• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Also during hurricane Katrina, people getting raped and dying in the superdome, or whatever that stadium was in New Orleans, somehow really fed into the FEMA conspiracies. Though I’m pretty sure FEMA wasn’t even involved in that situation. IIRC It was local authorities, at least initially, that had directed people there without having any plan on how to handle them.

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      8 hours ago

      The most insane thing I remember from Katrina was Blackwater authorizing themselves to respond to New Orleans, (they received official approval after they were already on site) where they didn’t provide any aide or assistance, but set up sniper teams on roofs and above water overpasses and sniped people they deemed to be looters, as well as confiscating any guns they found.

      https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/08/secret-history-hurricane-katrina/

      So I guess that kind of makes the ‘black helicopters’ conspiracy sort of true, lol.