. ing that~ the gov-| ernmentF.wouldhave re-acted| faster hadGeorgeCurry the storm. to OE Victimsee tate aad 77 ercent of whitessaying the race victims wouldhave made no difference if the resi-dents had been white, according toa new ;For the People & The Press. oHalf of those polled (50 per-cent) say they felt anger because ofwhat happened in areas hard hit bythe hurricane, ? the feport states. oBut overall opinion on this mea.Sure obscures a substantial racialvided in reactions to the disaster~ as many as 70 percent of Africanicans say they have felt angry,compared with 46% of whites.Blacks are twice as likely as whitesto know people directly affected bthe hurricane and are generally mumore critical of the government'sCommander of relief ¢JohnLt. Gen. Russel HonoreNEW ORLEANS " New Orleans Mayor Ray Ncalls Lt. Gen. Russelo can oget some stuff done. ? oHe came off the doggone chopper, and he startedecussing and people started movininterview Thursday night with a is(aKatrinaWASHINGTON - President Bush Tsdecision to put thousands of active-duty soldiers and Marines on Hur-ricane Katrina relief duty adds a newdimension to the enormous strainon the military from wars in Iraqand Afghanistan.Senior military officers said Sat-urday they have plenty of troops tohandle their wide range of missionsat home and abroad, and they dis-counted suggestions that the urgentdeployment of soldiers and Marinesto the Gulf Coast would interferewith the rotation of combat troopsin and out of Iraq and Afghanistan. oWe can handle the overseaswar-fight commitment and still de-fend our homeland and support theDepartment of Homeland. uritysimultaneously, ? Lt. Gen. StevenBlum, chief of the National GuardBureau, told a Pentagon news con-ference. oPeople say, Aren't youstretched too far, aren't you aboutready to run out? T There are 200,000citizen soldier National Guardsmenleft with the right kind of skillsaround this nation ? to help with hur-ricane relief, Blum said.The active-duty military hasabout 1.2 million people in theArmy, , Air Force and Marine T Pr ich about 140,000 arein Iraq and nearly 20,000 in Af-. That leaves hundreds ofa ee men itectl tofighting wars, but many of them per-form a range of ctions inthe Pentagon and other governmentagencies and at militaryters across the nation and aroundm Wayne was anbarks at troops as a convoyarrives Friday in dowtown New Orleans.Honore a oJohn Wayne dude ?ocal radio station.The three-star general directed the deployment of\é@2, atte Met a ee ®t om ome oMore than eight-in-ten @ldcks(85%) say Bush could have donemore to get relief efforts goingquickly, compared to 63 % ofwhites, ? the study found. Evenment. oBy-and-laring to get out oHe orons down,Nagin said in anwhich iAdds to Militarythe world.Lt. Gen. Joseph Inge, deputycommander of Northern Com-mand, told reporters at the Penta-gon on Samy that the Katrinamission would have no negative ef-fect on executing the missions in_ Iraq or Afghanistan. oAbsolutely not, ? Inge said.The ranking Democrat on theHouse Armed Services Committee,Rep. Ike Skelton of Missouri, saidthat while he has been personally as-sured by Pentagon officials that theGulf Coast rescue and recovery ef.fort can be accomplished withoutdisrupting plans fot Iraq rotations,he remains worried about the future. oThis effort will clearly increasethe overall burden on our military, ?Skelton said Friday. oThe DefenseDepartment's civilian leaders mustlook at the impact of this and fu-ture crises and the ongoing war onthe military's future readiness andoverall state. ?Inge said the Army Ts 82nd Air.borne Division, which already hasseveral infancry battalions in Af-_ ghanistan and raq oF preparing tothere, began dispatching about1500 soldiers, including infantry,and support troops, to Louisiana onSaturday. They included most of the505th Parachute Infantry Regiment.A spokeswoman for the 82ndAirborne, Maj. Amy Hannah, saidlater chat at least 5,000 would be sentfrom her division. Another spokes-man there, Spc. John French, said5,000 would be sent over the nextfewThe Ist Cavalry Division, from:ffort in Nactor, Im a soldresponse to the crisis. ? - though Democrats tend to be moreBlacks and whites also draw dif- critical of Bush and Republicansferent conclusions about the lessons were more supportive, othese racial_ of Hurricane Katrina. -_ differences remain even when party. oSeven-in-ten Blacks (71 per- affiliation is taken into account. ?cen) say the disaster shows that ra- Because Blacks were twice as_ Cial ineq ity remains a major pr __ likely as whites ~ 43 percent to 22lem in the country; a mare al aes to have had a close friendwhites (56 t) say this was not or relative directly affected by Hur-a particularly importar leanne ricane Katrina, 73 percent of Afri-disaster. ? * can-Americans say they have feltFour years after the terrorist at- depressed over the loss of lives andtacks on the United States, both Property, compared to 55 percentBlacks and whites agree that the of whites. 7 7Bush administration should place oBlacks also hold more sympa-more emphasis on domestic j thetic attitudes toward the people oFor the first time since the 9/11 who became stranded by the flood-terror attacks, a majority of Ameri- ing in New Orleans, ? the reportcans (56 percent) Say it is more im- found. oAn overwhelming majorityportant for the president to focus (77%) say most of those who stayedon domestic policy than the war on behind did so because they didn Ttterrorism. ? have a way to leave the city, notThat shift comes at a time when because they wanted to stay (16%). .Bush's popularity has plummeted. Most whites agree, but by a slim-The ania . rating is40 mer 58% to 32% margin. ©t, down frori50 percent in oMost Blacks (57%) also thinkJanuary According to the tport, 79 people who took things from homesPercent of African-Americans dis- and businesses in New Orleansapprove of the job Bush is doing. "_were mostly ordinary people tryingMost Americans " 67 t to survive during an emergency. " also agree that Bush could have Just 38% of whites see it that way,done more to speed up relief efforts, while as many (37%) say most whowhile only 28 percent think he did took things were criminals takingall he could to quickly Provide as- advantage of the situation. ?sistance and 5 percent remain un- The public was equally criticaldecided. Even then, attitudesamong of local and state officials in theirthe races were significantly handling of the natural disaster,ent oWhile 58 % think the federalgovernment has done only a fair orpoor job in reacting to the devasta-tion along the Gulf Coast, abouthalf (51% give sub-par ratings tostate and local governments in Loui-1?,?V....an estimated 1,000 National Guard troops from a Newtleans street corner Friday,was a humanitarian relief operation.Getting food and water to the people at the city Tsconvention center was a difficult Process, Honore said. oIf you ever have 20,000 people come to supper,you know what I Tmave been done already, .Honore recognizes that storm victims have waiteddays for relief, and his: troops are trying to get themout of the city and into a more comfortable environ-making it clear that ittalking about. If it Ts easy, it would oOur number one task is to deal with the concen-tration of people in New Orleans, as well as those thatare isolated. And we're going to get after it, ? he said.The general acknowledged that frustration, and insome cases lawlessness, ,is building.¢, these are families that are just wait-here. They are frustrated; I would be,too. I get frustrated at the cash register counter whenthe paper runs out. ?Hundreds of National Guard and active duare carrying weapons in the city. But the way they car-ried those guns was a concern to the general.dered all he encountered to point their weap-said CNN Pentagon Correspondent Bar-bara Starr, who was with the general. Honore repeat-edly went up to military vehicles, National Guardsmenin standing sentry and even to New Orleans police offic-id ers, telling them to please point their weapons downand reminding them that ifonore commands the Ist Army, based at FortGillem in Forest Park, Georgia, outside Atlanta.The general is a native of Lakeland, Louisiana,s northwest of Baton Rouge. He earned a Bach.troopsey were not in Iraq.Fort Hood, Texas, is sending about2,700 soldiers to the Gulf Coast, andthe Marines are sending about 2,000from bases in California and North |Carolina. The 4th Infantry Division,which is getting ready to begin a newdeployment to Iraq, already has sentsome helicopters to Louisiana.The Air Force is flying missionsto the Gulf daily, and the Navy hasnumerous ships off the Gulf Coast.Blum said the National Guardwas going to send 10,000 moretroops than previously planned,bringing the total number of Guards.man involved in the relief effort to40,000 within the next several days.He said there would be 33,000 inLouisiana and Mississippi by theend of Saturday.In addition to deployments inKosovo and Afghanistan, the Na-tional Guard is heavily committedto the conflict in Iraq. The ArmNational Guard has 39,800 soldiersin Iraq and the Air National Guardhas about 900. Thar represents about30 percent of all U.S. forces in Iraq.Thousands also are Operating fhKuwait.Blum said the only Guard unithe knows of that has been pulled offthe list to rotate into Iraq is a smallunit whose members live inGulfport, Miss., which was heavilybattered by Hurricane Katrina. oMany of them, we can't findthem, ? Blum said.. Katrina,;. Suffer from xenophilia. |You can feel the nooses being tightened around ourAdam's apples. After propaganda, the next stage of war-siana and Mississippi, ? the studyfound.Many African-Americans com- i"plained about a double-standard in?,? news coverage. Some Blacks werelabeled olooters ? yet when whiteswere discovered doing the samething, they were described as ofind-ing ? food in abandoned grocerystores. Critics also objected to call-ing U.S. citizens ore gees. ?Still, the news media earnedhigh marks from the public for itscoverage. Two-thirds of the publicives news organizations excellent28 %) or good (37%) ratings fortheir coverage of the impact ofcompared to only a thirdwho say the coverage has been fairor poor. The majority of the publicew Orleans in celor of Science degree in vocational a ticulture fromSouthern University and A&M ColRouge in 1971. Honore was commissioned a 2ndlieutenant in the infant upon graduation. He also human resources from Troyas a master Ts degree inState University.He has served in a number of infantry commandPositions and at the Pentagon. Before taking com-mand of the Ist Army, Honore commanded the Stand-ing Joint Force Headquarters-Homeland Security, U.S.Dye. Livers,Blacksgets its news about national or in-ternational issues from cable TV.From June to September, CNNexpanded its audience share morethan any other network, serving asthe main source of news for the pub-lic. Its audience share increased, by13 percent, followed by Fox at 6percent. The study also confirms thepartisan nature of Fox Ts audience.When asked whether Bush had doneall he could to handle the crisis, 24percent of CNN Ts viewers agreedwith that statement. About twice asmany Fox viewers " 46 percent "endorse that view. Additionally, 42percent of Fox viewers say that othepeople who took things from busi-nesses and homes in New Orleans Twere mostly criminals taking advan-lege in Batonof her batage of the situation. T Only 31 per-cent of CNN viewers agreed withthat idea,The poll shows that Katrina andrising gasoline prices have overshad-owed all other issues in the U.S. oThe public Ts attentiveness tothese two stories has overshadowedinterest in other major events " no-tably the war in Iraq and the nomi-nation of John Roberts as Chief Jus-tice of the Supreme Court, ? the re-port states. oOnly about a third saythey paid very close attention to thesituation in Iraq, despite high levelsof American, and especially, Iraqicasualties in recent weeks. Thismarks the lowest level of public at-tention to news from Iraq since thestart of the war, ? oThe priority is on this mission, getting these peopleout of here, ? he said.The general came to rescue of one young mothertrying to carry her twin babies down the street in theterrible heat and humidity of New Orleans, Starr re-ported. The mother was so exhausted the children werealmost falling out of her arms.The general went up to the woman and took bothies, handing them off to soldiers to carry,as he promised the mother thatget her some help. The troops helped the three hur-~ Ticane victims:to " 0 WwereitreatedafokHonore Ts daughter and other relatives live in NewOrleans, but he has nor seen them since he arrived inthey were going toa Coast Guard: ship, where theyion,haistion and dddHonore said he wants his troops TOrleans to be-that of humanitarian re ief operations,rofile in Newleaving the law enforcement role to the local police.introuble andneed Black adviceby Alton H. Maddox, Jr. Esq.Prisons are built to warehouse the enemies of thestate and not to simply imprison the violators of the penallaws. If the latter were the case, the prisons would be filledwith whites. Instead, it is filled with a class of personswhose movements in this country have been curtailed foryears in the interest of national security.Arabs, on the other hand, still enjoy freedom from whole-four hundrede incarceration.Freedom of movement and the right to privacy sepa-rate a free people from an enslavedcontrol, enslaved Africans were coTo leave the plantation, they had tocessity, a badge of slavery.Blacks and whites read the Thirteenth Amendmentdifferently. Blacks read it as literally endiStrain =of penitentiaries.Because Blacks are not allowed to enjoy their ownrepresentation, we must wait for white liberals andal issues for us. Theetical to the interestsof Blacks. Only a Black person who believes that he or sheis passing would seek to equate these competing interests,White liberals define our current plight in constitu-there is a current erosion of theFourth Amendment. For Blacks, there has always been abreach of the Fourth Amendment. It took until 1961 forthe Supreme Court to require the states to honor it inreme Court retreated in 1968 by hold-complete sanctuarytheir Black sidekicks to define |interests of white liberals are antitional terms. To them,principle. The Suing that urban Blacks could not findin the Fourth Amendment.Before the Civil War, Blacks were subject to the slavecodes. The Black codes supplanted them. The codes stillharbor legal customs even though most Blacks have neverread them. Of course, ignorance of the law is No excuse,From the Black codes, it is very easy to dragnet Blacksinto martial law,Random searches, clearly permitted under militaryree society. These searchesom of movement and deprive persons of thejustice, are violations in aretarright to privacy. Any consent tovoluntary and not subject to the denial of a Privilege. In-telligence and not surveillance stops terrorism. rule theRandom searches,are in cahoots with law enforcementBlacks are waitin,are living under shnese, it will takeNo other race relies on other peoplned to plantations.be in possession ofpasses. This meant that Blacks had towrite in English. Thus, the oWar on Terrorism ? is, of ne-it as continuing slavery. Blacks emphasize the maintext. Whites look for the legal loopholes. History shows aconnection between emancipation and the establishmentT Se, give risePolice departments are inherently racists.seed that gave rise to vigilantism and state-sponsored, lawenforcement agencies. We must wait for civil libertiesgroups to sue on our behalf. It should have happenedyesterday. Don't hold your breath, however. Thfor white liberals to tell us that weof martial law. Unlike the Japa-some time to intern all of us, A panicNo orb mac ld us ou re egal stars ight now,le forple. To maintain just a question oremain unable tosentedslavery. Whitesgrievances.WhiteHenrik Clarke.rcotion oWhites arefathers. This isshould be free and of thfo racial profiling,ism was theof myese groupscies,If I hadlegal wee We¢ federal government. Theresemblance to the ideology of the founding fathers willroost. Thishead of the Democratic ;Like Bush 43, I am also a strict constructionist andbelieve in original intent. | seri iivine ancestors and consult withfen Tenet- 1am in favor of petitions incl theDred Scott, which dene rrturned my on my ancestors, 1 wouldfriends in New Yovine ancestors, But see Exodus 20:1thar display a Black Jesus. This jfare is deception. The recent, failed bombings in Londonare marketing strategies to promote surveillance camerasand to paint the face of terrorism Black. Those four pho-tographs, appearing on the front page of virtually everyNewspaper, are suspect.n the meantime,talk shows this past Sunday to fight like cats and dogsover white men Ts crumin Brooklyn. None of them remember the Indians saying othe white man speaks with forked tonwhich white men oIt was embarrassing to listen to these radio inter-views. Black leadership is bankrupt and incompetent.None of them are aware that the founding fathers areworking against them. ToBlack leaders appeared on radiobs; namely, the Atlantic Yards projecte. ? To them, it ist the best deal.matters worse, | repre-most of them pro bono. Now, it is clear that mostof them would stab us in the back on minute Ts notice. Weare being primed for concentration camps,We need legal directions. If it is not the Atlantic Yards,it is the proposed, peaceful assembly in Washington inOctober. This proposed marchFirst Amendment and, therefore, it is a half-posal. Blacks can ill-afford to half-step in 2005.The right of peaceful assembly is only a conditionprecedent to petitioning theen you assembthe First Amendment is automatically invoked. We mayas well go for all the marbles since our ancestors built theFrouse and Capitol Hill.To satisfy the First Amendment,to tour Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol Hill and onail ?our petition to the White House, the Supreme Court andCongress. The citation of authorities for petitioniae for a redress ofrederick Douglass, theRandolph, Adderly v. Florida, Malcolm X and Dr. Johnrefuses to challenge theping pro-vernment for a redress ofpeaceably on federal land,Blacks would havetheevances include Dred Scott,olfax Massacre, A, PhillipRacial unity can only be ensured provided that weeipent and consult our ancestorsective action. oLet the chips fall where they may. ? Itmust not be a personal agenda. Our ancestors have noth-ing ro ain from the physical realm other than the libera-their offspring.ided rf a hidden hand - the foundingy Republire we initiate anycans control the three branchesthat bears the closestwarning comes from Howard Dean,them onarticle. They despised the foundingi petition oork and would have. Black people will rtse bea aThis is the dilemma for Blackssurviving in a racist society,See: www.reinstatealtonmaddox.com