Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 20:12:06

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Chaya wrote:

> Ken McElhaney wrote:
> 
>> Over the weekend, ABC/Washington Post poll reveals that despite the
>> massive criticism aired 24/7 on Bush, most Americans just don't see it
>> that way;
>> 
>> http://tinyurl.com/8lbd5
>> 
>> And while the federal response was way too slow and disasters of this
>> size should NOT be handled by FEMA, but rather the US military (which
>> has no buerocracy to get in the way), I do have some questions for the
>> local 'n state authorities, namely;
>> 
>> Why did the Mayor of New Orleans wait until SUNDAY to order the
>> manditory evacuation of his city? 24 hours after both the govenor AND
>> Bush pleaded with him to do so?
>> 
>> Why didn't the Superdome & Convention Center have ANY water 'n food
>> supplies IF they were suppose to be shelters?
>> 
>> And if they weren't capable of handling that number of people, then
>> why didn't they use the school 'n tourist buses (there were over 500
>> that survived the hurricane) to start getting them out BEFORE the
>> flood waters cut off the city? In fact, why didn't they start moving
>> people out on Saturday?
>> 
>> When word of the water barriers breaking reached the gov's office on
>> Monday, why didn't she send in the National Guard (over 5,000 soldiers
>> who had already been activated) into New Orleans right away before the
>> flood waters cut off the city?
>> 
>> I think that after all this is over and the investigations are
>> concluded, we'll have a new FEMA director, a new federal system for
>> handling disaters of this massive size (which is larger than ANY in US
>> history), and hopefully New Orleans will have a new Mayor and perhaps
>> an actual plan to deal with a situation everyone knew could happen
>> over the past 40 years. 
> 
> 
> I would be very surprised if GWB fired anyone over this.  He only seems
> to can people who disagree with him, including the Director of the
> Bureau of Justice Statistics (who refused to bury statistical findings
> that racial profiling is alive and well). 
> 
> http://littlink.com/owv5y
> 

If all were equally likely to be stopped it doesn't sound like racial 
profiling.  Now, there were some problems with what happened afterwards, 
I'll agree.  But I thought racial profiling had to do with who got 
stopped.  Do I have the definition incorrect?

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