God unfortunately cannot help you now, for the forces of evil have been allowed to prosper and the restraints are now off them. You the people shall
suffer horrendously and I fear it shall begin very soon!!!!
I think God can do whatever God needs to do. What remains to be seen is whether or not 'helping' the human race is something God needs to do.
As far as the larger topic...
Plausible logic, I suppose, if you take a few of Jones' contentions at face value. I take issue with the necessity of the action. There are plenty
of chaotic places in the world, without seeding chaos in an already traumatized American city. Not that I dispute the whole claim on that basis
alone, but why not just send these troops in need of training to any one of a hundred other hotspots?
As far as holding back aid, the authorities 'explained' that it was, in most cases, a result of red tape. For example, there were more than 11k
modular homes ready for the evacuees, but FEMA stopped them from being delivered because of regulations prohibiting foundation-less permanent homes
from being erected in a flood plain, or some such nonsense (the entire disaster area was a flood plain).
Reports of chaos appear to have been OVERreported, as well. There were all sorts of horror stories coming out of NO in the wake of Katrina,
everything from wholesale rape and murder to the eating of the dead.
It turned out to be quite a lot better than all that, though still chaotic and problematic to be sure the city actually had a dramatically reduced
crime rate in the wake of the hurricane. Even counting the looting, crime dropped.
There were a lot of travesties (people left to die in their attics while helicopter crews quibbled with FEMA coordinators, water and meat and shelter
gone to waste because of bureaucratic nonsense and slow reaction times, etc.) and there were a few bright spots (Fish and Game employees flipping
authorities the bird and rescuing a whole bunch of people on their own, the initial evacuation before the storm, which was excellent by any
standard).
If the whole thing was a training excercise for troops, I suspect we would have more photos. I realize the powers that be restricted journalist
access and made threats (documented), but the fact remains that independent journalists swarmed the area in the wake, and in addition to them, a
number of people who stayed behind documented the goings on.
The confiscation of guns was wrong, and what's worse, it was based on bogus mainstream news reports. It seems to have been localized though, rather
than state-wide, or even city-wide.
If the authorities ever try something like this on a grand scale, I suspect they'll be unpleasantly surprised at the lengths some people will go to
stay free.
