BTTT
Does the LA Times mention that Gretna's entire government is run by Democrats?
Well DUH! This is what happens when you fail to evacuate when there is a manditory evacuation. Gretna was empty. It was the job of the police to stop ANYBODY from coming in.
There does need to be some discussion in lots places that this is what happens when you don't evacuate. You can get stuck.
Gretna will be another story within a story. This is the first I associated a mall burning with shutting down traffic into Gretna.
Gretna
Convention Center
Slow reaction to reports of levee breach
Blanco requests v. FEMA/Fed response
Hospital sieges
Bell South building siege
The building that burned on ?Friday? - was it occupied?
It is called SURVIVAL - the real kind. They deserve kudos and using them as examples on how to really survive a terrorist attack --
#1 PROTECT yourself,
#2 your family
#3 your neighbors
#4 your town
--- in that order!
If you don't protect yourself first, you won't be able to go to step #2.
NEVER expect someone else to take care of #1 for you.
gretna ping
Gretna is not an evacuation route from N.O. it was merely a looting route. The people on that road were already on high ground and had no legitimate reason to cross the bridge
But Gretna's decision has become the symbol of the ultimate act of a bad neighbor, gaining notoriety partly from an account in the Socialist Worker newspaper by two San Francisco emergency workers and labor leaders who were in a crowd turned back by Gretna police.
On O'Reilly last night, Col David Hunt was on to discuss what really happened in NO during the looting. He reported that there were organized gangs that came in with AK47s, M16s, boats, etc from as far away as Memphis, Dallas, etc. who undertook an organized, systematic looting of the city. Soldiers reported NO became a "free fire" zone at night and was as bad as "Baghdad on a bad night."
I am sure the police of the surrounding communities knew what was happening and did what they had to do to prevent their towns from being taken over by these armed gangs.
Ya know, I am really not having a problem with this consedering the chaos that was NOLA...no one else should have to put up with that....and yes, I would say that if the majority of NOLA residents were white and acting like @$$holes too. Race is not and issue here. Law and order are.
Gretna ping.
The LA Times, as is its wont, conveniently overstates the case. According to the 2000 census, Gretna was populated as follows:
White 56.3%
Black 35.3
Other 8.4 (Asian, Hispanic, etc.)
Source: Gretna demographics
"Mostly white"? Yes, but barely so.
And given the city's makeup, one would expect the city council to be equally "diverse". Consequently, as much as they'd like, there seems to be little reason to inject race into the matter.
Unless you're the liberal MSM, of course...
Gretna (pop. 17,500) is a feisty blue-collar city, two-thirds white, that prides itself on how quickly its police respond to 911 calls; it warily eyes its neighbor, a two-thirds black city (pop. about 500,000) that is also a perennial contender for the murder capital of the U.S.
Itself deprived of power, water and food for days after Katrina struck Aug. 29, Gretna suddenly became the destination for thousands of people fleeing New Orleans. The smaller town bused more than 5,000 of the newcomers to an impromptu food distribution center miles away. As New Orleans residents continued to spill into Gretna, tensions rose.
After someone set the local mall on fire Aug. 31, Gretna Police Chief Arthur S. Lawson Jr. proposed the blockade.
If I was a Gretna homeowner, I would be proud of this Police Chief, too.
Shape of things to come.
There will be more of this.
We see this now in limited form with "gated communities."
Shape of things to come.
There will be more of this.
We see this now in limited form with "gated communities."