A perfect example of a "conspiracy theory"
Just talking about
conspiracy theories and this choice example popped into view.
From
Mostly Cajun comes this "fact" from New Orleans:
Conspiracy!
I don’t know if you know it, but in a Congressional hearing about Hurricane Katrina and the rescue efforts in New Orleans afterward, one after another “spokesperson” stood up and ranted about how the rescue efforts were deliberately stalled to kill black people. It is now a matter of public record that there are people who are either so deluded or so stupid as to believe that the levees were bombed in order to kill black people.
Well, here’s an interesting news article.Of the 883 bodies processed so far by medical examiners at St. Gabriel, 562 have been identified by race. Slightly less than half that number - 48 percent - are African-American
The surprisingly low death rate for black Katrina victims comes despite the fact that New Orleans itself was more than two-thirds black [67 percent] when the storm hit. White residents made up less than a third [28 percent] of the city’s population, according to U.S. Census bureau numbers.
Cajun's comment was spot on:
Here’s my take: If I’m gonna have conspiracy after ME, I want them to be this inept…
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at December 13, 2005 7:51 PM