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September 06, 2005
Steyn on New Orleans
Mark Steyn has a very good column in the Telegraph on Hurricane Katrina, the response and New Orleans.
On 9/11, the federal government failed the people; last week, local and state government failed the people. On 9/11, they stuck to the 30-year-old plan; last week, they didn't bother implementing the state-of-the-art 21st-century plan. Why argue about which level of bureaucracy you prefer to be let down by?Read the whole thing.My mistake was to think that the citizenry of the Big Easy would rise to the great rallying cry of Todd Beamer: "Are you ready, guys? Let's roll!" Instead, the spirit of the week was summed up by a gentleman called Mike Franklin, taking time out of his hectic schedule of looting to speak to the Associated Press: "People who are oppressed all their lives, man, it's an opportunity to get back at society."
Unlike 9/11, when the cult of victimhood was temporarily suspended in honour of the many real, actual victims under the rubble, in New Orleans everyone claimed the mantle of victim, from the incompetent mayor to the "oppressed" guys wading through the water with new DVD players under each arm.
Posted by slublog at September 6, 2005 05:58 PM
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Tripe of the highest order.
A bigots version of the blame game - the 'liberal' mayor, the 'welfare' citizenry and the single quote from a loon - oh, if they would have only been like Todd Beamer (of course, the tried and tested invoking of 9/11). Mike Franklin represents the actions of the people of NO? Only in a bigots mind.
More from the party of personal responsibility - unless they are responsible.
Styne should put the kool-aide down, pull head out of ass, and stop listening to rush. Who didn't follow the 21st century state-of-the-art plan?
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