From: Ed (mojoedd@bellsouth.net)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 13:46:01 PDT
Well said Sir, VERY well said indeed!
Ed
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Subject: Re: [MV] Battle of New Orleans - 2005
> M35a2 comment at bottom:
>
> O.T. (skip this part)
>
> As the Mayor of New Orleans so rightly said, "Adversity does not create
> character it reveals it." How true it is too and just look at what we are
> seeing!
>
> Whatever was there in that southern region waiting to come out, held in
> check for so many years by any number of things, has now been unleashed
> and is running rampant thru New Orleans. It is anarchy.
>
> It's unbelievable.
>
> Those criminals we sometimes call "##### Americans" have done themselves
> no favor and have setback the ##### cause a 100 years. It give us a
> glimpse at what the future may hold in so many other urban areas where the
> system might break down and this segment of our population is left to
> their devices...it's a worst fear situation that has to be delt with.
>
> There are ##### robbing ##### victims at the shelters, ##### looting en
> masse, ##### gangs shooting at helicopters to keep rescue workers out of
> the areas where they are looting and just the sheer savagery of ##### gone
> wild, committing crimes in huge numbers. It causes me to say this without
> a shred of prejudice, just merely as a witness to the facts as they unfold
> on TV.
>
> America better get it's house in order and get ALL it's people up to speed
> as humans, because we obviously have a good percentage of our population
> that turns into monsters when there is no law to stop them.
>
> I exclude ALL people of any color who are looting for food, water or
> shelter just to survive and of course it excludes what is likely the
> majority of ##### Americans who are NOT committing any crime. Those
> people are the first who have a right to condemn those other ##### for
> what is the worst behavior seen since the Watts riots. It's making all
> of ##### America look bad. It's unbelievable and despite what millions of
> people are seeing on tv, we are loath to speak a word about bad #####
> behavior for fear of being called a racist and why I will let you insert
> your own word for #####.
>
> When I was 9 years old I went through a smaller, but not dissimilar flood
> and none of this crime we now see in New Orleans ever happened. It was
> just a north state community problem, hundreds of thousands of people were
> flooded out and those people eventually dug themselves out of it. So it's
> not like our people didn't have the chance to behave badly, they sure did,
> but they just didn't. The difference between these two events was not
> the size of the event, but the type of people involved.
>
> M35A2: I hope old Sarge makes it thru ok and gets that food and water to
> where it belongs. He's got the right vehicle...M35A2! That will take a
> good 4 to 5 feet of water with ease. There's a lot of them at work there
> already, a whole lot more of them than the new LMTV's...which seems kinda
> odd. Did we send all those new vehicles to Iraq?
>
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