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Yes, there's plenty of blame to go 'round. Plenty.

Who was responsible for the lack of disaster planning? Why weren't the buses protected from the floodwaters and used to transport people out of the city? Why weren't shelters set up to receive them?

People in New Orleans were responsible for making and executing such plans. And state government would have been responsible for finding shelters in the countryside (I'll bet part of the reason it wasn't done was that the countryside didn't want to accept the black underclass). But who? Until we get answers we can't assign blame.

I've been watching natural disasters as an adult for a half century. I can't remember anything of this magnitude or character. Any entire first-world city evacuated and possibly largely abandoned? A first-world population exhibiting large-scale, third-world savagery and lawlessness? A totally inadequate rescue operation? Never.

(I'll bet part of the reason it wasn't done was that the countryside didn't want to accept the black underclass). And yet, a half a dozen red States, including Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, have gladly taken in over 200,000 evacuees from New Orleans. Not to mention the hundreds of thousands of other evacuees from the three States that were also taken in. I also think it's kinda ironic that you, the liberal, is the first one to bring up race. If conservatives are the racists, how is it that liberals are ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS the ones bringing up race? It's a moveon.org jerk that was caught telling some poor N.O. black evacuees to F off, and more, when he saw the Bush bumper sticker on their car. Good liberal in action there huh?

Also Larry, you are aware of the historical facts that it was DEMOCRATS that fought to keep blacks in chains and fought the Emancipation Proclamation.

It was DEMOCRATS who founded all three eras of the KKK. It was DEMOCRAT President Harry S. Truman that was in the KKK.

It was DEMOCRATS that fought desegregation in the U.S. House and Senate.

And it was DEMOCRATS who fought the civil rights movement. Governor Wallace for example. Democrat.

And when Strom Thurmond was a racist, he was a DEMOCRAT. When he became a Christian and denounced all that racism, he became a Republican.

And as everyone well knows, it was DEMOCRAT Senator robert byrd, still in the Senate, who was in the KKK. Wonder how many lynchings and hangings he attentended.

I mean, if any party has a history of racism and hatred for black people, it's the democrat party. The past 40 years they've been trying desperately to hide all those facts, and now, they're the new "plantation overseers", creating their great wellfare state the past 30 years, which is solely responsible for the horrible poverty that half the black population of New Orleans was trapped in, thanks entirely to the DEMOCRAT dominated Louisiana government. So while the people to do in N.O. had fun with their casinos and parties and other corrupt political and business happenings, their constituancy sat in squaller, waiting for their next set of orders come every November.

Until we get answers we can't assign blame.

True. We can't assign blame.

But

we can defend folks who are falsely accused.
And we are allowed to "discuss" our thoughts on the subject.

After all, we aren't the almighty MSM, who are paid professional purveryors of (supposed) fact to all the world.

We can't be forbade
Since we are not paid.