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Thank you.
So what should you do when your people are suffering horrifically?
Answer: send in troops with a shoot-to-kill policy!
Another classic day in the life of George Wanker Bush.
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America – the model country that the rest of the world needs to emulate:
– so many too poor to leave New Orleans, so get killed or become homeless
– then they aren’t offered housing by the rich unaffected states up north, only until their homes can be repaired
– then they can’t buy food for their kids because the electricity is off, shops are closed and ATMs aren’t working so they have to steal to feed their kids
– so the police are told to ‘shoot to kill’ the poor and homeless
– the army can’t help in large enough numbers, because they’re occuped ‘elsewhere’
– the president visits only four days later and acts by helping lower the gas prices?!! [I don’t mean to get political, only query the priorities]
People, we need compassion, open your homes and wallets to those in need, the poor, the homeless, the smelly and dirty ones who’ve lost loved ones and everything they own, making yourself richer by becoming a few dollars poorer. I intend to. Now THIS would be worth emulating around the world… </step off soapbox>
So what should you do when your people are suffering horrifically?
It’s all those perfectly healthy folks who chose to remain before the storm hit that are overloading the relief system.
Answer: send in troops with a shoot-to-kill policy!
They wouldn’t have to shoot to kill if people didn’t take advantage of the situation and disrupt relief efforts by shooting at helicopters and doctors trying to help them.
Another classic day in the life of George Wanker Bush.
Well congradulations, your idioic rant just made up my mind to vote for the person you’ll bash the next election.
And in closing I would like to remind you of a important comment
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country” – John F. Kennedy
Bring God back to this country and pray He’ll show us the way.
MW–voice ..As in–listen to it when you hear it.
If I rememebr right, there was several days notice the hurricane was approaching.
As a last resort, a healthy human can easily walk 10-20 miles in a day if needed too.
A lot more people could have left if they applied the effort, right now they are spending that effort shooting, looting, grave robbing, raping, living like animals and complaining for their own stupid decisions.
When you live in a city 12 feet below sea level surrounded by water and leeves and a hurricane approaches, you take what you can and leave.
Most of those people have no one to blame but themselves.
The City of New Orleans will have to be abandonded, start walking.
One can dowload airael pictures of New Orleans here
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/Katrina7_3.ZIP
Looks like to me that most of the poor residential areas are hit the worse, guess the zoning board, the governor, contractors and buisness developers are rubbing their hands in glee right now.
The Supreme Court just ruled City’s can take people’s property if it’s in the interest of development.
I’m guessing a lot of apartment buildings and new commercial buildings will be going up where those houses are.
Naturally they will be several feet above sea level, great chance to fill in the “soup bowl” up quite a bit.
God, stop the damn spin already. No one has ordered troops to kill people looting for food and water. In fact, there have been reported instances of police and troops overseeing such “looting” to feed the starving and thirsty.
The “shoot-to-kill” order refers to those scumbags roaming the city with weapons, shooting people at random, raping women and children, and sniping at hospital workers attempting to evacuate patients.
And as everyone in charge must have anticipated, these dregs of humanity are crass cowards, so the arrival of the National Guard troops has made them vanish. There will be no mass shootings.
“Answer: send in troops with a shoot-to-kill policy!”
Do you have a better way to stop all-out anarchy? Somehow I don’t think that handing out flowers and asking everyone to be nice will be very effective. There are times when the only way to restore order is through sheer suppression. I fully support the authorities’ use of “any means necessary” if that’s what it takes.
“Another classic day in the life of George Wanker Bush.”
I will say the disaster response has had the rotten smell of… politics. When so many are dead and dying, there’s no place for political BS. When this is over, I pray there’s a severe audit of the response, so we don’t have any “mishandling” in the future.
From: Toby Anstis
“So what should you do when your people are suffering horrifically? Answer: send in troops with a shoot-to-kill policy! Another classic day in the life of George Wanker Bush.”
Toby, I live in New Orleans. I have lost my house, my job, and nearly lost members of my family.
You are a stupid, ignorant asshole. StFU.
Land sake’s! We sure do have some fierce problems to contend with
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in the deep south. I’ll help the best way I know how.
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Not giving a penny to those monkeys. The victims of the tsunami didn’t freak out like this. Shame on you, black america. We will never forget your behavior!
“Bring God back to this country and pray He’ll show us the way.”
Since you have opened it up for discussion: Where was God when the hurricane was coming? I for one think there is too much “God” in this country. If you personally get some satisfaction from your faith then good for you. However, if there is a God that allows “natural disasters” and all the other destruction around the world then I am very comfortable not following him.
My mother got air lifted from the roof of her apartment complex Thursday afternoon by a coast guard helicopter. She had been surviving in her apartment with no Power, running water or a working phone for almost 4 days (she is a resourceful woman). She was one of many tens if not hundreds of thousands in the city with no means of escape once it was known how bad Katrina was going to be. Until I heard from her Thursday night, I did not know how she was or what she had been going through.
Leaving the city in a crisis situation is much more difficult than people realize – there are only so many highways out (and remember the city is surrounded by bodies of water and a vast marsh land – so walking out, as pete suggested, would be idiotic during a coming hurricane), and even the people with transportation were on the highways in a dangerous parking lot of people panicking to get out of the city before they would run out of gas. Many people that chose to stay because they knew the situation on the highways was bad, and have already weathered out countless storms in New Orleans over the years (several this year in fact).
Having grown up in New Orleans, I can tell you that the growing racial and economic disparity there was bound to crack open for all to see at some point – it’s just a shame that it had to happen at a time of crisis. But I do believe that the same tensions exist in most American urban cities these days, and don’t think that because New Orleans is one of the poorer cities in the US that if a period of crisis occured in any other city that similar events would not take place – they would.
The rich are getting richer, the poor masses are continuing to grow in number, while the middle class is slowly dissapearing in the US. Believe it.
People that have been powerless for generations are taking this opportunity to seize power – even if it is temporary. Chaos continues while State and Federal aid slowly trickles into the city. It is frustrating beyond words, but honestly – it’s hardly surprising what is going on there.
If you have ever lived in New Orleans you know what I’m saying is true – if you have visited, you have probably seen the happy tourist side of the city, but to live there you get a sense of how dangerous it actually is, and which parts of the city you would never venture into for your own safety (this is true of many US cities – Washington DC, Houston, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Seattle, Miami etc.)
Best wishes to those who might also have family and friends still trapped in this crazy situation – hopefully they will be able to get out soon.
Growth is life. Grow strong. I have my doubts…LET THE SUN SHINE IN!!!
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pete – I’m just re-reading your post and I am pretty amazed by some of the things you said:
“If I rememebr right, there was several days notice the hurricane was approaching.”
Yes, and the highways were jammed for all of those days with all the people with enough resources to leave.
Even Fats Domino (the famous jazz blues singer from the 50s) chose to stay with his wife and daugher – and was living in the 9th ward – one of the first neighbourhoods to flood
Also, Bush took the unprecedented move of declaring Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama as in a “state of emergency” on the Saturday. This should have mobilized supplies, national guard troops and emergency personnel to the scene even before the Storm hit land on Monday. When did it finally show up? Friday… how ridiculous is that? Even Bush admitted that the response time was deplorable!
“As a last resort, a healthy human can easily walk 10-20 miles in a day if needed too.”
dude, if you ever visited the city or simply looked over the city on maps.google you would know how stupid that response is. The size of the storm spanned the entire gulf of Mexico, and was still effecting Cuba when it hit land…
“A lot more people could have left if they applied the effort, right now they are spending that effort shooting, looting, grave robbing, raping, living like animals and complaining for their own stupid decisions.”
A small minority of people are making the news, as CNN paints the most horrific picture of the people there. What CNN has failed to show are all the great stories of people (black and white) working together to survive, and get each other out safely. As far as stealing things like food, water clothing and supplies, I have no problem with that – we are talking about survival in a situation where 5 days after the storm hit the federal government has finally decided to show up and help out.
I ask you, how far did federal help have to travel to get to New Orleans? 1000 miles? 100 miles? The federal government can be any place on the globe in 10 minutes, but couldn’t make it to one of their own states (and we aren’t talking Alaska or Hawaii either) for almost a week…
“When you live in a city 12 feet below sea level surrounded by water and leeves and a hurricane approaches, you take what you can and leave.”
Those that could, did. A lot of those people only made it to Mississippi, and were faced with an even worse situation, if not complete annihilation at the very apex of that storm. It’s mother nature, and she was pissed.
Also, the original parts of the city (French Quarter, mid-town and garden districts) are well above sea level, as when they were settled, levee technology was pretty new at the time. As the city developed, they had to begin to reclaim the surrounding marsh land to inhabit it – the best way to accomplish this was with a good levee system and pumps to get the water out. The catastrophic error that occurred on Monday after the storm blew by, was that many of the pumping stations failed when they got wet! I blame antiquated equipment and municipal, state and federal funding issues on that one. That type of infrastructure should be up-to-date and emergency ready – which obviously it was not.
“Most of those people have no one to blame but themselves.”
For what, choosing to survive the only way they know how? You have no idea dude…
“The City of New Orleans will have to be abandonded, start walking.”
For now, perhaps. Two things:
a) There will be people who will still not leave their homes and that city – even now! Mark my words – there will still be people living in third-world conditions for weeks, if not months.
b) New Orleans will re-build, and rise from this disaster like a phoenix from a flame. The old sections of the city are shake and bruised, but are fine for the most part – but this city will re-build, and the people will return (most of them, anyway).
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The problem isn’t hurricanes, levey systems, or any other crap like that, it’s poverty. The way society is stacked the rich get richer while the poor get poorer, and it’s only getting worse. Yes this is horrible, but the same exact thing is going on all across america, all the hurricane did was shake the pot a little. This could easily happen in any other slum in the world.
Believe it or not this is what many people live their lives for, do you know how much money people have made off this already? Do you know how much the news executives, the people who are going to orchestrate the rebuilding, countless charities and scams, and the government are going to profit from this? Most of the money you are going to give will only make the problem worse. RIch get richer, corruption, murder, poverty, racism, human nature, not a whole lot you can do about it.
Personally, and i really hope I don’t offend anybody with this (though I am sure I will), I think darwin needs to get a little more into the human gene-pool. It’s really bad that all these people died and stuff but a lot of them were just going to be drug dealers and dead weights to society. The people who could get out, did, the people who could survive, did, that’s evolution.
And about the governor there, I want him for president, that guy is awesome. He just cuts all the bull shit and tells you what needs to be done.
http://www.crunchweb.net/87billion/ If we can spend that much on the war with an EIGHT TRILLION DOLLAR debt, then they don’t need any more of my money. If you want to give something, give your time. Your money won’t help, it will hurt.
You know what would be really stupid, I mean, reeeeeeeaaaaaaaalllllllly stuuuuuuupd? If they rebuild, which I know they will, It’s insane. You KNOW this will happen again, there is NOTHING you can do about it. And they are going to go right ahead and rebuild.
This is a little off topic but I think humans need to get back to nature a little, stop eating processed bleached glucose infused shit, stop absolutely NEEDING electricity produced from the burning of oil into our environment, and stop acting like complete morons. When you eat nothing but shit, then you need shit to survive, and drugs to hide the side effects. Not a lot of people died from the actual hurricane it’s self, the bulk of them will die from diarrhea in the next 6 weeks.
BTW, “Holy Mackerel” (third post), you did your whole “<step on soap box>” shtick wrong, to end it you did “</step off soap box>” which is double negetive, so you never left the soap box. You should have either done <step on soap box> and then </step on soap box>, or <step on soap box>, <step off soap box>. But true HTML would be the first one.
You have just read the point of view of a 13 year old high school student, go ahead, tell me how I should think.
MW: serious
Yes, and the highways were jammed for all of those days with all the people with enough resources to leave.
FYI millions evacuated, a few hundred thousand decided to stay. If the highyways were jammed for the millions a few hundred thousand isn’t going to make much difference.
Even Fats Domino (the famous jazz blues singer from the 50s) chose to stay with his wife and daugher – and was living in the 9th ward – one of the first neighbourhoods to flood
Kind of stupid of him wasn’t it? I’m surre someone whould have paid to fly him and his family out. I’m willing to bet five bucks he will say he should have left now.
This should have mobilized supplies, national guard troops and emergency personnel to the scene even before the Storm hit land on Monday.
Well that’s really stupid, I can just see 20,000 army and national guard vehicles under 20 feet of water, helicopters and planes overturned.
When did it finally show up? Friday… how ridiculous is that? Even Bush admitted that the response time was deplorable!
Well it takes time to mobile forces of that magnatude, funding has to be authorized etc.
dude, if you ever visited the city or simply looked over the city on maps.google you would know how stupid that response is. The size of the storm spanned the entire gulf of Mexico, and was still effecting Cuba when it hit land…
Yes but they could have walked out of the areas that were prone to flooding, that’s where the problem is right now.
As far as stealing things like food, water clothing and supplies, I have no problem with that
Neither do I, one has to survive, but it doesn’t have to resort to violence, grave robbing, taking items that are clearly luxury goods, shooting at relief workers and doctors, raping, setting fires and all that sh*t.
I ask you, how far did federal help have to travel to get to New Orleans? 1000 miles? 100 miles? The federal government can be any place on the globe in 10 minutes, but couldn’t make it to one of their own states (and we aren’t talking Alaska or Hawaii either) for almost a week…
Wow, now this is where your gravely mistaken. I have been in the military and around the world and no way in hell can anyone be anywhere on the globe in 10 minutes. Much less organize, store and ship supplies, heavy equipment and troops of a magnitude required for relief operations neccessary in the hard struck areas.
You have been watching too much TV.
For what, choosing to survive the only way they know how? You have no idea dude…
Well you don’t have the foggiest idea of what I have been through and a few days of discomfort is nothing, trust me.
Those people deserve what they got for not leaving when they should, they have no one to blame but themselves. The government is not responsible to make sure their lives are just peachy.
New Orleans is just plain f*cked, all those residential houses will be condemmed and torn down by the order of the City, the land will be rezoned, filled in and apartment housing build and more commercial property built.
It will take YEARS for that and 25-30 years to build the levees higher.
Of course those leeves make a nice terrorist target, I think the city should be moved.
I think darwin needs to get a little more into the human gene-pool.
It can’t do that because war has largely been abandoned, and given the situation in New Orleans, people better prepare in case the the whole economy of the US goes down and tens of millions of looters, rapists, robbers and theives take to the streets.
There won’t be this “we will cooperate together” and “the governement will help us” situation, it will be “kill first and take what they got later”
username –
BRAVO!
American culture is that of the consumer. Buy more stuff, buy more gear, and that empty feeling will go away. We are loosing our connection with the people around us, the land, the animals, and finally with ourselves. We sit in front of a TV for hours every day and are controlled – told what to believe, how to live, what to think, and what to buy.
This catastrophe in New Orleans has revealed a real problem in America (and western culture generally). If a typical person making minimum wage can’t house and feed themselves and their children, and are forced to struggle and scrape by to survive on a day to day basis, then what happens when their home/apartment is flushed away in a flood? Do you think the assistance they are hopefully going to get from the government is really going to help them get back onto their feet (back to the struggle and poverty). It’s no wonder that there are roving bands of people with guns shooting at people in uniforms…
It’s not surprising – until the status quo changes in America, these problems will continue, and only get worse.
MDN word – “trying”
pete
I’m not going waste any more of my time arguing with someone who doesn’t understand that city or what has been going on within it it for the last week.
“FYI millions evacuated, a few hundred thousand decided to stay. If the highyways were jammed for the millions a few hundred thousand isn’t going to make much difference.”
it’s is estimated that a million people left the city – no telling how many of those people fled to Mississippi only to face an even worse catastrophe. I could show you pictures my mother took of the I-10 jammed like a parking lot taking people 10 hours to get as far as what would have normally taken minutes…
“Well that’s really stupid, I can just see 20,000 army and national guard vehicles under 20 feet of water, helicopters and planes overturned.”
If they had been able to hold that levee, there would be a completely different scene in that city right now. My point wasn’t that they should have necessarily been there prior to the storm, but should have begun mobilizing for it. If forces show up a full 6 days after an area in declared in a state of emergency, then somewhere someplace, some people have a lot of serious questions to answer for. What if it had been a “terrorist event”, a bomb or some biological attack? how long would have they waited before trying to help/save fellow Americans – it’s inexcusable.
“Well it takes time to mobile forces of that magnatude, funding has to be authorized etc.”
It was authorized – a week ago, by bush declaring that state of emergency across those three states before the storm even hit. This delay in deployment has cost many lives.
“Yes but they could have walked out of the areas that were prone to flooding, that’s where the problem is right now.”
Walking out during a hurricane? Do you know what a hurricane is like? The major arteries out of that city are across large bodies of water and swamp land. It would have taken days to walk to safety. A lot of people that chose to stay (my mother included) I think fared much better in the long run by doing so.
“Neither do I, one has to survive, but it doesn’t have to resort to violence, grave robbing, taking items that are clearly luxury goods, shooting at relief workers and doctors, raping, setting fires and all that sh*t.”
I agree – this it is a sign of a much deeper problem – one that exists all across America.
“Wow, now this is where your gravely mistaken. I have been in the military and around the world and no way in hell can anyone be anywhere on the globe in 10 minutes. Much less organize, store and ship supplies, heavy equipment and troops of a magnitude required for relief operations neccessary in the hard struck areas.”
I guess I was referring to getting into these areas by air.
“You have been watching too much TV.”
We all have – I have been watching CNN for days, and I hate it – they have been pushing the most negative and fearful aspects of this catastrophe, and while I was not in contact with my mother, it made it very difficult to deal with.
“Well you don’t have the foggiest idea of what I have been through and a few days of discomfort is nothing, trust me.”
Like what? Tell me your story Pete – I am all ears.
“Those people deserve what they got for not leaving when they should, they have no one to blame but themselves. The government is not responsible to make sure their lives are just peachy.”
Actually, I think the government is directly responsible for the safety and well being of all of it’s citizens, including those without the resources or ability to leave a city in the face of such a storm.
“New Orleans is just plain f*cked, all those residential houses will be condemmed and torn down by the order of the City, the land will be rezoned, filled in and apartment housing build and more commercial property built.”
You are right
“It will take YEARS for that and 25-30 years to build the levees higher.”
Most of the existing levee system held, and will continue to function as the future levee system for that city – Yes, they will rebuild sections and fortify it it, but once they fix the broken sections, and pump the water out, the city will get moving again.
“Of course those leeves make a nice terrorist target, I think the city should be moved.”
Moved? That’s funny! I think New York is a pretty good terrorist target – maybe we should move it next to Denver or someplace safer…
Please…
“Did you know? Marsha J. Evans, President and CEO of the American Red Cross Salary for year ending 06/30/03 was $651,957”
how much has she donated?
Don’t Give Your Hurricane Donations to the Red Cross
Establishment charities have history of withholding disaster funds
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 1 2005
As the aftermath of hurricane Katrina continues to wreak mayhem and havoc amid reports of mass looting, shooting at rescue helicopters, rapes and murders, establishment media organs are promoting the Red Cross as a worthy organization to give donations to.
The biggest website in the world, Yahoo.com, displays a Red Cross donation link prominently on its front page.
Every time there is a major catastrophe the Red Cross and similar organizations like United Way are given all the media attention while other charities are left in the shadows. This is not to say that the vast majority of Red Cross workers are not decent people who simply want to help those in need.
But what the media fails consistently to remember in their promotion of the organization is that the Red Cross have been caught time and time again withholding money in the wake of horrible disasters that require immediate release of funds.
The Red Cross, under the Liberty Fund, collected $564 million in donations after 9/11. Months after the event, the Red Cross had distributed only $154 million. The Red Cross’ explanation for keeping the majority of the money was that it would be used to help ‘fight the war on terror’. To the victims, this meant that the money was going towards bombing broken backed third world countries like Afghanistan and setting up surveillance cameras and expanding the police state in US cities, and not towards helping them rebuild their lives.
Then Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy arrogantly responded when questioned about the withholding of funds by stating, “The Liberty Fund is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund.”
Despite the family members of victims of 9/11 complaining bitterly to a House Energy and Commerce Committee’s oversight panel, the issue seemed to be brushed under the carpet and the mud didn’t stick.
The Red Cross’ scandalous activities reach back far before 9/11.
After the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Red Cross passed on only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised, and banked the rest.
Similar donations after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Red River flooding in 1997 were also greedily withheld.
Smaller charities that were involved with the 2004 Tsunami relief project went public to say that large charities like Red Cross and United Way were engaged in secret backroom negotiations with each other that meant a large portion of the donation money was purposefully restricted from reaching the most needy areas affected by the disaster.
The history is clear, the Red Cross and other large so-called charities are in actual fact front group collection agencies for the military industrial complex.
Many informed historians have even alleged that the Red Cross was used as a Skull and Bones cover to overthrow The Russian Czar and pave the way for the rise of the Bolsheviks.
Do not give any money to the Red Cross unless you support the expansion of empire abroad and police state at home. Find a smaller trustworthy organization in the local area of New Orleans and make your donation to them.
There’s really nothing better than facing danger straight on with
a gleam in your eye…knowing that, when it’s all over, you still got it!
The Mouth of the Missisippi, no problem, mon.
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