Ehm... WTF?
Can someone explain to me how on earth it's possible that George W. Bush is perfectly able to engage in a full scale war that nobody asked for while people INSIDE the USA are still deprived from even the most elemental human needs after the
Katrina disaster? I must admit that I was disgusted with the images I saw on the news this morning. I still hope it's not true but what I've seen and read so far looks an awful lot like black (and poor) people aren't considered very important, even though they're Americans. At least, a lot less important than the Tsunami disaster or foreign warfare. People are actually dying on live TV... Someone please tell me this isn't true?
The stuff the mayor of New Orleans is saying in this interview sure isn't helping me to believe it isn't...
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At 02 September '05 - 15:42 everyman wrote:
At 02 September '05 - 16:59 Marco wrote:
However I have to admit that he didn’t cause this hurricane to strike, that’s true. Other than that there’s simply a striking difference in how fast and how well things happen compared to other events in the past, unless the European media are showing us a wrong impression of the events of course…
That’s why my last sentence said ‘Someone please tell me this isn’t true?’ and not something like ‘These are the facts.’
Also, check out the interview I just linked below the article.
At 03 September '05 - 07:18 Geoffrey wrote:
As for the interview, what isn’t being reported is that half of the New Orleans police department up and quit. The rest are looting along with the rest of the criminal element. The mayor isn’t helping matters any, blaming others for matters IN HIS OWN CITY, that he claims he was powerless to have any control of; HE’S THE MAYOR!
Oh, and since we’re turning this into an issue of race and not humanity. The black mayor of New Orleans personally oversaw the evacuation of white tourists from the convention center to the Superdome, had them cut into the front of the line, in front of the poor, black people there, onto the buses before the folks who had been waiting there to be removed from the city.
There was a plan in place to evacuate the poorer element from the city before the storm and the aftermath took place…on buses. Well, those buses remained parked and now sit flooded.
So, as much as there are problems in response to the disaster, there are problems ON THE LOCAL LEVEL in preparation for it.
Frustration aside, people need to stop trying to find blame and take action.
At 03 September '05 - 08:08 Geoffrey wrote:
At 03 September '05 - 13:17 Marco wrote:
However, to me the feeling that there’s a striking difference between the accurate response and quality of aid between for example the 9/11 attacks and this incident doesn’t really want to go away. I know it’s difficult but I still feel (and the rest of the world including many Americans seem to feel the same way) that more could have been done. It almost looks like the only thing that has priority right now is fighting / killing the looters and street gangs while a lot of innocent people are still deprived from even the most basic aid.
At 03 September '05 - 16:59 Geoffrey wrote:
It has been pure chaos in New Orleans, and the chaos has been hampering, even preventing, sound aid and rescue.
God bless those bus drivers who are risking their own lives to get people out, too. Those same gangs who have been threatening the helicopters have also threatened the buses.
Another point to make, one which is being overlooked ascomplaints are made about the speed of response in New Orleans and the surrounding parishes. The aid arrived quickly in the other places ravaged by the Hurricane. I have been in contact, via third party, with a friend in Biloxi, MS who says that things have been destroyed, but work is going on by all sorts of disaster relief agencies, federal and private. This is easily explained by the fact that those areas are much more accessible than Atlantis.