"Good Mornin' America, How Are Ya?"
The Libertarian Enterprise
by L. Neil Smith
09/04/05
Apparently, Hurricane Katrina is not directly responsible for this monumentally rotten state of affairs. As I said above, the city of New Orleans has survived far worse in the past. If this were a game of Clue we're playing, the winning answer to "Who murdered this fine old city?" would have to be: government at every level, with your money, in Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge, and the Crescent City itself. Most of the blame belongs to the feds, of course—especially to the stupefyingly idiotic Chimpanzee-in-Chief currently running it—but there is plenty of blame left over to go around, and it'll be months, years, or possibly forever getting itself sorted out to anybody's satisfaction...
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle335-20050904-02.html
Death from government
The Libertarian Enterprise
by Ron Beattie
09/04/05
What we're seeing in New Orleans is shocking. But it has an even deeper meaning than just a city dying. What we are seeing is a city, and it's people, being murdered by the state...
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle335-20050904-03.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by L. Neil Smith
09/04/05
Apparently, Hurricane Katrina is not directly responsible for this monumentally rotten state of affairs. As I said above, the city of New Orleans has survived far worse in the past. If this were a game of Clue we're playing, the winning answer to "Who murdered this fine old city?" would have to be: government at every level, with your money, in Washington, D.C., Baton Rouge, and the Crescent City itself. Most of the blame belongs to the feds, of course—especially to the stupefyingly idiotic Chimpanzee-in-Chief currently running it—but there is plenty of blame left over to go around, and it'll be months, years, or possibly forever getting itself sorted out to anybody's satisfaction...
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle335-20050904-02.html
Death from government
The Libertarian Enterprise
by Ron Beattie
09/04/05
What we're seeing in New Orleans is shocking. But it has an even deeper meaning than just a city dying. What we are seeing is a city, and it's people, being murdered by the state...
http://www.ncc-1776.com/tle2005/tle335-20050904-03.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 6. Sep, 18:59