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DirectNIC Crisis Manager Braves the Chaos of New Orleans
Aleks Clark writes "The Interdictor, a DirectNIC crisis manager, is currently braving the madness of post-Katrina New Orleans. Server rescues, OC4 repairs and live video and audio feeds abound as he and his crew battle the odds with what seems like the entire internet at his back. 1700+ People are tracking his blog, and IRC channels are full to capacity."
Here's his quote on the looting:
... and the comentator said "while some are taking the law into their own hands". JESUS. That's not the law, that's called self defense.
"Looting: The police are looting. This has been confirmed by several independent sources. Some of the looting might be "legitimate" in as much as that word has any meaning in this context. They have broken into ATMs and safes: confirmed. We have eyewitnesses to this. They have taken dozens of SUVs from dealerships ostensibly for official use. They have also looted gun stores and pawn shops for all the small arms, supposedly to prevent "criminals" from doing so. But who knows their true intentions. We have an inside source in the NOPD who says that command and control is in chaos. He reports that command lapses more than 24 hours between check-ins, and that most of the force are "like deer in the headlights." NOPD already had a reputation for corruption, but I am telling you now that the people we've been talking to say they are not recognizing the NOPD as a legitimate authority anymore, since cops have been seen looting in Walmarts and forcing people out of stores so they could back up SUVs and loot them. Don't shoot the messenger...."
Its very interesting that this disaster is also showing what others have--- those with guns are able to protect their property. The police bugged out and are doing nothing.
Last night on CNN, I saw some storeowner holding a pistol (correctly, unlike the cop they showed in the previous shot, who aimed a shotgun at someone looking at debris)
Yes, we should all be sheep and depend on the government to protect us--- and what do we get? A world class screwup, every time. Just look at New Orleans.
Hell, the dikes wouldn't have overflowed if the repair money to fix them hadn't been diverted to the dept of homeland "security" last summer.
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
this is the United States and we needed to do better for our own.
Don't worry, even as we speak, the Republicans are signing checks to all the major companies that were hurt by the storm... oh, you meant "our own" as in the human beings. Well, I hear bush is on his way for a photo-op or two.
Not content with exploiting suffering to push your global warming religion, you leftist asses now blame chaos on libertarianism. I tell you, it's the libertarian types who are defending property with guns, or putting their own earned money on the line in emergency donations, that are doing the most good.
Why don't you fucks crawl to N.O. and apologise directly to the people you've insulted and to all the graves you've spat upon?
There are no words for how deeply you disgust me.