Let's slow down. The story may not be true--there are rival and very
different accounts out there--initially the prisoners from that jail were
photographed from a helicopter on the dry ground of a highway overpass and
said to be holding hostages, then that story was denied--the prisoners on
that overpass were said to be peaceful. This is the first I've heard
of the drownings. Not that there aren't enough other horrors to go around.
Mark
At 01:39 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote:
>Stephen Vincent wrote:
>
>>The story below is forwarded by Diane DiPrima. This is horrific.
>>
>>Subject: NOLA Prisoners left to drown
>>
>>Spread the story, if you can. Diane
>>
>Oh my God. In Venice centuries ago, there were prisons called Pozzi.
>They were underground cells. When the canals went to high tide, the
>prisoners drowned. The water rose slowly so you could see your fate
>coming at you.
>
>It was that or the Piombi, cells under the palace roof where you were cooked.
>
>This was the Venice of the Council of Ten and the Doge, for Christ's sake,
>the Venice of the so-called Renaissance, which might have been one of
>history's more brutal eras. But wasn't so-called civilized America, was
>it? God forgive us. Someone forgive us.
>
>ken
>
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