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Confederacy of Dunces USA

Welcome to the confederacy of dunces usa. This blog is inspired by the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast USA and named after the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by New Orleans native John Kennedy Toole. Certainly the disaster response efforts have been led by the dunces....

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Should Louisiana secede from the USA?

We have the river, what do we need the US govt for? Do they treat us like citizens? Sometimes when a relationship goes bad you need to cut your losses. Its just a thought.

Listen to the words of OLIVER THOMAS, NEW ORLEANS CITY COUNCIL PRESIDENT, from the CNN transcript of Nov 29, 2005.
"I'm starting to feel -- I'm starting to feel like, the way Congress is treating us, the way a lot of bureaucrats are treating us, I'm starting to feel like we're not really Americans down here. And I -- I really am. And -- and I don't know what we have to do. Do we need to wave our flag higher? Do we need to wrap it around our head? Do we -- do we need to sew it to our forehead?

We are Americans here, white and black, rich and poor, Latino and Asian, male and female. We are Americans here. And we are not being treated like it."

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