This is turning into the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1577324,00.html
There is empty housing for the tens of thousands made homeless by
Katrina - but the white elite have other plans
Naomi Klein
Saturday September 24, 2005
The Guardian
Outside the 2,000-bed temporary shelter in Baton Rouge's River Centre,
a Church of Scientology band is performing a version of Bill Withers's
classic Use Me - a refreshingly honest choice. "If it feels this good
getting used," the Scientology singer belts out, "just keep on using me
until you use me up."
Ten-year-old Nyler, lying face down on a massage table, has pretty much
the same attitude. She is not quite sure why the nice lady in the
yellow Scientology volunteer minister T-shirt wants to rub her back,
but "it feels so good", she tells me, so who really cares? I ask Nyler
if this is her first massage. "Assist!" hisses the volunteer minister,
correcting my Scientology lingo. Nyler shakes her head: no; since
fleeing New Orleans after a tree fell on her house, she has visited
this tent many times, becoming something of an assistoholic. "I have
nerves," she explains in a blissed-out massage voice.
Naomi Klein
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/cafb87fc2640b4a9
New Orleans
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/4d936085e1e2bb5c
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