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GOP Lie of the Day: Governor Didn't Ask For Help (GOP, The Party of Treason and CYA Irresponsibility) |
GOP Lie:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680_pf.html
"Tens of thousands of people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation
from this ruined city, as Bush administration officials blamed state
and local authorities for what leaders at all levels have called a
failure of the country's emergency management....As of Saturday,
[Louisiana governor Kathleen] Blanco still had not declared a state of
emergency, [a] senior Bush official said."
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Reality:
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August 26: Blanco declares a state level state of emergency.
August 27: Blanco asks the president to declare a federal state of
emergency for the state of Louisiana.
August 27: Bush declares a federal state of emergency for Louisiana
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=973
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=976
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html
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Yang
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AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
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EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
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The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1891 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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07 Sep 2005 07:51:09 PM |
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An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of
the Welfare State
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 sendengineers 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.
For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to be
confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them to behave
in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as they have behaved
in other emergencies.
That is what has shocked so many people: they have been saying that
this is not what we expect from America. In fact, it is not even what
we expect from a Third World country.
When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the occasion.
They work together to rescue people in danger, and they spontaneously
organize to keep order and solve problems. This is especially true in
America. We are an enterprising people, used to relying on our own
initiative rather than waiting around for the government to take care
of us.
I have seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town
whose main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to
get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops, directing
cars through the intersection) and large ones (the spontaneous
response of New Yorkers to September 11).
So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?
To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here is a
description from a Washington Times story:
"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying fists,
knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter the streets;
and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly fired on.
"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National Guardsmen
poured in to restore order and stop the looting, carjackings and
gunfire....
"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened
Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with
shoot-to-kill orders.
"'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the streets,'
she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These
troops know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do
so if necessary and I expect they will.' "
The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this
article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored vests,
riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets lined by a
rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom appears to be yelling
at them. It looks exactly like a scene from Sadr City in Baghdad.
What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an excuse for
an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What causes unruly mobs
to storm the very buses that have arrived to evacuate them, causing
the drivers to drive away, frightened for their lives? What causes
people to attack the doctors trying to treat patients at the Super
Dome? Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing
further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are trying
to help them?
My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on a
sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on Fox
News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar feeling. She
studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of Chicago, which is
located in the South Side of Chicago just blocks away from the Robert
Taylor Homes, one of the largest high-rise public housing projects in
America. "The projects," as they were known, were infamous for
uncontrollable crime and irremediable squalor. (They have since,
mercifully, been demolished.)
What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage was a
whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the "crawl"--the
nformational phrases flashed at the bottom of the screen on most news
channels--gave some vital statistics to confirm this sense: 75% of the
residents of New Orleans had already evacuated before the hurricane,
and of the 300,000 or so who remained, a large number were from the
city's public housing projects.
Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial fact: early reports
from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating
all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of
them loose. There is no doubt a significant overlap between these two
populations--that is, a large number of people in the jails used to
live in the housing projects, and vice versa.
There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans when
the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large numbers of
people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the welfare state,
people selected, over decades, for their lack of initiative and
self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were a mass of sheep--on
whom the incompetent administration of New Orleans unleashed a pack of
wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent incompetence of
the city government, which failed to plan for a total evacuation of
the city, despite the knowledge that this might be necessary.
But in a city corrupted by the welfare state, the job of city
officials is to ensure the flow of handouts to welfare recipients and
patronage to political supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly
evacuation in case of emergency.
No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In
fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush,
for example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New
Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan.
The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe and
Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on American
"individualism." But the truth is precisely the opposite: the chaos
was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of individualism.
What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of
the welfare state.
What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is behavior that is
normal for people who have values and take the responsibility to
pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by
fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the
difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the
government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the chaos of a
disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about
saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own
anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their
businesses or how they are going to make a living? They never worried
about those things before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But
living off of stolen wealth is a way of life for them.
The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains
and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains the moral
ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no
one is reporting.
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07 Sep 2005 12:12:43 PM |
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On Wed, 07 Sep 2005 07:57:13 -0700, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:
GOP Lie:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680_pf.html
"Tens of thousands of people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation
from this ruined city, as Bush administration officials blamed state
and local authorities for what leaders at all levels have called a
failure of the country's emergency management....As of Saturday,
[Louisiana governor Kathleen] Blanco still had not declared a state of
emergency, [a] senior Bush official said."
===================================
Reality:
===================================
August 26: Blanco declares a state level state of emergency.
August 27: Blanco asks the president to declare a federal state of
emergency for the state of Louisiana.
August 27: Bush declares a federal state of emergency for Louisiana
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=973
http://gov.louisiana.gov/Press_Release_detail.asp?id=976
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html
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Yang
a.a. #28
AthD (h.c.) conferred by the regents of the LCL
a.a. pastor #-273.15, the most frigid church of Celcius nee Kelvin
EAC Econometric Forecast and Sorcery Division
Proudly plonked by Lani Girl and Crazyalec (aka aka Yang's little poltregeist *****)
The Bush 'balanced' budget: 1.6 trillion and worsening
The Bush 'economic' policy: 12.5 million FEWER jobs than Clinton and counting
The Bush Iraq lie: -1891 GIs, one friend's co-worker's son and mounting
Having Bush ***** up my country: Worthless
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