Preview Of Tomorrow

The below video came by way of TruthOut. If you visit the site, use your filters. Some of the stuff there is pretty heavily skewed politically. It seems to have originally come from The Nation, another left leaning publication. I came across it while researching a disturbing trend here in cash strapped America. It seems some local municipalities are beginning to turn to independent security contractors as an inexpensive replacement for sworn police officers whom they intend to lay off.

I think these images warranted its own post

This particular video highlights the actions of white vigilantes on black people accused of looting, but it could just have as easily been looters versus looters, or neighbors with grudges, or families with bad blood. What you need to pay attention to is the overall climate.

What I would like all of you to think about is how quickly things can go sideways when society falls apart. You need to very seriously think about cooperating with like minded people in your immediate community.




The video references a production entitled "Welcome To New Orleans" It can be viewed here on Google Video. There's quite a bit of political agitprop in the production, but again people need to view how callously everyday people are treated by government representatives, and how violence erupts in the absence of law enforcement. There's a very obvious racial component to the video that is disturbing, as are the images of a dead man left laying under a pile of sheet metal.

The production is an hour long, and is sometimes turgid, but in my opinion, worth watching.

Again, this is not being presented to you as some type of indictment of the action or inaction in the wake of Katrina or the state of race relations in America. It is simply a very visual representation of what happens when civil order breaks down. We often see these types of things on the news, but it is very difficult to relate to Bosnia, Iraq or Somalia.

I'm sure everyone can relate to this.