I remember reading some documentation years ago (ex-hubby was a survivalist *sigh*) that cities had secret disaster scenarios attempting to determine how many would be unable to evacuate and delineating how to NOT call for evacuations in order to keep the peace as all the scenarios determined that an official evacuation would actually lead to more deaths than a 'voluntary' (ie self-selected, prepared, wiser, healthier and probably better-monied individuals) evac.
Clearly, you would be on the government's disposable list -- they make very little effort to provide for anyone who is non-institutionalized but unable to cope for hirself. Ask a Libertarian what his party's plan would be -- I'm curious yet dubious :)
I have to say that I agree completely with his sentiments (they seem to reflect pretty much what I had already said.)
I have my doubts that people will remember and decry Bush's failure in this disaster. Bush's chief tactic is to further marginalize the people who are suffering, dying, looting, and near-rioting in NOLA and to subtlely convey to lower- and middle-class white men that the poor (usually blacks) who die do so because that is what they deserve.
Bush manipulated African-Americans to vote for him by using the whole gay-marriage ruse to stir up Evangelical bigotry. That just goes to show that the oppressed have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER turning around and committing the same bigotted offenses against another marginalized group if they can be fed any sort of justification at all. This all brings to mind the Stockholm Syndrome and the Authoratarian/Shock experiments of the 1960s.
I feel sick for humanity. I thought that one of Jesus' chief missions was to bring an end to suffering and to care for the poor. Considering that our President considers himself to be a capital-C Christian, where are the demonstrations of following the teachings of Jesus?
I think my post backed this theory about our government. I was not happy to make it.
I try to believe the in the best of everyone. But even the Supreme Court let me down in 2000. Our people may have let me down in 2004. But I don't believe they had the chance. The administration's actions sicken me. Sympathy for those who put these assholes in power comes hard. They are getting what they voted for. OTOH, they may have wanted Gore or Kerry after all, and, oh gee, something happened to those votes. Land of the free, home of the brave, disgusts me these days. I certainly don't like who I'm feeling compelled to become.
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Clearly, you would be on the government's disposable list -- they make very little effort to provide for anyone who is non-institutionalized but unable to cope for hirself. Ask a Libertarian what his party's plan would be -- I'm curious yet dubious :)
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I'm waiting for the Faith-Based Initiatives
I have to say that I agree completely with his sentiments (they seem to reflect pretty much what I had already said.)
I have my doubts that people will remember and decry Bush's failure in this disaster. Bush's chief tactic is to further marginalize the people who are suffering, dying, looting, and near-rioting in NOLA and to subtlely convey to lower- and middle-class white men that the poor (usually blacks) who die do so because that is what they deserve.
Bush manipulated African-Americans to vote for him by using the whole gay-marriage ruse to stir up Evangelical bigotry. That just goes to show that the oppressed have NO PROBLEM WHATSOEVER turning around and committing the same bigotted offenses against another marginalized group if they can be fed any sort of justification at all. This all brings to mind the Stockholm Syndrome and the Authoratarian/Shock experiments of the 1960s.
I feel sick for humanity. I thought that one of Jesus' chief missions was to bring an end to suffering and to care for the poor. Considering that our President considers himself to be a capital-C Christian, where are the demonstrations of following the teachings of Jesus?
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I try to believe the in the best of everyone. But even the Supreme Court let me down in 2000. Our people may have let me down in 2004. But I don't believe they had the chance. The administration's actions sicken me. Sympathy for those who put these assholes in power comes hard. They are getting what they voted for. OTOH, they may have wanted Gore or Kerry after all, and, oh gee, something happened to those votes. Land of the free, home of the brave, disgusts me these days. I certainly don't like who I'm feeling compelled to become.