(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
I see A-C occurring right now in New Orleans, most likely D and possibly E. Some articles below. --adx
> Also have a look at
> http://www.counterpunch.org/floyd09012005.html
> excerpt:
>
> "The destruction of New Orleans represents a
> confluence of many of the
> most pernicious trends in American politics and
> culture: poverty,
> racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental
> abuse, public
> corruption and the decay of democracy at every
> level.
>
> Much of this is embodied in the odd phrasing that
> even the most
> circumspect mainstream media sources have been using
> to describe the
> hardest-hit victims of the storm and its devastating
> aftermath: "those
> who /chose/ to stay behind." Instantly, the
> situation has been framed
> with language to flatter the prejudices of the
> comfortable and deny the
> reality of the most vulnerable.
>
> It is obvious that the vast majority of those who
> failed to evacuate are
> poor: they had nowhere else to go, no way to get
> there, no means to
> sustain themselves and their families on strange
> ground. While there
> were certainly people who stayed behind by choice,
> most stayed behind
> because they had /no/ choice. They were trapped by
> their poverty and
> many have paid the price with their lives."
>
> and:
> "Not that the mainstreamers ignored the racist
> angle. There was the
> already infamous juxtaposition of captions for wire
> service photos,
> where depictions of essentially the same scene
> desperate people wading
> through flood waters, clutching plastic bags full of
> groceries were
> given markedly different spins. In one picture, a
> white couple are
> described as struggling along after /finding/ bread
> and soda at a
> grocery store. But beneath an almost identical photo
> of a young black
> man with a bag of groceries, we are told that a
> "looter" wades through
> the streets after /robbing/ a grocery store. In the
> photo I saw, this
> evil miscreant also had a gasp! pack of diapers
> under his arm."
>
> Another interesting link at
>
http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2307
>
> "The Bush administration spent the last four years
> moving funds from
> natural disaster prevention and relief to
> militaristic priorities like
> the Iraq war - a move that may be responsible for
> death and suffering
> along the Gulf Coast."
>
> <>and
> "The US Army Corps of Engineers had been working
> with local officials to
> strengthen the city's defenses in case of a massive
> storm, but federal
> funding for improving the levee system and
> implementing other projects
> to keep water from overtaking New Orleans dwindled
> under the Bush
> administration.
>
> Earlier this year, an article in the /New Orleans
> CityBusiness /detailed
> the funding shortfalls faced by the Corps of
> Engineers in efforts to
> build $114 million worth of hurricane protection
> projects. With federal
> funding down by more than 44 percent from 2001
> levels, Stan Green,
> project manager for the Corps's Southeast Louisiana
> Urban Flood Control
> Project, told /CityBusiness /that no new contracts
> for construction had
> been awarded since early in fiscal year 2004. Even
> before that, reported
> /CityBusiness/, work had slowed and fewer projects
> had been taken on
> because of funding shortfalls.
>
> Iraq war funding had taken priority over domestic
> disaster prevention to
> the chagrin of local officials. "It appears that the
> money has been
> moved in the president's budget to handle homeland
> security and the war
> in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay,"
> Walter Maestri, a New
> Orleans emergency management official, told the New
> Orleans
> /Times-Picayune /in mid-2004. "Nobody locally is
> happy that the levees
> can't be finished, and we are doing everything we
> can to make the case
> that this is a security issue for us."
>
> The Bush administration also has made significant
> changes to the Federal
> Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), shifting funds
> away from
> pre-disaster preparation and implementing policies
> to promote
> outsourcing of relief efforts to private companies."
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