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73.000 "Prisoners of War" uit New Orleans werden in Augustus 2006 nog steeds vast gehouden, zo goed als een jaar na Katrina!

On August 22nd, for LinkTV and DemocracyNow! we videotaped the thousands of Katrina evacuees still held behind barbed wire in a trailer park encampment a hundred miles from New Orleans. It’s been a year since the hurricane and 73,000 POW’s (Prisoners of W) are still in this aluminum ghetto in the middle of nowhere. One resident Pamela Lewis said, “It is a prison set-up” — except there are no home furloughs for these inmates because they no longer have homes.
To give a sense of the full flavor and smell of the place, we wanted to show that this human parking lot, with kids and elderly, is nearly adjacent to the Exxon Oil refinery, the nation’s second largest, a chemical-belching behemoth.

De journalisten die dit verhaal naar buiten brachten worden door de NSA voor het gerecht gedaagd wegens "unauthorized filming of a critical national security structure in Louisiana."

Bron: gregpalast.com