Look back on the videos from the recent Asian Tsunami. Even the "third world" did not respond to their disaster with such depravity. (See my post #81.) The physical conditions in N.O. may have descended to the level of the "third world", but too many there have shown their character and morality and to be at a level FAR below those in the "third world".
Exactly. And yet there are those here at FR who continue to deny that a culture that glorifies criminality and vice has anything to do with what is going on in N.O.
From what I keep hearing from people who have actually been to NO, the place had a crime problem to begin with.
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Even the "third world" did not respond to their disaster with such depravity.
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Putting aside that many of the tourists and victims of the Tsumani were part of the sex tourism industry that flourishes in that part of the world, and thus they have a "civilized" form of depravity, you are correct.
I would be careful before trying to prove too much with the chaos in New Orleans. The citizens of NYC, for all their faults, were generally well behaved during the evacuation of lower Manhattan that followed 9/11 as well as during the subsquent power blackout.
But just as important, New York City government did not fail to function, as was able to keep order. Indeed, NYC set the standard by which Madrid and London dealth with their own disasters. Clearly New Orleans city government is just as third world as the news footage suggests.
But it goes higher than just the city. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the first National Guard units to render aid were from Arkansas. Where is the Louisana Guard?
I hope the voters who are left clean house.