[wardaddy]

i am continuously amazed at incredulous fellow freepers who have not one whit of a clue about the modern American decaying urban landscape.

i mean....do you folks live in some Pollyanna vacuum?

any fool down South knew this would happen just like this if the catastrophic events unfolded as they have

pity those already suffering innocents stuck in it all....

i still remember those goofy tourist kids on TV obligingly trotting off to the Superdome....I thought then....they are naive and wonderful prey

[Fitzcarraldo]

"...FAST (?) team has arrived at Carville..."

[rintense]

Oh man, head of LA Homeland Security saying they were behind the ball in expecting what to deal with. UGH.

[Jim Noble]

i am continuously amazed at incredulous fellow freepers who have not one whit of a clue about the modern American decaying urban landscape.

I think that people have more or less consciously put that landscape out of mind.

Opening their eyes to see it threatens too many illusions.

Look at Florida. It is entirely possible to visit Florida for a vacation and never see a black person - in one of the blackest states in the union. South Carolina, ditto.

The social experiment which began in the 1950s has divided black America in twain - into those who can, and those who can't.

Those who can't are concentrating - in Detroit, in SE DC, and in rural Florida and SC. And there are, or were, lots of 'em in Nawlins.

This could happen anywhere those who can't are concentrated. And nobody has any realistic idea what to do about it.

[chris1]

I live on the border of the Bronx, NY. Its almost like there are certain areas where everyone has just given up on certain segments of the society. I have my own reasons why I think this is, but we have truly reaped what we have sown with liberal social policy.

[gitmo]

It's time to increase my firepower.

[Siobhan]

This is Mogadishu on the Mississippi. But the same thing would be true in Atlanta, Detroit...

And I could go on listing big cities and little cities where this savagery would be repeated.

This is what you get when you drive God out of your nation except for use as window dressing to decorate national ceremonies.

These savages did not simply appear in Eden one day. This is what you get when drive God out of the Garden.

This is what you get when you don't grow up praying in school, when you don't learn the ten commandments, and when you are cut off from the Judeao-Christian truth at the heart of being American.