Evacuation Leads To Gridlock On Local Highways
Posted on 09/06/2005 7:00:12 AM PDT by laz
Buses left in parking lots. Emergency plans completely ignored. Repeated warnings inexplicably unheeded. Contingencies not even considered.
How can it be that in the 21st Century, any group of human beings facing a terrible, imminent danger would fail to consider things and take actions that would occur to even a child? Especially a group of people living in the most powerful nation on the face of this earth?
Was it collective insanity? Mass delusion? Blissful denial?
Or perhaps it was a deadly mixture of incompetence, ineptness, and stupidity -- all coming together fatally at one moment in time for maximum effect.
To all of these questions, I must answer no. None of these reasons is sufficient to explain what we have seen. None of them can solve the mystery of the collosal failure all of us have witnessed. No one on the face of this planet is this incompetent, this inept, this stupid, consistently and repeatedly, to such an extreme. Not even the Left. So what *is* the answer?
The President's foes have tried and tried in many ways over the past five years to destroy his presidency. They have lied about him, obstructed him, and opposed him in every manner available to them. They have even gone so far as to forge false documents in a bid to sabotage and prevent his re-election. Each attempt has been more desperate than the last, and further and further removed from any vestige of truth or of decency. But all of it has failed. Despite all of their efforts, he is still there, and they have been frustrated in all their attempts.
It is not in their nature to advise themselves with reason or wisdom to lick their wounds and throw in the towel. Each successive defeat has made them angrier and bolder, and they continue to hunt for something more damaging to use as a weapon. As long as he is there, they will not quit. So as Katrina bore down on the Gulf Coast during the last days of August, they saw the impending disaster not as a tragedy to be avoided or minimized, but as an opportunity to be embraced and exploited. They resigned themselves to the probability that The Big Easy was lost, as they knew very well they had never prepared her to survive. But perhaps a silver lining could be extracted from the storm clouds, a sort of meteorological/political mutually-assured destruction. If they played their cards right despite the hand they'd been dealt, this tragedy could actually turn out to be a blessing in disguise.
So there was no incompetence, there was no ineptness, and there was no stupidity. What there was, rather, was a purely partisan and calculated and machiavellian plan, concocted and set into motion as the day of reckoning arrived and time ran out. When the corrupt political machine in Louisiana and their DNC handlers realized that Katrina was the big one, that she wasn't going to fizzle out or change course -- that this was the hurricane with their name on it -- they made the conscious, deliberate, and willful decision to do absolutely NOTHING at all to alleviate or ameliorate the situation in any way whatsoever... to allow the situation to become as bad as it could possibly get... and then to lay the whole thing at the feet of George W. Bush.
If New Orleans must fall, they decided, then let her take Bush down with her.
They have not been capitalizing on this tragedy after the fact, all this past week. On this, they were ahead of the curve. They decided to capitalize on it BEFORE it had even occurred, and consciously sacrificed many lives to destroy the enemy and to further their agenda.
This is why they moved not one single bus... nor requested any help from outside... nor attempted to nip the anarchy in the bud... nor did any of the other things which to everyone else are absolute no-brainers. Allowing a hurricane to bring down a city was an acceptable loss if it could serve to bring down a president they detest and abhor. Such is their hatred for him that in order to destroy him, they were willing to let nature tear down one of their political fiefdoms -- like a suicide bomber blowing himself up.
Factor into this also their fear that decades of corruption could be brought fully to light should the Fed come into their state and trip over something hitherto hidden from view, and you will understand why federal help was adamantly and inexplicably resisted instead of entreated. And all of the frantic screeching and howling about racism and slow response, all of the insidious lies and calumnies flying at the speed of sound, are little more than a monumental game of three card monte, a desperate attempt to keep the public's eyes off the ball. But the DNC/MSM emperor has no clothes, and is as nakedly exposed to the elements and to scrutiny as a parking lot full of buses tire-deep in a dying city's blood.
Know the enemy. Don't be fooled. The enemy is not stupid. The enemy is, however, diabolically evil.
No,
It was a phone interview (I think, I was doing laundry at the time in another room).
But when she made the statement about buses, I literally yelled, "What!? There were no stinkin' buses used!"
I do hope, if this is true, that someone keeps the interview on tape and then plays the data about the buses.
If it is true, she looks like a bigger fool than she already is.
What do you mean by "they have hit the political jackpot"? You will be greatly mistaken if you think that the Democrats are going to win on the ballot box and take power back because of what happen in New Orleans, greatly mistaken.
Injecting ion beams into a hurricane to strengthen it, THAT'S a whacko conspiracy plot.
Sacrificing lives to further a political agenda and ideology... that's been standard operating procedure for some throughout history. Or have you forgotten Hitler... Stalin... etc., etc., etc.?
Get a clue.
We will never defeat this enemy until we understand, and accept, the true nature of it.
Don't know about that, but it's made the BBC website.
"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
I just began a list I am copying into Notepad entitled "Great Quotes From FR." hehehehe.
NO! I missed that! At any time (eight days later) the video should be out showing all these buses picking people up. Oh right, and after they "picked people up" they drove all the way back to NO and parked the buses in a parking lot so they would be trashed when the hurricane hit.
They THINK they've hit the political jackpot. But as the Bible says: He who rolls a stone, will have it roll back on him.
The Mayor is Blaming Blank-o too.
And the campaign will be led by black "slave owners" Je$$e Jack$on and Al $harpton.
Look,
I am sincerely hoping that someone picks up on this,
because she was ADAMANT about buses being used.
If it is true that they weren't, then Damn, she is more toast than she already is.
Oh yeah, and while she started out the interview realtively articulate, by the end of it, she was starting to sound more and more ditzy. She can't speak worth squat.
Are there any videos or pictures of evacuation efforts before the storm hit?
I remember seeing a lot of 'grid lock' on the highways because they were only using the 'outbound' lanes, instead of opening up the 'inbound' lanes so people could be out quicker.
Wait a minute,
You mean the DIDN'T turn the lanes around during the evac?!?
I thought that was SOP for a city.
GEEZ LOUISE!
How insane is this getting.
And I'm still REAL curious about the whole bus thing.
Gee, Laz, that is cynical, even by prevailing local standards...
Here's what I see happening..in the days after, and in fact leading up to, Katrina, the Dems and MSM immediately laid the blame for this on President Bush. Both Nagin and Blanco were pointing at the feds.
As time went on and more and more facts came out, it became abundantly clear there was a massive, massive failure on the part of local and state governments to provide any action to evacuate New Orleans. Although the MSM tried, and is STILL trying, to lay the blame on Bush, an AP poll that came out a few days ago shows (I believe) 44% say Bush is doing a fine job in the aftermath (I think this number is very low given the demographics normally used for such polls), and that 75% of Americans believe the problem exists at the local and state levels. Sensing that the backlash is going to come at them, Nagin and Blanco, although still trying to blame the feds, are now beginning to point the finger at each other in an attempt to save their own political asses. It will only get worse between the two.
Prediction: Nagin will be re-elected mayor, since things are so fixed down there he can't help BUT be re-elected. (I'm sure those buses will be repaired/replaced in time for use to get people to the polls, and I hope someone has a camera ready when it happens).
Blanco will be herded off somewhere and forgotten.
I would like to see some news reporter ask the mayor and the governor how they survived the storm -- what they did, where they were and what provisions they had in stock.
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