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In a message dated 9/1/2005 5:16:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The issue isn't quite that simple.
These people aren't doing anything to help themselves.
They are shooting at the rescue workers, setting fires, massive
looting.
More security being sent in means less resources for the relief.
Yet security is the issue these people have forced to the front of the
list.
I also don't have any sympathy for people who refuse to help themselves and
do their best to interfere with those who are trying to help them.
To shoot at someone trying to help another, just because it isn't you is
pretty horrible.
If you want to get help for yourself and your family, pitch in and help
out. Speed up the rescue and assistance for those in more need and your turn
comes faster.
I've never seen any disaster before where the victims refused to pitch in,
shot at rescue workers and in general made their own relief more
difficult.
In the hurricane damage in Florida, the day after people were getting out
and about, cleaning up (particularly the roads) and making repairs and doing
what ever they could for each other and making things easier for the relief to
get thru.
I was in the Earthquake in San Francisco, and immediately after it settled,
we were doing the same thing. Helping each other and cleaning up and making
ourselves easy to help.
These people are not following the pattern and I don't have any sympathy
for them either.
Relief buses are very, very late because the roads are blocked. Fine, get
out and help clear the roads. No food being distributed, fine get a hold of
someone in charge and volunteer to lead your fellows to do the work. If relief
isn't timely because it takes large teams to do the work of one person simply
for security's sake, then relief simply isn't going to be timely or
efficient.
These people don't get my sympathy either, they horrify me.
I thought that the majority of the people on a list like this one would be
very much into doing for yourself, not waiting around depending on others to
rescue us from the dinodiesel (I love that word, thanks to who ever used it)
problems. People who step right up and do what needs to be done. People who help
each other not from charity or empathy but from the desire to propagate the
ideas and energy of "do-it-yourself".
Therefore, I find his attitude quite logical.
I'm a newbie though, what do I know.
Blessings
Johanna
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