THIRD WORLD TRAGEDY
No one is in the position to give people false hopes. I don’t really appreciate people encouraging this “lotto” mentality – that taking shortcuts will get us where we want to be. I still believe in hard work. While I don’t blame people for taking that route, let’s not change the issue by making it a poverty issue. It may have been that. But it was also a negligence issue on the part of the Wowowee organizers. They organized this big event, held it at a cramped location, and did not even bother to put up their own crowd control people. They said they knew they attracted huge crowds whenever they went on provincial tours. With the way their advertising on this big anniversary show was going, they should have seen it coming. And they could have done better. Better than getting 74 people killed.