Thursday, September 08, 2005

Why is no one reporting atrocities in New Orleans?

Why is no one reporting that US troops are under fire in a combat operation in Nawlins? Why is no one reporting the rapes and who is doing it? This morning Katie Kouric reported that cell phone workers have been coming under fire every day, but from whom? Is there embarrassment that this is happening in an American city?

Yesterday morning my wife was at the playground, and one of the seminary women said that her parents were up from New Orleans. She said that the gangstas were hanging out in public toilets and raping girls as young as three or four years old. Why can't there be a military action to go in and deal with those people?

And another thing. NBC News got so many complaints about the word, "refugee" that they have changed it to "evacuee." Get real, they are refugees. The same thing happened in Liberia, West Africa, when we were there. We got corrected a number of times (until we got it right) that the million or so people who had fled the civil war were not refugees. They were internally displaced persons. We might want to try the anacronym "IDP." Give me a greak.

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