Jefferson Parish president Aaron Broussard on NBC's Meet The Press: bureaucracy has committed murder. In the end Broussard loses it and starts crying. I could barely watch this clip.
God, that's a terrible thing to watch. I had to cry along with him. What is it with the Americans? I'm starting to re-believe everything I once feared about them, including the conspiracy theories pepperlandgirl4 linked to. My God.
See, the thing is, I have travelled North America plenty of times, have worked there for weeks at a time in volunteer projects, and with very few exceptions, I have met only decent people. Okay, you get the occasional jackass, but you get those everywhere. The people I met were friendly, warm, helpful, welcoming, open-minded. Obviously one tends to hang with the kind of folks that are on the same wavelength, and I didn't exactly travel in redneck country. But really, that country is divided and for every... person who explains why the poor of NO dieing is a good thing and who believes that their property is more valuable than someone else's life, you get someone who's as shocked at that as you. More so, probably.
I just wish those decent folks would get their act together and claim their country back from the insane religious right.
I have stayed away from conspiracy theories so far... they're enticing, but not constructive. And I'm prone to getting sucked into stuff like that. And really, reading how FEMA was obstucting the local rescue efforts, it's hard to not cry conspiracy. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of those theories floating around right now?
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I just wish those decent folks would get their act together and claim their country back from the insane religious right.
I have stayed away from conspiracy theories so far... they're enticing, but not constructive. And I'm prone to getting sucked into stuff like that. And really, reading how FEMA was obstucting the local rescue efforts, it's hard to not cry conspiracy. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of those theories floating around right now?