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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.
On the contrary-- this is exactly what you socialists want. The government is in charge, didn't let people get out, has been running around stealing property....
In a libertarian society, there would be massive amounts of aid there. But say you live in Baton Rouge and want to drive a truck down with water and food. Can you? Hell no- the police won't let you in... and if the do, they certainly won't let you sell the food and water. So, less people are doing it.
You socialists want people disarmed and dependant on the state-- and this is what you get.
Congratulations. Thousands dead. You happy?
Yeah, and you guys panned the ipod too: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23
It's gouging. And you'd be surprised at the places where regular unleaded is hitting $6/gal now.
From mises.org: Prices are how scarce goods get allocated in markets in accordance with actual conditions. I guess its a shame we live in a third world country, huh. You'd think that with all of our material wealth, we'd have, well, material. "Scarcity" these days is entirely manufactured. We lose 10% of our refining capacity and prices pass 300%? What happened to the "supply" side of "supply and demand"? Do you actually believe any of the economic laws you pull out your collective asses, or do you just use them when jerking off?
Ever hear of inelastic demand? Not everyone can take the bus to work (wait... mass transit is usually government run... you and your bleeding-pocketbook brethern want to axe that too. I'd like to see a corporation step up to the task in the face of exploding costs). Not everyone can sell their 20 year old, 5 gallons to the mile caddy for enough money to get a top of the line hybrid.
Of course, you don't care, do you? The only lives you care about saving are the ones with the money. Bleeding-pocketbook libertarians like you couldn't care less if some guy with only $10 dies because they couldn't afford a $5 bag of ice at the 300% markup to cool their insulin. You sure as hell wouldn't have offered them a cube. America is one of the least charitable countries in the world, and yet you whine and snivel about your taxes but your kind can't even find it deep in your pocketbook "soul" to earn a writeoff.
Lew Rockwell is even more laughable. Seriously, where were these guys back when corporations bribed their way into government and turned america into a country of sheeple to be their labor? Half a century ago the tide might have been turned and America kept a country of strong-headed independent men and women, but no, now everyone is brought up from childhood to serve the CEO slavedriver, and thats really just how the bleeding-pocketbooks really like it. Except of course, when their choice starts hurting them in their pocketbook. I guess they want it both ways.
Dumbass...first learn to spell "gouging", then maybe we'll look at the rest of your post to consider whether you have anything besides shit between your ears.
Hundreds dead. Thousands homeless, food is scarce, the situation is turning chaotic...
but at least the people have access to internet porn
Seriously, why is everybody so interested in some geek hanging out in an office (that looks fairly clean and lit), while there are people dying like flies all around him? Why is this guy wasting diesel fuel to run his OC3s? How about surrendering his fuel and office to the government/military/Red Cross so that someone can utilize these resources to save lives?
God, I hate bloggers.
Big Fucking Deal. Shows how clueless you are. Bush has other stuff to do as President (far far more than you do, sitting in your parents' basement 24/7), besides he's not the only person involved with the disaster effort. Comphrende shit-for-brains?
Anyways, the articles are interesting, the picture is a lame argument (too easily forged, show me real dated proof, and a presidential schedule... and at best all it is says is the President is disengenous... doesn't mean he's doing a bad job).
What the fuck is it going to take you goddamn piece of shit apologist? There are THOUSANDS OF YOUR COUNTRY MEN *DEAD IN THE STREETS* and it could have been prevented. And what do you do? Immediately start doing your Limbaugh Fu, doing whatever you goddamn can to protect your fucking god.
Well, FUCK YOU, fuck your god, and fuck the entire GOP appartus and the brownshirts and propagandists that prop them up. We have ourselves here yet ANOTHER monumental fuck-up, and the best you can say is that it's "troubling", and start moaning about tax cuts. Nice. REAL fucking nice.
Eat a shotgun barrel you fascist piece of shit.
Please shut the fuck up and go kill yourself.
Killing yourself would be useful, important, AND intelligent. Consider it.
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.
"those poor folks who ignored the week of warning and the free bus ride out of danger's way"
HAHAHAHA!!!
Oh, you're serious. OK, moron, what "free bus ride"? Are you really so stupid to believe that the entire city could've been evacuated in time, and that there were enough "free bus ride"s to accomodate all of the poor? And that there were facilities to which they could all be evacuated? Even now, days after the event, FEMA et al are having difficulty housing all of the refugees. "free bus ride". Right. Jesus Christ, you're such a fucking moron.
Or is it a negro nature? Have you seen the footage? It looks like somalia. The problem, unlike the hurricane hitting a white dominated city is that negros are COMPLETELY dependent on help. They are unwilling and incapable of helping to make the situation better. Instead they panic and loot. Shoot at their helpers, rape the women, rob passers by.