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Mr Scott said: "I could not have a lower opinion of the authorities
from the police officers on the street right up to George Bush.
"But I have a completely opposite view of the American people.
"There were so many random acts of kindness - people would go without
so my son wouldn't go hungry.
"The American people saved us. I wish I could say the same for the
American authorities. George Bush and his government left those people
to die.
"The only person who seems to be trying to do anything is the Mayor of
New Orleans and that man is banging his head against a brick wall.
"The US can't rescue their own people better than they can rescue
people in the Third World. They didn't seem to care about their own
people, mainly for economic and social reasons because the people
worst-affected were poor and black."
Things happen that we wish didn't, and are reported by people who see
them. That doesn't make the people who see them the bad guys.
Acknowledging that a few people may well have reacted unpleasantly to
the hell they were living in -- that they maybe took out their anger
and frustration and sorrow and fear, some of it going way back before
Katrina, on someone who was not the cause of it -- isn't going to turn
George Bush into the hero of the piece.
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