"The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. ”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hey Cracker readers, I know this sounds ghoulish, but the American public can not allow those killed because of Katrina and criminal negligence to buried in mass graves. It will be argued that for the sake of preventing disease and the fact many victims can not be identified, dead need to be buried as quickly as possible and that means in mass graves. The public needs to know exactly how many people perished, but more importantly it is a matter of respect. The victims of this disaster have already been labeled refugees, giving people decent burials will at least show an ounce of decency. We are not Serbs or Iraqi's hiding autrocities. These were our fellow Americans, and a decent burial is the least we can do after our country falled these citizens so miserably.
I must echo the above comments entirely but not just for those reasons stated. For those of you who have seen the heart-wrenching interview of President Broussard of Jefferson Parish, LA (originally aired on Meet the Press on Sunday), one of his statements was about the autopsies on the victims which will show when they died and of what. In other words, whether they died in the storm or several days later of the inexcusable neglect. These victims deserve decent burials with their families knowing what happened to them and with the country knowing why they died. THANK GOD for the people in this country; obviously our government does not deserve us.
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Hey Cracker readers,
I know this sounds ghoulish, but the American public can not allow those killed because of Katrina and criminal negligence to buried in mass graves. It will be argued that for the sake of preventing disease and the fact many victims can not be identified, dead need to be buried as quickly as possible and that means in mass graves. The public needs to know exactly how many people perished, but more importantly it is a matter of respect. The victims of this disaster have already been labeled refugees, giving people decent burials will at least show an ounce of decency. We are not Serbs or Iraqi's hiding autrocities. These were our fellow Americans, and a decent burial is the least we can do after our country falled these citizens so miserably.
I must echo the above comments entirely but not just for those reasons stated. For those of you who have seen the heart-wrenching interview of President Broussard of Jefferson Parish, LA (originally aired on Meet the Press on Sunday), one of his statements was about the autopsies on the victims which will show when they died and of what. In other words, whether they died in the storm or several days later of the inexcusable neglect. These victims deserve decent burials with their families knowing what happened to them and with the country knowing why they died. THANK GOD for the people in this country; obviously our government does not deserve us.
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