Sunday, September 11, 2005

Heroes And Villains

Rich Lowry on FEMA & Katrina on National Review Online

"A great hero of New Orleans is the 20-year-old who commandeered a school bus and drove evacuees all the way to Houston, arriving before any of the official convoys. The key to his success? He acted without bureaucratic approval."

Do we live in even somewhat similar dimensions, Rich? The same bus driver who was vilified on the news channels? The same bus that the news channels were warning could be "renegades" because they WEREN'T on anyone's list? He's a hero now? After the people of New Orleans were warned about such renegades? Why, they could stop off, load up with people then take them god knows where for who knows what. THAT bus driver? Oh.

The media is as guilty as the bureaucrats in passing along the same advice that caused men to sit still while their planes were hijacked and flown into buildings: Just follow orders and everything will be fine. Isn't that the advice, no, the COMMAND that is drilled into all of us? And STILL being drilled into us?

Put down your weapons, stop protecting your property and follow the man with the bullhorn.

So if you hang it all out and succeed you're cool, but one glitch away from being shot as a renegade. Talk about monday morning quarterbacking. Sure FEMA has rules, the same rules that if it DIDN'T have, the lefties would be screaming PROVED beyond a shadow of a doubt that the government didn't take the time to establish a careful checklist on how to conduct itself in an emergency.

Krauthammer had it spot on when he said that the same loonies who screamed at the very thought of the FBI wanting to know who's been reading books on how to make nukes, are now asking why the big bad federal government didn't just walk in and take over as if they knew nothing about the constitution or the law of the land. Wait a minute. They don't, and that's what makes it hard to deal with them. Do TOO much and it's Nazi Germany all over again; too little and you're the racist chimp who was strumming guitar while Orleans burned.

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