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to: Gary Britt
from: Glenn Meadows
date: 2005-09-04 21:44:48
subject: Re: Katrina: deep thoughts

From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Gary,

Let's change it to incompetent leadership, and leave the race out of it.  I
think that there are some pretty incompetent white city leaders as well,
who could have done just as good a job bungling this as well.

--

Glenn M.
"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:431a0768$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Your points are valid George, but they do not contradict the fact that the
> New Orleans wasn't flooded after the storm.  Then the levies broke and
> everyone knew the city was going to completely flood in a slow motion two
> day process.  It took two days for the city to completely flood and become
> so impassable.  If the city leadership had been competent they would have
> brought the buses in, food, water, more police, got the governor to bring
> in
> the national guard troops, etc., maintain order, and there wouldn't have
> been the crises at the dome and convention center, etc.  It was the
> incompetent black city leadership that told everyone to go to the dome and
> then did NOTHING else to think even ONE DAY ahead.
>
> The real question is would Rudy with two days post storm ending notice
> that
> people were going to be stranded without food, water, protection, etc.
> have
> gotten buses and things organized to move, protect, feed, secure, etc.
> these
> people.  The answer is YES he would have.   So would have you, or me, or
> any
> other competent individual.  The black leadership of this black city
> screwed
> over thousands and thousands of blacks, and now they want to divert
> attention to some white guy 2000 miles away.  The fault lies with the
> democrap Black Mayor, the democrap Black Police Chief, and the white
> democrap Governor of Louisiana.
>
> Gary
>
>
> "Geo"  wrote in message
news:4319f484$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Rudy's problems stopped getting worse by the end of day 1. If they
>> hadn't,
>> the communications blackout would have proven a huge problem that
> prevented
>> Rudy from doing much of anything to prevent further damage. I mean what
>> if
>> al Qaeda had run around the city for the next 5 days setting fires, do
>> you
>> really think Rudy could have delt with that? His problem was confined to
>> a
>> block or two and it took a week before it was under control.
>>
>> Geo.
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:4319e5ce$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> > They knew for two days that the city was going to be underwater after
> the
>> > levy's broke, but still the incompetent black city leadership did
> NOTHING,
>> > except things that exacerbated the problems for many.  Then these
>> > incompetent black leaders rant and rave about the problems being caused
> by
>> > the white devils not in charge, so they can try and avoid the blacks
> they
>> > screwed over in the city rightfully blaming the black city leader's
>> > incompetence.
>> >
>> > Gary  to
>> > hit the towers.  If he had, he wouldn't have told all the poor blacks
>> > in
>> the
>> > city to congregate inside the towers which is pretty much what the
>> > black
>> > city leaders in New Orleans did to the poor blacks there.>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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