Nonsense. I live here. It's not the 3rd world here. I've been to the 3rd world.
From your above rubbish, it's clear that you haven't seen the reality of either the Deep South or of the Third World.
Posted on 09/01/2005 10:22:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway
New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, "nearly 10 times the national average," reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans -- and criminals so fierce -- that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon "no one called to report the gunfire," reported AP.
New Orleans was ripe for collapse. Its dangerous geography, combined with a dangerous culture, made it susceptible to an unfolding catastrophe. Currents of chaos and lawlessness were running through the city long before this week, and they were bound to come to the surface under the pressure of natural disaster and explode in a scene of looting and mayhem.
Like riotous Los Angeles since the 1960s, New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades -- public schools so obviously decimated vouchers were proposed this year (and torpedoed by the left), barbaric gangster rap culture no one will confront lest they offend liberal pieties, multiculturalist frauds who empower no one but themselves, and cops neutered by the NAACP and ACLU.
Criminals have ruled New Orleans for some time, convincing many members of the middle class, long before the hurricane, that the city was unlivable. In 1994, New Orleans was the murder capital of America. It had 421 murders that year. Criminologists predicted 300 murders this year, a projection that now looks quite conservative.
Criminals dominate their neighborhoods to the point that people don't even call in crimes. The district attorney's office, tacitly admitting that the city's law-abiding citizens live in fear, has taken the "unusual" step of establishing a local witness protection program to encourage the reporting of crime, reports AP.
According to the New Orleans Police Foundation, most murderers get off -- only 1 in 4 are convicted -- and 42 percent of cases involving serious crimes since 2002 have been dropped by prosecutors.
Meanwhile, cops, when they can get away with it, have been living out of town. It is far too scary for them and their families. New Orleans Police officers are required to live in the city but many ignore this residency requirement, according to the Times-Picayune. The paper discovered that many top-ranking New Orleands cops lived in the suburbs and that most cops, both black and white, wanted the residency requirement rescinded.
For reasons of political correctness -- critics of law enforcement say lifting the residency requirement will mean more white cops eager to brutalize residents of the inner city and fewer black cops understanding of them -- the residency requirement remains, though cops breaking the rule told the Times-Picayune that it seriously hurts recruitment. It also -- this is particularly evident in Los Angeles where cops involved in the Ramparts scandal turned out to be ex-criminals -- distorts recruitment.
If the New Orleans Police Department has appeared feeble during the chaos -- and in some cases complicit in it -- policies like the residency requirement explain the breakdown. (Perhaps another factor that has rendered the NOPD feckless in the face of a rising murder rate is the criticism of its handling of a minority Mardi Gras.) Americans who have seen cops join in the looting ask: Why are police officers behaving like criminals? Well, because PC police departments like the NOPD hire them. Aggressive, let's-just-meet-the-quota-style affirmative action has become the door through which criminals enter the police academy.
More than the physical foundations of New Orleans will need to be rebuilt over the next few years. Its politically correct culture in which pathologies are allowed to fester in the name of "progress" forms much of the debris that must be cleared away if civilization is to return to New Orleans. A city which boasts as one of its businesses memorial "death t-shirts" -- clothing made popular by the frequency of gangland slayings in New Orleans that say things like, "Born a Pimp, Died a Playa" -- was headed for collapse even without a hurricane, and had become, as the exodus of cops illustrates, unlivable.
Conservative black leaders have been mau-maued into silence whenever they tell the truth about this barbarism and call for dramatic reform. But they are the ones who must lead the city now, and the phonies at organizations like the NAACP who despite all their rhetoric haven't done a thing to help the black underclass should step aside. Hurricane Katrina has made vivid the civilizational collapse they have long tried to conceal.
George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Spectator.
Nonsense. I live here. It's not the 3rd world here. I've been to the 3rd world.
From your above rubbish, it's clear that you haven't seen the reality of either the Deep South or of the Third World.
"Those who are left could obviously not get out."
No, many chose to stay. There are stories of them. Don't lie. Or maybe you're not lying and you're just ignorant of the facts. Let me know which is which.
The people who chose to stay but could have left made it worse for those that wanted to leave but couldn't.
"you would be the one sitting at home waiting on the government to come rescue you"
No, I wouldn't. I chose - I made the decision - to prepare myself ahead of time. Especially if I have many days notice.
An earthquake, a terrorist attack, other instant disasters -then there's a reason to be stranded. An oncomoming hurrincane that the whole world knew about for days isn't the same thing. And again, people chose to putz around because they didn't think it could happen to them.
Yet another CINO bedwetter enables those who steal DVD recorders and Playstations for "survival".
Amazing!
This needs to be bumped all night.
They probably are shooting. Just not being reported. During the Los Angeles riots I was informed from a fireman later that most of the reported deaths were actually due to cops performing riot control. Think about the situation. Police don't even need to fill out forms or attend hearings for people they shoot, whose bodies will probably never be identifiable. The problem is the shear numbers of armed citizens and looters right now.
I will say, if a nuke or something went off in Dallas and I survived it, I'd use my collection to take what I needed.
And the way the government is pretty helpless about it, I don't think there's many other options. I do have food/water stored up too, but.. You gotta do what's necessary.
Unfortunately ive been to the all black communities of the south. Projects, with people living in run down homes and rampant joblessness, hopelessness, alcoholics, etc. You must live in the southern utopia, or be well off. Maybe venture into the poorer parts of town every once in a while.
Just trying to distinguish between stealing bread and a cadillac.
Horse manure.
"Man, that's eveyrbody's store."
"This is their chance to get back at society."
Most of those animals were grabbing anything they could get their hands on, and for the most part it wasn't food.
Morons. I suppose the thugs that are running around NO looting, raping and killing are just "trying to survive."
Absolutely spot on story.
By the way, a Cadillac dealership did lose its inventory.
Well ill tell you what, you never answered my point. Where in the hell are you going to go when you dont have a car or any money or anywhere else to go??????? All you have is your home. Thats it.
Unless you are extremely well off, most people living under the poverty line, like in NO, run out of money at the end of the month.
You are obviously another clueless Californicator, b-tching about illegals, yet ignoring the home grown scum of the earth.
Pray tell, DieselBoy, where are you from? This is not a "Deep South" problem, this is an urban, black problem. It is the same kind of looting that took place in Los Angeles after the Rodney King case. Is LA a Third World Country?
And for my bona fides, my family has been in Arkansas since the 1820s. I have also lived and worked in Third World countries. Citizens in Third World countries would give their eye teeth to live in the Deep South.
From what I was told this is how it would go down. Group of 25 to 50 rioters walk towards policeman standing guard. Police shoot of couple of people in the crowd, the rest ran away. You do know that when their life's are threatened with any deadly force, they have the right to shoot to kill.
Pretty stereotypical dont you think? Despite all of the chaos, everyone just wants to focus just on a few people looting out stores. From all of the coverage ive seen, people have been trying to get the hell out of NO any way they can.
What channel are you watching that youve just seen a replay of the LA riots?
It's really hard to see the video and pics of people with armloads of clothing, boxes of Nikes, breaking into hotels and private homes and then find an excuse for it. There is a permanent criminal class in NO, and they are in control of much of the city.
Check out this blog of an eyewitness currently living in an office building, mgno.com. What he describes is stunning, especially reports from NOPD officers on the ground.
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