The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #84535   Message #1560662
Posted By: Donuel
10-Sep-05 - 06:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: (picture) tribute to rescuers
Subject: RE: BS: (picture) tribute to rescuers
Attention writers:

On MSNBC 'the ethical edge' there has been a discussion along with footage of the most desperate disaster workers and victims.
All the most salient points and controversies that we discussed on mudcat were there word for word. Example : finders vs. looters, class&race were a disgrace, empty promises, the quarantine of New Orleans and the Dome.

I urge the best writers here to look into the heroic suicide of the chief of police in New Orleans. I say heroic because he could not live with the genocidal acts of his fellow officers.

I listened to a NO victim on NPR who lived through the intentional blocking of exit from New Olreans by the police.
I found a link supporting her heart rendering firt hand experience but it is by no means as compelling as her telling it.
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/printer_1047143.php

A drama showing the unfolding savagery of the police preventing people from crossing the bridge into West NO and the resulting genocide at the Dome is a story that needs to be told.

If it can be told from the police chief's point of view, whose life ended in suicide, the true pathos of the situation can be rendered with honesty and forgiveness without being polemic.

Please refer this story/threadlink to writers who have the ability to research and dramatize the events effectively.