Cassandra, Apollo and the Red Queen
CounterPunch
by Michael Donnelly
09/07/05
Like most, I've been transfixed watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.And, like many, I'm astounded at the response of government at all levels. Most of the criticism leveled has rightly been focused on the Bush Administration's monumental, yet predictable and easily fathomable incompetence. But, ineptitude is on display at all levels of bureaucracy. I can't look at those pictures of hundreds of school busses flooded in their parking lots and wonder how they could not have been used to evacuate those without an automobile before the storm made landfall? Surely, someone had a plan to use them. A heroic seventeen-year-old understood and commandeered one of the busses and picked up desperate refugees and drove them to Houston. He was accused of theft!
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly09072005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Michael Donnelly
09/07/05
Like most, I've been transfixed watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.And, like many, I'm astounded at the response of government at all levels. Most of the criticism leveled has rightly been focused on the Bush Administration's monumental, yet predictable and easily fathomable incompetence. But, ineptitude is on display at all levels of bureaucracy. I can't look at those pictures of hundreds of school busses flooded in their parking lots and wonder how they could not have been used to evacuate those without an automobile before the storm made landfall? Surely, someone had a plan to use them. A heroic seventeen-year-old understood and commandeered one of the busses and picked up desperate refugees and drove them to Houston. He was accused of theft!
http://www.counterpunch.org/donnelly09072005.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 8. Sep, 10:31
