Reid About It

I swear, the next person from FEMA who gets on television and complains about New Orleans should be covered in Snickers bars and airdropped in from thirty feet up with no repel line.

We know it's rough in there. We know it's a situation that the general public never thought would happen. But enough whining about conditions, and snipers, and roads, and electricity, and anything else. You have paid positions that have the word "emergency" in them. Move your ass.

How is it that September 11, 2001, we were able to mobilize and get help where it was needed in the worst surprise attack on our country in sixty years, but this time, we had a week's notice of the mother of all hurricanes charging towards New Orleans, and we can't get food and water in there four days later?

They're afraid of the gangs, and snipers. Of course the worst elements in society are rising up and threatening people, and trying to take power. That's what happens when there's no food and water.

And please, taking food and water is not "looting". George Bush has never missed a meal in his life that he was sober enough to wake up for, so don't start listening to him just because he cut his vacation short by a few days.

When the system breaks down, there's nothing wrong with doing what you have to to survive. It's not like Safeway is going to swim back into town, plug up a generator and start selling hamburgers. The government has let these people down, a little anarchy is to be expected when a situation is mishandled this badly.

You need food and water, or clothes, take them. You want to rob people, or steal jewelry or electronics that you'll never be able to plug in, I doubt very seriously if the troops that are called in will look kindly on you.