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Bluto-clause:
--- Quote from: ALPH1217 on September 9, 2005, 02:58:28 am ---First of all I'm not an American. I was born, raised and conceived in a city in the northwest of England called Liverpool, perhaps you've heard of it.
I hope I don't spoil it for you but I hope you don't get horrified when you find out that Mr Jefferson was a notorious slave owner. His impregnation of one of his slaves is well documented.
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When I did I say you were and American? When did I say I hate all Americans?
I love the rhetoric of the current "regime" in charge of America. Freedom of speech. But, if you question our methods
or speak out against us running the place into the ground, your unpatriotic and a threat to national security.
As For Jefferson this is from Wilkpedia
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was the third (1801–1809) President of the United States, second (1797)–1801) Vice President of the United States, and an American statesman, ambassador to France, political philosopher, revolutionary, agriculturalist, horticulturist, land owner, architect, archaeologist, slaveowner, author, inventor, and founder of the University of Virginia.
Many people consider Jefferson to be among the most brilliant men ever to occupy the Presidency. President John F. Kennedy welcomed 49 Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Achievements of his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Jefferson's personal records show he owned 187 slaves, some of which were inherited at the death of his wife. Some find it hypocritical that he both owned slaves and yet was publicly outspoken in his belief that slavery was immoral. Many of his slaves were considered property that was held as a lien for his many accumulated debts.
His ambivalence can be seen for example, in the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, which Jefferson wrote, in which he condemned the British crown for sponsoring the importation of slavery to the colonies, charging that the crown "has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere..." This language was dropped from the Declaration at the request of delegates from South Carolina and Georgia. In 1769, as a member of the state legislature, Jefferson proposed for that body to emancipate slaves in Virginia, but he was unsuccessful. In 1778, the legislature passed a bill he proposed to ban further importation of slaves into Virginia; although this did not bring complete emancipation, in his words, it "stopped the increase of the evil by importation, leaving to future efforts its final eradication".
Ron:
What I found most incredible is that GW Bush himself is now leading an investigation in why help got off so slowly. How the hell can someone investigate himself and come out looking like shit ?
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--- Quote from: Ron on September 9, 2005, 01:07:38 pm ---What I found most incredible is that GW Bush himself is now leading an investigation in why help got off so slowly. How the hell can someone investigate himself and come out looking like shit ?
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There no better man for the job, everything he touches turns to poo
Aidan_B:
An awful lot of blame has to be placed upon the local officials in Lousiana and Mississippi. The evacuation order was simply given too late, and the plans that had been drawn up were ignored.
The response was also clearly slow from the central Govt., particularly surprising given the areas importance in oil refining.
It's all very well trying to blame the central Govt. for allowing the destruction of the wetlands on the Gulf coast, but, a majority of people would not have been in favour of spending the twenty-five Billion dollars required to restore the wetlands.
jambutty:
"I'd rather die' than go"
By NICOLE BODE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
NEW ORLEANS - Seventy-five-year-old Toney Almeda stood in the doorway of her hurricane ravaged apartment yesterday and swore she'd kill herself before letting rescuers take her to safety.
"I'd rather be dead than in a shelter. The thought of it makes me sick," Almeda spat at Norrie Edgar, 34, a special investigator with the state Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control. He was one of three people trying to convince the feisty woman to leave her stiflingly hot ninth-floor apartment at the Nazareth Inn home for the elderly.
"You can die a couple of years down the road. But not today," Edgar shot back coolly. "We've seen enough dead people. Don't you be one of them."
Almeda and the dozen or more other residents still left inside the Nazareth Inn home in the New Orleans East district had survived 11 days without electricity or running water. A son of one of the residents had brought them generators, bottled water and other supplies.
They said they had been abandoned at the 150-unit retirement facility, owned by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, the day after the storm. A manager told them to leave but provided no transportation, they said.
But instead of welcoming their rescuers - a military-led team of National Guardsmen, firefighters and New Orleans police officers - survivors like Almeda resisted as much as they could.
While one crew worked on convincing Almeda, three dozen other rescuers banged on doors throughout the complex. In four hours, they found seven people, but suspected that many others were hiding behind their doors, waiting for the rescuers to leave.
Only five agreed, reluctantly, to leave - including an elderly blind man, a 72-year-old woman with Alzheimer's, and a woman who had begun urinating blood after falling three times in the dark.
Outside, as Almeda stepped into a light armored vehicle - a massive camouflage-colored tank that can navigate on land and in water - she got her first glimpse of the 12-foot-deep floodwaters just a few miles from her dry street. She realized she was wrong to resist.
"I wasn't myself this morning. I was just so scared," she said quietly, her thin arms braced against the vehicle's walls.
Her silver, braided hair was tucked into a black Oakland A's cap. She clutched a small bag filled with two pairs of shorts, two pairs of blue jeans, a T-shirt, and a carton of Salem Ultra Lights cigarettes. All the money she had was tucked into her back pocket - three folded $5 bills.
With no mandatory evacuation order to back the use of force, rescuers have had to rely on their wits and charm to get out thousands since the storm hit.
But even if they were authorized to use force, many of the rescuers would be reluctant to do so, they said.
"You want to do what's right. But at the same time, you don't want to hurt anybody," said Sjon Shavers, senior special agent with the Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been aiding the rescue effort.
But their patience generally pays off as the survivors finally come to terms with the reality of their situation and make the choice to leave.
"If it wasn't for the two kind men and the one young soldier, I wouldn't have come down," said Almeda, as she watched her rescuers crack open a couple of Army-issued meals ready to eat, or MREs. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to make so much work for you."
http://www.nydailynews.com/09-09-2005/news/story/344827p-294387c.html
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