Re: [MV] Battle of New Orleans - 2005

From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Thu Sep 01 2005 - 18:02:17 PDT


Out looking for money for their cause, whatever it is this week....

Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sonny Heath" <sonny@defuniak.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 7:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Battle of New Orleans - 2005

>I just left the City Hall in our little town of 6000, DeFuniak Springs, Fl.
>where a meeting was held to coordinate the running of our refugee shelter
>and what we can do to help these people. It was standing room only and
>that was out the door and on the steps going down a hill. I noticed four
>black Americans and two of them I recognized as (I believe) working for the
>county so they were sent there. Thats it, two people showed up out of
>roughly two hundred.
>
> I want to know where Jesse Jackson, the NAACP, Al Sharpton and all the
> rest of the leadership is? Have any of you heard from any of them? Where
> are they when their people need them?
>
> Sonny
>
>
>
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>
>> Thanks Ed, I know this is one touchy subject, but it affects us all and
>> its worth considering.
>>
>> It's kinda like we are all in one lifeboat. We gotta row together or we
>> will make no progress or worse we will go under.
>>
>> There are many life-threatening events ahead of us and time is not on our
>> side to prepare. This storm has pointed out yet another weakness in our
>> country, just like 9/11 did. It also shows just how much work remains to
>> build up a strong America that can withstand future challenges.
>>
>> Our first line of defense ought to be focusing on building up good moral
>> character right along side a love of country. But, our great melting pot
>> seems to have lost it's fire and it's a huge challenge to get people to
>> raise the "moral" bar. So many people are here to just take what they
>> can, when they can...it's never occured to them there might be a better
>> way.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Ed
>>> Well said Sir, VERY well said indeed!
>>>
>>> Ed
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>>>
>>>> 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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