Katrina
There are a few things in particular that really have me bothered about this incident:
1) New Orleans was unprepared. They didn't have three days warning, they didn't have one day warning, they had 50 years warning. I guess that's what you get when you trust your government to protect you.
2) Mandatory evacuation. I don't care the consequences, I can never condone the forced removal of a law-abiding citizen from their home. If they want to stay, that's their choice. If they are going to die because of it, let them. They were warned, let them make the decision. That's what freedom is.
3) The attitude of the REFUGEES (-I- will call them what they are). I made up my mind when I saw a news cast of a group of New Orleans citizen chanting "We Want Help!" over and over. Now there are not many situations that I can think of that would necessitate help more than this one. But the attitude of these people is sickening. They have my sympathy, but they have lost my respect.
4) The government wanted blacks to die? Give me a break.
5) People have blamed the federal government for being late delivering help. Again, that's what you get when you depend on the government to keep you safe. However, I cannot disagree more. Help was there as fast as possible, and more than required. In fact, the federal government in reality is not supposed to do anything in a situation like this- nothing at all. Someone show me in the Constitution where the federal government is allowed to help. That's LA's governor's and New Orleans' mayor's problem. Other states can help if they want to (and obviously they do).
1) New Orleans was unprepared. They didn't have three days warning, they didn't have one day warning, they had 50 years warning. I guess that's what you get when you trust your government to protect you.
2) Mandatory evacuation. I don't care the consequences, I can never condone the forced removal of a law-abiding citizen from their home. If they want to stay, that's their choice. If they are going to die because of it, let them. They were warned, let them make the decision. That's what freedom is.
3) The attitude of the REFUGEES (-I- will call them what they are). I made up my mind when I saw a news cast of a group of New Orleans citizen chanting "We Want Help!" over and over. Now there are not many situations that I can think of that would necessitate help more than this one. But the attitude of these people is sickening. They have my sympathy, but they have lost my respect.
4) The government wanted blacks to die? Give me a break.
5) People have blamed the federal government for being late delivering help. Again, that's what you get when you depend on the government to keep you safe. However, I cannot disagree more. Help was there as fast as possible, and more than required. In fact, the federal government in reality is not supposed to do anything in a situation like this- nothing at all. Someone show me in the Constitution where the federal government is allowed to help. That's LA's governor's and New Orleans' mayor's problem. Other states can help if they want to (and obviously they do).
posted by Calan at 18:40
2 Comments:
Man you are one hard guy! Hurricane Rita of course haas proved that government can help at all levels, just a matter of wanting to or not.
I don't think there is anything in the Constitution allowing or not allowing the Fed. Gov. to help. But I believe the Government is allowed to create something like FEMA, and if so then FEMA should work. Katrina proved it can fail and Rita proved it can work. There is nothing wrong with FEMA only the attitude of top officals.
Also I'm reading "Going Back to Bisbee" by Richard Shelton, a human and natural history of SE Arizona. If you haven't read this book I highly recomend it.
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