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Alien Nation by Peter Brimelow 
September 3, 2005
Another Battle of New Orleans - or Tet Offensive?
Modern political history has several examples of a dramatic event being commandeered by a noisy and media-empowered faction and used to engineer policy changes objectively unwarranted by the facts. In my student days, the Tet Offensive in Viet Nam was the classic case: a cripplingly unsuccessful attack by the North Vietnamese, analogous to the German WW2 Kursk Offensive or Robert E.
Katrina's greatest damage
It looks very much as though the biggest casualty from Hurricane Katrina is going to be race relations. The T.V. footage and photographs carried by the MSM has established in the mind of observers world-wide the fact that the relapse into savagery in New Orleans was an African-American phenomenon. Not that the MSM care to say this in print of course: but their cowardice merely demonstrates again the value of some courageous and clear thinking blogs.
VDARE.com: 09/03/05 Bulletin
Racial Reality And The New Orleans
Nightmare, by Steve Sailer
http://www.vdare.com/sailer/050903_new_orleans.htm
View From Lodi, CA: Labor Day—As the Rich Get
Richer, by Joe Guzzardi
http://vdare.com/guzzardi/050902_vfl.htm