"Rebuilt lives are again in danger; Spill challenging gulf Vietnamese" by Ylan Q. Mui, Washington Post | June 29, 2010
NEW ORLEANS — They came here seeking refuge, but the past few years have brought unexpected hardship to the tightly knit Vietnamese fishing community.
Now, I have NOTHING AGAINST the Vietnamese and PROFUSELY APOLOGIZE for the MILLIONS MURDERED and the WAR CRIMES perpetrated against their nation over damnable AmeriKan lies; however, THIS is the HUMAN INTEREST that the agenda-driving AmeriKan MSM decides to feature?
Not enough GENERATIONS of AMERICAN FISHERMAN being DESTROYED?
They arrived after the fall of Saigon in 1975, lured by the city’s tropical climate and strong Catholic heritage. Shrimping and fishing in the Gulf Coast’s bountiful bayous was one of the few familiar touchstones for these mostly unskilled laborers with little English.
Yeah, the newspaper CONVENIENTLY IGNORES ANOTHER WAR it LIED YOU INTO, America! Seems to be a REAL PATTERN!
An estimated 20,000 Vietnamese fishermen and shrimpers live along the Gulf Coast — about half of the total fishing community — and many more work at the seafood processing plants, wholesalers, and po-boy shops found at every traffic light.
Now the sanctuary they found and the lives they built — and rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina — are threatened by the hemorrhaging oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Many Vietnamese worry they will not have the energy to start over yet again.
See the pro-amnesty, agenda-pushing code words, dear readers?
I can not emphasize how disgusted I am that EVERY SINGLE S***TY article in the "newspaper" is PUSHING SOME DAMN AGENDA!!
“When I came to Louisiana, this was how people here made a living. I had to follow,’’ 50-year-old shrimper Dung Nguyen says in Vietnamese. “I don’t know how I’m going to live.’’
Nguyen came to this country late, in 1992, and drifted through blue-collar jobs in Arizona and California before he fell into shrimping in Louisiana.
Is he LEGAL? I tend to THINK NOT!
And he DIDN'T GET HERE until 1992 even thought the impression of this article is the 1975 boat people exodus from Vietnam.
I'm SOOOOO TIRED of the DECEPTIVE and DISTORTING PRACTICES of AmeriKa's AGENDA-PUSHING MSM!!
Nguyen says he has no idea whether life is harder for him than for American shrimpers; he doesn’t know any to ask. All he knows is that his wife, their five daughters, his mother-in-law and his granddaughter — all of whom live with him in a modest rented home in the industrial eastern edge of New Orleans — are counting on him for survival.
And all I know is how sick I am of reading this slop.
Tell him to file a claim with BP like us Amurkns.
That’s why he got up before dawn last week to stand in line for a food voucher with dozens of other out-of-work Vietnamese fishermen and shrimpers in the concrete alley in front of Mary Queen of Vietnam Catholic Church’s community office. The wait can last five, six, even seven hours.
Oversleepers are turned away before they even make it inside.
“If you’re a little bit late,’’ Nguyen warns in Vietnamese, shaking his head.
He knows because he showed up after 5 a.m. for two days and missed out on a $100 grocery store gift certificate, 20 of which are handed out every morning. It is 8:30 a.m. and the office has yet to open, but he is hoping the third time is the charm. Besides, he says, he has nothing to do all day but sit around and think — about having no work, no money, and no options.
From what the newspapers tell me there is ALWAYS the OPTION of TERRORISM!
I was told s*** like this breeds the fuckers like cockroaches.
Oh, that's only if you are "Islamic?"
Normally Nguyen is on a boat this time of year, coming ashore for a home visit about once a month. His wife, Ut, makes shrimp nets and his oldest daughter, Lisa, 20, fixes trawls and cleans boats. Now they are all unemployed.
Hey, THIS IS NOT what I WISHED FOR THEM anymore than I wished this thing happening; however, I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THIS!
THIS is the result of GOVERNMENT and INDUSTRY RECKLESSNESS and GREED!
“Get in a straight line, please,’’ a woman calls out in English to the group, mostly men, milling about the alley as staffers open the office door.
The Vietnamese quickly flatten themselves along the wall as aid workers hand out numbered tickets for vouchers to the first in line. Dung secures one, as does his wife, even though the vouchers are technically limited to one per family. Because so many Vietnamese share the same last name and the community is so intertwined, the rule is tough to enforce.
After six hours of waiting, Nguyen receives a $100 gift certificate to a local Vietnamese grocery store, Mien Canh. A few minutes later, his wife comes out of a similar meeting with another gift certificate, a canister of rice and two cans of Starkist tuna.
You know, GAMING the SYSTEM does NOT HELP IMMIGRANTS LOOK GOOD!
It FEEDS INTO the STEREOTYPE, and MAYBE THAT IS the divisively-provoking MSM POINT! Then they can holler racist at you.
The couple have lived in New Orleans the longest of any place in the United States. The cost of living is cheap, and work seemed plentiful. They rented their first house here and made friends quickly. Nguyen says he recognizes everyone waiting with him in the food voucher line.
More than two months after the oil spill all but shut down the local seafood industry, the bonds that tie the community together are fraying as they face financial ruin.
Related: David Icke Offers His View of Spill
One does begin to wonder if there is not some malevolent force behind all this, especially when you consider this:
Someone knew and MADE MONEY!
A fight broke out on a recent morning after aid workers ran out of food vouchers. Now a security officer guards the alley, sweltering in his brown uniform in the soupy heat. A meeting between
New interpreters have been installed.
“People are really frustrated,’’ says Tap Bui, a community organizer at the church. “They feel like their sense of life is gone . . . A lot of them feel like they’ll never be able to get that back.’’
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And what about YOU AMERICANS in the SAME BOAT?
"Gulf disaster’s psychological effects are quietly taking their toll; Many in region observe increase in anger, anxiety" by Janet McConnaughey, Associated Press | June 29, 2010
With oil fouling the waters, no one is fishing any more out of Zeke’s Landing Marina in Orange Beach, Ala., though some charter boat captains are doing cleanup work for BP. (Dave Martin/Associated Press)
I hate to say it, but the water looks like a full toilet that hasn't been flushed for hours.
NEW ORLEANS — The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster feels far worse to shrimper Ricky Robin than Katrina, even though he’s still haunted by memories of riding out the hurricane on his trawler and of his father’s suicide in the storm’s aftermath.
Yeah, because HURRICANES BLOW OVER and LIFE GOES ON!
And Americans are committing suicide down there; the AmeriKan MSM is just failing to report it (like with so many other things).
I'm sure the Globe just innocently missed it amongst all the government and BP bullshit.
The relentless spill is bringing back feelings that are far too familiar to Robin and others still dealing with the physical and emotional toll wrought by Katrina five years ago.
“I can’t sleep at night. I find myself crying sometimes,’’ said Robin, of Violet, a blue-collar community on the southeastern edge of the New Orleans suburbs, along the highway that hugs the levee on the Mississippi River’s east bank nearly all the way to the gulf.
Psychiatrists who treated people after Katrina and have held group sessions in oil spill-stricken areas say the symptoms showing up are much the same: Anger. Anxiety. Drinking. Depression. Suicidal thoughts.
“Everybody’s acting strange,’’ said Robin, 56. “Real angry, frustrated, stressed out, fighting brothers and sisters and mamas and family.’’
Fishing families, the backbone of the coastal economy, are especially hard pressed as the waters that make up their livelihood are sporadically closed because of fears the oil will taint fish, oysters, and shrimp.
Oil field workers, whose salaries are among the best the region can offer, worry about their industry’s long-term future.
And there is still the rebuilding after Katrina, which in August 2005 devastated a swath from Louisiana to Alabama — almost as big as the area affected by the oil — killing more than 1,600 and forever changing the region’s relationship with the water.
Yup, FIVE F***ING YEARS and the place STILL AIN'T REBUILT!
But we have TRILLIONS for WARS and BANKS and BILLIONS for ISRAEL!!!!!
No one is fishing any more out of Zeke’s Landing Marina in Orange Beach, Ala., though most charter boat captains are making some money pulling booms and doing other jobs in BP’s cleanup program.
Yeah, what are they all complaining about down there anyway?
Looking at oil all day can be harder than staying home, said Joe Nash, a boat captain there. “Seeing everything that you’ve been used to for years kind of slowly going away from you, it’s overwhelming,’’ he said. “Because you can’t do anything about it.’’
That helplessness, coupled with the uncertainty about what’s going to happen with the spill and when the next check from
“Our families want to know what’s going on,’’ said Pfeiffer, 55, who keeps two charter boats at Zeke’s Landing. “When we get home, we’re stressed out and tired, and they want answers and we don’t have any.’’
His wife cries a lot.
“I haven’t slept. I’ve lost weight,’’ said Yvonne Pfeiffer, 53. “My shoulders are in knots. The stress level has my shoulders up to my ears.’’
Social services agencies have not seen a significant increase in people seeking help since the spill began, but that doesn’t mean the need isn’t there, said Jeffrey Bennett, the executive director of the Gulf Coast Mental Health Center in Gulfport, Miss. Oil washed up on Mississippi’s mainland for the first time Sunday.
What it tells you is that AMERICANS HAVE GIVEN UP on their GOVERNMENT when it comes to HELPING them -- and for GOOD REASON!
This DISASTER is the DIRECT RESULT of GOVERNMENT NEGLIGENCE!!
And now they are here to "help" you!
“Unfortunately, the people most affected, shrimpers and fishermen, are not people who traditionally seek mental health services,’’ Bennett said.
“They’re kind of tough characters, and look at being depressed or not being able to handle their own problems as weakness,’’ he added.Or they feel like I said above, propaganda-pusher.
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Related: BP Oil Spill Cleanup Workers Getting Sick
I'm not reading any of that in my newspaper.
Of course, it couldn't be exposure to oil and chemicals.
