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.
Please try another few years away. This is loony, the mirror image of the DU loons who think Rove is an evil genius.
SD
BTW!
I believe the photo is 'reversed', but looking at it closely you will notice that the 'inbound' lanes,of the overpass, are NOT being used.
Not reversed, it appears the vehicles are going from right to left, coming down off the overpass.
The 'properties' of the photo (right-click on photo and select 'Properties') show its name and it reveals a date of August 28 - just hours before Katrina hit!
I'm sorry, as another freeper once said, this is pure tin-foil hattery.
No doubt Blanco & Nagin have seized on Bush, FEMA, etc. to obscure their own criminal negligence; no doubt if a single sparrow falls from a tree the media says: It's Bush's fault.
But I no more believe that Blanco and Nagin decided to "sacrifice" the people of their city and state to score points against Bush than I believe that things went badly because"Bush doesn't care about black people"
I have to say I don't believe the Dems would do it either.
Not because "even they wouldn't do such a thing" - actually I rather think they would - but because it would be obvious even to them that it just wouldn't work. Even as we speak the CAT 5 MSM hurricane is breaking up on the wetlands of truth, leaving Bush unharmed.
No, this was "just" Democrat corruption and incompetence -these are evil enough, we don't have to gild the lily.
If what is true? That the buses were used and its still as bad as it is --OR-- she was told the buses were used by the mayor and they weren't --OR-- that she lied about the mayor lying that the buses were being used. What a mess!!! Regardless, we've all been watching this for over a week now and we did not see last Friday and Saturday the videos of the buses carrying the poor out of the inner city. CNN would have been there singing trail songs and holding hands. It never happened. (Good find, btw, thanks for posting it.)
You insult me greatly, sir, far more than you know, to compare me with those heathens.
It would be loony to suggest that the libs would intentionally and arbitrarily destroy a city just to get Bush. But this isn't what happened here. What happened here is that they realized one of their cities was in the cross-hairs of a Cat 5 hurricane, and that no matter what, the event was going to be disastrous. So they were faced with two choices:
1) Do everything possible before and after the storm hit to make the event less disastrous;
2) Do nothing at all before and after the storm so that the event would be as disastrous as possible, in order to have more things to blame Bush with when they blamed him.
They chose the latter course, for obvious reasons.
If you can't see the difference between deliberately destroying a city -- by setting off bombs, for example -- and not reacting at all to an unavoidable natural disaster in order to create the opportunity to slander and falsely accuse the President, then I can't help you.
Do you really think that libs are stupid instead of evil? Do you really think, for example, that they are well-intentioned but too stupid to recognize the actual results of welfare? They know damn well what welfare does, and that's why they use it. They need a steady supply of dumbed-down people with no initiative, people stripped of their ability to reason and process facts, people whose emotional buttons can be pushed on demand with demagoguery whenever needed. It's right out of Marx's playbook.
The word "stupid" can be used to describe the VICTIMS of the libs, the people the libs use for their own purposes, the people the libs had no trouble bussing to the polls last November to vote Kerry/Edwards but weren't willing to bus out of the path of Katrina. And it isn't the fault of those victims that they're stupid. The libs have made them that way, consciously and deliberately, for their own purposes. The stupidity of the victims needs to be corrected with education. The evil of those who kept them down deserves eternal damnation.
The liberal mask of compassion is just that, a mask. It should fool absolutely no one who has eyes to see. The "unintentional" consequences of everything they say and do are quite intentional. They are the biggest fraud and sham on the face of the earth; they are the exact opposite of what they pretend to be. They are wolves in sheep's clothing, and demons in the guise of angels.
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