--- In [email protected], "vashtirama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, what haunts me is how many people on separate occasions > said they felt like they were treated like animals and left to die > like animals. "We slept like rats in the streets" "we can't do > anything but scrounge around in our filth like animals" "our dead are > treated like animals" statements like this. And the tone they said > these things with--the incredulity and despair. It reminded me of > what a history professor drilled into us: "Every country is just 3 > square meals away from a revolution." But not just revolution, > humanity and civilization is that tenuous. We *are* animals but > sometimes other animals treat those within their own species better > than we do within our own species, and so I don't think the animal > analogy is quite right. What people went through after Katrina is > more like how CAGED animals live--in varying degrees of squalor and > neglect and 100% helplessness.
Usually even caged animals fed and watered, their cages are cleaned, and they're given medical attention when they need it, however. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
