BigBear57 offered the most reasonable thought that is not a totally piss poor excuse for that 1% of every population that always ruthlessly seizes every opportunity to add to the chaos of every situation. I know I don’t want to attend any parties with Bibi for any of her “Pure unadulterated happiness”. I truly doubt they were sending Morse code signals to the rescuers or to the New Orleans police department when they finally entered the Superdome. What it did show me was not that NOPD was overwhelmed by the scope of the entire horrific event, but that they were not able to deal with the most basic first function of their responsibility in subduing a handful of thugs that were endangering them and everyone else including any other assistance that was struggling to help.

I am most serious about this tragedy being something that has laid bare EVERY aspect of the inability of our total bureaucratic structure being the true remains of Katrina.

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