[Shotimes] OT: Katrina Part-3

[Mike Wojton]

I'm not going to comment on the article, but I will say that if you want a
pretty good account of what was going on during and after the hurricane by
someone who was actually there stuck in a building, check out this site:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/2005/08/28/
 It is an online journal by a guy who stuck out the storm in his company's
building downtown. He, along with other employees, had a generator in the
building so he could keep the website up even after the power went out.
There are loads of pictures too. He had a live camera feed up. Some of it is
pretty creepy, especially as the storm became more violent than anybody
imagined.
  --
Mike Wojton
Dover, PA

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 On 9/15/05, Kevin & Cheryl Airth <clubairth@peoplepc.com> wrote:
>
> No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In fact,
> some are already actively distorting it, blaming President Bush, for
> example, for failing to personally ensure that the Mayor of New Orleans
> had
> drafted an adequate evacuation plan. The worst example is an execrable
> piece
> from the Toronto Globe and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the
> chaos on American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the
> opposite:
> the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact opposite of
> individualism.
>
> What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological consequences of
> the welfare state. What we consider "normal" behavior in an emergency is
> behavior that is normal for people who have values and take the
> responsibility to pursue and protect them. People with values respond to a
> disaster by fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome
> the
> difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that the
> government hasn't taken care of them. And they don't use the chaos of a
> disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow men.
>
> But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry about
> saving their houses and property? They don't, because they don't own
> anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen to their businesses
> or
> how they are going to make a living? They never worried about those things
> before. Do they worry about crime and looting? But living off of stolen
> wealth is a way of life for them.
>
> People living in piles of their own trash, while petulantly
> complaining that other people aren't doing enough to take care of them and
> then shooting at those who come to rescue them-this is not just a
> description of the chaos at the Superdome. It is a perfect summary of the
> 40-year history of the welfare state and its public housing projects.
>
> The welfare state-and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it sustains
> and encourages-is the man-made disaster that explains the moral ugliness
> that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the story that no one is
> reporting.
>
> Source: TIA Daily -- September 2, 2005
>
> [This article is available for reprinting free of charge. For the
> permission to reprint, write to editor@TIADaily.com. Click here for a
> shorter version of this article.]
>
> Additional comments on Katrina by Robert Tracinski in TIA Daily:
>
> The An Individualist Plan for Rebuilding
>
> The Hurricane of Anti-Americanism: The Blame Game's Real Target
>
> The Real "Two Americas"
>
> Lord of the Barflies
>
> More samples from TIA Daily