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| fredster:
--- Quote ---What I really don't understand though, is how people can break into pawnshops, take weapons and ammunition, and opening fire on disaster relief personnel. --- End quote --- Why? Because they are freaking idiots that do not care about anyone but themselves. Why? Because nobody is there to stop them. Why? Because they have no life or morals Why? Because they can now and nobody is going to stop them. I don't think that we are seeing a lot of people doing this. I really don't. |
| Dexter:
Which makes sense if everybody was acting the same. But there are countless thousands (some reports say up to 200,000 people) the VAST majority of whom aren't raping, murdering etc. who urgently need help. The tsunami refugees weren't told to find a helping hand at the ends of their arms, can the citizens of the worlds only superpower not expect their government to come to their rescue, like they allegedly did for the people of eye-raq? Hopefully the moderate republicans wil realise now that saving people from peril is not what the bush regieme is about, be it in tikrit or new orleans. |
| Edgedamage:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 30, 2005, 12:29:01 pm --- --- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on August 30, 2005, 12:13:27 pm ---For some people, there just wasn't anywhere to go...a lot of the poor in NO just don't have cars (or enough "bikes" for their family, come on!) --- End quote --- They had DAYS of warning. It doesn't take days to walk out of the city. We're talking their lives and the lives of their children. "I don't have a car" or "there isn't a bus today" is not acceptable. I'd carry my kids on foot out of the city if that was the only option, but I tend to be tremendously conservative when it comes to things like this. I will not get past the people who know a disaster is coming and let things like lack of automotive transportation stop them from evacuating. This doesn't apply only here, it can be said of pretty much all major storms we get in the US. I'm getting sick of hearing television people refer to this as "our tsunami". More than 200,000 people died in that tsunami. That's like both atomic bombs combined. --- End quote --- Even the poorest folks I have seen still have wagons and strollers for their kids. No matter what if I was in their shoes I would of packed up the kids in the stroller and the wagon and started walking. If I lived there my reasons for leaving would be: #1 hurricane #2 city below sea level #3 Aging levee system |
| billf:
--- Quote from: Stingray on September 02, 2005, 10:06:52 am ---That kind of crap needs to be taken out of the gene pool asap. --- End quote --- Exactly. |
| Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: Stingray on September 02, 2005, 10:06:52 am ---That kind of crap needs to be taken out of the gene pool asap. --- End quote --- Hey, sometimes you need to toss some chlorine in the gene pool. Especially considering these miscreants aer typically from the shallow end. |
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