My Manifesto: The Incoherent Ramblings of a Madman

It's Lord of the Flies come post-apocalypse come Mad Max 4. They need protecting from themselves more than they need protecting from anything else.

"By Wednesday the stink was staggering. Heaps of rotting garbage in bulging white plastic bags baked under a blazing Louisiana sun on the main entry plaza, choking new arrivals as they made their way into the stadium after being plucked off rooftops and balconies.

The odor billowing from toilets was even fouler. Trash spilled across corridors and aisles, slippery with smelly mud and scraps of food." (New York Times)

""They have M-16s and they're locked and loaded," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said of 300 National Guard troops who landed in New Orleans fresh from duty in Iraq. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."" (AAP)

What in the fuck is next? Maybe we should be sending in the Iraqis to save the Americans? All I can say is if I see another damn CNN news feed with that annoying tickertape thing across the bottom I'm going to shoot someone with my freshly looted water logged pistol...or maybe not - it could be a good keepsake. I am fucking embarressed for every american. How in the hell did this happen when it is something that everyone has known will happen sooner or later?