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Skriven 2005-09-06 13:43:00 av TIM RICHARDSON (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY
Ärende: More bad news for democra
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On 09-05-05, VERN HUMPHREY said to JOHN HULL:

JH> VH> If the people of Louisiana knew the truth, both the governor and
VH>mayor JH> VH> would be swinging from lamp posts.


JH>The truth will come out, sooner or later.  Whether or not anyone has the
VH>nut JH>to prosecute those assholes for gross negligence and malfeasance in
VH>office i JH>another question.


VH>I don't see why the media isn't showing the pictures of all those school
VH>busses, parked and drowned at a time when they were desperately needed
VH>to evacuate the city.


Several days prior to the storm hitting, they were warned down there it was
going to be one `hell' of a storm, and that the levee probably would *not*
hold the resulting water back.


The city was given plenty of prior warning to evacuate; that those who did not
would face some pretty dire circumstances. There were two other warnings
afterward that became more and more urgent for people to leave.


Those buses could have been (and *should* have been) used to evacuate people
who did not have transportation of their own.


Disasters such as this bring out all sorts of people. People who usually lead
ordinary, quiet lives, reveal themselves as natural born heroes who pitch
right in and make great personal sacrifices to save the lives of others (and
usually, they go unrecognized).


Others who lead quite ordinary lives in normal circumstances are revealed as
dangerous criminals under anarchic conditions, who would murder their own
mother for the gold in her dentures.


There are ordinary people who quietly go about getting things done, and people
who are supposedly in authority who couldn't find their own ass with both
hands in their back pockets when the chips are down and they are needed to do
their job.


Individuals are seen looting broad-screen TV's, expensive stereos, and people
are just `surprised' at that! Shocked (shocked!) that people rove around in
the middle of a disaster, stealing. Unreal.





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