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I'm afraid that if my hotel had HIRED me a bus and some government dope decided some ne're-do-well, bottom feeding scumbag, crawled out of the trees with an AK47, should have my bus because the "scum" might riot, I'd be REAL pis*ed. Has the world gone crazy? You cave in to these jerks because you're afraid of what they might do? Me thinks their dogs need training!

You obviously missed my point.

FEMA is in charge of getting EVERYBODY out. Priorities must exist in such a situation - kind of like the old women and children first traditions on the high seas. To borrow from "Titanic" - just because someone can afford to pay for a bus trip does NOT give him the right to be evac'd before the rest of the "scum".

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. Assume that you and your family were trapped at the dome and the authorities are asking you to be patient, a bus will arrive soon so that you too can be evac'd. You are out of food and water and the mob around you is "irratable". Then you see a chartered bus full of tourists leaving the city BEFORE you. What would your reaction to that be? What of that of the "mob"?

Is it so hard to understand that some semblance of "fairness" must prevail in order to keep the mob from rioting? Or would you like to be on a bus and attacked by the angry mob? Furthermore - how many additional security forces will be necessary to ensure the safety of the passengers of chartered bus?

Mobs are strange. They "cause" otherwise sane people to do things they might never have conceived of doing otherwise.

IMHO - those that are caught looting/shooting need to be shot on sight (or at least rendered harmless and held separtely from the others AND be the last ones out!). However, bringing order in the chaos is no easy job, and, ANY action that is not a part of the "orderly" evacutation needs to be prohibited.