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i know. the saddest part is how humanity was lost. take away our luxuries, our houses, jobs, communication and we revert back to our animal instincts. survival. i don't understand how looting, raping, shooting is apart of survival though. a city is lost. it is sad.

you speak the truth

i like your blog shadowhawkrising, good mix of stuff

Unfortately, it's during disasters like Katrina that peoples true selves show through. You have the people that want to be greedy, selfish, and cruel, the people that just sit by and watch while doing nothing, and the people that step up and are willing to sacrifice to help save and/or help others.
It's people like this that make me sad and proud at the same time, to be an American.

i like bungie's lead in this. it is a golden opportunity for the gaming community to show that we are more than just some sex starved modders, adolescent adults, but that we are people with heart. just bought one of their kick ass t-shirts. your right binary, time to get off our asses.

Believe me, Kat, I know how you feel. I just found out about this getting back from San Fran.

My heart goes out to all the victims and those who lost loved ones. I've already bought a few Bungie "Fight the Flood" shirts and I'm donating my older car this weekend to the cause.

It isn't really that simple. New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin said in an interview on Thursday that while the worst of the looting is by drug addicts looking for a fix, a lot of it is people trying to get food and water to survive -- things that the government didn't supply in time.

The people that make me angry, the ones that sat and watched, are mostly the administration. Check out this timeline of Katrina, and what Bush and Rice were doing at the time.

ok the mayor of new orleans is a complete idiot, and hooray. another incident to blame the president...

i swear, the first thing this country does in any crisis is blame someone

seriously, i dont like the president much either but these fucking media leeches and reporters need to shut the fuck up and help, not sit and discuss it.

i work in a store in north louisiana that now has 4 employees from new orleans, all of which blame their own city and state for some of the crappy help its been getting....

the loss of life is horrible, but new orleans was a decadent, greedy, death filled city to begin with...

excuse me for my anger..

We think of you here in Sweden. What hits me the most is the tragedy of people loosing their children and family.

Hopefully this brings out the best in us; empathy and understanding, that could lead to the will to help.

I can understand why people steal food when they are hungry and get no help. But I can't understand rape and other crimes that took place in New Orleans...

wow. just wow.

"the loss of life is horrible, but new orleans was a decadent, greedy, death filled city to begin with..."

So you don't blame anyone, maddog.....but the victims.

your anger ain't excused.

The Feds ARE to fucking blame. The people running the country have no respect for a centralized government. They don't believe in it and they're doing everything they can to gut it.

why else put morons in charge of FEMA, an organisation that has been PROVEN to work in the past. New Orleans is a tragedy of epic proportions and the Feds failure to act quickly - Bush playing geetar why NO drowns - made it so.

And yeah, the local authorities are as much to blame. They believed the Feds would DO their jobs.

RG

"the loss of life is horrible, but new orleans was a decadent, greedy, death filled city to begin with..."

Which, you know, made it okay.

let me clarify then...the loss of life directly related to the hurricane is tragic

the loss of life as a result of raping, looting, shootings, etc., is just an echo of a city that was lost a long damn time ago.

Before everyone gets mad.. there is real truth in what he says. There are many urban cities, where the same thing would have happened. Can anyone say LA? The ugly side of things is a reflection of the hurt already instilled in the city long ago. I spend time there in my early 20's working in the homeless shelters, and I understand what he is talking about. The danger of parts of the city was beautifully mirrored by the most amazing hearts in our country. Poverty there was not the same as you know it. It was an opressive way of life. The fact many of you only know about it now is the part that really upsets me.

Very well put

Well couple of things. One, FEMA,the states,and even the cities warned people in plenty enough time that the storm was coming. Even when it reached Cat 4 and was the size of 3 states they kept telling people (in a summarized sense) "Get out! Huge fucking storm coming!" A lot of people chose not to leave because they thought they could ride it out. Once again, humans underestimating mother nature. She'll kick your ass every time if she wants, its just best to get out of her way.
Two, People blame FEMA,the states,the cities, etc. for the delay in relief. Well yes that's true it does ultimately fall to their hands and they screwed it up pretty bad. My major beef is with the president. Instead of staying in Washington, meeting with advisors for plans of relief efforts after the storm, he's flying around the country (around the storm mind you) to go to photo ops. They KNEW for years that if a storm that size hit there it would destroy a large part of the city, but hell, I guess looking good on CNN is better than planning relief efforts.
Three, Yes New Orleans had a very dark, "seedy" side to it. Yes there were a lot of drug addicts, people in poverty, criminals, etc. Does that excuse their actions? No. There's a large difference between looting an area for food because you're trying to survive and looting an electronics store for a TV or a casino for money.

On a side note, why the hell would you loot a TV in New Orleans after that storm? Where the fuck are you going to plug it in at?

"A lot of people chose not to leave because they thought they could ride it out."

More like they didn't own a car couldn't afford a bus and hotel out of the city! But yeah, otherwise I'm with you :)