I just saw this on another thread and thought it approriate for this thread as well.
That armpit of the US should not be re-built.
And, the looters should be shot!
But, the cops there are as corrupt as the looters.
George Neumayr: Get It While It's Fresh.
He looked like a guy from the theater quartet from Escape from New York.
I never realized N.O. was that bad.
New Orleans is (was) Detroit with some added sweat. Liberalism has killed both cities, Katrina just washed away the rotted facade of it all.
Amazing!
This needs to be bumped all night.
Absolutely spot on story.
I just saw this on another thread and thought it approriate for this thread as well.
There's a time and a place for these things and this isn't it. Whatever New Orleans's troubles and faults were, kicking the city when it's down is pretty low. This is a lot like Newt Gingrich blaming Susan Smith's murder of her children on liberalism. It's not the response of a flesh-and-blood human being who can see and hear and think, but of someone who's become an ideological machine, spitting out a party line on every occasion, and spinning every tragedy or catastrophe for partisan advantage.
We aren't seeing a changed New Orleans. We are just seeing clearly what was already there.
New Orleans...the city that needs to go away.
They ought to be ashamed of themselves!
America had a 30% unemployment rate in the 1930's. Back then, unemployed and hungry men roamed the country looking for WORK, not for victims.
They rode in railroad boxcars, if necessary.
Being poor is absolutely no excuse for becoming a ruthless criminal.
When I hear this crap, "What were the poor of New Orleans supposed to do?"
I answer:
"They were supposed to do what they were warned and GET OUT using FREE transportation offered, traveling to the FREE shelters waiting with FREE food.
Keep in mind a whole army of disaster relief people were being mobilized before the hurricane.
And if god is merciful and just.. San Fransisco should vibrate into the ocean..
How can an area allow itself to become so PC that the residents fear for their lives and still elect officials that advocate following a PC lifestyle. I thought we in the USA had the right to vote such measures down. The logic totally escapes me!
BUMP
This is so obvious in hindsight.
Why couldn't the city officials see it coming?
When I saw the images of people stealing shoes, I was reminded of the cultural rot of rap music and MTV-where having an expensive pair of shoes, wearing your pants below your a$$, and making sure you aren't dissed, are the most important things in the world.
NO is the epitome of what's wrong with this. The City is flooded with raw sewage, and decaying bodies, it's dark, there's no electricity, water, or food, but what do the thugs do? They steal shoes, and shoot at the people trying to rescue them. Thanks so much godless liberalism- Take a good long look at what your fomenting hate has produced.
On the other hand, while the thugs do their fake tough-guy impressions, and hurt others- the people with real toughness and courage emerged- they are the ones helping their fellow human beings, in spite of the horrors, uncertainties, and darkness of the situation-like the man who was pushing a person in a wheel chair through the sluge water to get him to safety,( or at least away from the worst parts of the city); or the man who said he had carried 50 people through the water, or the those who floated disabled people on air mattresses and pulled them through the debris, trying to get them out- they are the "tough" people. The men, women, and children, who are waiting patiently, in spite of hunger, thirst, and horrible living conditions- they are the courageous ones. The thugs making a bad situation worse- are cowards.
After watching the coverage-two things that are sorely lacking - spiritual leadership- and INFORMATION.
Fox New's Shep Smith (who has done an outstanding job of reporting) has been covering the people stuck on the freeway overpass- he kept asking for someone to tell him what they should do, or where they should go,- no-one answered, the cops drove right on by.
No wonder people are losing it- There needs to be some kind of leadership- someone asking the people to be tough, and patient, to please and hang in there,. Acknowledge that it 's a horrendous situation, but explain just how widespread the damage is, that's why it's taking longer to get to them.
(I'm sure they don't know how bad it is-that it covers three states. How could they? They don't have tv, or radio, nothing. All the reporters mentioned the communication bubble- even they don't have the whole picture. )
Most importantly someone needs to tell them that it's going to be alright- that there's a place for them, and people know what's happening, they just have to hang on- help is on the way. Tell them this is the biggest relief effort in US history.
(I'm not in any way making excuses for the thugs- they need to be shot, but, when people are the are in the dark, there are dead bodies, and rising rancid water, everywhere- and they have heard years and years of liberals telling them that no-one cares what happens to them - I can see where The Lord of the Flies mentality has taken over.
Another example of the communication problem is at the Super Dome - I saw a report where people didn't want to go to the Astro Dome because they figured it would be the same nightmare that the Super Dome is. They need to be told it's better.
Is there some way bull horns could be used to address the people, in as many of the damaged areas as possible ? (since they don't have radios or tv's) I mean tell them something, anything. Maybe read a currnet newspaper to them with the Bull horn?
Tell them how widespread the damage is. Give them some hope. Maybe Jesse Jackson could go there ?
It's such an awful situation. People need to know what's going on. They need to be distracted so they can get through it.
Prayers being said for all in the destruction areas.