Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00072)

In a message dated 9/2/05 2:34:03 PM Central Daylight Time, 
kpauljohnson@yahoo.com writes:

> Chuck might be right about the incompetence and bureaucratic bungling 
> factors, but if tens of thousands of middle class whites were 
> starving and dying in front of TV cameras, do you really think the 
> response would have been so sluggish? So I see racism and classism 
> as unconscious factors in this.
> 

I think given the general lack of preparedness and sheer blundering, yes. 
Lots of things were being done, but they were all being done wrong. There was 
no communication between agencies, and no concept of how to distribute 
resources.

Fema is totally incapable of anything other than throwing money. Anything 
else is beyond its personnel's capacity to think. As far as the local officals 
go, they are notorious buffoons who probably thought the whole thing would 
just go away and were surprised when it didn't. 

There was no excuse for waiting this long to get supplies into the city. 
Haven't those morons ever heard of air drops?

A helicopter that can carry six passengers can carry 1000 pounds of supplies. 
The people on the roofs were safe. It was merely a matter of getting them 
food and water and then airlifting the sick in the empty copters. 

This has become a textbook case of utter mismanagement, pure and simple.

Chuck the Heretic