Re: GOD DAM letting the GANGS lord themselves over the refugees.

> >It has more to do with class than race IMHO, but race certainly plays
into
> >the overall problem.
> >
>
> If the country has the employment rate it has among willing hard
> working folks, where do you think these magical work force position
> are going to come form?
>
> Get a clue.
>
> The problems were 100% logistical.


Uhhhhh - no.

Looters shooting at choppers is not the result of bad logistics. It is the
result of society keeping millions of young men as unemployed pets in the
ghettos for entertainment purposes in the grand saga of good vs. evil.

The looting and shooting in New Orleans is NOT an anomaly. It is in fact
precisely what you would expect when hopeless & jobless youths are turned
loose when the police retreat. As soon as the police move out, the gangs
rise up. It is disgusting. Most cities exist at an equillibrium between the
cops and the criminals, and the equillibrium simply shifted in favor of the
crooks.

This equillibrium state is the greatest threat to national security today -
much more dangerous than Al Queda. We simply cannot allow neighborhoods and
communities to go on day after day with the constant tug of war between cops
and crooks. There is way too much amperage on both sides of that equation.

And while cops might combat the crooks, cops can never eradicate the
criminal element. Only jobs, hope & education could ever do that - however,
we have abandoned the notion of rehabilitating criminals. I'm telling you -
you can put them out with the trash, but they wont be riding out on the
garbage truck.

And to be honest, nobody even had a contingency plan. There are plenty of
goods within a few miles of the place, but nobody even planned for this
thing. The military probably was not even neccesary - if the city would have
made arrangements with local distributors for basics like water, diapers,
food, etc. Maybe you could attribute some of this to partisanism - or
people's inability to cooperate in a purely competitive culture.

Who knows.








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