And some days you just feel like the harbinger of doom...

[whometense]

Incredible post http://chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/2005/09/grim-prophesy.html">here. Unfortunately, I find this makes way too much sense to me. I don't believe ineptitude of this magnitude is accidental.

Grim Prophesy...

A year or so ago, Senator John Kerry stood up before the world and said that He and Senator John Edwards had the "Right Values" to lead this Nation.

How right he was.

The chaos, casualties and needless loss of life that attends upon Hurricane Katrina are not the function of mere bureaucratic snafus or ill-preparedness or whatever today's excuse happens to be.

No..the current catastrophe is entirely the result of the wrong values being preached and acted upon at the very topmost echelon of this Republic. If you believe as George Bush does that the proper role of the Federal Government is to be a bodyguard to the Praetorian Class, war machine of choice and nothing else then the Katrina chaos is inevitable as night follows day.

A contempt for Federal activism and a fanatical wish to sever the public's occasional dependence on said action can be the only reason why FEMA and other agencies have been crammed full of crooks, laggards and hopeless ineptoids.

Forget the fact that the public has a constitutional right to expect such action, men must fit the praetorian ideology no matter what!
If your own personal ideology hold no brief for successful Federal action of any type, then get ready for ever more Katrinas...because this is the heartfelt belief of not only President Bush but VP Cheney and most of the men who aspire to the 2008 GOP Nomination for President.

Hell some of them will never admit it, but they are very much satisfied with the current outrage at FEMA etc...since by their debased beliefs this increases anger at the Federal Government and paves the way for the inevitable libertarian eschaton.
This is of couse, a value structure completely at odds with the majority of public opinion in the USA. Alas however the Praetorian Class and their clients in the GOP have never found this to be any barrier to gaining and holding power in the USA.

In short....this is only the beginning my friends.
- posted by John @ 10:23 AM

[Mass]

1. Unfortunately so true

You can see happen in the media day after day. By emphasizing the private aids and faith-based aids, the media are preparing the fact that we dont need FEMA and the federal government to help in such disaster.

We need people to stand up against that.


Here is the URL for what chimesatmidnight (I love this site) http://www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/. It is in my bookmark list just under yours.

[whometense]

2. Aw, thanks!

:blush:

I love that site - I read it every day, and he's almost always 100% on target.

[Mass]

3. I reposted it on GDP.

[TayTay]

4. Maybe, but they are talking to the people who DO need it

That argument can be fought. No one wants to give help to the 'undeserving.' And no one finds themselves 'undeserving' when their time comes and a huge blizzard causes damage to their home and neighborhoods or when the flood waters that never rose before, suddenly rise. Then they become innocent victims and need help.

We need to connect the fact that 'taxes are the price you pay for civilization.' That this is not undeserving, but something that might strike anyone at anytime and that a good government is one that is prepared to step in and help and mitigate the damage.

Sigh! We need to find where we share common ground, not where we share common hatreds and prejudices.

[sandnsea]

7. Corporatization of Katrina

I think this must be it, it's going perfectly according to Republicanism. Massive checks to corporations, PR campaigns, and charities for the daily grind. There was a report today that FEMA still hasn't been seen in some parts of Mississippi.

Wrote this on Monday:

http://www.lightupthedarkness.org/blog/?view=plink&id=1346

[ginnyinWI]

5. well, they are just deluded if they think that.

We need government to oversee disasters--that's never been plainer, now that government has failed. The rest of the groups are simply not enough. I think most of America realizes this.

[whometense]

6. I think you're right about that.

But this is where I come up empty: What happens next? What happens to the feelings of unhappiness/misery in the populace? Do we have to wait till 2006? And even then, can we count on elections to be honest??