tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post5796342807067901545..comments2023-10-06T00:52:04.371-07:00Comments on news from the zona: The Looting LieRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-61664012071291762592010-01-17T21:15:43.469-08:002010-01-17T21:15:43.469-08:00Amie, i of course totally agree! To make the rescu...Amie, i of course totally agree! To make the rescue into an invasion, and give it an action movie plot - how can I say how dumb this is? While Haitians have to be herded into a stadium to be given food - thus wrenching apart any of the natural connections between people and making them invidual, vulnerable nothings. Because of course, as a people, a community, they become adult, very much the equal of the American, French, Canadian rescuer. And that of course is intolerable, the narrative demands victims, passivity, high high high tech equipment that unfortunately gets to the scene a week too late.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3260529726656118434.post-63779701115522826242010-01-17T19:59:07.649-08:002010-01-17T19:59:07.649-08:00Roger, thanks for the link to the Kathleen Tierney...Roger, thanks for the link to the Kathleen Tierney interview. I hope that more bloggers on the internet link to it and and post it on mainstream media sites who are so focused on "looting". <br />The focus in Haiti, at the moment, should be, must be, saving lives. Rescue, medical care, food and water.<br />But this media coverage of "looters" is more than adding insult to injury, it is murderous. One can murder not only by putting a bullet through a head, but by abandoning people under concrete and rubble, leaving traumatized people without food and water and shelter, refusing to hear them. Apparently they are a security risk! These people who have had their homes and neighborhoods and towns destroyed, who have lost their near and dear, and who are trying with their bare hands to save people and help and survive. And calling out for assistance. But rather than listen to them, they are represented as victims and looters. <br />A video on the NYT says how 300 soldiers were needed to distribute aid to 3000 in a stadium in Port au Prince, in order to prevent disorder etc. So, it is security that is preventing the distribution of aid to these people because they are - such is the insinuation - poor, illiterate and black.<br /><br />I'm sorry, I haven't said anything here that isn't patently obvious. But I think at times, one should scream, and hear the screams of others.<br /><br />AmieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com