Colby is not impressed..
We’ve got a million or so human beings living in a low-lying area created in the first place by government engineers. The local government of New Orleans, apprised of an approaching storm, summarily orders everybody out of the city about 36 hours too late without lifting a finger to provide the means to do so. At the last minute it occurs to somebody to herd those left behind into a large government-built structure, the Superdome; no supplies are on hand for its inhabitants, and the structure itself is rendered–according to the government’s assessment–permanently useless. Even though the storm misses the city, government-built levees fail in unforeseen and catastrophic ways. Many of the New Orleans cops opportunistically quit their jobs, many more simply fail to show up for work, others take the lead in looting supplies from storm-stricken neighbourhoods, and just a few have the notable good grace to shoot themselves in the head.
colby cosh
Blame enough for all!
Written by jay on September 12th, 2005 with
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#1. September 13th, 2005, at 7:43 PM.
“[J]ust a few (New Orleans police officers) have the notable good grace to shoot themselves in the head. ”
Nice.
See why I refer, from time to time, to the pathological lack of empathy on the Right?