Freepers Are Freaking Me Out

[onyx eyes]

(Vanity) 9/03/05 Where is the compassion? Where is the feeling for another human being?

After a brief hiatus I come on here expecting to find an outpouring of outrage and/or sympathy for our fellow human beings, citizens of America trapped in New Orleans and all I can find so far is sniping at the other party and recriminations against Jesse Jackson or some such political wag. And I find paranoia all over the place here about how the media is treating Pres. Bush and even jokes about who is right or wrong about the hurricane aftermath.

Granted, that I have been at home during the daytime and maybe have seen more of the media coverage and that you turned it off instead. Believe me, I did turn my TV off or walked away from it many times this past week because it got too horrific for me to keep watching.

I really did think I'd find a great or greater outpouring of sympathy for the people stranded in New Orleans.

[onyx eyes]

Don't worry. I'm not criticizing Pres. Bush or anything like that. And you may not have noticed this but Condoleeza Rice gave a speech today about being contacted by her contemporaries in other countries in which the USA was offered Aid and Assistance. And Conoleeeza's voice was shaking and she looked as if she were barely holding it together.

[Feiny]

You must be on the wrong threads.

[Not A Snowbird]

You must not be paying attention to the right threads. There's been a huge amount of compassion for what's going on there.

[Samurai_Jack]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1473520/posts

Katrina Relief
Give till it hurts

[TheForceOfOne]

Lurk before leaping.

[Feiny]

hey, I said that too.

[dfwgator]

We have sympathy, but when they attack our President, I can't take that sitting down. I believe the Democrats truly are trying to make political hay out of this and putting their Party ahead of the country, as usual. It's all about 2006 to them. I'm sorry, that's how I see it, and it's pissing me off.

[shattered]

I have seen lots of sympathy here! Everyone that I know feels horrible about the events and total compassion for the people who are suffering.

[cambridge]

Well I must have been on the wrong threads too. Am getting weary of my NO obsession, but any links to threads not all about assigning blame or deriding the victims for not fleeing would be appreciated.

Right now I don't care who's to blame, that can be investigatd later. Right now we have tens of thousands of Americans stranded and hundreds of thousands who are homeless and jobless. Those are our pressing issues.

Thanks.

[WilliamWallace1999]

[DB]

The "outpouring" was earlier.

[ohioWfan]

Did you really mean what you said here, or was this satire?

[Rokke]

Some of my sympathy is tempered by reports of widespread looting and shooting. Some of my sympathy is also tempered by the simple fact that many of those "trapped" in New Orleans could have left when they were told to evacuate before the storm hit. Having said that, I have a lot of sympathy for the children and elderly who really didn't have a choice in the matter. That is tragic.

[Alberta's Child]

I understand what you're saying, but this is the kind of disaster that can make a schizophrenic out of even the most stable person.

I think a lot of folks (and I count myself among them) are unraveling due to the utterly confusing combination of tragedy and outrage.

[Texasforever]

I assume you think that all the folks in Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia are having a party this week, from the media coverage and threads on FR it appears that is the case.

[investigateworld]

I think your seeing a lot of frustration amongst us. For years, even a multitude of decades, the Conservative Thought Crowd has been preaching the dangers of the New Deal, Fair Deal and all the other socialistic BS of the Demos. Thus when events prove us right, we blow steam, as we all knew this garbage would happen.
I can't believe the number of posters that have been kicked off as they let their frustrations out. The sight of those buses sitting in flood waters is a case in point.
And kudos to the Mod's as they have warned again and again as to the consequences of rash posts.
Hang with us and keep learning : )

[Jorge]

I really did think I'd find a great or greater outpouring of sympathy for the people stranded in New Orleans.

There's plenty of sympathy for the people of N.O. that I have seen, but there's also disgust with the finger pointing and political blame games being played by the libs and the MSM.

[JRios1968]

I have sympathy for the majority of people in NO. I also need to have some sympathy left for the folks in Mississippi and Alabama (they got hit too, y'know.)

[newbeliever]

I was sympathetic the other day. I am finding it almost impossible to have sympathy for these able bodied idiots who do not understand "GET OUT!" They are personally responsible for the death of untold numbers of people who could not help themselves.

What part of FLOOD do they not understand. Do they think that stupid wall between them and 15 feet of water over their heads is some type "magic" wall. In my terrible Joe Pesci voice- Is it a magic wall? Did they buy from the same guy who sold jack his beanstalk beans?

[ladyinred]

There is great compassion here for the victims. There is also disgust at the media and Jessie Jackson et al, which is justified. We can't bury our heads in the sand while the MSM trashes our party for no reason can we? I am freaked out at some of the threads, and people here myself, but maybe not for the same reasons. But the majority of us care a lot about the real victims in the South.