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Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos: police official
Agence France-Presse ^
| September 3, 2005
Posted on 09/03/2005 4:07:38 PM PDT by HAL9000
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:07:40 PM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
What an ass. They should all be fired, if not brought up on charges.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:09:20 PM PDT
by
livius
To: HAL9000
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:10:21 PM PDT
by
SE Mom
(God Bless those who serve..)
To: HAL9000
I understand a lot of the NOPD bugged out. Riley had better not be attacking the Guard after so many of his cops were AWOL.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:10:25 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: HAL9000
Was it the Race Card?
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:10:44 PM PDT
by
Echo Talon
(http://echotalon.blogspot.com)
To: HAL9000
I wonder if this was the same guy I saw on tv saying "Where is the government!??!?!?"
Note to police: YOU ARE THE GOVERNMENT!!!
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:11:51 PM PDT
by
flashbunny
(Defending the free market on free republic is like having to defend the flag at a VFW convention.)
To: HAL9000
When New Orleans deputy police commander W.S. Riley finds his "police force" maybe he can ask them where they were during and after the Hurricane. Does anyone know where they are?
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:12:25 PM PDT
by
FreePaul
To: HAL9000
Riley screwed the pooch and now he wants to point his crooked little finger at somebody else. It was YOUR job amigo! Not the National Guard!
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:12:38 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(We did not lose in Vietnam. We left.)
To: HAL9000
The guardsmen are lucky there were any cards left after the cops helped to loot the stores.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:13:18 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
To: HAL9000
Or it could be that no one anticipated the gov. and mayor could be such bozos. Could be no one anticipated 25% of the city wouldn't have heeded the warnings. Could be that no one anticipated so many of that 25% would sit on a curb complaining the dropped drinking water was warm rather than walk up the street to shelters. Could be no one anticipated rescuers and doctors would be attacked.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:14:03 PM PDT
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: FreePaul
Nagin was in Baton Rouge, wasn't he? Guess a lot of the cops figured if the mayor's going to desert the sinking ship, why should they stick around.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:14:09 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: HAL9000
Some National guard troops were there before the hurricane hit and who calls in the National Guard? Isn't it the Governor? Why are all the local and state responsibilities now being laid at the feet of the federal government?
To: HAL9000
Lordy all this bitching about the help they got has really put me in a giving mode....
To: HAL9000
All the officials are point fingers, trying to cast blame on someone else.
Which is exactly the point that caused the problem in the first place -- no one stepped up to the plate to take responsibility before, during, or days after.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:14:42 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: HAL9000
The French just love this stuff.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:14:50 PM PDT
by
razzle
To: HAL9000
The timeline makes it absolutely clear that the riots were due to the failure of the mayor, the chief of police, and the police in general. They were the ones who were there on the spot, and they are the ones who failed to control the situation.
According to some reports posted here, Louisiana police participated in the looting. If true, they should be punished.
Did National Guardsmen play cards? Maybe so. So what? I've been in the military, and the motto has always been "Hurry up and wait." If someone pulled out a deck of cards while waiting for orders or for transportation, so what?
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:15:04 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: FreePaul
When New Orleans deputy police commander W.S. Riley finds his "police force" maybe he can ask them where they were during and after the Hurricane. Does anyone know where they are? Some of them were at WalMart.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:15:21 PM PDT
by
atomicpossum
(Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
To: HAL9000
BS. This 'police officer' is covering for their own incompetence.. wouldn't doubt he was looting himself.
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:15:24 PM PDT
by
SeaBiscuit
(God Bless all who defend America and Friends, the rest can go to hell.)
Comment #19 Removed by Moderator
To: HAL9000
A top New Orleans police officer said that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane Katrina. Just the facts, Officer Riley.
Exactly which national Guard troops were playing cards?
and
Exactly where were they playing cards?
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posted on
09/03/2005 4:16:01 PM PDT
by
syriacus
(You can't fool Mother Nature. Why didn't New Orleans codes require lifeboats for each residence?)
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