After the Storm: The good, the bad, the let's-shoot-them-now

WSJ.com OPINION JOURNAL ^ | Thursday, September 1, 2005 12:01 a.m. EDT | Peggy Noonan

[Harrius Magnus]

If anybody tried this kind of crap in Dodge, the marshal and/or armed citizens would have shot him dead in an instant.

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Not only that, but the only citizen that would've had a single concern about the shooting would've been the town undertaker. For the modern gulf coast, I'm sure we can look forward to some more (tax-dollar sponsored) congressional hearings where fat asses with no experience in disasters (read, 9-11, no intelligence experience, lip service, hand ringing and teeth gnashing), tell us that "Bush lied, my puppy dog died."

[beyond the sea]

Would you sell out your country to save your own life?

May I ask, what does that have to do with shooting at looters?

[Lurker]

I'll be back to you on the list, but believe it or not FEMA has done most of the work for ya.

I'll repost it here tomorrow for the historically impaired. Every single household in America should have a basic emergency kit.

Hell, those people in that dome were told to bring their own supplies yet it appears almost none of them did.

It's mind boggling.

L