09-16-2005, 09:01 PM
It's hard for Amtrak to provide that free service when they suspended all service on the Sunday. And it's hard to get those buses evacuating people out of town considering you need qualified drivers to operate them.
Get your head out of your ass for once and open your fucking eyes. I'm not saying that the local officials didn't fuck up, we could see that they fucked up well before the hurricane actually struck, when they had to house people in areas of last resort because they couldn't get everyone out. You're trying to tell me that it's the local governments fault that they couldn't get food to those people, that they had to make them sit around in their own piss and shit and dead bodies for five days? That's the locals fault? That, after a disaster destroys a part of the Gulf Coast, that it's the local government's fault for not getting buses to them in the days afterward? It's their fault that they didn't build up their levees? It's their fault that their cops and emergency workers couldn't do their jobs because they were both exhausted and threatened by their own citizens? It's the locals fault that they were locked in the convention center and the Superdome, and forced to stay in Orleans parish, it's their own fault that they weren't allowed to leave on the Friday after the hurricane struck?
All the pre-hurricane shit is the locals fault, everything afterward is the federal governments, since, after all, it was declared a federal disaster area, which oughta mean that the federal government leads the rescue and evacuation efforts AFTER the hurricane hits. You're still stuck on why these people didn't leave. That was the reality on the Monday of the hurricane. This is shit everyone knew already, and yet no one did anything.
Get your head out of your ass for once and open your fucking eyes. I'm not saying that the local officials didn't fuck up, we could see that they fucked up well before the hurricane actually struck, when they had to house people in areas of last resort because they couldn't get everyone out. You're trying to tell me that it's the local governments fault that they couldn't get food to those people, that they had to make them sit around in their own piss and shit and dead bodies for five days? That's the locals fault? That, after a disaster destroys a part of the Gulf Coast, that it's the local government's fault for not getting buses to them in the days afterward? It's their fault that they didn't build up their levees? It's their fault that their cops and emergency workers couldn't do their jobs because they were both exhausted and threatened by their own citizens? It's the locals fault that they were locked in the convention center and the Superdome, and forced to stay in Orleans parish, it's their own fault that they weren't allowed to leave on the Friday after the hurricane struck?
All the pre-hurricane shit is the locals fault, everything afterward is the federal governments, since, after all, it was declared a federal disaster area, which oughta mean that the federal government leads the rescue and evacuation efforts AFTER the hurricane hits. You're still stuck on why these people didn't leave. That was the reality on the Monday of the hurricane. This is shit everyone knew already, and yet no one did anything.