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WelfareObserver
An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster
of the Welfare State
An Objectivist Review
by Robert Tracinski | The Intellectual Activist
September 2, 2005
It has taken four long days for state and federal officials to
figure out how to deal with the disaster in New Orleans. I can't
blame them, because it has also taken me four long days to
figure out what is going on there. The reason is that the events
there make no sense if you think that we are confronting a
natural disaster.
If this is just a natural disaster, the response for public
officials is obvious: you bring in food, water, and doctors; you
send transportation to evacuate refugees to temporary shelters;
you send engineers to stop the flooding and rebuild the city's
infrastructure. For journalists, natural disasters also have a
familiar pattern: the heroism of ordinary people pulling
together to survive; the hard work and dedication of doctors,
nurses, and rescue workers; the steps being taken to clean up
and rebuild.
Public officials did not expect that the first thing they would
have to do is to send thousands of armed troops in armored
vehicle, as if they are suppressing an enemy insurgency. And
journalists--myself included--did not expect that the story
would not be about rain, wind, and flooding, but about rape,
murder, and looting.
But this is not a natural disaster. It is a man-made disaster.
The man-made disaster is not an inadequate or incompetent
response by federal relief agencies, and it was not directly
caused by Hurricane Katrina. This is where just about every
newspaper and television channel has gotten the story wrong.
The man-made disaster we are now witnessing in New Orleans did
not happen over the past four days. It happened over the past
four decades. Hurricane Katrina merely exposed it to public view.
The man-made disaster is the welfare state.
For the past few days, I have found the news from New Orleans to
be confusing. People were not behaving as you would expect them
to behave in an emergency--indeed, they were not behaving as
they have behaved in other emergencies. That is what has shocked
so many people: they have been saying that this is not what we
expect from America. In fact, it is not even what we expect from
a Third World country.
When confronted with a disaster, people usually rise to the
occasion. They work together to rescue people in danger, and
they spontaneously organize to keep order and solve problems.
This is especially true in America. We are an enterprising
people, used to relying on our own initiative rather than
waiting around for the government to take care of us. I have
seen this a hundred times, in small examples (a small town whose
main traffic light had gone out, causing ordinary citizens to
get out of their cars and serve as impromptu traffic cops,
directing cars through the intersection) and large ones (the
spontaneous response of New Yorkers to September 11).
So what explains the chaos in New Orleans?
To give you an idea of the magnitude of what is going on, here
is a description from a Washington Times story:
"Storm victims are raped and beaten; fights erupt with flying
fists, knives and guns; fires are breaking out; corpses litter
the streets; and police and rescue helicopters are repeatedly
fired on.
"The plea from Mayor C. Ray Nagin came even as National
Guardsmen poured in to restore order and stop the looting,
carjackings and gunfire....
"Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-
hardened Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans
with shoot-to-kill orders.
"'These troops are...under my orders to restore order in the
streets,' she said. 'They have M-16s, and they are locked and
loaded. These troops know how to shoot and kill and they are
more than willing to do so if necessary and I expect they will.'
"
The reference to Iraq is eerie. The photo that accompanies this
article shows National Guard troops, with rifles and armored
vests, riding on an armored vehicle through trash-strewn streets
lined by a rabble of squalid, listless people, one of whom
appears to be yelling at them. It looks exactly like a scene
from Sadr City in Baghdad.
What explains bands of thugs using a natural disaster as an
excuse for an orgy of looting, armed robbery, and rape? What
causes unruly mobs to storm the very buses that have arrived to
evacuate them, causing the drivers to drive away, frightened for
their lives? What causes people to attack the doctors trying to
treat patients at the Super Dome?
Why are people responding to natural destruction by causing
further destruction? Why are they attacking the people who are
trying to help them?
My wife, Sherri, figured it out first, and she figured it out on
a sense-of-life level. While watching the coverage last night on
Fox News Channel, she told me that she was getting a familiar
feeling. She studied architecture at the Illinois Institute of
Chicago, which is located in the South Side of Chicago just
blocks away from the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the largest
high-rise public housing projects in America. "The projects," as
they were known, were infamous for uncontrollable crime and
irremediable squalor. (They have since, mercifully, been
demolished.)
What Sherri was getting from last night's television coverage
was a whiff of the sense of life of "the projects." Then the
"crawl"--the informational phrases flashed at the bottom of the
screen on most news channels--gave some vital statistics to
confirm this sense: 75% of the residents of New Orleans had
already evacuated before the hurricane, and of the 300,000 or so
who remained, a large number were from the city's public housing
projects. Jack Wakeland then gave me an additional, crucial
fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had
no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--
so they just let many of them loose. There is no doubt a
significant overlap between these two populations--that is, a
large number of people in the jails used to live in the housing
projects, and vice versa.
There were many decent, innocent people trapped in New Orleans
when the deluge hit--but they were trapped alongside large
numbers of people from two groups: criminals--and wards of the
welfare state, people selected, over decades, for their lack of
initiative and self-induced helplessness. The welfare wards were
a mass of sheep--on whom the incompetent administration of New
Orleans unleashed a pack of wolves.
All of this is related, incidentally, to the apparent
incompetence of the city government, which failed to plan for a
total evacuation of the city, despite the knowledge that this
might be necessary. But in a city corrupted by the welfare
state, the job of city officials is to ensure the flow of
handouts to welfare recipients and patronage to political
supporters--not to ensure a lawful, orderly evacuation in case
of emergency.
No one has really reported this story, as far as I can tell. In
fact, some are already actively distorting it, blaming President
Bush, for example, for failing to personally ensure that the
Mayor of New Orleans had drafted an adequate evacuation plan.
The worst example is an execrable piece from the Toronto Globe
and Mail, by a supercilious Canadian who blames the chaos on
American "individualism." But the truth is precisely the
opposite: the chaos was caused by a system that was the exact
opposite of individualism.
What Hurricane Katrina exposed was the psychological
consequences of the welfare state. What we consider "normal"
behavior in an emergency is behavior that is normal for people
who have values and take the responsibility to pursue and
protect them. People with values respond to a disaster by
fighting against it and doing whatever it takes to overcome the
difficulties they face. They don't sit around and complain that
the government hasn't taken care of them. They don't use the
chaos of a disaster as an opportunity to prey on their fellow
men.
But what about criminals and welfare parasites? Do they worry
about saving their houses and property? They don't, because they
don't own anything. Do they worry about what is going to happen
to their businesses or how they are going to make a living? They
never worried about those things before. Do they worry about
crime and looting? But living off of stolen wealth is a way of
life for them.
The welfare state--and the brutish, uncivilized mentality it
sustains and encourages--is the man-made disaster that explains
the moral ugliness that has swamped New Orleans. And that is the
story that no one is reporting.
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weezer
I am a 50 year old redneck and I just got married to my cousin Thelma
Lou.
Everyday when I get home from my job at the manure plant, Thelma is
waiting on the front porch with a cheek full of tobacco. We both go out
back and fuck our farm animals and complain about all the people on
welfare. Goddamn welfare recipients !!! I'm so mad about all these
people on welfare that I'm going to jack off my billy goat fourteen
times tonight !!! God bless Alabama !!!
weezer
cum.
No more pickup trucks and cheap beer for you.
Soon, you will enter the ABYSS
Dragonblaze
WelfareObserver wrote:
> Disaster an welfare
[major snippage of drivel]
Since WHEN has any part of the USA ever had anything even approaching a
welfare state?
The best examples of the welfare state are in Scandinavia, and believe
you me, you don't get Swedes, Norvegians, Danes and the Finns on the
rampage like the people in New Orleans during the aftermath of the
Hurricane Katrina. So it _might_ be useful if the clearly biased writed
removed his head from his colon and started looking for other causes.
But biased individuals seldom manage to do that....
Mark K. Bilbo
Anonymous...@See.Comment.Header (WelfareObserver) wrote:
> Disaster an welfare
>
> An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster of the
> Welfare State
>
> An Objectivist Review
Hey, dipshit, you missed the part where it was discovered those stories
were almost universally MYTH. In the chaos, a lot of rumors were swallowed
whole by news media and officials alike. Read some goddamn follow up
stories where almost every one of those rumors was found to be *baseless.
"Objectivist" my ass. Writing a story based on *rumors? Sheesh.
Most of the looting, by the way, was for food and water. See, a certain
federal government made all kinds of promises then wandered off to
masturbate. When you leave human beings to fend for themselves, they fend
for themselves.
Yeah, there was disorder. Gee, you think that might have something to do
with a US city being destroyed? There are always a few people who are
going to try to take advantage of a situation. Maybe if a certain federal
government hadn't been busy drawing org charts in Baton Rouge, the NOPD
could have spent more time patrolling the streets instead of rescuing
people from rising water?
The whole thing was overblow. Read something current why don't you? And
stop lying about us.
Oh and fuck you.
--
Mark K. Bilbo
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Hypno
"Dragonblaze" <drago...@apexmail.com> observed unthinkingly in
news:1135077496.7...@g44g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> So it _might_ be useful if the clearly biased writed
> removed his head from his colon and started looking for other causes.
> But biased individuals seldom manage to do that....
Is it just me, or does the above statement seem a little 'biased'?
Hypno
Cracklin'
"WelfareObserver" <Anonymous...@See.Comment.Header> wrote in message
news:1C1FJ33S3870...@anonymous.poster...
> Disaster an welfare
>
> An Unnatural Disaster: A Hurricane Exposes the Man-Made Disaster
> of the Welfare State
It's my understanding most of those people were the working POOR with no
resources to leave.
Ivie Leager.......
"If you are a young person, you also need to face the fact that you will
never grow old in this present system. Why not? Because all the evidence in
fulfillment of Bible prophecy indicates that this corrupt system is due to
end in a few years." Awake, May 22, 1969, p. 15
I will point out for those of you too STUPID to realise that this is
presented as FACT. It says with my own capitals for emphasis:
"....face the FACT..."
"....NEVER grow old..."
"....evidence of Bible PROPHECY..."
"....system is due to END IN A FEW YEARS..."
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Nell
mike shuler? Perhaps Ike?
By the way, where is Ike. I miss him. Any help will be deeply
appreciated.
Nell
Windows XP Home Edition, 2006.
Cracklin'
"Nell" <rnella...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1135124555....@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com...
> Why is my system due to end in a few years. It's a new computer with
> Windows XP Home Edition, 2006.
Because it'll be obsolete by then. Time for a new system-of-things,...
whoops, wrong NG.... ;-)
Come join the Watchtower. Their system is due to end in a few years as
well.
Nell
a given.
(Del､+/Ctrl+､/Alt､+)
> Is anyone on welfare who posts here? Besides those from bammer? That's
> a given.
Welfare beats Auburn in a show down on the Plains. 24-0. Welfare wins
again, just like they always do.
Alt.
Hypno
> Why is my system due to end in a few years. It's a new computer with
> Windows XP Home Edition, 2006.
Because it's a microsoft system?
Hypno