Saturday, September 03, 2005

Homeland Insecurity

The incredible aftermath of the hurricane in New Orleans and the pathetic response of the U.S. government to it underscores just how vulnerable we are to another major terrorist attack. I have a very bad feeling about all of this...

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

you'd think 4 years after 9/11, and all this suposed preparation with homeland security, we'd be ready for something like this ... it really just boils down to the conservative manner of functioning ... conservative means leave things the way they are, and obviously round up all the money for yourself as possible ... caring about people and helping them is not part of their fundamental agenda, so they are not about to be ready for this ... the louisiana and mississippi national guardspersons are all in iraq ... the majority of our military resources are in iraq ... all of the governments focus is on iraq ... not too tough to figure this one out ...

Anonymous said...

"George Bush responded immediately to the hurricane disaster 4 days later as soon as he found out Louisiana had oil."

- Jay Leno

Anonymous said...

At least the Mayor and Governor were working at the time, and not off on vacation ... and running off to fundraisers, and playing the guitar, during the time people were getting battered by a category 4 ... but at least Bush was good enough to come down to a disaster area primarily effecting blacks accompanied by Trent Lott..,

Ayannali said...

I do have a question, what was the purpose in President Bush declaring a state of Emergency before the Hurricane struck if not to expedite the response?

Anonymous said...

I believe that was meant to be part of the process to get federal funding to the coming victims ... I think he was in a catagory 3 state of mind, after all the incidences in Florida last year. But when it's a 4 or 5, obviously it's quite a different story...

Anonymous said...

Barbara Bush just commented that the people in the Astrodome are underpriveleged anyway, so they are used to this, and "W" said he's going to appoint a "Tzar" to head the recovery operation ... this is the mentality that's running the county ... can we put 2+2 together here?????

Anonymous said...

Last night on the John Stuart show, Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News anchor, mentioned that he was threatened by US military personnel at gunpoint in New Orleans ... now what kind of threat does the news play to the relief effort? ... what are they, afraid the truth might get reported???? how threatening is the Nightly News anchor from NBC????????? are we living in NAZI Germany here???????? There's something seriously wrong with this picture ... at least someone told Dick Cheney yesterday to go fuck himself ...