What’s The Difference?
It had better start soon. The situation there is at the very edge of self-destructive anarchy. It isn’t even worth pointing fingers at the NOLA leaders; the bottom line is that an awful lot of the people who did not evacuate are just plain vile. It was a bit before my time, even before OCM’s time, but the last immoral city God wiped out was Port Royal, Jamaica.
Well is anyone really suprised by what’s happening in New Orleans?
Consider the following from George Neumayr of the American Spectator: New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, “nearly 10 times the national average,” reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans—and criminals so fierce—that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon “no one called to report the gunfire,” reported AP…
Posted by juandos
09/02/2005 at 01:23 AM
Hello Oldcatman (#5):
Wrong sir, let’s NOT help those people…
Those people in New Orleans made their collective bed so now they can sleep in it…
Let’s help (and I’m NOT kidding when I say this) the oil companies instead that have refineries, pump farms, and piping matrix under water…
Those are the people who need the help because unless those people in the oil facilities are producing we are not only out of work but anything and everything oil related will sky rocket out of reach price wise…
Posted by juandos
09/02/2005 at 10:19 AM
Hello Revandryn (#4):
And now there’s the headlines that troops, just back from Iraq, have been sent into New Orleans with shoot to kill orders.
Gods help the United States.
Read your history sir or madam… This is hardly the first time the National Guard has been called out to kill the asinine lawless…
Posted by juandos
09/02/2005 at 10:24 AM
Hey oldcatman (#8):
Well sir, you must be some sort of bleeding heart liberal SOB with at best a tenuous grip on reality…
Those people down there have the government they deserve and that government, a government that panders to the parasites but didn’t bother with the real business of governing…
Why should others pay for the repeated incompetences of others? Only a damned liberal scum bag could possibly rationalize a reason for that…
You have net access, do some homework before you go off on a crying jag about the parasites you seem to have a soft spot on your head for…
Do the planet a favor and hang yourself with a length of barbed wire…
Posted by juandos
09/02/2005 at 12:05 PM
I love this site. Thanks Skipper, for putting me in touch with the few, the proud, and the mad-as-hell-and-sick-to-death-with-this-nanny-state-bullshit. I am home.
Now we know that morons trying to foist themselves off as conservative are around and acting the fool…
Hey revandryn, show me something that proves you are actually a human being…
Hey OCM, about time for your laxitive isn’t it? I mean your posts are just chock full of sh!t so it must be time for you to release it…
BTW OCM, just how many of those parasites from NOLA have you actually put up and fed in your domicile?
Posted by juandos
09/03/2005 at 06:40 AM
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the Welfare State
by Robert Tracinski
It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can’t blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a natural disaster.If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters; you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city’s infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors, nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape, murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state.
Posted by juandos
09/03/2005 at 06:59 AM
