Lawlessness in New Orleans is a national disgrace

Salt Lake Tribune ^ | 9/2/05 | Rich Lowry

[Last Dakotan]

Unfortunately, the urban revival that had swept much of the country...

Which country is that? I want to move there.

[Jim_Curtis]

Has anyone heard if the CANNABILISM reported Friday by Randall Robertson, liberal black activist and president of Transafrica, is true?

But they would have had to walk all the way out of town to get some other kind of food.

Reminds me of a cartoon I drew once of two rescuers getting to the site of where an airplane full of soccer players went down and the survivors are all gorging themselves on the remains of the dead. The one rescuer turns to the other and says "WTF! It just crashed 5 hours ago!".

[rodguy911]

It's all gonna change now. They have a three star cajun general in there now, he will suffer no fools.

[sockmonkey]

Are you part of the undercover FR detective squad? Now I guess you'll be checking my name.

LOL! the only post I asked the mod to remove from this thread was my own comment!

[roses of sharon]

Our? The US?

More like proof that the socialist state of LA does not work on ANY level. None.

[MarineDad]

Thanks, I did enjoy your (former) post.

I really didn't think it was a gesture of gross stupidity, however; a little indelicate perhaps, but the assinine notion of New Orleans-flavor manmunching deserves such a post, and you provided it.

Thank you!

[Lee'sGhost]

Don't know, but it raises several questions if so.

1. Why is it just black people?
2. Are they eating just black people or just white people or both?
3. Are they killing people to eat them or just eating the ones who are already dead?
4. Which is better, dark meat or white meat?
5. Does it taste like chicken?
6. Raw or cooked?

[Fester Chugabrew]

There is plenty of depravity to go around, coast to coast and border to border...including your area too.

How true. But in NO it seems to have heavy concentrations in some places. I don't think this behavior was found in Goshen, 1965 - looting, shooting at rescuers, cursing those from both government and citizenry who were trying to help.

[drlevy88]

Go to that thread and quit bugging us.

[sierrahome]

Please accept my apologies for being less than Christian in my response but I have a lot of Family in NO that are wonderful people and are there now. They are trying to help...I have enjoyed and agreed with many of your posts. Again my apologies for my quick reaction.

[mikegi]

Wrong, it's a **local** disgrace.

[ThomasNast]

Reminds me of a cartoon I drew once of two rescuers getting to the site of where an airplane full of soccer players went down and the survivors are all gorging themselves on the remains of the dead. The one rescuer turns to the other and says "WTF! It just crashed 5 hours ago!".

What a great cartoon! Can you post it on this thread? I laughed out loud just reading this. It'd be fun to see!!

[CommandoFrank]

Is there a reason you have posted the same question 14 different times?

'Inquiring minds want to know'.

[rodguy911]

The rat-stream media will try and spin all of NO's problems as due to bush, it's always his fault. But think about it. If the Gov. and mayor of NO did not request federal help in time to do any good, the problems associated are on "their watch" not GW's, that's how it works. No matter what the MSM/rat press spins it, it's a "local" failure either at state of city level.

[savedbygrace]

I understand what you're saying, and I agree with you. However, there's another issue involved here: This is the result of the Welfare State, biting NO in the butt.

The gangsters have largely been raised by other gangsters, with a totally insufficient parental influence in their lives. This happened because of the Welfare State, which bases welfare and other payments on the lack of a father in the home, and on the lack of a family income.

So, yes, the gangsters themselves are to blame, but their lawlessness is on the tail end of a State mandated cycle. Even so, they, the gangsters, should be held totally responsible for their actions, regardless of this welfare cycle. Clear?

[Cicero]

the massive lawlessness in New Orleans in the days after the storm and the inability of anyone to stop it.

It was not the job of "anyone" to stop it. It was the job of the New Orleans police, led by the mayor. Riots are easily scotched in their earlier stages, but very difficult to stop when they have been permitted to get out of hand.

WHY WASN'T MAYOR NAGIN IN NEW ORLEANS FOR THIS CRISIS? You didn't catch Rudi Giuliani abandoning New York in the crunch. Why wasn't he there giving orders to the police?

If the New Orleans police were incompetent to keep order, why didn't Mayor Nagin put someone in charge of them earlier who could have straightened things out?

Because, as people have pointed out on other threads, he had no interest in governing the city, but only in having a good time collecting graft, as politicians in Louisiana have traditionally done. That's always easier if law enforcement is lax or nonexistent.

But when the crisis comes, these guys bug out--and blame others for their own deficiencies.

[Alberta's Child]

Lawlessness in New Orleans is a national disgrace

No, it's not. This is a nation of nearly 300 million people, and the only ones responsible for the chaos and disorder in New Orleans are that small number -- 100, 1,000 or even 10,000 who are committing those crimes.

I'm willing to bet that most people who look upon the lawlessness in New Orleans as a "national disgrace" are those who were profoundly disappointed this week to learn that they actually live in a country where that kind of sh!t goes on. Some of us had no illusions about what New Orleans, Detroit, South Central Los Angeles, etc. are all about.