Posted on 09/02/2005 6:45:16 AM PDT by Chickenhawk Warmonger
Now is the Time to Shut Up Robin Mullins Boyd
The complete and utter devastation of the Gulf Coast from Hurricane Katrina breaks my heart. Every picture of the damage, every picture of the victims rips at my soul. My heart tells me that the flattened cities are just scenes from a movie, while my brain tells me that the Gulf Coast will never be the same.
In spite of the mass of suffering humanity, some have decided to use this fierce attack from Mother Nature as another excuse to blame President Bush, the Republicans or even the United States. I woke this morning to hear Miles O’Brien braying like a jackass while attempting to goad Gov. Barbour into blaming the Federal Government (AKA the Bush Administration) for “dropping the ball.” I listened to callers on AM talk radio proclaim that Hurricane Katrina was God’s wrath on the United States because George W. Bush is President. Other callers decided that the evil Republicans were deliberately not helping the African Americans in New Orleans so the plan for a “New World Order” could proceed. People running off with televisions and boxes of Nike shoes were called “victims” while snipers shot at hospital personnel trying to evacuate patients. And who could forget Robert Kennedy Jr’s truckload of manure, disguised as an op-ed on the Huffington Post, thrown at President Bush and Governor Barbour.
That spark of the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan, took time away from her I Hate Bush bus tour to blame the President for the Hurricane. Meanwhile the 3-bus tour continues while we regular folks wait in line to pay over $3.00 per gallon for gas. The New York Times was more concerned with a critique of President Bush’s speech and the old canard about “global warming” than the looters preventing the rescue of survivors. Sidney Blumenthal lamented the Bush budget cuts for New Orleans flood control to pay for the illegal, immoral and unjust war in Iraq. Blumenthal conveniently forgot what the Clinton administration did to funding for flood control in New Orleans.
Over at the “underground”, the grassroots of the Left took up where the media stopped. Here is a few of the best of the worst…
“We are all victims of this disaster called the Bush Administration. And the best way to help ALL the victims of this disaster is to end it.”
“Did Bush order the failure to fill the levee breach? The City of New Orleans has essentially been destroyed because of a massive failure to attack the levee breach in time. There was a plan in place - but for an as yet unexplained reason - the effort to fill the breach never began, as if someone ordered it not to occur.”
“This has GOT to be our opportunity. Bush *#@% royally on this one. We have to do or say absolutely anything to use this disaster to get rid of the useless chimp.”
“There is no doubt that Bush could have prevented this. We have to make sure that this is the end of this slimy administration.”
“Well, the Bushgang never liked New Orleans anyway.”
“With all the looting happening in New Orleans, and bad as that is, especially with the gun-toting thugs shooting at rescuers and relief workers, STILL I can’t imagine anything as bad as the Corporate looting that has been going on in this country ever since GWB took office.”
“The people who BENEFIT from Republicans in power flew out of New Orleans to their Vacation Resort Homes in Aspen two days before the storm. They are over insured and will be at the front of the line of the government payouts. The top 1% will make money off of their losses on the Gulf Coast.”
“Imagine if this happened in some lily white red state city – the reaction would be much different. I’m guessing the repukes are letting people just die there.”
“They call it thinning the herd.”
“Those Louisiana and Deep Southern mega churches are just storming into action. I see all those big volunteer teams of white Christians fanning out and helping their fellow man, reaching across race lines, volunteering their time, money, and efforts, lowering prices to help the poorest refugees make it through in their time of need. Oh wait; I’m not actually seeing any of that.”
“Fundies probably have no interest in helping New Orleans anyway. Bush is probably celebrating.”
“I have to wonder if the failure to patch the levees was somehow intentional. We know New Orleans is a hugely Democratic area.”
“I guess Homeland Security funds can only be spent chasing down people wearing turbans.”
“Know your America: White people salvage, black people loot.”
There is plenty of time for the left wing fringe to fire up their black helicopters and make their tin foil hats. There is more than enough time left in the Bush Administration for the media to beat up on the President. You have three more years to blame President Bush for everything from hurricanes to panty lines. People are waiting on their roofs for rescue workers. Resources are being diverted to control looting. Rescuers are risking their own life to save the hurricane victims. Families are searching for some tiny piece of their life before the hurricane.
Now is the time for the hate filled Bush bashing party of blame to shut up. Channel some of that energy into helping your fellow Americans. You will have plenty of time to spew your venom after the rescue and recovery efforts are completed.
And I may add again that they are showing who they truly are. If we stand up and fight this like old America used to, they cant win. The more we take from them, the more they keep raising the bar.
The only sheep are the ones that continue to blame the Bush administration and ignore the failing of the local/state government in this disaster. Unlike DU, FreeRepublic encourages opinions from others - not just republicans or conservatives. Go back to your little hole Mr. Troll and take your horse with you.
I can't necessarily rebuke this w/facts, but I will say it's silly. Along the same lines of getting uppity about "foreigners" not caring I wrote the other day.....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474169/posts?
page=116#113
I'm really not about sniping back flippantly at those who really have no interest in our situations. I simply don't expect them to. So I am not really offended if they don't "help".
Ooops, that's post #113.
1. My ancestors didn't kill enough Brits in our Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. If they had killed more, maybe you wouldn't be around.
You want to kill British people! mmm...
2. My Dad, his friends kept the Germans from invading Britain in WWI. Later my uncles and older cousins saved your sorry whining a$$es in WWII with their bodies and blood. My parents, grandparents and non service people paid a lot of money to keep England afloat which we were never paid back during WWII.
Totally historically laughable. In WW1 Germany could not have invaded Britain. It was a deadlock in Belgium that new American numbers rushed forward the inevitable. In WW2 America joined the war after Germany gave up trying to invade Britain. In fact Germany had less than ten amphibious troop carriers so couldn't have invaded anyway. Read a book.
3. Our constitution prevents our military from carrying out military activities like you are asking for. That is the responsibility of the La. National Guard. The person who is responsible for ordering riot control and shooting of looters is the governor. The governor is a left wing Politically Correct Governor, and she will not order this response. President Bush can't order that response by our constitution.
Whoever is at fault is irrelevant, but someone is...
4. Our constitution came about after we won the revolutionary war. A war which was started by your STD insane King George. Our founding fathers made sure that Brit law which allowed the uncontrolled use of National Military forces in the home country would never be used in America.
I don't see British troops running about shooting British Citizens, do you? As for "who" won the war, do you not know most of "Americans" at that time though of themselves as "British Americans". It was not that America was a nation under occupation. It was that Britain created a colony of it's own people that thankfully thrived. So without whiny Brits you wouldn't be here! ;)
Last but not least, many of those so called cowards in the La National Guard have served honorably in tours in Iraq. They weren't cowards then, nor are they cowards now.
Show me where I called American cowards?
So the personal costs would be lower if they have no place to go at all?
Come on, these people need help and the great northern cities have facilities. Use those, too.
Or do you just not want the victims "in your back yard?"
You have a rather, er, creative view of history ;'}
Dream on.....
So it's silly?.....
I don't appreciate the "woulda, coulda, shoulda" attitude from anyone....Go back and read the original article of this thread....If you are not going to be part of the solution, shut up!
In the last three days, I have filled up the gas tank of a family from Louisiana trying to get to relatives in Kansas....I have bought a meal for another family passing though my community....This morning my wife took groceries to a local church that last night welcomed 320 evacuees into our town, which is more than seven hours away from New Orleans.
I am not here beating my chest and saying look how great I am.....I am doing what I can to make the situation better.....What my God leads me to do!!!!
I frankly don't give a rat's butt what you, our British friend, or any Freeper thinks.....Actions speaks louder than words......Now is the time for action!
Ever heard of "Lend- Lease"?
Was it ever paid for? Were the personal firearms, donated by AMERICAN citizens' ever returned?
I have always admired the courage of the British facing the German juggernaut alone,but rest assured, without the aid supplied by AMERICANS, the outcome would have been different.
Not to sound like Jesse Jackson but... "people need education not reparation" or "educate, not misappropriate"
Just a quick thought... It WAS the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT that sent the aid to the Tsunami ravaged countries. That's the thing, in this case, the Federal Government isn't in charge of the relief efforts. At least they weren't until the lame-a$$ governor of LA realized she didn't know how to run her state. Definitely not Bush's fault, he didn't appoint her, she was elected by the same criminal element that is destroying the city right now.
Oh, and as far as your criticism of our troops goes... we don't care what you think. Really, we don't.
Don't try to paint me as some heartless ass. You know nothing about me.
No place? There are plenty places they can go I'm sure that are closer to their homes. This entire country is huge, and so is the close-in region.
If anything we should try to shelter them as close to their homes as possible. I would think the advantages overall to the vast majority of them would be intuitively obvious. (Hey, it even includes the possibility they are kept closer to their family relations in the region - who might even claim them and house them!)
So maybe start w/big venues in the region; that could indeed include setting up camp in large open areas such as "open space" parks, farms, etc. Then it might include foster homes from private citizens.
Then branch it out from there a bit at a time, using the same procession, trying to minimize the radius and keep from being too far out from their native home and relatives.
Listen, I don't know just what the best answer is. I'm just thinking along these lines that might be best logistically for every1 - and it has NOTHING TO DO WITH *NIMBY*!
That is also why they are bent out of shape by a Bush administration. They now have to take orders from Bush. They lack the concept of local sovereignty.
You were making a flippant remark about "what are the Brits doing".
It's nice how you're helping out, but that (and that you're not bragging) has nothing to do w/flipping off at foreigners outside our borders about not helping. That's a bad attitude toward people who frankly have the right not to care much about what's happening because it's not in their interests (just as we're not rushing to go save all the 3rd-world people all over the world from their ruthless gov's and dictators), and invariably it is far removed besides. It's just not practical.
And frankly, who cares what they think or do? We can take care of ourselves and don't need them. 1 should never EXPECT from such; it's unfair.
"They lack the concept of local sovereignty."
They lack the concept of self-reliance (far less selfish than the hand-outs they promulgate). They believe in dependency, that every1 is a helpless child; that is what their beloved welfare crap is all about, and that's the mentality they ALL have, whether they're on or off welfare. And they're reaping what they sow.
___"I don't see British troops running about shooting British Citizens, do you?"___
Well, close...
He can whitewash what he said all he wants to.
He called our National Guard men cowards.
Defend him if you want to. I don't want/need allies who stab us in the back in time of crisis.
Many of our National Guard warriors have recently served many tours in Iraq and served honorably. His comments slurred these brave warriors.
If he wants to place blame, put it on the La Guard Commander, the left wing lunatic B$tch governor of La.. Until she orders "Shoot to Kill Looters", the guard has no orders to do so.
BUMP
"They lack the concept of self-reliance (far less selfish than the hand-outs they promulgate)."
Just wanted to make sure the point got across that you are criticizing the local democratic government and not the people afflicted by this catastaphe. Although this attitude needs to be looked at and taken care of (in most EVERY household in America when it comes to disaster preparedness) - I think for now the title of this thread should apply.
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