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Lots of stuff on my mind.
First off...Katrina. There is chaos in Louisiana and parts of Mississipi. The National Guard hasn't gotten in to restore order yet, in New Orleans today a man shot his sister over a bag of ice. A man fired 8 shots at a rescue helicopter. Armed gangs are travelling store to store looting for food, water, TV's, booze, and cigarrettes. The firepower of these gangs is estimate to outnumber that of the few police remaining by almost 70%. Anyone willing is being deputized on the spot because man-power and fire-power is so low.
Anyone brandishing weapons in New Orleans is being ordered to be shot on sight.
Once military forces enter the city, I can tell you that there is going to be war and slaughter in the streets. It will be Tiannemen Square in the French Quarter, hundreds of people are going to be massacred, in order to maintain peace inside New Orleans.
George Bush is said to be touring the area within the next few days, and as of yet, he has promised to move in with help and supplies, yet none has yet made it into the cities outside of self-mobilized volunteers. No government lead help has made it yet.
During Clinton's first run for the presidency, he met George Bush Sr. at an elementary school where one girl described to him her average morning walk to school. She described travelling through streets lined with dealers, heavy in gang warfare, and heavy in crime. She described seeing people most every morning, firing at each other from cars or windows. She asked each candidate whether or not they would "forget children like me" once they were elected.
Bill Clinton, at the time recalled his own childhood growing up in one of the poorest states of the country, coming from an alcoholic family, working his own way through school to become a success.
George Bush Sr. looked in disbelief at the little girl, and said later: "Things like that don't happen in America." Yet, this is a reality, and he raised his own son, later a man that would go on to get into lots of trouble over his cocaine use. George W. Bush, his son, is now in charge of seeing that these people get the help they need. But, how can a man that doesn't understand needing anything, a man from a rich family, who grew up with all his desires catered to, be able to properly react to the mindset that these desperate people are in?
People hit by this disaster are desperate. They ahven't had food or water in days. They are crammed into tiny surviving buildings, supplies are running out, in the distance gunshots are fired every few minutes, buildings are flooded out, food is gone. And they can get no news, which means they have no hope that anyone is ever going to come to save them. But they see that a camera crew rides easily through the streets, yet the National Guard has not arrived bearing food and medical attention. Where is the hope, where are they now? Lost.
The only way to ensure that your wife, mother, or child may live another day is to take what you need, because its not to be found any other way. So you pick up a gun, to defend yoursefl from all the other men out there with guns.
Or, you force your way into a flooded Wal-Mart, you slosh through waist deep water, moving down every aisle, hoping to find one box of uncontaminated cereal or one container of unruined Spam...you reach up to grab a box of Chex off the top shelf, and an alligator, unseen under the water, bites off half of your leg.
Or, you're travelling down the highway, after managing to hotwire a car that has been abandoned on the roadside. Your wife and child sleep, exhausted in the back, the gas guage tells you that you're not going to get much further. Then the headlights illuminate four men in the road ahead of you, they're all toting rifles, and they're all pointed at you. One man looks at your family in the backseat, then looks you in the eyes and says "Get out."
That was reported by a family who had managed to reach a rural road that wasn't flooded.
Think about that, and help what tiny bit you can.
Please.
First off...Katrina. There is chaos in Louisiana and parts of Mississipi. The National Guard hasn't gotten in to restore order yet, in New Orleans today a man shot his sister over a bag of ice. A man fired 8 shots at a rescue helicopter. Armed gangs are travelling store to store looting for food, water, TV's, booze, and cigarrettes. The firepower of these gangs is estimate to outnumber that of the few police remaining by almost 70%. Anyone willing is being deputized on the spot because man-power and fire-power is so low.
Anyone brandishing weapons in New Orleans is being ordered to be shot on sight.
Once military forces enter the city, I can tell you that there is going to be war and slaughter in the streets. It will be Tiannemen Square in the French Quarter, hundreds of people are going to be massacred, in order to maintain peace inside New Orleans.
George Bush is said to be touring the area within the next few days, and as of yet, he has promised to move in with help and supplies, yet none has yet made it into the cities outside of self-mobilized volunteers. No government lead help has made it yet.
During Clinton's first run for the presidency, he met George Bush Sr. at an elementary school where one girl described to him her average morning walk to school. She described travelling through streets lined with dealers, heavy in gang warfare, and heavy in crime. She described seeing people most every morning, firing at each other from cars or windows. She asked each candidate whether or not they would "forget children like me" once they were elected.
Bill Clinton, at the time recalled his own childhood growing up in one of the poorest states of the country, coming from an alcoholic family, working his own way through school to become a success.
George Bush Sr. looked in disbelief at the little girl, and said later: "Things like that don't happen in America." Yet, this is a reality, and he raised his own son, later a man that would go on to get into lots of trouble over his cocaine use. George W. Bush, his son, is now in charge of seeing that these people get the help they need. But, how can a man that doesn't understand needing anything, a man from a rich family, who grew up with all his desires catered to, be able to properly react to the mindset that these desperate people are in?
People hit by this disaster are desperate. They ahven't had food or water in days. They are crammed into tiny surviving buildings, supplies are running out, in the distance gunshots are fired every few minutes, buildings are flooded out, food is gone. And they can get no news, which means they have no hope that anyone is ever going to come to save them. But they see that a camera crew rides easily through the streets, yet the National Guard has not arrived bearing food and medical attention. Where is the hope, where are they now? Lost.
The only way to ensure that your wife, mother, or child may live another day is to take what you need, because its not to be found any other way. So you pick up a gun, to defend yoursefl from all the other men out there with guns.
Or, you force your way into a flooded Wal-Mart, you slosh through waist deep water, moving down every aisle, hoping to find one box of uncontaminated cereal or one container of unruined Spam...you reach up to grab a box of Chex off the top shelf, and an alligator, unseen under the water, bites off half of your leg.
Or, you're travelling down the highway, after managing to hotwire a car that has been abandoned on the roadside. Your wife and child sleep, exhausted in the back, the gas guage tells you that you're not going to get much further. Then the headlights illuminate four men in the road ahead of you, they're all toting rifles, and they're all pointed at you. One man looks at your family in the backseat, then looks you in the eyes and says "Get out."
That was reported by a family who had managed to reach a rural road that wasn't flooded.
Think about that, and help what tiny bit you can.
Please.