When the levees broke...

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If you haven't heard, its Spike Lee's doc on post Katrina happenings.

Very, very powerful stuff.

Anyone else seen it?
 
I have to check it out, it came on HBO last night but my cable is turned off, so I hope it's available at Block Busters soon.
 
Yeah, I watched some of it.

Yeah, I watched some of it.

And I plan to see it all. Powerful stuff. I know firefighters who worked the aftermath and they have some incredible stories to tell, and I will tell you one later, when I have time. But yeah, that documentary will make you think.
 
i dont really like Spike Lee (the only film of his i like is Inside Man), but i definitely want to check this out to hear the stories of what people "think" happened there.
 
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I really want to see it. I'm a big fan of Spike Lee but unfortunately I don't get HBO at my house. A lot of people are saying he's playing the "Blame Game" with this Documentary. I got to see it for myself before I listen to anything Fox News says.
 
I heard an interview with Spike about this documentary the other day...He was mumbling on about some conspiracy theory involving the government and controlled explosives in the levees. The guy's a nut, IMO. No interest in seeing this program. Definitely want to see more about Katrina and the devastation it caused, but not from this quack.
 
jaustere said:
I heard an interview with Spike about this documentary the other day...He was mumbling on about some conspiracy theory involving the government and controlled explosives in the levees. The guy's a nut, IMO. No interest in seeing this program. Definitely want to see more about Katrina and the devastation it caused, but not from this quack.
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Bs. Prove it.
 
FilmMakerr said:
Bs. Prove it.
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With pleasure!

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In interviews, and in the documentary, Lee refused to reject the belief, held by many black residents, that the government bombed the levees, flooding the poorest areas to spare the wealthiest ones, such as the French Quarter, which is the biggest draw for tourists. "We let people say what they think," he said, noting the government did destroy levees during the 1927 Great Flood of Mississippi. "We have people from the Lower Ninth Ward who swear on a stack of Bibles they heard explosions. We have scientists say that it wasn't explosions, that they heard water going through a levee."

He told CNN: "I don't put anything past the US government. I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of New Orleans."

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1851743,00.html

I'm not interested in a political debate and won't discuss this here.
But for the record, I don't post "Bs." :)
 
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It was reported by a number of major news sources.
I recall seeing an ABC story on the possibility of the levees being blown, citing that they did it to preserve the wealthiest areas of New Orleans.
There were other reports that said there were people caught in crossfire between local law enforcement and private contractors who were hired to carry out the demolition of the levees.
I don't think Spike Lee is nuts for reporting this in his doc.
 
jaustere said:
In interviews, and in the documentary, Lee refused to reject the belief, held by many black residents, that the government bombed the levees, flooding the poorest areas to spare the wealthiest ones, such as the French Quarter, which is the biggest draw for tourists. "We let people say what they think," he said, noting the government did destroy levees during the 1927 Great Flood of Mississippi. "We have people from the Lower Ninth Ward who swear on a stack of Bibles they heard explosions.
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im not sure what is 'nuts' or 'quacky' about it. put yourself in the filmmakers position for a moment. what do you do when people report this to you? do you dismiss it? I haven't heard Lee say it is fact... only suggesting that it is possible. why not bring it up? if it happened before why then would it not be possible today? IMO it would be wrong not to report it. i agree with Lee - let people say what they think.

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We have scientists say that it wasn't explosions, that they heard water going through a levee."
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we were also told that there was WMD in Iraq.
 
You have to ask yourself two questions.

Why would they bomb the levee's?
Why would they want to displace black people?

I frankly don't see much of a point... Seeing as how it's a NATURAL DISASTER and if there were no levees at all it'd be DEEP UNDERWATER. These people forget that the land is BELOW SEA LEVEL.
 
we should remember that this is what the 'documentary filmmaker' found from several interviews in the field. do we call Lee nuts for reporting it?

i don't think Lee has ever said this actually happened. i have heard that this is a really important document and that the interviews of people who heard explosions is only a very small part of it.

does this make him a quack? if you were making the film and several people told you they heard explosions would you choose not to include it?
 
Oh, well... in that case I don't think he's a quack. I was responding to posters ( I don't think their crazy either. I just don't understand it)
I saw about half of it last night. It was pretty good.
 
Also lets not forget that it wasn't the soley hurricane that caused the massive flooding. The damage to NO itself wouldn't have been that devestating if the leevees would have held up.

Due to that fact coupled with the slow govt response we have what we see presently. The conspiracy theories are simply that.... theories. Look at all the ones we have connected to 9-11.

Do they carry any weight? Who's to say? But, people died unnecessarily in both cases and that is a crying shame.
 
I dunno... I don't think he is.

Were the people involved in 9-11 Nuts/Quack in reporting the same exact sounds?? Bombs exploding and the like?

Were the bomb canines that searched the building on first run nuts/quack for barking like mad as if they'd smelled gunpowder or whatever?
 
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