Police state in the making. In the world of bad mistakes ... this would set a record
Disagree.
Gotta run - will post more later.
I'm sure glad we didn't elect a totalitarian statist in the last election.
It's not a police state in the making. It's just vast incompetency in the making.
This whole thing was because of the failure of a mayor (Nagin) and a governor (Blanco) to perform their duties. There should probably be some point - fairly close in - where a non-performing local authority should be superseded - and later there should also be something like federal charges for irresponsible local authorities who did not perform their duties at a crucial time.
All we need to do is tighten up local response, at least to some extent by penalizing failure, and prepare backup mechanisms. We don't need immediate federalization of anything, because it simply won't be efficient.
I agree 100%!
i agree.