Katrina was awful and it is a huge disaster and the people affected really DO need to get help.
But the hell is up with the people there? Rapes and murders IN THE ASTRODOME! Your grandmother dies in her wheelchair and you throw a sheet over her and walk away? I understand that you would be in a crisis situation, but come on? Where is the human element? Shooting at the very helicopters that are coming to rescue you? What purpose does that do? And on the news they say that it is only a few loonies who are causing the problem....a few....no I think that there are much much more than that...
And all of the bad stuff you are hearing is from the people in New Orleans....which has generations of people on the welfare system, people who are content to stay poor (well, they make more than I do) and use the system for all that they can...they feel entitled to everything....there is no patience, only demands. The tourists trapped there seem to be the only sane ones, they are trying to help others, and be patient with the authorities, but they are scared to death of the locals because the locals are praying on them. And the looting....what the hell do you need a bunch of Nikes for if you have nothing else?
The situation is just sad...and embarassing....
If you look at the rhetoric that came from the President around 9/11, you heard alot about Americans pulling together and being stronger in a crisis..etc..etc..etc... But you aren't hearing this with Hurricane Katrina. I think the reason why is because of the lawless element in New Orleans (the murder capital of the US by the way), it is embarassing to say that Americans are good people if all of America acted like those in New Orleans.
I am not saying that there are not good people in New Orleans, there are. And there are many many people who are doing some wonderful things there....but it is the people that are causing the violence, the ones swarming the TV cameras for a chance at their 15 minutes of complaining to a national audience. Honestly, why is it that the doctors need to have bodyguards accompanying them to do their work? I mean really, what does that say about the society there if they are attacking the people who are trying to help them?
The President said today that the relief effort was not enough there, which might partly be true, but since you have thousands of people who aren't even willing to help themselves, how can the relief effort go well? I think that if this hit Texas, or Mississippi harder, or Florida, even Alabama harder, I think that the relief effort would have been able to progress much faster by this time because the people wouldn't be acting like those in New Orleans.
The prime example, is one of the news crews talking to a guy looting (not for food, but high label team jerseys and Nike shoes) asking him why he was doing it, he said, "well if you oppress people enough they are going to rebel"...DOES THIS GUY NOT KNOW THAT THERE IS A NATURAL DISASTER GOING ON!!!! What planet is he from, a hurricane has nothing to do with "oppressing the people", he is just another person there who is trying to take advantage of a situation.
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The assholes opportunists should be condemned. However, it is more than the perpetual welfare poor who ferel they are entitled to something that are complaining. The health care workers are upset over lack of federal assistence. They are having to let people die because of lack of electricity, medicine and evacuation. Yesterday a hospital had all of their critical and intensive care patients lined up and triaged on the hospital roof for a promised airlift evacuation. FEMA redirected the helicopters and neglected to inform the hospital. The critical patients waited on the roof for hour waiting.
This kind of stuff is pushing the sane people past the breaking point. I don't advocate violence but the people of New Orleans have a right to complain. This entire response is haphazard and flawed. What is inexcuseable if that FEMA had a massive drill last year focused on a hurricane hitting New Orleans. I guess this is what happens when you cut the budget and appoint a director whose primary qualification for the job is his ability to raise money for the GOP.
In other stuff, did you see that Orhan Pamuk is being charged in Turkey for statements he made in a Swiss interview about the Armenian genocide?
"well if you oppress people enough they are going to rebel...?"
Isn't that something!!! Some people are just amazing, are they not??? I'm speachless... its maybe a good thing I am.
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