A Fine Example of Real Americans
Much of the reporting on the aftermath of Katrina revolves around who to blame and why the powers-that-be did not move faster to protect the little guy. Most people interviewed who have been rescued from New Orleans claim they either didn't have the money or resources to move or to protect themselves over the long term. This, we are told over and over, is the norm. People are just sheeple and need big Mama government to come and save them.
Then you see stories like this story on Fox News.
When night falls, Charlie Hackett climbs the steps to his boarded-up window, takes down the plywood, grabs his 12-gauge shotgun and waits. He is waiting for looters and troublemakers, for anyone thinking his neighborhood has been abandoned like so many others across the city.
Two doors down, John Carolan is doing the same on his screened-in porch, pistol by his side. They are not about to give up their homes to the lawlessness that has engulfed New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "We kind of together decided we would defend what we have here and we would stay up and defend the neighborhood," says Hackett, an Army veteran with a snow-white beard and a business installing custom kitchens.
"I don't want to kill anybody," he says, "but I'd sure like to scare 'em."
With generators giving them power, food to last for weeks and several guns each for protection, the men are two of a scattered community holed up across the residential streets of the city's Garden District, a lush neighborhood with many antebellum mansions.
These people have stuck together and are protecting themselves. One reason, it would appear is because they didn't want to leave their property to the mercy of thieves and looters. The other reason, it would seem, is because they feel they could do a better job than the government in protecting themselves.
Of course, you could make the argument that they appear to have spent lots of time stocking up and not everyone can do that. To which I reply BS! This is America. I've been poor, I've been poorer than poor, and lived around people just as poor, and amazingly we all still had multiple TV's, cable, fully stocked fridges, and enough money to get around on. There wasn't a reason, even with only a few day's notice, most people couldn't have focused the money to buy that extra pair of Nike's or even the utility and grocery buget into survival supplies, even from the gub'mint check so many use as their primary source of income.
They didn't do it because they expected the government to help them, and look what it cost us all. That is the true legacy of the socialist nanny state; a ruined city with hundreds of thousands of people blaming someone else for life's difficulties.
People like Charlie and John are the shining examples that remind us what is was like when the country was populated by real Americans, and maybe can be again some day.
Much of the reporting on the aftermath of Katrina revolves around who to blame and why the powers-that-be did not move faster to protect the little guy. Most people interviewed who have been rescued from New Orleans claim they either didn't have the money or resources to move or to protect themselves over the long term. This, we are told over and over, is the norm. People are just sheeple and need big Mama government to come and save them.
Then you see stories like this story on Fox News.
When night falls, Charlie Hackett climbs the steps to his boarded-up window, takes down the plywood, grabs his 12-gauge shotgun and waits. He is waiting for looters and troublemakers, for anyone thinking his neighborhood has been abandoned like so many others across the city.
Two doors down, John Carolan is doing the same on his screened-in porch, pistol by his side. They are not about to give up their homes to the lawlessness that has engulfed New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. "We kind of together decided we would defend what we have here and we would stay up and defend the neighborhood," says Hackett, an Army veteran with a snow-white beard and a business installing custom kitchens.
"I don't want to kill anybody," he says, "but I'd sure like to scare 'em."
With generators giving them power, food to last for weeks and several guns each for protection, the men are two of a scattered community holed up across the residential streets of the city's Garden District, a lush neighborhood with many antebellum mansions.
These people have stuck together and are protecting themselves. One reason, it would appear is because they didn't want to leave their property to the mercy of thieves and looters. The other reason, it would seem, is because they feel they could do a better job than the government in protecting themselves.
Of course, you could make the argument that they appear to have spent lots of time stocking up and not everyone can do that. To which I reply BS! This is America. I've been poor, I've been poorer than poor, and lived around people just as poor, and amazingly we all still had multiple TV's, cable, fully stocked fridges, and enough money to get around on. There wasn't a reason, even with only a few day's notice, most people couldn't have focused the money to buy that extra pair of Nike's or even the utility and grocery buget into survival supplies, even from the gub'mint check so many use as their primary source of income.
They didn't do it because they expected the government to help them, and look what it cost us all. That is the true legacy of the socialist nanny state; a ruined city with hundreds of thousands of people blaming someone else for life's difficulties.
People like Charlie and John are the shining examples that remind us what is was like when the country was populated by real Americans, and maybe can be again some day.
posted by Rob Beck | 6:55 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home