, an entomology expert (I think that's rapper talk for "bug expert") lures the killers into the Superdome by driving her beetle buggy in
to the arena and having them follow her. When the killers get in the Superdome it is shut up and the air conditioning system is brought down low
enough to cause the bees to start dying.
Whew! For a kid it was one of the top thrillers.
As an adult, I'm much less impressed with the way the real-life attack of the Savage B's took place. Instead of luring the the killer B's,
Brown, Blanco and Bush, into the Superdome and deep-freezing their asses, I watched the citizens of New Orleans get hurded into the Superdome where
they would eventually die because the air conditioning system WASN'T working. OR they simply died of lack of water and food and medicine. You've got
to give the citizens of New Orleans their due. It took some of them up to five days to drop dead. They're much hardier than the Savage B's of my
childhood scary show.
You can see, of course, why I wouldn't want to write that!
Further, if I had agreed to write the article I might have said something really dangerous like...
U.S. Government Uses WMD's on their Own Citizens!
That's right NBC's - nepotism, bureaucracy, and carelessness - were employed in images that may very well be used in the future when some
country's leader decides he wants to stop the evil deeds of the U.S. government. The images of the dead children and elderly piled about the
Superdome and Convention Center in New Orleans may some day be projected on the U.N. big screens while a head of state holds up small vials of piss
and excrement in his evidentiary speech on how the U.S. used these WMDs against their own people - why would we think they wouldn't use them against
us? They may even show overhead shots of 18-wheelers sitting idle just down the road in Baton Rouge where FEMA played with themselves for three days
while the sequel to the Savage B's took place down the road.
Of course, I could never say things like that. So, my dear WOS, as much as I hold you near and dear to my heart, I apologize and respectfully
decline. You'll probably have to find some one else to share their thoughts.
Kind Regards,
Val.
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