Marines Help Staten Island Residents
Headquarters
Marine Corps
NEW YORK, Nov. 5, 2012 – Marines
with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived here yesterday via CH-53E Super
Stallion helicopters to aid Staten Island residents impacted by Superstorm
Sandy.
Cassi Creek: In
previous times of trouble that involved the United States government, or
perhaps that worried a corporate boardroom, the quick and dirty solution was “Send
the Marines!”
The 26 MEU
will provide a lot of manpower for some frankly dirty jobs. The 26 MEU has ca. 2200 personnel who can be
tasked to search and recovery, security, and a host of other tasks necessary to
the clean up process necessary to restore Staten Island to a habitable portion
of New York City.
Their organic
helicopter forces provide heavy lift and transport capabilities that most
civilian helicopters lack.
Tradition and
law prohibit the use of active duty U.S. troops within the borders of the
U.S. The various National Guard units have always
been activated in disaster recovery such as Hurricane Katrina and other natural
disasters. However, the ability of an
MEU to provide a unique logistics service will prove helpful in working so
close to the seacoast.
CNN National Poll:
Dead heat between Obama and Romney
Gloria and I
are frankly worried about the outcome of this election. We depend upon social security, Medicare, and
Veterans benefits. We have every reason
to believe that if Romney & Ryan are elected they will institute a
teavangelist driven purge of the United States social safety nets. They GOP have wanted to gut and destroy every
bit of progressive legislation since the New Deal. With the help of nearly unlimited private
campaign financing, they will be in a position to do just that. They have spent the last four years using
bigotry and racism to divide the nation along the pre-1964 conditions when
white southerners could control the congress.
For Obama to
win it seems necessary for the Latino and black minorities to come forward and
to vote for Obama in numbers that clearly depict the new future of the United
States with regard to the ascendancy of minorities in government and in social
and cultural futures for this nation.
We’ve enjoyed
the benefits of growing up and living in a nation in which we were clearly in
the majority in terms of cultural and social benefits. In order for Obama to win, it seems necessary
that we must be willing to watch the majority culture become replaced by what
is to be the new majority. I’m uncomfortable
with some aspects of minority popular culture.
But I’m not at all comfortable with the prospects of any more WASP or
White teavangelist cultural dominance.
If it is necessary to see the face of America change in order to prevent
Romney-Ryan handing this nation to the bigots and theocrats, then I am ready to
see the nation’s face change.
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