What?
I think this represents a bizarre set of priorities.
A city councillor interviewed by the Associated Press news agency meanwhile said looting was "out of control".
"We're using exhausted, scarce police to control looting when they should be used for search and rescue," Jackie Clarkson said.
Why try to control the looting, if you're doing it at the expense of search and rescue? The looters are assholes, surely, but they're taking things. Save the people, not the things.
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Not to take any heat of the uncivil servants, but the looting was obscenely overreported for three days by the f**ktards in broadcast media. Fox News and MSNBC probably cost hundreds if not thousands of people their lives. Blatant racism and classism. People were drowning in their homes and the talktards couldn't shut up about the looting, news footage constantly relooping with idiots stealing t-shirts out of WalMart. How much of an incorrigible shithead do you have to be to prioritize the inventories of superstores over thousands of people's lives? I hope those news producers who contributed in no small measure to the chaos of the overall situation and the misprioritisation of resources wake up with nightmares everyday for the rest of their piss poor pathetic lives.
The story here was the drowning..
not the crime, not the looting, not the devastation, not the asshole politicians who spent more time on TV than they did on the phone facilitating the disaster response.
After this debacle I take back everything bad I have ever said about France (and I've said a lot). No one has their shit less together than us. This is an ugly country full of ugly people. We obviously have no business via our ugly selected representatives telling anyone else how to run their own country.
I'm mortified to be an American and I want out.
Unfortunately like a lot of the people in New Orleans, I can't afford to evacuate right now.
Posted by: Jim | September 6, 2005 11:24 PM