Sipsey Street Irregulars: Grasshoppers blame ants for their own unpreparedness. "Tempers flare in NJ city where thousands stranded."

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Grasshoppers blame ants for their own unpreparedness. "Tempers flare in NJ city where thousands stranded."

"Feed me, Seymour, and feed me now!"

You'd better get some pizzas in there, Barack.

HOBOKEN, N.J. (AP) — Officials in the city of Hoboken, N.J., are defending their response to severe flooding from superstorm Sandy.

Public Safety director Jon Tooke says at least 25 percent of the city on the Hudson River across from Manhattan remains under water. He estimates at least 20,000 people are stranded and says most are being encouraged to shelter in place until floodwaters recede.

Tempers flared Wednesday morning outside City Hall as some residents complained the city was slow to get food and other supplies out to the stranded.

4 comments:

SWIFT said...: Tempers flared Wednesday because the city was slow to distribute food and water. The truth is, they wanted others to risk life and limb to save the "hand-to-mouth" existence they live.; November 1, 2012 at 4:55 AM
JTwig said...: I think the worst from this storm is yet to come. I have a feeling in a few week we will be seeing them bring out the bodies of elderly and disable people who were unable to leave their 50th floor apartment after the power went out and whose neighbors got out while the getting was good.; November 1, 2012 at 1:33 PM
WarriorClass said...: People should be free to stay in their homes in the face of a hurricane, but they are also responsible for their own well being. I am totally against government mandated evacuation, which is nothing but an expression of tyranny, but if you choose to stay you should not then expect others to risk their lives for you or supply you with food and water afterwards.

Why is it that people now expect the government to take care of them? Because politicians have been promising to do just that, at the cost of freedom of course. You can have a government that takes care of you, but you relinquish your independence and freedom when you make that faustian bargain.

WarriorClass
III; November 1, 2012 at 2:55 PM
Anonymous said...: Storm Sandy was so bad in some/many areas, that even I would have trouble taking care of myself. I have food, water & other supplies, but they would all be gone or ruined by now.
That said, would I stick around & wait for the Gubbment to take care of me? I think not.
I even think that I would have loaded what I think I needed & left inland about two days before Sandy hit.

Anony-mouse
III-PER; November 2, 2012 at 5:34 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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