New Orleans Low Lifes

Lower than low. Somebody you don't want to know. Bastards that will probably rot in Hell. Those are the low lifes that are looting in New Orleans and even worse than that if you can imagine, shooting at their rescuers in helicopters. What they should get is a stream from the choppers miniguns, but of course they won't. These people have become immune to what used to be the normal cause and effect of criminal behavior. Now, here in New Orleans, they can obviously do anything and feel they can completely get away with it. Why? They've been conditioned for decades that behavior like this is due to the society at large treating them badly. Poor babies.

The mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, read the federal government the riot act. "Get off your asses!", he said. Now a couple of weeks later, we know what he really was saying, without actually saying it, was "I was totally incompetent and unprepared, but I'm not taking any blame here for this. It's the fault of George Bush and the federal government." Ray Nagin left his municipal buses and his school buses sitting in flooded parking lots while he was demanding Greyhound buses to evacuate the "poor". The sad part is that there was a plan that was ignored. Maybe the plan was flawed, but we'll never know. Why come up with a plan (costing millions, by the way) if you're not going to use it? What we do know for certain is that the plan was completely and totally ignored. And who's taking responsibility for that? Not Ray Nagin. He was heavily into the "Help me" mode.

I'd like to make clear that Bush is in no way clear from criticism here. This was, like it or not, planned or not, a test of the Bush generated "Homeland Security" system. I have to say after witnessing this, I don't feel too secure. The nice part about a hurricane is that it hits you and then it goes away. That's not necessarily true about an Islamic Jihadist attack (Remember? Those are the ones who would be in charge of running things that would have results like this!). They can hit you and then hit you again and again. If the federal government is so slow and plodding to react to something like this, I have to ask why it's like that. The really sad part to me is that there hasn't been any statement that I've seen that says that an attack would be treated differently.

Are we at "war" or aren't we? I suspect not. Hurricane Schmurricane. These things happen on an ongoing basis. Every year we're inundated with hurricanes. (it must be global warming). We deal with it fairly well, year after year, in Florida. We know we're going to be hit with them, so we adjust. We know some of them will be very tough. Not so in the corrupt, socialist mentality of New Orleans and Louisiana.

Kathleen Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana, finally admitted her failures in a somewhat couched (like Bush) sort of way. Still missing the point, both Bush & Blanco haven't addressed the HOMELAND SECURITY aspect of this situation. I'd like to see some kind of statement explaining why we could fail so miserably in a situation like this, but do well in a situation that has some nutty Jihadist behind it.

So who are the real low lifes here? The ones who are always trying to get the extra buck from the federal government? Or is it the federal government and the nuts entreched in it, ignoring the primary purpose for its (the government's) existence? That would be the Security of the nation.