Posted on 09/02/2005 2:54:29 AM PDT by jimbo123
As buses finally started arriving to pluck refugees from the Louisiana Superdome yesterday, a horrifying picture emerged of the squalor, violence and mayhem that they faced during the days spent huddled in the stadium.
Twenty-five thousand miserable people — many of whom lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina — hunkered down with little food and little water, overflowing toilets, stifling heat and the unbearable stench of human waste.
Children slept in pools of urine. Crack vials littered the bathrooms. Bloodstains smeared the walls near vending machines that had been pried open. Gunfire has ricocheted down the corridors.
There were two reports of rape, one involving a child. Three people died — one a distraught man who jumped to his death, saying he had nothing left to live for.
"We pee on the floor. We are like animals," Taffany Smith, 25, told the Los Angeles Times, while she gripped her 3-week-old son in her arms.
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Supplies were dangerously low, with one mother saying officials told her to reuse diapers by scraping them out when they got dirty.
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"There is feces on the walls," said Bryan Hebert, 43. "There is feces all over the place."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
I think you are mixing me up with somebody else. My original post didn't assign responsibility to any group, federal, state or local.
It only spoke to the fact that we often don't realize how fragile our infrastructure systems really are. We think of water and food supply and sanitation, even sewage disposal, as if they are naturally occurring processes. We don't realize that people struggled for centuries to effectively provide such facilities to large cities.
Because we think of them as "natural," we are outraged when they fail, which means it must be somebody's fault.
BTW, I understand that the cause of the flooding was the failure of concrete levees. Wouldn't be surprised if there was some "fudging" on the specs when these things were built, possibly even payments to inspectors to look the other way. Only logical reason I can think of for levees to break that weren't even completely full.
There are certain groups of people who could easily designate certain areas for excrement and other areas for skinning any degenerates among them alive and otherwise maintain some sense of order and decorum.
My comments were also a general observation on the state of American society. I live quite near the San Andreas fault. One day Los Angeles and surround will have a disaster very much like N.O.'s, whether from the San Andreas or another of the multitude of faults that run through the region. Since L.A. politics operates on the same racist multicultural spoils system as N.O. -- just more and different kinds of spoilers involved -- I know the city won't be prepared either when its moment of truth arrives. I'll blame the elected officials, not the federal government.
that's an excellent point. You are correct!
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I'd say it's a safe bet that those there in the Sewerdome don't have a legacy of voting Republican.
What about the regime in France?
[Big events happening. New Orleans disaster won't save the regimes in Iran and Syria. They are going down soon.
What about the regime in France?]
French regime to help overthrow the Syrian regime, so they will get a pass. German regime to fall on September 18th with a democratic election to throw the socialist bums out.
Sounds like an Aaron Spelling TV movie.
Agree. I was thinking myself our enemies would see the happenings in NO as sign of "time to strike while the iron is hot".
The commies tried for 50 years to do exactly that (communism is based on the revolt of the [working] underclass), and they failed. So will the Islamists.
>> children have been beaten and raped. He pleaded for help
If any child is being abused, it's time to step in. Unfortunately 'learned helplessness' has completely taken over the minds down there.
The politically correct term for looters is "undocumented shoppers".
That's what chimps do in zoos when they are Poed..
How does one shi'ite on the walls unless the turds are tbhrown there afyer the fact?
obviously.
I've read about the British being revolted by IRA prisoners who smeared filth on the walls of their cells. The IRA claimed that the British would not take the waste buckets from the cells and it was actually more liveable to spread it around. And since it was the prisoners who had to live there...
In this case, I'm betting on sheer nastiness. I'm not saying every ugly thing there happened was out of desperation.
After that report who would want to attack and conquer America? Our enemies don't want any part of the Superdome which is a daily reality in every blue state big city.
The greatest enemy is ourselves.
NO is the perfect place for Al Quida to cook up something bad.
I have a personal experience that validates your claim. I know a man who has written a compendium of concepts to be used for humanitarian work. He submitted it to Mike Tyson as an image reform, to give him the chance to clean up his past by doing good deeds and to encourage others to do good deed on a regular schedule.
He tried many different ways to reach Tyson, but all roads are closed. People who know him turn away the project and respond that Tyson is not interested in any such image-rebuilding activities.
Are Tyson and others like him rather interested in some other kinds of activities? What might those be? Does conversion to Mohammedanism appeal to those inclinations?
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