How can the US have a city in anarchy after 5 days?

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:23 am

btw i'm curious - was this hurricane powerful enough to toss people around in the air when it hit the land? Are there reports of people getting tossed around, or were most deaths due to drowning in fast currents/collapsing buildings?

Post by **prince1000** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:43 am

the storm that is a perfect metaphor for capitalism.

YOU ARE BLIND WHILE SHE COMES

Post by **Hannibal** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 5:54 am

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http://www.kget.com/news/national/story ... F18D488C69

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:00 am

prince1000 wrote:the storm that is a perfect metaphor for capitalism.

YOU ARE BLIND WHILE SHE COMES

An artist pontificates. Everyone listen.

Post by **prince1000** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:40 am

i'm an ageless empire. your faith is my gift.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:51 am

Holy Shit the governor has ordered the National Guard to "shoot to kill".

Post by **Grudge** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 6:57 am

They said on the radio this morning that they will bring troops home from Iraq, which will have orders to restore order "at any cost".

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:10 am

This is devastating:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/k ... index.html

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:42 am

Foo wrote:I'll check up on that because it was unconfirmed but from what I considered a reliable source.

Edit: Another interesting bit of info:
"National Guard shoving water off the backs of trucks. They're just pushing it off without stopping, people don't even know it's there at first -- they drop it on the side in debris, there's no sign or distribution point -- people are scared to go near it at first, because the drop points are guarded by troops or federal agents with assault rifles who don't let people come near them, which scares people off. It is a mess. When people actually get to the water, they are in such a rush to get it that one family left their small child behind and forget about him until Sig carried him back to the family."

that's off that guy's blog. link?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:44 am

SplishSplash wrote:This is devastating:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/02/k ... index.html

"They have quite a few people running around here with guns," he said. "You got these young teenage boys running around up here raping these girls."

ffs

Post by **mjrpes** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 7:51 am

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
that's off that guy's blog. link?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

He's also the guy who hosts somethingawful and pulled the switch on them (to save bandwidth).

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:24 am

prince1000 wrote:the storm that is a perfect metaphor for capitalism.

YOU ARE BLIND WHILE SHE COMES

Go back to picking beans hippie.

Post by **Dek** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:36 am

Mr.Magnetichead wrote:The majority of people caught up in this are black.

I think from that we can just assume that black folks = dumb.

I'll I can say was when I was in New Orleans is I got robbed at knife point in the middle of a crowd, and nobody did a thing. Wife and I just gave over the cash, there was a cop on a horse about 20 feet away. It's just the New Orleans mentality, it's a dirty scummy city.

But fun to get drunk in..

Post by **raw** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:08 am

My brother said the same thing about NO last night. He said when he was there Bourbon Street was cool but everything else was a total ghetto.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:09 am

mjrpes wrote:
+JuggerNaut+ wrote:
that's off that guy's blog. link?
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

He's also the guy who hosts somethingawful and pulled the switch on them (to save bandwidth).

:lub:

Post by **Nightshade** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:53 am

SplishSplash wrote:Holy Shit the governor has ordered the National Guard to "shoot to kill".

That's because all those lovely inmates, addicts, and gangmembers and fucking shooting at people.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:59 am

it's still kind of extraordinary.

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 9:59 am

Nightshade wrote:
SplishSplash wrote:Holy Shit the governor has ordered the National Guard to "shoot to kill".
That's because all those lovely inmates, addicts, and gangmembers and fucking shooting at people.

Where do you even get dry guns in this situation?

Post by **Dek** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:01 am

Nightshade wrote:
SplishSplash wrote:Holy Shit the governor has ordered the National Guard to "shoot to kill".
That's because all those lovely inmates, addicts, and gangmembers and fucking shooting at people.

Only orders shoot to kill where if fired upon first, and secondly, a cop military person never shoots 'not' to kill. They are trained to shoot at center mass and if they are going to pull the trigger to inflict the most possible injury to take the subject out.

"Shoot to kill" sounds rough and all, but seriously, if it's got to have folks out there with machine guns, then yeah of course they are going to shoot to kill, they aren't their because they like to visit New Orleans.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:03 am

You convinced me. It's the most natural thing in the world.

Post by **Dek** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:14 am

SplishSplash wrote:You convinced me. It's the most natural thing in the world.

Fucking pacifists.. go outside in New Orleans and watch your girl get raped while they hold a gun to your head, see if you don't wish someone was standing guard before you stepped out of the building..

fucking dumbasses.

Post by **SplishSplash** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:16 am

rofl. That's right. I refuse to acknowledge shooting people as an ordinary means of restoring order. That means I'm pro-rape.

Post by **Mr.Magnetichead** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:21 am

What else do you suggest they do? They have no power, the have no fuel, they have no water, they have no food, they've been on duty for 3 days, they have no communications, they have no prisons.

Post by **4days** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:24 am

duffman91 wrote:This is such a retarded thread. If the UK was submerged under water for half a day, I'm sure you wouldn't be joyfully drinking a cup of tea Foo.

was just sort of thinking that, but also trying to think of comparable situations and i'm coming up blank. did they have this level of societal collapse anywhere following that tsunami?

Post by **Nightshade** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:24 am

Dek wrote:
Nightshade wrote:
SplishSplash wrote:Holy Shit the governor has ordered the National Guard to "shoot to kill".
That's because all those lovely inmates, addicts, and gangmembers and fucking shooting at people.
Only orders shoot to kill where if fired upon first, and secondly, a cop military person never shoots 'not' to kill. They are trained to shoot at center mass and if they are going to pull the trigger to inflict the most possible injury to take the subject out.

Bullshit. You shoot to kill in combat. In a situation like this you apply deadly force as a last resort, and you shoot to disable if you can. Not that that's very likely to happen.