Well...I am not going to do any "If I was there statements" but I am going to slap down some ideas to make you think. Things to keep in mind before you read this. I am a philosophy major, I have strange ideas, I make ghandi look like a raging right wing republican. Get ready for conspiracy theory.
I for one absolutely do NOT believe the government could not mobilize help until 5 days. That is complete and utter bullshit. How did we respond to 9/11 so quickly? How do we respond to EVERY OTHER NATURAL DISASTER SO QUICKLY? Because we could, because we have the power to, because even when we don't know that a disaster is comming we can respond to it(Although I still believe we allowed 9/11 to happen...we just didnt realize how much dmg it was actually going to do.). This was a test essentially of how our citizenry would react. And being the worthless pieces of shit that we are...we just how they wanted us to. This has shown how absolitely dependent we are on our government. What better way to rule your people than through making them feel helpless without you. I garuantee you the average american would slit his next door neighbor's throat to garuantee his own saftey.
Now for some stuff on the true conspiracy side. Three months before this Katrina hit something came up nationwide on our news. Terrorists had threatened us with a devistating attack. The EXACT date that Katrina hit happened to be the same date of this attack. Scientists around the world have been exploring weather manipulation for several years now and the technology is actually common place. We even use it here in Reno; we seed clouds so that it will snow and we can have better skiing. But the technology for creating something as unpredictible and strong as a huricane surely does not exist, right? Quite possibly wrong, several ex US CIA operatives have come forword saying the technology does indeed exist. The ex CIA say that the technology can be used to terraform a desert into a rainforest, frozen tundra into swamp land, and even create forces such as tornadoes and hurricanes. The hurricane managed to take the perfect path to hit the direct middle of NO, and I mean center as in mathmatically perfect middle of NO. However, it did not hit the center of NO...it suddenly made a change of direction at the last second and it headed east. What made it make this sudden movement? A burst of hot air comming down from a jetstream, that was in the OPPOSITE direction of the jetstream, forced the hurricane east. Our only defense was to blow it away as much as we could, it could not be reached earlier and obviously creating a hurricane to counteract the current hurricane wouldn't work, in fact that would make it even worst.
Ok, now onto how the people are acting in NO: the three big names from anchient philosophy come to mind. Plato and his hommies explain to us the dynamics of a mob. People act differently when so many of them assemble and are in one place. Your entire mindset changes when you are put into a situation like this and you feel that if you differntiate from the mob that you are an outcast and your since of being secure and safe is shattered. Thus you stand idley by as you watch young girls get brutally raped. Better her than you anyway, right?! It is empirically proven that people are amazed at other peoples misfortune and it hard to look away. A famous case of this was when an elderly lady was stabbed in an intersection and only 1 out of 37 people watching called the police...and that was nearly 7 minutes after it occured. When you pass a car wreck what do you do? You slow way the *&^% down and look...sadly the same thing goes for a rape. Further compounding this is the syndrome we all have called "Someone else will solve it" syndrome. This syndrome makes us sit idley by while the world passes us by, or in this case while girls are raped.
*pant pant* Ok, thats enough to distract you guys from your arguing for awhile. Time for you to argue with the nothern nevada debate champion and national qualifier in HS speech and debate =P.
Btw if anyone ever wants to know about anything out of the ordinary like conspiracy(not just about the US), aliens, giants, etc...just give me a pm...chances are I can share some knowledge and send you to some litterature on the subject not to mention some documented FACTS about things that will blow your mind, or at least they did mine.
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