By Diane Carman
Denver Post Staff Columnist
If I didn’t know better, I’d have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp.
The signs on the buildings say “Community College of Aurora,” though for now they’re serving as an impromptu Camp Katrina. About 160 hurricane survivors are being housed in the dorms, surrounded by fences, roadblocks, security guards and enough armed police officers to invade Grenada.
There’s a credentials unit to process every visitor, an intake unit to provide identification tags and a bag of clothes to every evacuee, several Salvation Army food stations, portable toilets, shuttle buses, a green army-tent chapel with church services three times a day and a communications team to keep reporters as far away from actual news as possible.
It probably was easier for a reporter to get inside Gitmo on Tuesday than to penetrate the force field around Lowry.
What nerve the government has to lock these innocent victims away and essentially treat them as prisoners within what seem to resemble concentration camps! How is this an example of compassionately coming to the aid of citizens who have their lives ravaged by a natural disaster?
It’s almost as if they’re treating all of this as some sort of practice run for some wicked scenarios they may have planned for the future.
Practice run, no doubt. But America isn’t racist, no not at all. I’m sure all the pukes in this country putting up with this would have no problem at all if that was a couple of white ladies penned in like animals.