How Are You Using Katrina To Push Your Tired Talking Points?

**PanzerJaeger** · 09-02-2005, 22:38

Ive been very surprised at how some people on a particular side of the political spectrum have reacted to the hurricane.

-There have been people calling the US a barbaric country.

-People have called the US a racist country.

-Certain members have declared that the President should be Imprisoned.

-One member suggested SUV owners and oil company executives should be shot.

-The usual crowd have declared this is a failure of gun control.

-The peanut gallery has declared America deserves no mercy because we brought this on ourselves through global warming - Proof? Hell no..

-They have made the assertion that none of this would have happened if we hadnt attacked Iraq, only to be reminded that the total amount of National Guard in Iraq is lower than 10%.

And I didnt even read through the whole gun control thread.

What is truly angering is the fact that these same people who seem to think that President Bush, the oil Execs, and SUV owners got together to plan the genocide of poor black people in America have the unmitigated gall to throw a hissy fit when President Bush mentions 9/11 and Iraq in the same 2 hour speech. Talk about making full use of a tradgedy.

Some people need to realize that this is an unprecidented event. This kind of disaster has never happened before and people are doing the best they can. Mistakes will be made. Somehow, I think they do realize that, they just smell blood.

After the big "labeling whine", I have tried not to make blanket statements about one group or another but I feel I must make one now.

The left on this board - and its almost exclusively people who lean to the left - are shaming themselves by using this tradgedy - far from over - to push their political agenda.

**Strike For The South** · 09-02-2005, 22:54

It is extremly sad PJ people have lost life and most only see it as a time to complain sad this is what american socitey has come to

**Azi Tohak** · 09-02-2005, 23:07

Fun topic... but I give it until the next mod gets on before it is shut down.

Personally, I rather like the ones that suggest somehow this is Bush's fault. I think they're funny... too bad so many people actually believe it is true.

Azi

**Reverend Joe** · 09-02-2005, 23:38

It's not just the left. It's everybody here with an agenda. That includes you, PanzerJaeger.

Edited to remove a particularly unpleasant phrase (not vulgar, just mean).

**Aenlic** · 09-02-2005, 23:51

Shhh. Don't feed the troll.

**Strike For The South** · 09-02-2005, 23:53

Originally Posted by Aenlic

Shhh. Don't feed the troll.

I want to see a troll where

**Steppe Merc** · 09-03-2005, 03:21

Hmm. While I don't agree with you completly PJ, I must admit that I was about to post in the gun control thread, then I couldn't. The situation is so messed up, that me saying how bad guns are won't help anything.

But it's not just the left. Everyone wants to push their adjenda, often times using less than honorable means.

**Meneldil** · 09-03-2005, 11:21

Originally Posted by PanzerJager

The left on this board - and its almost exclusively people who lean to the left - are shaming themselves by using this tradgedy - far from over - to push their political agenda.

Your statement would have appeared to be honnest without this sentence