Blaming the Victim

[CrackpotAmerica]

Absolutely Reprehensible.

To my African American Brothers and Sisters, I am truly sorry.


FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility

(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.

The rest here:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.fema.brow...


Please, let us all be sure to rise up and end this ruthlessness once and for all.

[iconoclastic cat]

1. The Chimpministration needs to be pimpslapped with this until they faint.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. No -- they need to be IMPEACHED

Impeached.

Tried.

Convicted.

Punished.

This has risen to the level of massive criminal negligence.

Once FEMA returns a semi-accurate body count, the charges of negligent homicide should come in at one count per death.

It's a disgrace. Camera crews have been able to get in since Katrina blew northward -- why is it that it took the President FOUR DAYS to get his act together and order aid?

--p!

[Eloriel]

2. Two other discussions

DNC: Chertoff Blames Refugees and the Dead for Their Fate
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4552525
Link: http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/09/chertoff_blames.php

CNN- FEMA director just blamed the people who "chose" to stay in NO
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4559560&mesg_id=4562193

[IconoclastIlene]

4. blame our soldiers with no armor, blame our cities with no

infrastructure tax to help them..........Yes, and blame those that had this man elected president...red states.....ala, la, and mississip..........heaven help them, for no one else seems to want to.

[Dirk39]

5. Those, who chose to stay behind...

The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism, militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the decay of democracy at every level.

Much of this is embodied in the odd phrasing that even the most circumspect mainstream media sources have been using to describe the hardest-hit victims of the storm and its devastating aftermath: "those who chose to stay behind." Instantly, the situation has been framed with language to flatter the prejudices of the comfortable and deny the reality of the most vulnerable.

It is obvious that the vast majority of those who failed to evacuate are poor: they had nowhere else to go, no way to get there, no means to sustain themselves and their families on strange ground. While there were certainly people who stayed behind by choice, most stayed behind because they had no choice. They were trapped by their poverty ­ and many have paid the price with their lives.

New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good
By CHRIS FLOYD

http://www.counterpunch.com/floyd09012005.html


How I wish, there would be a little flood drowning the looters in the White House,

Hello from Germany,
Dirk

[puddycat]

6. they KNEW most poor & sick people had NO way out. Its criminal

If FEMA can gather up 500 buses to transport people from the Superdome, they easily could have got those buses together before the hurricane hit and transported people to safety. The White House on down is guilty of criminal neglect of those souls.

I am almost numb from outrage over this whole thing.

[BrklynLiberal]

7. that man is a total and complete asshole there is no other word.

[sarcasmo]

8. Right wing talking points like to place blame.

[Coastie for Truth]

9. CG Commandant Thomas Collins is the only one of Chertoff's crew

to do a commendable job. The rest of Chertoff's crew are mediocrities.