lovveu2 said:
Are you for real? American just suffered its biggest natural disaster. How could one have prepared for this?
What "basic human rights" were violated?
If you can figure away to get aid to people in three different states at the same time (with a radius that covers 426 square miles-just golf coast here) in like 3 seconds then maybe you should head the free world.
I love Monday Morning Quarterbacks............
Hi Barb
Did I say anywhere in my post that America should have been prepared for this? No. Funny for someone who knows me so well that you should consider my point of view so one-dimensional.
What basic human rights were violated? I don't know, maybe ask the people holed up inside the dome or the little girls that got raped or the people who felt so desperate that they committed suicide or the naked man who was taking a shit into a bucket. People waited days, not seconds, minutes or hours, for help. I consider that a basic rights issue.
To reiterate what I said, Bono doesnt need to be careful. The very notion sickens me. People can't stomach hearing him give proper attention to BOTH issues during a show? Americans don't want to hear about Africa right now?
The situation in NO is an anomaly. It's not happening daily. We will respectfully mourn the dead, chart ways to avoid the administrative mistakes in the future, and help to restore the displaced to some semblance of normal North American life.
What is happening in Africa is happening daily, it is millions of Africans reality. It is still the world's most pressing emergency, and I for one can't see why Bono would 'tone' down the message one little bit.
In a way, the message is universal. People in the low end of the class scale, the poor and the weak, always get the short end of the stick. They don't get the AIDS drugs in time, they don't get the relief efforts in time. No matter the continent, poverty is poverty, and in the case of NO, it turned out to be deadly.
I appreciate the 'monday quarterback' tag - you've always commented how you loved reading my opinions, and even more glad am I that you have finally decided to take me on!