Our Terrifying Ordeal (Britons threatened in SuperDome)

Times Online ^ | Sean O'Neil and Joanna Bale

[Travis McGee]

The tourists should ask the mayor why he forgot his emergency plan, and forgot his buses.

[Siobhan]

Compare her remark to this one by an Australian fellow who barely got out with his group: "That [the Superdome] was the worst place in the universe. Ninety-eight per cent of the people around the world are good. In that place, 98 per cent of the people were bad."

I thought of that when I read this. But mostly I want these rapists, murderers -- these young black (yes, black, because that is what they were -- they sure as hell weren't Norwegians so let's cut the PC crap of being afraid to say their race) American terrorists -- caught, tried, convicted, and executed.

[Inyo-Mono]

Glad you're sick. It's pretty much standard UK Victorian adventure fare ~ they still get off on that stuff.

You are right about the Brits, in my job I meet them all the time and they are still into thinking of America as the "Wild West" with the chance of facing "real" danger an added adventure, such as a remote desert road in August. When I tell them that there skeletons will not be found until the next spring, they usually back off from their proposed expedition.

[chris1]

Don't bother reasoning with some people on this site. Some want to make it look like everyone was a looter.

[chris1]

I hope GWB does not let the city or state try to blame him on this one.

[joesnuffy]

Zimbabwe on the Mississippi...

When the man's away the cats will play...

[onyx]

A nightmare hell of a disaster is deathly frigtening on its own merit, but in a foreign country, it has to be even worse.

[Cedar]

London must be like the major US cities here now....plagued by drugs and gangs in certain areas.

I don't think, though, there was a "misinterpretation" of rap lyrics. Most of the articles on rap music say the lyrics are filthy, violent, and shouldn't even be allowed on the airwaves in a civilized country.

[brytlea]

Do you really think a MAJORITY of NO residents are responsible for the looting and other criminal activity that happened last week?

Of course not. The majority of NO residents left before the hurricane hit.

susie

[Siobhan]

Gangs are a self-organizing principle when civilisation is falling to ruin and the moral order of the previous civilisation has collapsed. Without any sense of people, nation, responsibility, rites and ceremonies, gangs arise creating structures akin to these often perverse and depraved but filling a void that human beings cannot endure for long.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

If I ever have an urge to head south for a vacation, I'll go to Aruba.

[LibKill]

1.2 miles. 145 buses.

So near and yet so far.

When I am in trouble I reach for the available tools to make the situation better.

What happened here was a collosal failure of will.

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

Watch their video. Not only are they rapping about but it's something to be proud of.

[A CA Guy]

You want racism NAACP, Democrats, Jackson and ACLU? There was your racism.

[onyx]

Correct.

[John Lenin]

All the Rap culture does is make it seem acceptable to be a thug, glorifies it actually. It's amazing that blacks don't understand the destruction the music is causing. It went from art imitating life to life imitating art, and that's a fact.

[Jaysun]

Damned brutes! Sorry Brits.

[daybreakcoming]

In the meantime all we have here are a bunch of Brits telling their countrymen how excited they get when surrounded by intimidating looking young black men

I went back and re-read and do not see where you came up with that cockeyed conclusion. But maybe you meant terrified instead of excited.

[brytlea]

It's amazing that blacks don't understand the destruction the music is causing.

Oh, some of them do. I attended a Bible study group back in E. TX. I was one of a few white attendees. I used to talk to the black mothers in that group and they were HORRIFIED by the rap music and the gangsta styles the kids were attracted to. Of course, most of their kids (I had some of them in my biology classes) did not act/dress like that, but they were well aware of what was out there. And they were voicing their concern and disgust. Unfortunately, we all know how difficult it is for the regular person to be heard above the din of the media.

susie

[GOP_1900AD]

Nice work with the satellite maps! :-)