Instead of sending help to the tens of thousands of poor people who were stranded in the city after the federal levees collapsed, the government spread propaganda.

"There's rioting... there's looting...the city is too dangerous to bringsupplies to..."

The Truth:

At the Convention Center, 19,000 people were searched for weapons. A total of thirteen were found.

At the Super Dome, 39,000 were searched for weapons. Fifty were found.

Lebanon will be rebuilt before New Orleans is.

[Amy Goodman at Democracy Now talks about the travesty - mp3, real player]

No one can find the federally funded evacuation plan. It was paid for, but apparently never produced. People who had real expertise were ignored.

The company that was hired to prepare the plan: major contributors to the Republican Party.

Don't think for a minute it was an overwhelming natural force that killed 1,158 Americans in New Orleans.

As this material documents, it was willful negligence.

Were this a country that followed the rule of law, it would be called criminal negligence and the people responsible would be on their way to jail.

The story of corruption is so incredible, even I'm amazed.

I'm not. With this band of criminals in office, nothing amazes me anymore.

Asking the Federal government to rebuild New Orleans is like asking vampires to donate blood.

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