Posted on 09/07/2005 6:05:27 AM PDT by StatenIsland
We failed you? No, oh brilliant creator of Exit to Eden, you failed. You might not think of it this way, but: Your leaders failed to upgrade the levees. You elected a bunch of weepers and blame-shifters who lost their head in a crisis.
Over the past decades, your elected officials have let a criminal element incubate and grow until they ruled the streets, instead of the forces of law and order. In pop culture, a New Orleans thief is always a charming rogue with a devilish smile. In reality, they’re a bunch of thugs.
If the number of residents who are looting thugs were such a “tiny minority,” we wouldn’t have seen this widespread, relentless anarchy. Madam, a noticeable number of your neighbors saw this disaster as an opportunity to smash a window and run away with a television, an act that reveals much about the inadequacies of the local school system, since that thief won’t be enjoying that television with any electricity anytime soon.
I would also note that this is one hell of a police force your local officials hired and that you and your neighbors tolerated. 50 percent turned in their badges during the crisis and quit. Your police superintendent is conceding that some cops were looting. Just want to refresh your memory — four years ago, New York and Washington, planes falling out of the sky, thousands dead, no idea what the hell is coming next… and the cops, among others, showed up to work.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
You can take a lesson from it. It's a good lesson on how hate can mutate you into somebody petty.
Looks like the Mayfiar Witches could have pitched in and thrown a few spells...bump
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Thanks SL for the ping.
Oh,
PS
Ms. Rice,
I for one found your books to be redundant, depressing and often boring.
Please don't write anymore.
Thank you.
You're both welcome!
LMAO!!
Note to Ms. Rice: You all voted those clods into office. The other 49 states had nothing to do with it. Guess what, sweetie, you get what you vote for.
Yeppers, these here celebs sure do know how to Make A Difference. Was that Anne I saw helping to bail Sean Penn's overloaded bass boat as it was headed to the bottom?
This reminds me of the book An Innocent Millionaire by Stephen Vizinczey. In it, the protagonist has been defrauded in a major way, with little recourse, and is stunned that such a thing could happen. His publisher asks him why he's surprised, because Americans have been told over and over, through movies and books, that criminals are stylish and sexy. They're the heroes. He gives him several examples, including:
"The book's full of gangsters of every sort and description but the only person described as lacking compassion is the district attorney who's trying to put them away. And I'm not talking about some crazed would-be writer's pathetic efforts which nobody reads but his family -- I'm talking about the biggest best-seller of the decade! More money is spent pushing this vicious nonsense than on promoting the complete works of Mark Twain."
People like Anne Rice use their considerable talents to create worlds within books that glorify the worst elements in society -- even evil. Then when the reality of the world they glorify slaps them in the face, they're stunned and look around for someone to blame.
I suspect that Rice was an enthusiastic Blanco supporter in the last election...
see post 13....she is a pig
Grand Slam!
Great Post.
To Anne Rice.
I never read any of your books and I am sure as heck won't start now.
What have you done to help your city?
bump
Woo Hoo!
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