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re: What's the truth on Katrina/Blackwater, etc.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 8:31 am to Big Moe
Posted on 8/22/15 at 8:31 am to Big Moe
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why do people claim the government blew up the levees?
Because the ignorant will believe anything.
You might have 50 people total who actually believe that and most of them wouldn't have even thought of it if that dumb fck Bill Jefferson/Spike Lee wouldn't have given a few of the crazies a platform to speak about it.
For all that was going on and how easy things could have went to total hell, I am quite surprised and how little real rioting and trouble there was in the city.
Most of the stuff about what happened at the convention center was BS.
You did have some walmart and small scale looting, but it wasn't like huge gangs took over the city and were burning stuff down. Hell Ferguson was even worse.
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Posted on 8/22/15 at 8:46 am to notiger1997
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For all that was going on and how easy things could have went to total hell, I am quite surprised and how little real rioting and trouble there was in the city.
It was pretty bad. If people could have moved around easier it would have been much worse.
Don't believe Gen. Honore when he tells you the stories were not true. Many of them are very true. He wasn't there at the beginning and he wasn't in every part of the city.
Posted on 8/22/15 at 2:39 pm to notiger1997
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For all that was going on and how easy things could have went to total hell, I am quite surprised and how little real rioting and trouble there was in the city. Most of the stuff about what happened at the convention center was BS. You did have some walmart and small scale looting, but it wasn't like huge gangs took over the city and were burning stuff down. Hell Ferguson was even worse.
I was already in ATL when the levees broke. I was getting communication from people back in LA about armed thugs (machine guns) walking the streets as far as Baton Rouge etc. first hand testimony (black & white) said the convention center "news" was BS and the "thugs" we're actually local street/hood kids HELPING move the sick and elderly, searching for water/drinks/food (survival resources in an emergency situation is not looting or stealing FWIW). The media made it hyperbole and the frightened citizens nowhere near ground zero were fanning the flames of the hyperbole.
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