Katrina’s Lesson: You’re On Your Own
By Richard Davis (09/02/05)
Here’s some ugly truth. If you live in a city or area with a sizable African-American population and disaster hits, you’re on your own, especially if the local government and emergency services have been heavily “diversified.” Not only will you and your property not be protected, you’re going to foot the bill for all looting and destruction, and, as a final indignity, you’re going to be the one getting the blame.
Enough excuses. People don’t behave this way in civilized societies. You didn’t see this behavior even in the marginally civilized areas affected by the tsunami. Why do you see it in America?
Had those left in New Orleans been poor whites or Asians the news almost certainly would be much different today. So the question is, why did these blacks behave in this manner? Could decades of welfarism, liberal law enforcement, racial excuse-making and the refusal to hold members of this community responsible for personal behavior be involved?
Unfortunately, you can’t discuss any of that because, well, that would be holding the perpetrators responsible for their own behavior. Liberals don’t permit that with minorities (nonminorities are responsible for not only their behavior, but for the behavior of all other nonminorities and their ancestors as well). We’re now going to be forced to endure endless excuses and guilt mongering by our media and racialists. That will only insure that the next city gets the same treatment, only quicker. In fact, you will have fewer evacuees from the next New Orleans. When opportunity knocks…
Failing to stop looting and destruction immediately and forcefully only fuels more. That’s very old news to humanity; so why do our police and government officials seem taken completely by surprise? What role did political correctness and diversity play not only in lowering the competency of these officials but preventing any planning or pre-disaster preparations for fear of suggesting blacks might revert to lawlessness (in one of the most lawless cities in America)?
Since we can’t hold Africans-Americans (Africans in general?) accountable for their behavior, it’s up to the rest of us to take steps to protect ourselves, our property, even our civilization. Would the aftermath of a major terrorist attack or threat be any different? Who’s going to evacuate now knowing his home and livelihood won’t be protected?
We need to take several decisive steps. 1. Demand that looters who have been caught or can be identified be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. No amnesty, period. Potential looters have to be aware that they will be punished. 2. Prosecute everyone caught with stolen merchandise. 3. Prosecute to the max ALL police and security personnel who enabled or participated in the lawlessness.
In addition we must take political control and insist stringent emergency protection legislation and anti-looting laws be enacted. Protection forces should be established and stationed on the scene. If looters can survive in the city, then so can security forces. Only security personnel should be authorized to enter stores to procure needed supplies. All other looters, especially looters with weapons, should be engaged with deadly force.
Of course, little of that is going to happen. And so here’s what civilized Americans should do: Recognize first that savages live among us and will revert to savageness in natural and manmade disasters. Buy guns capable of protecting oneself, family and property. Form or join neighborhood watches or militias. Fire at will.
Writer and blogger Lawrence Auster posted one of the better assessments of the situation yesterday on his blog, View for the Right: “What is happening in New Orleans is the perfect coming together of a huge natural disaster with the cultural cesspool of contemporary America: indolent, incompetent public officials; a disordered and violent populace; bureaucratic passivity at the federal level; political correctness and non-judgmentalness overhanging everything; reporters incapable of asking meaningful questions; an overall inability to grapple with reality. The death of New Orleans is a harbinger of the death of America. God keeps sending us the clearest warnings about our moral condition and what it is inevitably bringing upon us. We call the warnings wake-up calls, yet continue sleeping. The warnings and harbingers won’t continue forever.”
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