Detained, Not Rescued: Katrina Survivors Testimony to Congress (AUDIO)
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On Dec 6, 2005 several Katrina Survivors testified before Congress- their testimony should have been headline news across America… You can still watch the testimony at C-span (12/6/05), but if you don’t have 4 hours, these four mp3s contain some of the best clips of the hearing.
These are just a few of the Katrina stories that BushCo doesn’t want America to know.
I want to emphasize that there is more to the audio than the few rough quotes transcribed below.
Katrina Survivors 1 - Why all the M-16s?
Leah Hodges: We got to the evacuation point and the military was nice to us at first, but we were wondering, “Why all the M16s?” It looked like we just stepped into a war.
Mama D: Please let whoever these people are know that New Orleans is not for sale! … We need y’all to take FEMA and Red Cross… and just get ‘em outta my neighborhood.
Leah Hodges written testimony submitted to Congress:
We were dropped off at a site where we were fenced in, and penned in with military vehicles, The armed military personnel brought in dogs. There we were subjected to conditions only comparable to a concentration camp…. As a hurricane survivor, I and my family were detained, not rescued.
This sounds so crazy, some CongressCritters wouldn’t believe it, ‘I just don’t frankly believe it’ said Rep Shays. In other words, to get away with murder, all the evildoers have to do is keep pulling shit that’s so absurd, nobody will believe it when it’s reported.
Katrina Survivors 2 - Concentration Camps
Rep McKinney: ~ I don’t think the 2nd Amendment was lifted just because of the catastrophic situation, there should not have been weapons confiscation.
Leah Hodges: We we’re 3 minutes from the airport… they could have taken us to any dry city in America. Instead they took us to a dumping ground, sealed us in there and backed up with all their authority with military M-16s. They hand picked the white people to leave first.
Rep Miller: ~ Please don’t call it a concentration camp.
Leah Hodges: I’m going to call it what it is. If I put a dress on a pig it’s still a pig… That is the only thing I can compare what we went through to.
Mama D: Why were people in Public Housing surrounded and forced to leave by gunpoint? That happened, we’ve got proof…. I said this in September- nobody is going to believe us because this is an unbelieveable story.
Rep McKinney: Do you have confidence in the number of dead that is being reported by the authorities?
Survivors: (unanimous) No!
Nancy Pelosi the Dem “Leader” told Democrats not to attend this hearing. So they all listened except for Cynthia McKinney. Why the fuck would the Dem “Leader” tell Congressional Democrats not to listen to Katrina Survivors?!
Some of those forced out of the Public Housing developments were 70 years old- it wasn’t about the ‘looters’ … what was it about?
Katrina Survivors 3 - They Blew It
Ishmael Muhammad: Why were people locked out of their Public Housing development when there was little to no flooding?
Over 15,000 people in Orleans Parish have been evicted, when they are not even there to see the notice.
There were stories about the levees breaching due to explosions, stories about divers finding a crater at the bottom of the levee…
Mama D: “I was on my front porch, I have witnesses that they bombed the walls of the levee. The debris in front of my door will testify to that.”
Joe Edwards: I heard something go, “Boom”. (from tv report)
Reporter: So you’re convinced…
Joe Edwards: I know it happened…
Reporter: … that they broke the levee on purpose.
Joe Edwards: They blew it!
Katrina Survivors 4 - Show Us The Levee
Harry Alford: ~ Historically speaking, they blew the levee in 1927 on purpose.
I’m not a conspiracy freak, but there’s a coupla things I know. John Kennedy wasn’t killed by one person, and one bumbling idiot didn’t kill Martin Luther King by himself.
My friend, a Stanford educated engineer, cannot find a reason why the levees broke… If we came up with the funding for the National Association of Black Engineers to study the levees, would we be granted access?
Congressional Response: silence
Barbara Arnwine: It’s clear that the people in the 9th ward did in fact hear some kind of loud noise that night. What was that loud noise?
? Critter: … hundreds of thousands of gallons of water…
Barbara Arnwine: That would sound like, “boom, boom”?
Not from the survivors testimony Dec 6, but a clip of Cynthia McKinney speaking about the Katrina disaster on the floor of the House last September.
The paper also advocated the roundup and transfer to quote “assembly centers” or “relocation camps” of at least 21 million American negroes. Now I didn’t write that- the US gov’t wrote that.
Was Katrina a dry run, practice for BushCo’s running of concentration camps as described by Cynthia in #5? Perhaps the problem with America is not the few Bush believers, but the rest that know Bush & Co are corrupt, but they still refuse to believe they’re actually evil, that they did it on purpose.
There is no doubt- Bush & Co are not above rounding up dissenters. In fact, the new “Patriot” Act creates a new federal police force, a Dept of Homeland Security Gestapo with virtually unlimited powers.
We must impeach them all now. I say we offer CongressCritters immunity if they speak up now, otherwise they’re going down with this wannabe dictator.
I apologize for not including more of the testimony, but some of the good stuff was also poor audio quality. For the full story, watch the entire 4 hours at C-span (scroll down to 12/6/05)
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April 8th, 2006 at 2:20 pm
The levee was not blown up. There is too much evidence comming out these days about poor construction by the Corps of Engineers. They were not given enough money by congress, so instead of telling us that they couldnt build it, they made a show levee. A levee that could only withstand a cat 1 or maybe a cat 2 hurricane. FEMA isnt do what its doing to keep out the poor, they are just incompentent. My next door neighbors 8 months after the hurricane, is still not in their FEMA trailors. The trailor is in front of the house, but they dont have the keys to get in. Its been siting there for several months and this is a common occurance.
Why are you only showing people from the projects? Most of the people who lost their homes were working families. About 28,000 people. just in Orleans parish. Why call it forced relocation? Its not like some suggest that only poor black people were wiped out. Many working class black people that owned their own homes lost everything, and their homes are working peoples primary savings. Contrary to what you hear the flooding hit whites and other minorities as hard as blacks (More blacks were hit because New Orleans is 70% black) In New Orleans the majority white Lake View area is still completely distroyed, as it was between both the london ave and 19th street flood wall breaks - in those breaks the water rushed though lakeview and gentilly to the western and midcity and almost to the river. The other break was on the industrial canal in the ninth ward (majority black) - that break flooded the eastern third of the city.
The parishes of St. Bernard and Placquemines where 100% distroyed - mostly white parishes.
The current racial make up of the city is about 62% black my source source : http://www.nola.com/frontpage/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1143270277155160.xml
And this isnt a guess this is the city contacting all registered voters and asking them where they are living.
Instead of fighting each other we need to work together to bring the city and the metro area back.
April 8th, 2006 at 2:25 pm
Typo: not 28,000 people 280,000
September 17th, 2006 at 9:41 am
Then why wouldn’t congress allow for an independent investigation?
These are the people that testified before Congress.
April 5th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
you go mama!!!! u tell them what they need to know!!!! what the people need to know!!!! see ya soon mama i’ll go back soon to help out. smell ya laters! love ya mama d!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 am
Hi I host a radio show 5 nights a week my site.I would like to have Leah Hodges contact me about being a guest on my show.My show is anti Bush and I feel for her and what our Govt did to the people of New orleans. My number is 706-868-4150.
We are coming to protest in April 21-22 against Bush the NAU and NWO please have Leah and anyone else contact me asap 24/7 is ok ty