Lack of Automobility Key to New Orleans Tragedy

Thoreau Institute ^ | 4 September 2005 | Randal O'Toole

[jordan8]

The white people got out," declared the New York Times today.

Yeah, most got out decades before Katrina when they were consciously and knowingly subjected to a policy of ethnic cleansing by the Nazi left. This would also be a good time to remind people that at least 60,000 white people have been mass-murdered since the 60's by black criminals and, who knows, hundreds of thousands, possibly more than a million have been mass-raped by black criminals while the editors of the New York participate in and sponsored those crimes by suppressing information about them.

[logician2u]

I don't see the relevance of your remarks to this thread. Sorry.

[Howlin]

needless slaughter of the innocent...

Frankly, I'm shocked that you said that; this is life, Torie.

Bad things happen; people die; it could be you or me next week.

And I sure as hell don't want you to change the government because I didn't get out of the way.

The answer is NO.

[metmom]

A lot of those people shown hauling out armfuls of booty sure looked healthy and strong enough to have walked out, too.

[KingNo155]

Those who curse SUV and large Vans should try evacuating a family of 5 in a Toyota Prius, If you grease all your family members up you might fit, but forget about taking a bottle of water .

[tubebender]

When cars are outlawed only outlaws will have cars...

[ridesthemiles]

Been thinking about this structure for days....

Keep harping about"global Warming" , hammer at people to ride bicycles, etc, use mass transit,,,I haven't seen any pics of NOLA mass transit buses or trolleys or whatever.
Guess If they made me give up my car/truck, I would still have my horses to ride to get away from trouble.

[Wolfstar]

The tragedy of New Orleans isn't primarily due to racism or government incompetence, though both played a role.

Overall, a good article. However, I want to know precisely how it is that racism played any role whatsoever in this catastrophe.

[logician2u]

Me too.

It doesn't hurt to ask.

[Grizzled Bear]

Shouldn't that be "Lack of Intestinal Fortitude" or "Lack of Spinal Integrity?"

[NYCVirago]

Remember that slogan from the car commercial, "It's not just your car, it's your freedom?" The libs don't want us to have that freedom.

[Travis McGee]

20 year old Jabbar Gibson did a better job of using buses to evacuate the poor of New Orleans than the mayor.

[Travis McGee]

The captain of the Titanic may also "choose" not to use all of his lifeboats, or to lower them half full.

[jocon307]

I bet the rate of car ownership is even lower in NYC than it is in NO. And there are 8 million people there. So, I don't know how people would be able to evacuate en masse from NYC.

[jocon307]

Yes, you are right, it appears many car owners didn't drive their cars out of NO afterall.

[Gamecock]

I might be missing the bus (no pun intended, well, maybe a lttle one) but in every rescue scene the MSM shows, there are cars and trucks sitting underwater.

There seems to be plenty of automobiles sitting around.

[LadyNavyVet]

Do you realize you're calling for a repeal of substantial portions of the Constitution? Most Governors (Jeb in FL, Riley in AL, Barbour in MS) are up to the task when disaster strikes. We shouldn't throw out the Constitution because Blanco wasn't.

[Alia]

Good! article. Thank you for posting it.

[logician2u]

You are very welcome. Thanks for taking time to comment.

[ckilmer]

The Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan specifically stated that people without private transportation were to be transported on public buses. Here is the original post of the plan

There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.

At 70 people per bus that is 28,000 people per round trip that could have been taken out of the storm surge area in the 48 hours prior the Katrina striking.

After the storm hit, what makes you think that buses sent from outside of New Orleans could drive through the flooded mess any better than the 145 New Orleans city buses that were parked 1.2 miles away from the Superdome?

Was Scotty supposed to beam the outside buses to the Superdome and them beam them back out so that they would not have to drive through impassable roads?

The time to evacuate those 200,000 low-income people on public buses OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE was BEFORE the Category 4 storm struck.

That was what the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan for New Orleans specifically called for.

The Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor did NOTHING to carry out that portion of the plan. They left 200,000 low-income resident abandoned and they now blame the Federal Government for not having Scotty beam down a massive logistics effort after a human disaster of their own making.