The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (100 page)

Hurricane Andrew had barely left Florida, heading for Louisiana, when the Division of Tourism placed a $47,000 advertisement in USA Today, reading ‘Florida, we're still open.’

“Most people have very short memories. We're all sort of banking on that,” said Donal Dermody, Director of the Nova University Centre for Hospitality Management.

Kind of puts a big damper on belief in the human race: hide the truth, ignore the suffering, do it for a dollar!

What upsets me most is the incident that happened during the late afternoon hours just prior to Andrew striking.
 
I had just walked out to the garbage dumpsters, located by the parking lot, to throw away some garbage.
 
I turned to head back to the apartment when the horn of an oncoming car began blasting away.
 
I looked up to see a familiar resident, whom I had spoken to on many different occasions, heading directly towards me.
 
This particular individual worked at Metro zoo.
 
Being affiliated with wild animals, he frequently stopped by to ask me questions about the behaviour of certain species.
 
He sped right up to me and then slammed on the brakes.

“Come here!” he whispered excitedly.
 
I leaned down close to him. “What's the matter?”
 

“Listen!” he paused to look around nervously. “You've got to get the hell outta here now!”

“Why?” I asked, puzzled by his behaviour.
 
“I haven't got time to explain,” he whispered. “But I just came from the National Hurricane Bureau in the Gables.
 
Gotta friend of mine who works over there; bigwig - know what I mean?”

“Yeah...” I nodded.

“Well, this isn't for public information, if you get my drift,” he went on rapidly.
 
“But the National Hurricane Bureau has known all along that hurricane Andrew is going to slam into South Dade!
 
They're telling the public it's going to come in at Palm Beach because they want Miami Beach evacuated, and there aren't enough shelters for South Dade residents to evacuate to.
 
They don't wanna cause panic, so they're keeping quiet.
 
We're all a bunch of god-damn sitting ducks!
 
You got to get the hell outta here!
 
This is a killer hurricane! Nobody's ever seen anything like this before!”

“Holy shit!”
 
I exclaimed, shocked out of my mind.
 
“You mean Andrew's coming over South Dade?”

“Damn straight!
 
That's exactly what I mean!
 
They figure the eye of the storm is coming right in over us!
 
Those fellas at the National Hurricane Bureau have known it all along!
 
I'm gettin' the hell outta here now!
 
Shit, man, this thing is a killer hurricane!
 
Listen, I gotta run! Get your son and get the hell out now!
 
You ain't gonna have a shot in hell once it hits!”

I ran into the apartment and called my son at work, begging him to come home so we could get out.
 
I had no reason to disbelieve anything I had just heard.
 
I knew my neighbour well enough to know he wouldn't fabricate anything like this.
 
So I related the entire conversation to my son, Eric.
 
He was stunned! Eric said he would leave work within a few minutes, but as the minutes ticked on they dragged into hours.

Another immediate course of action I took after hearing the terrifying warning from my neighbour was to phone the local CBS television station located in Miami.
 
I called three separate times. Each time, my call went directly into the local news broadcast room of meteorologist Bryan Norcross.
 
Although I never spoke to Norcross directly, I did manage to speak to three separate individuals working in the broadcast room.

I specifically stated:
 
“I live in South Dade, adjacent to Metro zoo and within walking distance of Country Walk, in a pre-fab apartment that is constructed to withstand up to 90 mph winds.
 
Should I evacuate?”

All three individuals advised and reassured me that I was situated in a safe area.
 
There definitely wasn't need for me to take any evacuation measures.

Meanwhile, one work catastrophe after another seemed to crash down on my son, until finally it was just too late for us to evacuate.
 
By the time he got home it was almost midnight. Within minutes of his arrival, Andrew slammed into us with full force.

ONGOING TRAGEDIES FROM THE COVER-UPS

It's not easy dealing with the anguish I feel because of all the perpetrated lies.
 
So much suffering resulted.
 
It took three-and-a-half weeks before my son and I managed to escape the devastation on our own.
 
Homeless and penniless, with no insurance to cover our losses, we slowly made our way north towards Broward County, our only possessions being the clothes on our backs and a demolished van.
 
The long, agonizing journey turned out to be another nightmare from hell.

Over 4,000 people were officially listed as ‘missing’ in Andrew when we parted South Dade. I had lost 23 pounds during those wretched weeks of being trapped in the devastation and still had not received any medical attention.
 
Little did I realize it would take another three weeks before a doctor would even agree to see me without any money or identification.
 
By then, six weeks had passed since I had been injured.
 
Most of my teeth had turned a putrid grey colour because the nerves had died as a result of fierce blows to my head, complicated by my broken jaw.
 
The final heartbreak came when doctors discovered the optic nerve in both my eyes had begun to die off - which meant, because of the head injuries, I was going blind.

This may sound strange but, regardless, it is the truth.
 
Today, in the year 2001, there still remain three ongoing tragedies created by hurricane Andrew cover-up - -tragedies which remain unbearable for the survivors to live with.

The first tragedy is the horrifying fact that the bodies of our loved ones were intentionally confiscated from us by our own government and then so inhumanely disposed of.
 
Without graves, or some kind of memorial erected in their memory, we have no hope of reaching closure.

The second tragedy is the impact the cover-ups had in downplaying, dismissing and ignoring our horrendous suffering.

And the third tragedy is the great number of Andrew survivors who were inevitably forced to join the ranks of approximately 10 million other homeless Americans struggling to stay alive on the streets.
 
With 10 million Americans homeless, and another 32 million Americans going to sleep hungry each night, the United States Government can't truthfully claim to be a government for all the people.

Maybe it's just me, but I honestly thought the world learned a lesson from the Nuremberg trials in Germany: ‘Evil can only be defined as absence of empathy...’

It is not so much the disaster that was Hurricane Andrew that marks out this incident as a deliberate act.
 
It is more the fact that people were deliberately deceived into staying within the potential disaster area and then once the main tragedy was over, deliberately and blatantly denied food and medical aid in the aftermath.
 
Notice that it was mainly the trailer-park dwellers and lower-class housing residents who bore the brunt of the storm system.
 
Something says to me very strongly that Andrew was purposely steered in this particular direction.
 
After all who was going to miss a few thousand ‘trailer trash’?
 
Indeed, in the minds of the perpetrators it was probably a ‘good thing’.
 
Whilst it is probably true to say that Andrew was not specifically engineered via HAARP as it was possibly not operational in 1992, I include it here in this section as I believe it was more than likely engineered in some other ‘connected’ way.
 
A few less ‘useless eaters’ and the blood lust satisfied into the bargain, all in all, a good days work really.

Thirteen years later and the similarities are all too evident.
 
Katrina was the eleventh named tropical storm, fourth hurricane, third major hurricane, and first Category 5 hurricane of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season.
 
It first made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane just north of Miami, Florida on August 25, 2005, then again on August 29, then travelled along the Central Gulf Coast near New Orleans, Louisiana, as a Category 4 storm.
 
Katrina resulted in breaches of the levee system that protected New Orleans from Lake Pontchartrain, and most of the city was subsequently flooded by the lake's waters.
 
This and other major damage to the coastal regions of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama made Katrina the most destructive and costliest natural disaster in the history of the United States.

In 2001, FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S.
 
But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
 
A year prior to Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken.

One could conclude that Katrina was a matter of criminal negligence or an extreme example of apathy on the part of the establishment.
 
Yet I include it in this larger picture of world environmental terror because terror is exactly what resulted, especially given the human, physical and economic destruction.

Here is an eyewitness report at the time;

“Following Hurricane Katrina and the levee that failed, people are now dying due to the lack of aid relief, some by drowning; others by starvation, dehydration, from the heat or from lack of medical attention, old and young alike, babies, grandmothers and the infirm are forced to endure this.
 
Some are even dying from sharks that made it through the broken levee but most of all; people are dying from central government's planned denial of care.

Central government is the major hindrance to people getting what they desperately require, there are even check points set up on the escape routes to prevent people from leaving this quagmire and going to places where there is food, water, electricity and shelter!
 
Likewise, those wishing to assist, ordinary professional folk, coming with food, water, aid etc are turned back and thus the situation is perpetuated.

It is quite possible that further major problems will result, much due to the 'deliberately inept' handling of the crisis by FEMA / Central Government.
 
Loss of life will be far greater and damage to properties due to sustained water exposure will also be at a higher level. Resultant diseases from allowing the situation to fester will be more widespread.
 
Various unpredictables and unknowns such as the impact of placing Level 3 & 4 Bio Labs into such unsuitable surroundings may well take their toll, with the escape of some seriously dangerous biological / chemical toxins into the environment.
 
A similar case will apply to industrial operations, eg from stored chemicals.”