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all colours will jump at the chance to exploit natural disasters in this way!
No, you were making assumptions based on no knowledge. You immediately jumped to the conclusion that the black man was greedy. You didn't even think that maybe he had family and/or friends to feed. No, he must be a greedy looter.
I didn't say he has a family to feed - that's the difference between you and me - you assume that he is being greedy, I didn't assume anything.
I wonder whether aid would have been in New Orleans sooner if it were full of white middle class Christian men?
hmm, that's a tricky one........
Hmm, reminds me of Texas. If a crime is commited, just arreset the nearest black.
Well look what your beloved left wing BBC has to say about it;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4204304.stm
Scroll down and look at the picture. Oh, and notice the boxes are both the same. Problem solved.
Are you on crack?
And besides that, no shopkeeper in their right mind would stick around a store that is chin high in water just to make sure nobody steals anything.
Forget looters, if they can nick some Nike trainers then let em.
The rapists should be fucking lynched.
I wonder whether aid would have been in New Orleans sooner if it were full of white middle class Christian men?[/QUOTE]
The fact that NO has a high black population has nothing to do with the fact aid hasn't reached there quickly, it's quite clearly an infrastructural problem that's heightened by the fact that everyone knew Katrina was going to do a lot of damage before it even hit the coast of America.
What on earth are you talking about?
I.e., if guns weren't legal and freely available the place would not be the lawless jungle it is at the moment.
It says a lot about the moral breakdown that country is in when the puritanical Wal Mart supermarket chain, which doesn't store any adult material (not even such well known 'hardcore' titles as FHM :rolleyes: ) happily sells a full fucking range of guns and automatic rifles. Guess what has happened at the Wal Mart store in New Orleans... people have broken in and helped themselves to every weapon it had.
Hooray for the brilliant gun freedom the US enjoys! How lucky and free the Americans are for it!
Are you being serious?
Do you think that the American government would take the PR disaster risk of delaying aid to the area because it was it had a high population of black folk? The American government are a lot of things but i think the obvious stupidity of such an act wouldn't bypass even them.
I think the delay in aid can certainly be largely contributed to the fact that hundreds of miles of land have been destored and are under water.
So a military machine can invade a nation thousands of miles away, but doesn't have the resources to support their own people?
TBH I don't think that it's as "black and white" as some have suggested, and I do think that geography is playing a huge part. But you do have to ask how well prepared the Govt was.
You also have to ask what Homeland Security have been doing when you consider that the scale of this is not far from the impact of a major terrorist incident. In the UK the emergency plan is the same for both natural and unnatural disasters. I'm wondering if that is the same in the US...
I don't think its a deliberate ploy, as in "lets let them niggers drown" (although I bet some people do think like that), but there's a definite dragging of heels - New Orleans is a poor area, these people have little power or influence so there's no advantage in rushing to help them.
I don't think there's any politcal advantage to be gained from rushing to help them. I think there's a lot to be lost from not rushing to help them.
Were levees up to scratch and did they offer optimum protection? Many are said to disagree. Apparently there was a lack of cash to deal with all the necessary upgrades and manteneance.
However you could argue that had New Orleans been a rich, mostly white well-to-do area no expense would have been spared in the construction and mainteneance of those defences.
Full story
One more reason why that cunt Bush and his government should put against a wall...
It think it is obvious they couldn't give a flying fuck about their citizens at all. They never prepare, they never act properly after the event, and they do like their long holidays with the citizens money and starting wars with no purpose.
Great Governemnt, eh?