by Starman » Wed Sep 14, 2005 7:02 pm
Antiaristo:<br><br>Excellant observation re: Menezes' assassination as a carefully staged psyop to 'prove' complete official exonneration of police response with emphasis on prejudicial zeal -- ie, anything goes, your back is covered.<br><br>This suggests the possibility of a similiar 'message' in the deliberately bungled, impeded, ineffective Katrina storm response by officials specifically tasked to provide timely aid. The suspicious reports of 'sniper' attacks were apparently used to justify suspended and postponed and rerouted and limited aid and rescue operations, despite the claimed helicopter shootings almost certainly being false -- even the pilot of the claimed target-helo shooting confessed he didn't know of such a thing happening. Have ANY sniper-attacks been confirmed? And what of reports that gangs of armed young rednecks were driving around in pickups, presumably 'protecting' the city from looters -- were they acting as agents provocateurs inciting violence, providing the source for much of the gunshots heard throughout the city? <br><br>Recall the ugly image of the body-armoured SWAT team riding on the armoured car, shades of South Africa's state terrorism? And Gov. Blanco's veiled threat that 300active-army Iraq War veterans were arriving with their weapons locked and loaded, READY TO 'GET SOME!' That 'message' was for the public, and in hindsight, for the police and National Guard and other armed First Responders -- basically a License to Kill, wasn't it? I'm sure it warmed the hearts of many self-righteous rightwing zealots who eagerly embraced the notion of minority-member criminal-element gangsters who could be targetted as convenient scapegoats for all of their impotent feelings of subconscious class-guilt, frustrated rage, anxiety, self-doubts, humiliations, confusions, anger, unfulfilled expectations, and fears -- like the Gummint sanctioned a covert (nudge-nudge, wink-wink) form of lower class-race victimhood, ie., the 'abandoned' of New Orleans who showed their crass selfish opportunism by looting and 'rioting' (FOX even captioned some of their stories with that title) 'deserved' what they suffered for not looking after themselves and allowing themselves to become a burden that the Gummint then had to divert precious resources and risk equipment and manpower to look-out for and 'save' from themselves.<br><br>For instance -- Look how eager the New Orleans Police Chief embraced the looting and violence meme as an excuse for the breakdown in law-and-order, while ignoring the crucial failures in the Police Dept. having NO community ties they could use for organizing citizen cooperation with rescue and aid forces, and the TOTAL failure of communication -- the citizens couldn't even get straight answers to basic questions, and were repeatedly lied to if they just weren't ignored or warned-off with threatening gestures and scornful remarks or aggressive display of weapons -- I mean, how would ANYBODY react to such contemptuous, insulting and arrogant behaviors from supposed civil servants? Afain, it sounds like such behaviors were almost intended to provoke a hostile crowd reaction that the police and National Guard (NOT local forces, so there was little empathy or understanding) could then put down with killing force.<br><br>And I'm sure this attitude of official condemnation and scorn was reflected in many, many other ways -- such as the Police line at the foot of the I-10 bridge over the Mississippi River, preventing survivors from simply walking to their safety and rescue towards Gretna.<br><br>I'm convinced that at least SOME of the confounded official response in N.O. had a psyops purpose, defining a domestic 'problem' underclass that is a burden on society -- a 'group' that can be blamed for a whole lot of issues and that serves as distraction for a public looking for the cause of difficult, complex problems.<br><br><br>Re: "He did concede that the future of the policy should now be debated in public: "I accept that a watershed has been passed. I think now we have to find a process for debating these issues without necessarily revealing the absolute detail of the tactics," Sir Ian said."<br><br>HoLy ShIT!<br><br>Translation: We must now find a way to publicly debate this issue of Killing with impunity without discussing it directly or in detail -- in fact, the less this issue is talked about in depth the better off we'll all be. Can't compromise integrity by having too much information, now can we? What a bugaboo THAT would be, if the public really knew what they were talking about. Can't have the people thinking they live in a democracy -- now THAT would be never-ending kettle of rancid fish, eh wot?<br><br><br>Aiaiaiai;<br>And so it goes ...<br>Starman <p></p><i></i>