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Originally posted by PM_Mama00
Nowhere did I say that these people don't deserve better treatment. I think it's disgusting to, as someone said in another thread, "bite the hand that feeds you". WHY should the people in these Texas towns, such as what Kevlar described, have to live in fear now because of the hoodlums that came over with the well-deserving people? It's not fair to them. It's not fair that they could possibly paint a negative reputation for all of the "refugees" that want the help and are not acting like animals.
I just feel compelled to disagree 110% with you. You speak about fairness as if anything that has happened in the last week is fair. It isn't 'fair' that people have lost their homes and everything that they've worked for. It isn't 'fair' that expecting moms have waited for nine months to see their children only to have them die b/c they were born into deplorable conditions. It isn't fair that families have been ripped apart and devastated. However, this is the situation that we are ALL faced with, and we just have to deal. Unfortunately that includes the residents of all the cities that these victims have to evacuate to.
I understand that in these conditions people can start to go "crazy" like Dee described, but those who are caught doing these things should be held and taken back to the Superdome. Let them form their own little colony of felons. I don't think the intaking cities should have to suffer their liberty and freedom after offering a great situation of help.
I don't even know if you're serious here or just frustrated. There are people who have legitimate mental issues who have been w/o medicines for several days. Now I have seen people who are generally very calm and loveable transform into entirely different persons when w/o their medicines. Are you suggesting that we should throw away these people's lives by leaving them in the city/Superdome (amongst lawlessness, disease, and starvation) to die b/c this disaster has rendered them incapable of maintaining their normal stable mental state? There are people who have looted for survival. Now the president said that there should be zero tolerance, so should we follow your contingency plan and leave those people too? There are drug addicts who have been w/o a fix in weeks and are beginning to flip out. Now it may seem easy for you to toss away the crack addict 'Tyronne Bigums' character, but do you feel the same way about the suburban housewife who has been struggling with a crystal meth addiciton and has begun to resort to crimes to get her fix? Should we toss her in the Superdome to fend for herself too? Now I know that you might say, well these aren't the people that I'm talking about. I mean the regular theives and murders who do this type of thing for fun and are just taking advantage of the situation. Honestly, I don't doubt that these people are out there, but how are you supposed to separate the 2. We don't have time/manpower to review each situation on a case by case basis. Furthermore we certainly don't have the police power to cart all of these criminals back to the Superdome even if we were going to go with this 'let them kill themselves' plan of attack. If they had that much police power, then the situation wouldn't have gotten out of control in the 1st place. Lastly, how are we supposed to take back the Superdome when this is all over? Do you think that they will all just kill themselves off, or are we just going to come in and shoot everybody, cart the bodies away, and call it a sunny day in the city? Again, I can't tell if you're just frustrated, or if you just really care so little for SOME human lives.
Yes I said animals. And it has nothing to do with race.
OK last point. I just found this statement really interesting b/c I think that your post is an exaggeration of the attitude that existis in the country on a larger scale. This whole, segregate them from the remainder of 'good society' and let them kill themselves off mentality #1 sadly only increases the divide btwn economic classes in the country (and ultimately btwn races), #2 only amplifies disasters like this one where you have large communities of people too poor to help themselves and are stuck relying on assistance, and #3 doesn't do anything to actually reduce the actual problems. Why do we have such large ghettos of poor people in this country and others around the world? It seems a little too easy to just move away, and wipe your hands of the 'less desirable' elements. It is too easy for us to say, "oh they should have helped themselves." This whole throw away attitude is why you have portions of the city that get lesss city services, less aide and attention, and are allowed to spiral so that the poor of society are victims to the criminal element. I can't help but to think that what happens everyday in every major city paralells what happened this past week in NO. I really appreciate how the nation has banded together this week to provide assistance to those who are in need. It has truly been a beautiful site. However, I hope that some of the people will make helping these same people escape poverty permanently a part of their everyday agenda even after this crisis has passed.
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