Bush and the hurricane

[eg420ne]

But go ahead and dont care just smoke ur pot and act like nothing wrong. We cant even smoke pot outside without fearing the police, neighbor telling the homeland Secruity on us. we have to be watch 24/7 Ifeel the efects of this Criminal government and if u say this is not a criminal govenment then i say you are a government borg or you have to take the blinders off.. thank God 4 cannabis i have to go roll me up one now....peace

[beatpixie]

Bush may have not caused the hurricane but he surely did not help the post situation by him and his administration cutting funding to secure the levees that surround new orleans five years in a row. The hurricane if you remember scaled eastward at the last minute making the situation in New Orleans not as horrible as expected until the Levees (that were never repaired/reinforced as instructed by MANY civil engineers) broke and the area was flooded under water. What my main complaint is how in the world could our government that sticks it neck out so often to help other countries leave these thousands of people to fend off such horrible conditions on their own for almost five days! Watch the news, watch anderson cooper screaming at the cameras wondering why he is in there on day two, with the rest of the media but NO help!!! Tell me if thousands of Natalie Holloways were drowning, starving and dying of illness for which they could not be treated would bush and his government wait five days to rescue them? I think not.
It is a matter of response time, or preparation for a disaster that this government has had plenty forewarnings about. Funny their was a New York Times article just one year ago in september spelling out what something like a category 3 hurricane could do to New Orleans and the levees and that engineers for the government were well aware of the implications. Why did our government not take the proper precautions and preparations to ensure that our people would be safe? Because we are too preoccupied with making corporations rich, keeping poor people poor and not caring if they die or not.
Bush did not cause a hurricane directly but he did let how many thousands of people die in the five days before he decided to act. Ask any of these people who are now trying to find their relatives, seek housing, find jobs and restart their lives if they think waiting five days for any help while they encounter horrific conditions and watch people deteriorate and die around them was worth the wait. Just ask them. I have family members who went through this and it is unbelievable that some of you on this site expect them to accept the fact that their leader, their president did nothing for them for almost a week while their fellow americans and children died.

[ArtRollins]

http://www.fema.gov/

Okay, I looked it up. What point are you trying to make?

WHoboy

FEMA are the people that did the investigation at 911 and determined that the CIA agent that was paid billions to help the USA, one Osama Bin Laden, had decided to send some planes into some buildings. FEMA, you know, the guys that find radon in the basement? Well, now they aint your grandfathers FEMA

FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested
charities to help the storm's hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red
Cross is first on the list. The Rev. Pat Robertson's "Operation Blessing"
is next on the list. Do you like cults?

Isnt it nice to have FEMA taking care of all our emergencies, or perhaps one needs to look a little more at just who and what they are????

I would have felt better if a crime like the demolition of the Twin Towers in NY were conducted as such by some agency like the FBI rather than FEMA, but there you go, GW wouldnt have it any other way.

So, what did YOU find at FEMA?

[GHoSToKeR]

Well, I don't know what point the guy was trying to make. So I found the site, but didn't know what it was the guy was telling me to look for, so i'm asking him to clarify.

By the way, i'm from the UK.... ("if u say this is not a criminal govenment then i say you are a government borg or you have to take the blinders off")

[beatpixie]

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/arc..._09/007023.php

this link is the timeline for the defunding by Fema of the Levie construction.

[eg420ne]

just sayin nothing what u Ghostoker said i was just putting it out there

[GHoSToKeR]

That's not surprising. I'm sure this won't be the last catastrophe to hit the US made worse by budget cuts and defunding. And we all know what that money is being spent on, right?

ArtRollins, are you seriously blaming the attack on the WTC on FEMA and the Bush administration? I'm as anti-Bush as the next guy, but even I don't believe that.

[beatpixie]

I don't think 9/11 was Bush's fault. The disregarding of the memo "Bin Laden determined to strike US" by Bush a little unnerving.

[ArtRollins]

I quite agree that there are no governments that are not criminal. Moreover that each of them is no longer a representative responsible government, but actually incorporated. Corporations, you know, they are just like your company, no different except for the extortion part. They dont "earn" money, they take it from the people that make it and give them back a bit while pocketing the rest. Life no? Limited liability makes for no exposure and the added immunity of office, well, the rest is clear.

Governments are the biggest shell game. Everyones, without doubt.

[ArtRollins]

Now widely reported on the net - German TV crews took longer to dismantle
their gear after the President's photo up yesterday (Friday), and were thus
able to capture the fact that all the bulldozers and recovery crews visible
in the background during Bush's appearance . . . packed up and left shortly
after he did.

german tv link:
http://www.tagesschau.de/video/0,131...AV_BAB,00.html

transcription and translation:
note, this is a live report from Biloxi.

TRANSCRIPTION

Zum letzten Stand jetzt live aus Biloxi Christine Adelhardt

Vor 2 Minuten ist hier gerade der Präsident in seinem Konvoi
vorbeigefahren. Was sich hier in Biloxi aber während des Tages abgespielt
hat, ist wirklich unglaublich. Plötzlich tauchten hier Bergungstrupps auf,
plötzlich waren hier Räumfahrzeuge, die hatte man die ganzen Tage hier
vorher nicht gesehen, und das in einem Gebiet, indem es wirklich nicht
notwendig wäre, gro� aufzuräumen, weil hier lebt weit und breit kein Mensch
mehr, die Menschen sind weiter innen in der Stadt. Der Präsident reist mit
einem Pressetross. Dieser Pressetross hat damit sehr schöne Bilder, die da
sagen sollen, der Präsident war da und die Hilfe, die wird auch kommen. Das
AusmaÃ? der Naturkatastrophe hat mich geschockt aber das AusmaÃ? der
Inszenierung hier heute schockt mich mindestens genauso. Damit zurück nach
Hamburg

TRANSLATION

On the last state of things here's Christine Adelhardt live from Biloxi

2 minutes ago the President drove past in his convoy. But what has happened
in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units
appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't been seen here all
the days before, and this in an area, in which it really wouldn't be
necessary to do a big clean up, because far and wide nobody lives here
anymore, the people are more inland in the city. The President travels with
a press baggage [big crew]. This press baggage got very beautiful pictures
which are supposed to say, that the President was here and help is on the
way, too. The extent of the natural disaster shocked me, but the extent of
the staging is shocking me at least the same way. With that back to Hamburg.