bubosquared | (no subject)

I've not said anything about the Katrina situation, because everyone else has already been saying it better than I could, but I think you should all read this and this, because this specific aspect of the whole thing is making me more sick than anything. It's not even just the fact that tens of thousands of people were left behind to die in the flood because they have no cars or other means to leave, and that "mandatory evacuation" apparently does not mean actually providing buses and trains for people to actually, you know, evactuate. No, let's add insult to injury and pretend that the people who stayed behind did so because they're stupid and stubborn and chose to, for whatever reason, and then when they go and take food from the stores, food that will go bad by the time the waters subside, let's call it looting and threaten to arrest them for it!

I really hate people sometimes.

(Secret message to the Belgians on my friendslist: am I the only one who keeps flashing back to Oosterschelde, Windkracht 10?)

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No, let's add insult to injury and pretend that the people who stayed behind did so because they're stupid and stubborn and chose to, for whatever reason, and then when they go and take food from the stores, food that will go bad by the time the waters subside, let's call it looting and threaten to arrest them for it!

It's a defense mechanism. Well, for some people it is. They don't want to admit that so many people were left behind to drown, so they're telling themselves that these were hardy Americans into self-reliance. Either that, or disgusting criminals who stayed behind to loot.

Oh, yes. And it's understandable, in a way, but also maddening and infuriating--especially the fact that the media is keeping mum about this as well, that no one in the press seems to be calling the authorities on this spectacular fuck-up.

That was me, by the way. I just forgot to log in...