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Originally posted by maria_stardust
Talk about blatant stereotyping! Isn't it easy to broadly paint the illict acts of a few upon the whole of New Orleans.
Leave it to Rush to stir up a little race-baiting. Apparently his strategy of appealing to the lowest denominator works.
[edit on 6/19/2008 by maria_stardust]
Originally posted by eric52081
This man is right I havn't seen any looting or crime or any complaining from the good people of Iowa so why did they complain in New Orleans when katrina hit. This really drives a point of mine home thats for sure. Here is a link to the website.
www.truthfighters.tv...
[edit on 19-6-2008 by eric52081]
Originally posted by groingrinder
Before anyone rebuilds a flood ravaged town, they should be required to backfill the site to the flood level. It seems like they are just asking for it to rebuild towns below the level of adjacent flood plains.
Originally posted by LateApexer313
When I was stuck in rush hour traffic, driving home from work, they were doing the 5 minute news at the top of the hour and they were talking about the floods in Iowa, 14 more levees were likely to fail, flooding trickling down to Missouri etc...
They had a farmer on, who was working side by side with prisoners from the prisons in Iowa that VOLUNTEERED to help them bag sand...and the farmer was asked..."So have you had anyone from FEMA show up, what's the government doing for you in this emergency?" By a "reporter."
And the farmer answered, "We don't need FEMA or the government, we have neighbors."
Pretty much says it all, folks.
Originally posted by WyrdeOne
There's only one problem - none of it was real!
www.msnbc.msn.com...
www.guardian.co.uk...
NYT Link
Bill Waldron, a homicide detective from Florida in New Orleans for a murder trial, was stuck in the convention center until Sept. 1. He said he saw a couple of fights between young men, but “no murders, no rapes.” He said that he did see people dying, but that those deaths were most likely a result of the heat and lack of water.
MSNBC
Originally posted by Santeria
On the other hand, that in no way means we should compare and contrast with New Orleans and how they handled things down there in a similar situation. Maybe with Katrina so fresh in their minds the Iowans resolved to be much better prepared? What happened in NO was something none of its residents were truly prepared for.
[edit on 6/19/2008 by Santeria]
Originally posted by lee anoma
Originally posted by WyrdeOne
There's only one problem - none of it was real!
www.msnbc.msn.com...
www.guardian.co.uk...
NYT Link
So since many people in this thread have been regurgitating the erroneous ficiton, please PROVE PROVE PROVE that the extreme tales of a post Katrina NO were true, before using them to justify your bigoted attitudes and desires to draw negative lines between Americans.
Refute the facts, please.
No sheep allowed.
- Lee
Originally posted by eric52081
reply to post by whiteraven
People in New Orleans also had a warning and a chance to get out. They refused to leave. They even had buses go through the city to pick up people that didn't have any transportation. Oh and Cool Hand forgot to mention when these people get bored they rape and murder innocent victims. They raped and killed many people just in the Super Dome. And the others that were in the Dome just watched and did nothing to help them. Im sorrry I have no respect for them. And by the way I went through hurricane Rita so I have a little experience on this whole matter. Even the people that they evacuated from New Orleans were very violent people and they would steal just about anything they could. There are still stories of people that evacuated Katrina that refuse to work and only want shelter and free food. That is insane to me. They need to get off their butt and work for a living.
Originally posted by morbidtracie
Originally posted by eric52081
reply to post by whiteraven
I am not making excuses for those who have done bad things during the aftermath nor am I defending laziness. It is pitiful and it makes the hardworking people who live here look bad.
And we need more people like you in every state of the union. We need more people willing to work together durning those times but during Katrina it wasn't the case. When you have the cops doing the same thing as the crooks everyone loses.
Moral decay is what it really is. It has not changed that much from what I hear. Are you safe from crime where you are? After all the work you did I hope you are...