Wednesday, December 29, 2004

Another cover-up

In case you haven't been paying attention here,
I'll say it again.

If you wait for approval or intelligence from
anyone to do anything , particularly your government,
you may not like what you get.

Now that's putting it mildly in this case, isn't
it.
With slightly less than one hour before the
waves came ashore, Supharek said, the
[meteorological]department officials did not
expect a tsunami. There are just four people on
the department’s 900-person staff who were
earthquake experts, he said. Also a tsunami had
not hit Thailand in more than 300 years.

But sources said they did discuss the likelihood
that a tsunami could hit Thailand’s Andaman Sea
coastal towns. This was also played down.


As one commenter to the article said, "The
government’s of the world are incredibly stupid."

Read.