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Basic Instincts In The Big Easy
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Morphine replied on Tue Sep 6, 2005 @ 9:04am |
 Coolness: 51005 | i put this article here because theres more traffic in this forum.
By Mark Egan NEW ORLEANS, Sept 3 (Reuters) - People left homeless by Hurricane Katrina told horrific stories of rape, murder and trigger-happy guards in two New Orleans centers that were set up as shelters but became places of violence and terror. Police and National Guard troops on Saturday closed down the two centers -- the Superdome arena and the city's convention center -- but then penned in the storm victims outside in sweltering heat to keep them from trying to walk out of the city. Military helicopters and buses staged a massive evacuation to take away thousands of people who waited in orderly lines in stifling heat outside the flooded convention center. The refugees, who were waiting to be taken to sports stadiums and other huge shelters across Texas and northern Louisiana, described how the convention center and the Superdome became lawless hellholes beset by rape and murder. Several residents of the impromptu shantytown recounted two horrific incidents where those charged with keeping people safe had killed them instead. In one, a young man was run down and then shot by a New Orleans police officer, in another a man seeking help was gunned down by a National Guard soldier, witnesses said. Police here refused to discuss or confirm either incident. National Guard spokesman Lt. Col Pete Schneider said "I have not heard any information of a weapon being discharged." "They killed a man here last night," Steve Banka, 28, told Reuters. "A young lady was being raped and stabbed. And the sounds of her screaming got to this man and so he ran out into the street to get help from troops, to try to flag down a passing truck of them, and he jumped up on the truck's windscreen and they shot him dead." Wade Batiste, 48, recounted another tale of horror. "Last night at 8 p.m. they shot a kid of just 16. He was just crossing the street. They ran him over, the New Orleans police did, and then they got out of the car and shot him in the head," Batiste said. The young man's body lay in the street by the Convention Center's entrance on Saturday morning, covered in a black blanket, a stream of congealed blood staining the street around him. Nearby his family sat in shock. A member of that family, Africa Brumfield, 32, confirmed the incident but declined to be quoted about it, saying her family did not wish to discuss it. But she spoke of general conditions here. "There is rapes going on here. Women cannot go to the bathroom without men. They are raping them and slitting their throats. They keep telling us the buses are coming but they never leave," she said through tears. People here said there were now 22 bodies of adults and children stored inside the building, but troops guarding the building refused to confirm that and threatened to beat reporters seeking access to the makeshift morgue. People trying to walk out are forced back at gunpoint - something troops said was for their own safety. "It's sad, but how far do you think they would get," one soldier said. "They have us living here like animals," said Wvonnette Grace-Jordan, here with five children, the youngest only six weeks old. "We have only had two meals, we have no medicine and now there are thousands of people defecating in the streets. This is wrong. This is the United States of America." One National Guard soldier who asked not to be named for fear of punishment from his commanding officer said of the lack of medical attention at the center, "They (the Bush administration) care more about Iraq and Afghanistan than here." The Louisiana National Guard soldier said, "We are doing the best we can with the resources we have, but almost all of our guys are in Iraq." Across town at the Superdome, where as many as 38,000 refugees camped out until Wednesday night when evacuation buses first came, the 4,000 still there were corralled outside, hoping to get on four waiting buses with seats for only 200. The scene at the sports stadium was one of abject filth. Crammed into a small area after the building was shut to them last night, those remaining sat amid heaps of garbage, piled in places waist high. The stench of human waste pervaded the interior of the now vacant stadium. One police officer told Reuters there were 100 people in a makeshift morgue at the Superdome, mostly people who died of heat exhaustion, and that six babies had been born there since last Saturday, when people arrived to take shelter. At the arena, too, there was much talk of bedlam after dark. "We found a young girl raped and killed in the bathroom," one National Guard soldier told Reuters. "Then the crowd got the man and they beat him to death." AlertNet news is provided by REUTERS |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Tue Sep 6, 2005 @ 9:47am |
| Coolness: 52465 | i can't say it enough:
what a fucking disaster, and thats an understatement |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» No_Comply replied on Tue Sep 6, 2005 @ 3:32pm |
 Coolness: 84970 | makes me want to vote republican =p |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Thu Sep 8, 2005 @ 12:39am |
 Coolness: 92300 | "We found a young girl raped and killed in the bathroom," one National Guard soldier told Reuters. "Then the crowd got the man and they beat him to death."
fucking right! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» nothingnopenope replied on Fri Sep 9, 2005 @ 8:00pm |
 Coolness: 201260 | yeah who says they killed the right man though ? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Sun Sep 18, 2005 @ 9:38am |
| Coolness: 178680 | But why would people want to rape girls? That's disgusting.
____ The Louisiana National Guard soldier said, "We are doing the best we can with the resources we have, but almost all of our guys are in Iraq." ____ Right. Bra vo. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Sun Sep 18, 2005 @ 2:29pm |
 Coolness: 2604020 | it's kinda fun when the girl is like nono... havn't you ever done that with your boyfriend! |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Sun Sep 18, 2005 @ 2:35pm |
 Coolness: 339700 | forced yourself on someone who's not willing? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nuclear replied on Sun Sep 18, 2005 @ 3:39pm |
| Coolness: 2604020 | it's called rollplaying... |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Sun Sep 18, 2005 @ 9:12pm |
 Coolness: 150495 | Damn, that's one thing I never got around to doing.
And she had the 18th century get-up too. Dayum. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Sun Sep 25, 2005 @ 11:09am |
| Coolness: 178680 | Noah, that's teasing, it's not serious,
because in reality you want to make love with him... Raping is really different, it's about controlling someone and fucking up her life. I really hope the men who do it get caught/beaten up/kills himself/doesn't sleep well at night because too much regrets. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Sun Sep 25, 2005 @ 12:19pm |
| Coolness: 52465 | Originally posted by AERIAL RAVER...
Noah, that's teasing, it's not serious, because in reality you want to make love with him... Raping is really different, it's about controlling someone and fucking up her life. I really hope the men who do it get caught/beaten up/kills himself/doesn't sleep well at night because too much regrets. word |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cinderella_soul replied on Thu Sep 29, 2005 @ 8:59am |
 Coolness: 56235 | I'm planning on doing a little survey/research on people's sexual fantasies.
There's obviously a difference between raping and role-playing. I've been kinda turned on by a fantasy where I'm sorta taken advantage of.. I used to think well it's harmless I don't actually want to be forced and I'm not actually being forced. But we can blur the line so much it's not obvious... I think my fantasies have been perveted... and there is something about the idea of pain that makes me want to have pleasure. I've actually felt ashamed for the fantasies I have had... though there are worse ones that I haven't had. I find it disturbing that humans feel, get excited and turned on by acting, pretending to be naive, for example, in order to get fucked. Anyone ever see the movie Candy? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 12:51pm |
| Coolness: 178680 | No, what is it about? |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» elka replied on Thu Oct 13, 2005 @ 1:22pm |
| Coolness: 52465 | ya people like to be taken advantage of.. only when they WANT to be though.. people are weirdddddd |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Fri Oct 14, 2005 @ 11:15am |
| Coolness: 178680 | I know... Been living with humans all my life, and I still don't understand them.
I think I'll go live with cats, they seem nicer. |
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