Mr. Brown, the head of FEMA, which comes under the umbrella of the Homeland Security agency, needs to be fired, right here; right now. This agency has been running around with billions in their budget, chewing up taxpayer dollars and citizen rights carte blanche; they have not been held accountable on any front and when they are called into action they hold back. They lounge and blow smoke up the administrations ass. Rather than respond to the call for help from real people in dire need, they congratulate themselves on their existence, they promise a response in the future and they accuse the victims for being the authors of their own demise. "Silly niggers should a listened when we told them there was a mandatory evacuation. We're not going to risk good people to help some black folk too dumb to help themselves! No way. We'll go in when things are safer." Only things didn't get safer, they got worse.
No attempt was made to let the drowning people know that help was on the way, that they were worth saving, or that America would not let them down. Mr. Brown, the politicians, the news media spoke to those with televisions that worked. Their first concern was to ease the conscience of the American public who sat mesmerized by the tragedy unfolding within their own boarders. Imagine the effect it would have had on the battered victims of hurricane and flood to have at least heard from a leader on the ground that they were being heard; that help was on the way. It is incomprehensible to believe that a leader could not have arrived with the legions of news media that descended on the city to bring the story to the public outside of the disaster zone. This was a neglect of the same severity as total dereliction of duty.
The good people of Louisiana and Mississippi were subjected to rumor and abandonment fears supported by a society that has only recently made attempts to recognize them as citizens. If you doubt the strength of rumor to reek destruction then note that at the same time that America's tragedy was compounding, a panic was killing people across the world in Iraq where nearly a thousand people died in one brief incident all because of a hint of danger, rumored on the wind. Back home in the States, it has only been a few short decades since the American version of apartheid officially ended in these areas. It doesn’t take a long cultural memory for these people to fall into old belief systems that enforce that they are unimportant and unworthy in the social order. Even though they work and pay their taxes they have little or nothing. They are the working poor in a State responsible for the transportation of the fuel that runs the country. They clean hotel rooms, serve drinks and 'po-boys', they run the casinos and entertain the visible members of the American class system while they accept their position in the underclass; a strata in the social structure vehemently denied in the American self image.
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Chain of Command
This country is run by a bureaucracy for a reason. The "top dog" can't and shouldn't answer to every little detail. Corporations, small businesses, organizations, military, and government has a chain of command...lets pay attention to where it begins, not where it ends. The truth is that George Bush neglected funds to help sustain the city during a natural disaster. He can be blamed for that and I have no place to disagree. However, it is the LOCAL AND STATE'S duty to protect its citizens. No matter someone's race or social status.
Both the city and state were not warned in time. The Mayor, Senators, Represenatives, and the Governor all THOUGHT that someone was taking care of the problem (providing evacuation strategy). IT FAILED! These elected offials took office because they claim that they can lead. I don't think blaming the president for everything is an example of leadership.
The "Rev." Jesse Jackson asks the president why black people are not leading in the evacuation. Is he trying to say that only a black person can perform this duty, not to mention that if a white person is in charge he will neglect those in despair. THAT IS AS RACIST AS IT GETS. I would not call the local and state officials racists for not notifying the public in time, not to mention leaving dozens of school buses to be flooded in a parking lot. I WOULD SAY THEY DID NOT DO THEIR JOB.
In the real world if someone is wronged at their job they do not go to the owner or CEO of the company. There is a chain of command. It is what our country in based on. If the people are not satisfied with the response in New Orleans, and I do not see how they could be, they need to elect a new mayor, governor, senators, and represenatives.
This moaning and crying about the disaster being the president's fault is embarrasing. Furthermore, why do people think the president should answser to them if they suffer loss or distress? The Commander in Chief has better things to do. I'm sorry but little Timmy's cough doesn't need to be addressed by Bush because of his medicare policy. Call me insensative if you like.
Look to the people who are in charge of the state that did not evacuate the people when they had the means.
Bush can be blamed for the city flooding. But not the deaths of people who did not have a way to escape mother nature. The response was slow, but there are elected officials that run the state, not Bush.
We need to hold them accountable and respect the chain of command.
But the commander of the whole chain is responsible, ultimately, for the results.
I will not say that Mr. Limbaugh is racist. He certainly emanates the image of a blowhard and an asshole, yes, but his main affliction is ignorance, which is simple to do away with for anyone.
Most of the victims - that is, the refugees - are black, but what is more important to note is that most of the victims are poor; in New Orleans, most poor happen to be black. So it is socioeconomic, not racial.
Addressing what he said, the crux of his statement targets evil 'socialism' and the 'hand-outs' that are a consequence; the apparent racial disparity, to Limbaugh, is secondary. But he is missing the point entirely.
The real issue focuses on resources and responsibility. Yes, state and local authorities had their obligations to protect and serve their people. But the federal government has the greater resources; and, as this is a crisis of national import, it has the responsibility to have us all contribute and share the burden.
From the excerpted passages, it sounds as if Limbaugh wants to leave the "rats", as one survivor described how he and others were being treated, to the winds of fate.
P.S.: You conclude that Limbaugh "ends up getting hoisted by his own re-tard," though that obscures how intelligent the bastard really is, given that a man with such extreme views can net an audience of 20 million people. Astounding.
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