Shades of 9/11 all over again

“Yeah, they sure fooled us, well, some of us, with 9/11. But the second time around? ”

Michael Chertoff spent umpteen hours preparing a 520-page report to tell Americans that the Katrina Massacre was “a failure of initiative.”

A “failure of initiative” occurs when a high school’s star quarterback goes out and gets wasted the night before the big homecoming game. I refuse to believe that any American with even half an ounce of common sense believes that a mere “failure of initiative” is what went down with Katrina.

Our government fully knew that a big storm was coming. They fully knew that the levees were going to fail, or, as many claim, would be purposely “helped” to fail. There was no “failure” whatsoever to prepare for such an event.

Our federal disaster agencies and our military both knew precisely how to help save these people from imminent death, and they purposely made the conscious and deliberate choice of inactivity in “not recognizing” Katrina’s likely consequences!

This is shades of the 9/11 Commission and their complicit partners in crime, the vast majority of Congress, all over again. Remember Condi Rice’s lies when she claimed with feigned sincerity, “Oh, however could we have known that hijackers would use planes and smash them into buildings?”

Well, my friends listen up. This is the same toxic garbage they are now trying to feed us with Katrina. Governmental claims of mock ignorance and ineptitude along the lines of “Oh, we just clearly were not prepared for such a storm and failed to take the required ‘initiative’ to act” are just not going to cut it this time.

Yeah, they sure fooled us, well, some of us, with 9/11. But the second time around?

Unfortunately for the malevolent in power, we are not so stupid or as naive as to be fooled yet again. Dirty deeds can only go on for so long before, as they say, “the jig is up.”

An Associated Press article stated this morning that an “independent commission” is going to be appointed to investigate the “failure of initiative.” Just like the 9/11 Commission was investigated. Well, anyone who has studied the makeup of the 9/11 Commission panel is fully aware that this administration could not possibly have hand-picked more partisan members with closer inside ties to political leaders, including presidents - not to mention the placement of at least one panel member, Richard Ben-Veniste, with reported links to organized crime.

Most frightening of all to contemplate is that there is indeed the possibility that Congress may very well be allowed to get away with the genocidal “failure of initiative” that was Katrina. Shades of 9/11, déjà vu all over again, huh? Just like they were allowed to get away with committing mass murder of nearly 3,000 citizens on 9/11, true justice for Katrina’s dead may never take place.

Justice may never take place for Katrina’s victims, that is, only if we allow them to get away with it. We are clearly the majority here. And if we, outraged citizens, organize and mobilize and put an end to the full governmental participation in their schemes of ethnic cleansing and gentrification for the purposes of profit-making “reconstruction,” then - and only then - can we begin to hold those parties within our government accountable and responsible for the Katrina murders.

I do not consider the demise of still-to-be-accurately-counted persons associated with the Katrina storm and levee breaches to be considered mere deaths. Instead, I call the New Orleans storm a mass murder because our government fully knew, with plenty of advance notice, that many people were going to die. And many are saying that it was no accident that they did precious little to prevent those deaths - predominantly lower income persons of color - from occurring.

It is incumbent upon each one of us at this point, I believe, to look into our hearts and consciences and ask ourselves, are we going to let our government get away with the murder of our fellow citizens yet again?

It is now time to gather together and build a movement that will not allow the unconscionable mass murders of Katrina and 9/11 to be white-washed over and forgotten. On behalf of our neighbors and fellow citizens in the New Orleans community and surrounding areas, we simply must not allow another 9/11 inside job-style cover up to be allowed to take place again.

In closing, we must also contemplate one more thing. If they got away with 9/11 - and they did - do we now allow them to get away with Katrina, as well? We only have to look on any U.S. map and hazard a guess as to which city will be targeted for the next “disaster” - be it termed by Scott McClellan and his controlled media puppets as “natural” or not.

This is why it is absolutely crucial that a strong and powerful citizen’s group be formed immediately to boldly lobby Congress and demand that a complete and thorough investigation into Katrina take place. This group must see to it that a repeat performance of the 9/11 (cover-up) Commission is not allowed to happen yet again. If anyone is aware of such a citizen’s effort already in process, please write to me.

Cathy Garger is a freelance writer, anti-war activist and an associate member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth. Email her at savorsuccesslady@yahoo.com.