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I don't think the administration wants people to die, I think it's just their culture, where making decisions don't come quickly or easily, and they aren't comfortable acting spontaneously and trying Plan B when Plan A doesn't work. The non-governmental people, like the staff of the hospitals and the hotel management, are making do and finding some way to cope. But that's foreign to government philosphy, where things have to be signed off on and vetted.
Of course, the fact that even gov't people in an emergency service think this way is incredible, but the head of FEMA's been on every talk show in creation today, and it's clear he does. It's also clear he thinks his job is public relations, since he's apparently done nothing but give interviews.
(no subject)
I am normally a very even-tempered person, but I nearly hit Hulk Smash! levels earlier when he was on CNN snarking about how maybe next time people should listen when they're told to evacuate. As the network is showing video footage of elderly people in wheelchairs and impoverished mothers with newborns. That really didn't do much to raise my opinion of his competence or his compassion.
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I don't think I saw that particular interview, or not all of it, but it seemed like every time I flipped a channel this evening, he was there, and every time I checked a blog during the day, he was being quoted.
I wouldn't mind if he had a competent subordinate running things, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.fema.brown/index.html
Fucker.
(no subject)
See, this is what makes me think the black-hearted bastard might also be a little crazy. How can he feign to not know that a lot of people had no means? How? The instant the evac order went out, every story noted that the aged, the infirm and the very poor had no means to leave, and even then people were asking: why not send in trucks, buses, ferries? How can he pretend he didn't hear what every viewer in the US heard? He has to be defective in the head.
Brown was upbeat in his assessment of the relief effort so far, ticking off a list of accomplishments: more than 30,000 National Guard troops will be in the city within three days
*emits first blue cussing streak of the day* That shit. Everybody knows the Guard is there -- but they're NOT HANDING OUT SUPPLIES or EVACUATING WITH ANY KIND OF DISPATCH. They seem to have orders to stop looting and maintain order, no more -- the victims need food, water, and a ride the hell out there. Troops simply being there doesn't mean squat -- but he repeats it, like a god damned parrot, every time he gets his smug, facile, odious self onscreen, which seems to be every five minutes.
I'm writing to my congressman. It may be wasted effort (I don't think much of my congressman) but somebody needs to start clamoring for an investigation and accountability.
(no subject)
I still have no words. And that's probably good, because they wouldn't be ones my mother would approve of.
(no subject)
FEMA BOOBY: The plan is in effect and rescue operations are going forward. We have provided food and water to everyone at the Convention Center.
KOPPEL: With respect, sir, you have not.
FEMA BOOBY: We have.
KOPPEL *heatedly* Sir, the surviors at the Convention Center -- our reporters --
FEMA BOOBY: Uh, I meant the Astrodome. We've given people at the Astrodome food and water.
KOPPEL *incredulous* Sir, you told people to go to the Convention Center. They gathered there in the expectation that supplies would be waiting.
FEMA BOOBY: Now, really -- I -- I don't know that promise was made.
KOPPEL, overwhelmed by such obdurate stupidity, declines to ask why the fuck FEMA would direct survivors to a location FEMA never intended to supply with the barest means for the preservation of life. I, for my part, shriek into my couch pillow and heartily wish the FEMA BOOBY dead. By public hanging.