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Home Front: Politix
DoD shot 5,000 prisoners during Katrina
2008-10-02
That's bullshit. Eveybody knows it was the hunter/killer dolphins that got them all.
Nah man, it was the laser-equipped sharks ...
It wouldn't be an election cycle without Cynthia McKinney's lunacy, and fortunately she hasn't shied away from providing it. Here, we watch as the Green Party's endorsed presidential candidate accuses National Guard soldiers of committing 5,000 murders of prisoners in the wake of Hurricane Katrina:
This is what a True Bugwit looks and sounds like.
I really, really appreciate the fact that she keeps coming back to be kicked ...
Posted by:Deacon Blues

#20  The beauty of this rumor is:
- it fits with the "Bush hates black people" meme
- it's unprovable -the bodies are somewhere in the swamps, the perpetrators are sworn to silence, nobody knows just how many were executed

Of course, if even a few people came forward and said "My husband/boy friend/son went to prison for a 2 year sentence, and he never came out", with names, dates and proof, it would lend a lot of credence to the story.

Moonbats don't need no stinkin' proof.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2008-10-02 20:13  

#19  Too bad it's not true.
Posted by: Glenmore   2008-10-02 20:04  

#18  Atomic Conspiracy, it's probably not a coincidence, that is how rumors start. Two guys talking about a book are partially overheard by someone who passes it along. Along the way details are added as most storytellers are won't to do to fill in the blanks and such.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2008-10-02 17:19  

#17  There 5 bajillion thugs and looters in New Orleans? Maybe.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-10-02 17:15  

#16  I disagree. I think that number is closer to 5 bajillion. And you can take that to the bank.
Posted by: Zhang Fei   2008-10-02 16:26  

#15  Yeah, 3dc, it was a bad night all the way round. Cubs looked like they forgot how to play, on the same night, after that grandslam. Never seen Wrigleyites so quiet. Curses. Sure hope Big Z comes out of his trance tonight. And, hope the House stands pat. I wonder? Course, if the Wicked Witch of the West would just come out with another little diatribe prior to the next vote, who knows ?
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700   2008-10-02 12:25  

#14  GrouckyOldCripple Blogger refers to his ex-conress critter as Cynthia McCommie.
Posted by: Whineling Untervehr1272   2008-10-02 11:42  

#13  besoeker, does it really surprise you?
Posted by: sinse   2008-10-02 10:58  

#12  Kentucky had one yes, one no. Bunning voted no, McConnel voted yes.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-10-02 09:56  

#11  We really need to start re-institutionalizing people.
Posted by: DarthVader   2008-10-02 09:52  

#10  I mailed Durbin before the vote.
After the vote only Obama would take it..
Illinois state elected pols suck...
However, my Rep Roskam voted no in the house.
Posted by: 3dc   2008-10-02 09:49  

#9  Both of our Tennessee Senators also voted "Yes."
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-10-02 09:24  

#8  Sorry John, I'm a bit depressed this morning. Both of our Georgia senators voted for the bailout last evening.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-10-02 08:35  

#7  Joyful thought this a.m., :( :( :(
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-10-02 08:30  

#6  You'll be seeing more of her as she (and hundreds more like her) solicite support from Obama and the CBC of the American National Congress (ANC) for high administrative appointments.
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-10-02 08:11  

#5  McKinney always has that wide-eyed crazy ready for the asylum look. However, there may never be enough therapy provided in the mental health add-on to straighten out things. Oh well, it can be added into the next bailout bill.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-10-02 08:03  

#4  Plus, given the mouth she's got on her, in the real world I can easily see her getting the Crenshaw McDonald's knuck sandwich on a regular basis from any male unlucky enough to spend much time around her.
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-10-02 06:46  

#3  Moonbat crazy, racist, America-hating, tinfoil-hat wearing...

none of it is as bad as the fact that this is one UGLY bitch. She's damned tough on the eyes.
I think even the most desperately horny Arab teen would walk right past a buck naked McKinney if he knew there was an old goat available within the next ten miles.
Posted by: Jolutch Mussolini7800   2008-10-02 06:44  

#2  This could literally be news from an alternate universe.

Almost this exact scenario occurs in Harry Turtledove's alternate history The Victorious Opposition, the eighth installment of his Great War series.
A black character living in Georgia hears disturbing rumors that black prisoners are being massacred in Louisiana and their bodies dumped in swamps. The nominal source is an escaped prisoner who allegedly helped with this work. In the novel, the rumors turn out to be true.

To further the parallel, here in the real world McKinney blames the "prison industrial complex" for the alleged killings "in the wake of Hurricane Katrina." In the Turtledove novel, a prison camp warden initiates the mass shootings after the nazi-style leadership sends him more prisoners than he can possibly house or feed. Even the number, 5000, is initially the same,though it goes much higher later in the novel.

One big difference: In the novel, this occurs in 1940, in the Confederate States of America. In Turtledove's alt-history, the Confederacy won the Civil War but by the 1930s it had fallen under the control of a Hitleresque dictator.


Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2008-10-02 06:01  

#1  no wonder the dems want to make sure mental health coverage is in the bailout bill.
Posted by: Betty   2008-10-02 01:54  

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