Donated in Jabbor Gibson's name
Sat Sep 03, 2005 at 03:38:56 PM PDT
I have been giving my donations for Katrina Relief in the name of Jabbor Gibson. He's been diarized
here. Basically he's the 18-year-old kid that rescued 100 people by driving them to Houston with a bus he found.
Go read the diary and also the
rascim-laced report.
I have been using the email address of that news station, jenny@krgv.com, to also send my "I donated in your name message" that is as follows:
I am donating this in the name of Jabbor Gibson. He is the hero that you reported as committing an "extreme act of looting" that "stole" a bus and rescued 100 people including an 8-day-old baby.
I am proud of what he did and consider his act an example of great American valor.
If Jabbor Gibson had been a pretty white woman, the networks would be frantically writing the script now for their next movie of the week.
"Don't blame City of NO" [Former NO City worker] [updated]
Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 11:17:40 AM PDT
A former employee of the New Orleans mayor's office, "Shannon of Boulder, CO", worked there in 1998 as an essential employee, just called in to the Al Franken Show and talked to Rachel Maddow. She said that she was worried that people were going to start blaming the Mayor for not evacuating the city but that there are specific guidelines for dealing with this already in place. According to her the City is responsible for coordinating evacuations etc for a Category 1, 2 or fast moving 3 hurricane. The feds are supposed to take control if it's a slow moving cat 3, 4 or 5. Teh feds are supposed to step in BEFORE the hurricane. I didn't get her name but figured I should post this so that this diary can be used to corroborate and research this small but important fact.
UPDATED: U.N. experts say they have reliable accounts of torture
Thu Jun 23, 2005 at 08:04:53 AM PDT
You can read
over here at The Sun Times. The highlights:
GENEVA-- U.N. human rights experts said Thursday they have reliable accounts of detainees being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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The experts, who report to U.N. bodies on different human rights issues, said their request for a visit was "based on information, from reliable sources, of serious allegations of torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees, arbitrary detention, violations of their right to health and their due process rights."
"Many of these allegations have come to light through declassified (U.S.) government documents," they said.
9000 dead GIs?? icasualties.org response: "not remotely possible"
Thu May 19, 2005 at 10:01:26 AM PDT
My friend Rob emailed icasualties.org regarding yesterdays post about thousands of unreport GI deaths.
These people have already been researching these numbers EVERY DAY since the war. I think their reponse is important for everyone to read. Some choice excerpts:
"In a word ... NO ... I do not believe such a discrepancy is even remotely possible."
"We have thousands upon thousands of eyes out there watching that list. We aren't missing thousands of names.
The last thing to consider is this: the Bush administration isn't GOOD ENOUGH to hide that many deaths. They haven't managed to hide Halliburton's over-runs. They haven't managed to hide the troop equipment shortages. And they haven't managed to hide their own ineptness in the whole occupation. Somehow the truth has a way of seeping out between the cracks.
And me and Michael and Lynn and Evan watch those cracks like hawks."
Full post below the fold
