Hurricane Katrina
Sandilou:
ZZ was the criticism directed at the shoot to kill policy, (even though we don't know who we're shooting at), rather than the immediate emergency response to the 7th July bombings? Because the immediate emergency response was brilliant. Even those who positively dislike our police spoke up in their favour. However, the subsequent shooting of the Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was a fiasco of the highest order, with what can only be described as the worst cover up campaign of all time, so I'd understand if British Police were criticised for that.
ZephyrZodiac:
That was wrong, I agree, and from what I read it was the armed response police's macho "we'll take over now" attitude that was the cause of it all. but no, the critisism I referred to was such remarks as were made by FBI people saying they'd warned our government and insinuating they should have been able to prevent it. (Rather the same criticism they received after 9/11!) The point about any terrorist attack is that, even though you know one is inevitable, you can't predict where or when it will happen! And if our security services had insisted on excluding certain religious leaders who they knew were fomenting hatred before the London bombs killed quite a few British Moslems there would have been an outcry from even moderate moslems.
Database:
J.M. Pescado.
I maybe young, but I have a heart, and I'm sure you do too...somewhere. For God's sake, use it! Many thousands of people have DIED and cites have been ripped apart.
You can't change the past, so why go saying they should have made their buildings out of stuff that won't fall over? You make me SICK. I really feel for Reggiko, and everyone else who has been affacted by Katrina.
JM, I have lost all respect for you, and hope you show your true feelings (Yes I am sure you have some) for the people affected by Katrina.
I love your hacks, and sense of humour, IN OTHER POSTS. In a crisis like this, I cannot believe that you can joke!
And don't think you can insult me and think it will be ok. I do not care.
You should be ashamed.
Liss:
Bah, you have to have some semblance of a sense of humor in life or it would be very depressing indeed.
Chiming in from the "Boise-Billings" area, (Pocatello, ID close enough) We don't mind doing what we can to help out either. We are still a nation that contains some semblance of humanity, we are happy to help all we can. All we have to worry about is the supervolcano of Yellowstone killing us all ;) (Ack! The sky is falling! The sky is falling! sheesh.) This is said facetiously for anyone missing the humor.
What I'm peeved about is the right-wing complaining about everyone "politicizing" this and "bashing Bush" when we should be "worried about helping the victims." Ok, I challenge any one of them to go for an hour without saying "Bush-bashing." (Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et. al)
What makes me sick is the people in this area charging exorbitant prices for gas that they already had in their tanks in the ground that we get from nearby refineries in Utah and Wyoming. Price gouging, anyone?
The thing I feel the worst about is that I can't do more to help. If I was closer I'd happily open my crappy house to any of them :D
Oh, and BRAVO to the Mayor of New Orleans for his screaming diatribe!
Judecat:
Maybe the delayed respons of government help is that on Friday evening when the national weather service said a catagory 5 hurrican was heading for New Orleans, the Mayor did not call the governor, did not make evacuations plans and did not call out the national guard.
That on Saterday when he called for a mandatory evacuation of NO, he did nothing to call in help, buses on trains to help evacuate the poor and disabled.
That on Tuesday, the poor of NO were wandering around without food or water screamin where is our Mayor.
Or maybe it's because the federal government can't take over until the state government calls them in.
Or yes go up a level -- after 4 days of me --in Baltimore knowing that they people at the convention center and super dome were without food and water -- the head of Fema operations saying he wasn't aware of the situation cos no one told him.
Or how about even days after Bush had declaired a state of ememrgency Jerkoff, I mean Chertoff was still waffling around like a ship without a sail
Or we can even place the blame on Regan and Bush one and Clinton, for cutting back the military budget. Durring hurricain Camille -- during the Viet Nam war we had enough troops left over for Nixon to show up with troops and aid withing 48 hours.
There are a lot of levels of blame before you get to Bush. White, black, republican or Demicrat or bipartisan. There is plenty of blame to go around, and there will be plenty of time to spread it around after the living are rescued and the dead are burried..
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