Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[cgk]

There will be another civil war in this country in the next 5 years

You're not the only one. :(

[You Dirty Rats]

So is La a Red State or a Blue State. That could be the difference.

Louisiana is Red, White and Blue -- American. In a tragedy like this I don't care which candidate received the electoral votes -- we need to save the victims, rebuild the area, wipe out criminals that are shooting at the innocent, and ignore the media clymers.

[queenkathy]

Good for you. Let me know what happens. I'm gonna do the same.

[RummyChick]

Drudge has up a blurb about a claim that black people are eating the dead.

[hipaatwo]

There is no doubt in my mind we are going to have race riots. I just have a bad feeling about it.

[rolling_stone]

Why in this world, are you all having to take 100000 ? How can Texas absorbed all of these people? This is going to be a long term problem.

Within two years of the Mariel Cuban boatlift about 40% were dead , mostly from killing each other..Miami had to rent freezers for their morgue at times...

[lainie]

JIMINY CHRISTMAS PEOPLE!

I have been primitive camping since o'dark thirty Tuesday. I've been trying to get news on radio but it's been spotty. (Ironically, KFI and KNX came in better there at night than they do at my house. But by the time I was able to hear anything it's been punditry and weird reports that I can't quite wrap my head around being actually true.)

Anyway, the world seems to have gone nuts. It was somewhat charming to try and get news from such a remote place. In a nutshell can you explain the gist of what's happening now and why gas in this rural Utah town we passed today is nearing $3.25 for regular unleaded?

[sola_fide]

oh boy, here we go: Geraldo's on again

[Crawdad]

It is reported that black hurricane victims in New Orleans have begun eating corpses to survive. Four days after the storm, thousands of blacks in New Orleans are dying like dogs. No-one has come to help them.

I am a sixty-four year old African-American.
New Orleans marks the end of the America I strove for.

I am hopeless. I am sad. I am angry against my country for doing nothing when it mattered.

This is what we have come to. This defining watershed moment in America’s racial history. For all the world to witness. For those who’ve been caused to listen for a lifetime to America’s ceaseless hollow bleats about democracy. For Christians, Jews and Muslims at home and abroad. For rich and poor. For African-American soldiers fighting in Iraq. For African-Americans inside the halls of officialdom and out.

My hand shakes with anger as I write. I, the formerly un-jaundiced human rights advocate, have finally come to see my country for what it really is. A monstrous fraud.

But what can I do but write about how I feel. How millions, black like me, must feel at this, the lowest moment in my country’s story.

Randall Robinson is a social
justice advocate and author
whose works include The Debt –

[McGruff]

It's a battle of the drama queens? Whoreraldo is winning.

[hipaatwo]

see my post #871

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

I would like to thank you once again for Free Republic. Many of us would be lost without this place to share our anger, frustrations, hopes, fears, and wishes.

Jim, I hope you and yours are well and happy as you are rich in friends and prayers.

[queenkathy]

Ya but I'm pouring a big ole iced diet coke instead. Too depressed to drink. It's bad for ya, ya know...

[nuclady]

Unfortunately, most of the comments here are from the MSM!

All that does is get all of our blood pressure high and give them the ratings. I turned my TV off just now and it will STAY OFF. I'm not going to give these creeps any more ratings (and that includes Fox). From now on, my news will come only from AM radio and the net.

[katykelly]

I've just got home after being gone for 36 hrs. When did Geraldo show up? He seems rather dramtic and it's all about him. I could be wrong but I've been away.

[Jrabbit]

People were there for 6 days?? Huh?

[RushCrush]

Jumping in late on this thread, I'm watching FOX and Geraldo and Shep Smith seem to be hysterical. What they are saying does not make sense to me..... Shep unable to speak. Geraldo babbling, I think we need to get them out of there, they seem to be doing more harm than good, stirring folks up.

[Alia]

Yes, they are losing respect for the victim(s). But then the line between victim and looter was blurred from the get-go.

Just witness the early threads: Okay to loot for food: not okay to loot for anything else. These kinds of lines RESULT IN CHAOS FOR SOCIETY, especially one which or members have adopted "moral relativity".

ANOTHER blurred line in this catastrophe has been "why didn't they leave NO when they were ordered to" versus "They couldn't because of poverty, illness, etc.)

I think are brawling with each other there, and here in cyber -- over those two ambiguities. This then has led to this blame-game, while liberals, realizing many of their own "political party" failed in "disaster planning" -- went right on OFFENSE. Ergo, the "Bush's Fault", "Racism", etc.

The MSM thrives, ratings-wise, off of a blurry "lines." (and buyers eat it up).

Were I a major ad company, I'd being already making the ads for major corporations to air on MSM Channels: "Looking for clarity in your life, try Viox".. "Try our new "medical-alert" necklace", etc.

In the longrun, I think it will all sort out. Those who championed "Bush's Fault" are going to be exposed for being utterly ignorant and illiterate in how the Country operates, political-office wise. Those yammering on about "Meteor hits Earth, Women and Minorities Hit Hardest" are going to be shown for the cowards they are. Etc.

When you reach this point, as you've described right now? Go for a walk. Go watch an engaging movie. Do a chore you've put off doing but which needs to be done.

Get those MSM and Lib-Dem stresses out of your body, and your mind. Come back, refreshed. Strengthened.

[oceanview]

it is. I think this Texas situation is going to get ugly in the next 2 weeks. I expect that what will happen, is that the people like Jackson and Sharpton will argue that these people should simply be given public assistance: housing, welfare, food stamps - and just be allowed to enter the regular texas populace in Houston, San Antonio, etc.

[Strategerist]

Everyone had 5 days notice storm was coming at state level and no prep was done.

After having to correct people who believed there was only 24-36 hours warning I have to correct people that think there was 5 days or more of warning...

5 Days before it hit Louisiana, Katrina was a tropical depression in the Bahamas.

Some of the models at that time had Katrina going up the east coast and there was only one with a Louisiana hit. There should have been no reasonable expectation of any storm-specific prep at that time.

Louisiana reasonably had about 60 hours of warning for the storm.