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| Sep 07, 2005 5:26 am |
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re: Katrina - - If ever there were a need for innovation |
| James Griffin Media
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Hello Bob,
Yes, things are a mess but we shouldn't be surprised as
New Orleans resides in some areas 20 feet below sea level.
To keep itself dry it relies on the integrity of the levee system and several pumping stations.
For several decades each Mayor of New Orleans and each Senator and Congressional representative of Loiusiana has known that it was just a matter of time for this to happen.
These state and local people didn't need innovation, so much as common sense and the mindset to roll up their sleeves and prepare. They did nothing as we can see from the result.
But I would also lay the blame with the individual. I don't have much sympathy for people who have lived for decades in a well known hurricane/flood environment and aren't prepared for the basics.
The Feds tell us to expect at a minimum to be prepared to live by ourselves - with our own water and food and medicines.
I live in California. Earthquake country. I am prepared as best I can be.
Both at my office, in my car and in my home.
Basic preparation are not expensive. Keeping bottled water, bleach to purify other water and basic canned food such as soups, pasta (ravioli, etc.), tuna fish, lunch meats among other items. A mechanical can opener is a good idea, too.
Total cost of this per person to survive for 7 days. Approximately $15.00. If you have additional people, it's even cheaper. For instance, at Costco, 12 tins of tuna run $5.79, a 1-1/2 lb tin of pork and beans is $3.00, a 1 lb tin of chili con carne is approximately $4.00.
There are many ways this can be done and all can afford it. For the poorest of the poor it may mean forgoing a night at the bar, or smoking a pack of cigarettes less a week for a few months or forgoing procurement of crystal meth or crack.
But those things are bad for you anyway.
What we've seen, I believe, is the decay of Western society to such an extent that individual and personal responsibility to prepare for a well-known, well-publicized and much anticipated disaster is nil. Instead it is en vogue to blame everyone but oneself.
Would our pioneer forefather's have sat and wallowed in self pity when they traversed the mountains, trails and rivers to move West? Would they sit around and die or prepare as best they could and look to themselves for the answers and motivation?
The saddest thing about New Orleans is that we see 50 years of so-called progressive policies and so-called social justice have killed the American spirit - that attitude of rugged individualism and self reliance and instead descended into an attitude not of help thy neighbor but kill thy caucasian neighbor.
The whole thing is not only disgusting and heart wrenching but a portent of things to come for this country.
Perhaps we will soon be living like those in South Africa or Zimbabwe. When can we expect to see white enclaves with boom gates to hold back maurading tribesmen pent on rape, murder and mayhem?
And we also have just let Al Qaeda know, now is a perfect time to strike. Not only is the Federal government ill prepared, but so are the State and local governments.
Most of all, not only are the people themselves ill-prepared but within those people are millions of predators, primarily black who will devour whites when given a chance. We've recently seen this in New Orleans, but we've also seen it in two black race riots in Los Angeles, race riots in Detroit and other locales.
If I were Al Qaeda, I would strike as soon as possible and I would try to maximize damage by striking in an area that is surrounded by a large black population. Once the infrastructure is gone, the police, eletricity and such, the Third Worlders amongst us will form maurading tribes of machete wielding barbarians and devour what's left of our once civilized and proud Nation just like we saw on the television in New Orleans.
It seems that the levee of New Orleans was not the only levee that broke and flooded us. The levee that holds back a tide of Third World immigrations bent on barbarism has been breached and flooding us for several decades and now it's time we all pay the price. First, in New Orleans and then in every major city with a large Third World population - Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Cleveland, New York.
We hear how dangerous it is to be a soldier in Iraq and we hear that after 2 years of operations we have almost 2,000 soldiers dead. But that's in combat! In our black cities we have 10 times that dead every year, murder by blacks.
One of the major media outlets reported that almost two thirds of New Orleans is black and that the homicide rate in New Orleans is top in the US and over 9 times the national average.
New Orleans has many poor black areas, but there are also many poor white areas in the South. Why don't whites engage in these homicides to this extent?
I'm still waiting for Kurt Russell to appear on my television and proclaim, "The name is Pliskin. Snake Pliskin", just like he did in the Sci Fi thriller "Escape from New York", but unfortunately, this isn't a movie.
By the way, I'm not the only one to talk about this issue. I have seen more and more blogs and alternative radio shows as well as mainstream people commenting on the black attitude and behaviors in New Orleans. It can't be swept under the rug or shrugged as 'a bunch of hungry poor people'.
Best,
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