Is it really *only* about class warfare? What about the recent
Sichauan earthquake. Do you hear about locals rioting all over the
place, or perhaps that's very conveniently muzzled by the CCP (Chinese
Communist Party).
Like I posted before, even poor poor poor third world Chinese behave
in ways
blacks in their blessed first world America do not. Quite amazing!!
Quote:
Perhaps one of the best illustrations of how Americans blacks
differ from NE Asians is how people in New Orleans reacted post-
Katrina vs how people in Kobe City reacted post-Kobe earthquake.
(1) Emergency Response:
The Japanese response was tardy and widely criticized. Reports
indicate that it was 2 hours before the Prime minister was briefed
(!), and it took the Governor of the region 4 hours (!!) to ask for
the Self-Defence Force.
In contrast, though widely criticized for being tardy, President
George W. Bush declared a state of emergency in Louisiana, Alabama,
and Mississippi two days before the hurricane made landfall. The
National Weather Service's New Orleans/Baton Rouge office issued a
vividly-worded bulletin predicting that the area would be
"uninhabitable for weeks" after "devastating damage" caused by
Katrina, which at that time rivaled the intensity of Hurricane
Camille.
(2) Devastation:
1995 Kobe: 6400 deaths, financial cost $US 200 billion
2005 Katrina: 1800 deaths, financial cost $US 80 billion
(3) Aftermath:
a. Kobe:
Yamaguchi-gumi, a Japanese **Organized Crime Syndicate**, pitches in
to Help Victims of the Kobe Earthquake. Japanese gangsters affiliated
with the Yamaguchi-gumi's headquarters in Kobe have started providing
vital relief aid to earthquake victims. Since the quake struck on
January 17th, some 200 people have lined up at the group's
headquarters for food, powdered milk, paper diapers and drinking
water. One victim commented that ''by taking over what is normally the
government's job, they have show 'giri' (faithfulness) and
'ninjo' (warm heartedness).'
b. New Orleans:
People are shooting at the rescue helicopters in New Orleans.
Reports of rampant muggings, rapes, murders, and riots
And....
Looters need beer!
http://i17.tinypic.com/2jayx5j.jpg
Looters need even more beer!!
http://i16.tinypic.com/2yz0ld0.jpg
And don't forget looters need clothing items in that sweltering heat
too!
http://i13.tinypic.com/2ugfj2o.jpg
http://i11.tinypic.com/4hrmirm.jpg
And even the COPS join in!
**Cops** looting stores in New Orleans
http://tinyurl.com/6ccvgr
Disasters can bring out the best and worst in people.
Kobe brought out the best in 1st world Japanese Japan. Katrina brought
out the
worst in 3rd world black America.
> Rich Asian Kid,
> Class warfare is an ugly - especially when the mass media gets
> involved.
> Here's another excellent account that should not be missed!
>
> Demonizing the Victims of Katrina
> Coverage painted hurricane survivors as looters, snipers and rapists
> By Jaime Omar Yassin November/December
2005http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2793
>
> excerpts...
>
> Preoccupied with broadcasting the bounty of rumors emerging from New
> Orleans, Blitzer and most corporate news purveyors seemed unable to
> fulfill one of their primary roles in reporting on the Katrina disaster
> —that of verifying claims made by sources, whether officials or
> ordinary people. Responsible, skeptical reporters might have erred on
> the side of caution, anticipating that a different image of the
> flooded city would likely emerge once evacuation and rescue procedures
> finally proceeded.
>
> Indeed, weeks later, the Los Angeles Times (9/27/05) noted that follow-
> up reporting had discredited most of the wilder reports, including
> those of pedophilic rape, murder at the Superdome and “roving bands of
> armed gang members attacking the helpless.” The New Orleans Times-
> Picayune (9/26/05), in a story headlined “Rumors of Deaths Greatly
> Exaggerated,” found an official count of only four violent deaths
> citywide for the entire flood period—a figure it noted was “typical in
> a city that anticipated more than 200 homicides this year.”
>
> Similarly, Knight Ridder’s wire service (10/2/05) debunked the seminal
> stories of sniping at rescue vehicles, reporting that “more than a
> month later, representatives from the Air Force, Coast Guard,
> Department of Homeland Security and Louisiana Air National Guard say
> they have yet to confirm a single incident of gunfire at helicopters.”
> The article put to rest the ambulance-shooting mythologies propagated
> by the likes of Blitzer, observing that the account from which they
> germinated was mischaracterized to begin with; the ambulance driver
> who claimed he was prevented from dropping supplies off at a hospital
> because of armed crowds on its roof “never went to the hospital,
> turning back after hearing a warning over military radio.”
>
> But such documentation was for the future to take care of. CNN and
> other corporate media had no time to concern themselves with veracity
> when there were apocalyptic accounts of “looting” to be disseminated,
> many of them based on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin’s frantic
> description of looters “starting to get closer to heavily populated
> areas” (AP, 9/1/05). Though much of the actual “loot” being
> commandeered should have made journalists wary of repeating Nagin’s
> assertions—disposable diapers were prominently visible in frequently
> replayed footage—many reporters jumped in feet first.
