NCL, that's what I'm talking about! I caught a little bit of coverage today. First off, they (FEMA, various states, American Red Cross and everyone else who can) are dropping in food, water and all the rest. But there is no way to get it moved around and no one to keep it honest.
I can't imagine that what's going on on the ground is all that different from what happened in Miami/Homestead after Andrew. Granted, it wasn't quite so devistating. Everybody knew it would be cleaned up and rebuilt fairly routinely. But, for a number of days, there was no communication, no money, no cops, no firemen, no hospitals no driving. All hell did break loose.
The local media responded by interviewing people who were ready to shoot to protect home and family and then featuring those interviews at least hourly. They never played it asif looting and lawlessness were the primary concern. They reported on the Mikasukee(sp?) brought boats, food, water and building materials to the Seminols. They implored people to send money, food, water, but to do it through the authorities. Some people ignored that and went in anyway if they could.
I know they understated resulting deaths. I knew a doctor who went down there to help. I worked for his answering service. He told us about refrigerated tractor trailers loaded w/ bodies waiting for autopsy and he had done hundreds in a couple of days already. Then there were the hospitals that didn't get power restored or critical patients evacuated before their backup generators ran out of fuel.
They're playing it differently this time around. Why would they do that? Then, in the next breath, you mention 9/11. I don't even want to think they'll spin this for increased political power as they did the last major shakeup. But then, wtf is w/ Chavez's offers to send aid, oil and
eye surgery???? Then consider that it is only about a 20 min trip to the lands of narcoterror by puddle hopper. I'm thinkin' they may do just that.
Then what, Pooh?
Who would believe that a democratic government would pursue for eight decades a failed policy that produced tens of millions of victims and trillions of dollars of illicit profits for drug dealers, cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, increased crime and destroyed inner cities, fostered widespread corruption and violations of human rights - and all with no success in achieving the stated and unattainable objective of a drug free America?
--Milton Friedman, winner of 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize for economic science
