Rescuers Fired Upon. What Should Be The Response?

[Patroklos]

you are joking right? Most of those warships just left Norfolk. Including a nuclear aircraft carrier that takes a long time to start their nuclear reactors (esp if they are in cold layup). This could have been done last saturday or sunday. It's going to take a long time to get from Norfolk to New Orleans area.

The ships from Gulfport sortied before the storm, and are still in the Gulf, the Baatan was in the Gulf already, the Shreveport and the Ashland left early Monday morning, are there already. Easily verified informantion.

you have to be kidding. we had days to prepare for the storm and it brought the whole area to its knees.and help,where coming, isnt nearly fast enough

As you so aptly put, the area was brought to its knees, so why do you think thousands of aid workers getting in and 10,000 of people getting out should be an instantaneous thing?

[Kataphraktoi]

if things had been prepared,there wouldnt be people starving and dying from lack of medical attention. instead an orderly plan could have been followed to minimize damage as soon as the hurricane showed up. instead theres anarchy.

[Footie Mad]

The disaster in New Orleans has led to some sensational scientific breakthroughs.

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[chequita guevara]

Footie reposting KKK propaganda

[Footie Mad]

Oh sorry I didn't know it was intended in such a manner, never even thought of the whole racial aspect.

[Pekka]

PC people have hard time forgetting their racial prejudices .
Yeah I KNOW CHE!

Anyway, this issue is again coming as racial issue. It ruins the whole thing IMO. First off there might be and I predict is racism involved, but, the whole looting thing, so what, no one is a looter now because some media made bad wordings?

OK then.. what ever.. I hope I don't get called a racist and genocidial when I say shoot the looters. Regardless of colour.

[OzzyKP]

Originally posted by Ninot
I dont know what thread to post this, so i'll just post it here.

I was watching CNN this morning, and Miles O'Brien was showing pictures of all the devastation and people in the streets, and describing some of the stories about the hoodlums firing weapons. Generally describing the anarchy of it all.

And everytime he was just about done describing it, he would say something along the lines of

"It's almost impossible to believe that we're looking at a part of the United States".

I"m sure if it happened in Sweden or Canada or something, your broadcasters would be saying the same thing.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by OzzyKP


I"m sure if it happened in Sweden or Canada or something, your broadcasters would be saying the same thing.

If they did, they'd still be **** heads for saying it.

[chequita guevara]

I'm sorry, but it is beyond belief that this has happened in the continental U.S. Obviously we can't stop hurricanes from coming, but there is absolutely no good reason for the human tragedy that was allowed to happen.

[Ninot]

In response to Ozzie: I'm sure some silly Canadian broadcaster will say something stupid, but my city has been in disaster mode (not like NO, but the ice storm in 98 was pretty major for us, shutting down the city for about 2 weeks). I've seen my local news reporters cover disasters, and they're not as dumb as some CNN folk I've seen.

But i concede the point, theres always someone who thought disaster never possible in their own land.

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Patroklos
, including 3 large deck amphibs offshore.
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4 Amphibs, Bataan, Iwo Jima, Shreveport, and Tortuga

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


There will be 50,000 soldiers in the area by next week, not that it matters much. Anyone still there by next week will probably be dead.

Yeah, I'm going to be one of them too.

Given our orders and rules, someone's definitely going to get shot.

[General Ludd]

Hopefully it's not you.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

Oh, I plan on staying as far away from the muzzles of the yahoos I'm going with as possible.

And taking lots of first aid bandages.

[MOBIUS]

Originally posted by GhengisFarb
Oh, I plan on staying as far away from the muzzles of the yahoos I'm going with as possible.

And taking lots of first aid bandages.

Kinda reminds me of that movie Southern Comfort. That was a ****ed up movie, and I am perfectly prepared to believe that sort of **** really happens in the NG



Kinda apt considering you're headed for Louisiana - don't go borrowing any boats if you get lost in the Bayou...