Posted on 09/04/2005 7:42:46 PM PDT by sgtyork
I just wish the Administration would come out swinging like this guy against this stuff, it's irritating as hell to have the liberals running loose trashing everyone.
This sounds very much like, the cops who took a powder are not fired but will be welcomed back.
Knowing NOLA, probably the ones that were on the tube looting, also.
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Is it fair to say, using the convention center as an example, that one reason it took until Friday to get aid in is the National Guard needed time to build up a response team with military police to ensure law and order because the New Orleans Police Department had degraded so much?
GEN. BLUM: That is not only fair, it is accurate.
PERFECT ANSWER.
Atta boy General... Don't let the sleeze press bait you into a General Haig outburst.
GEN. BLUM: That is not only fair, it is accurate. You've concisely stated exactly what was needed, and I told you why. We took the time to build the right force. The outcome was superb. No lives hurt, nobody injured. It was done almost invisibly.
Do you hear that, Marxiststream Media?!
That is your Death Knell! Your days of disinformation and general Quisling behaviour has just been put to DEATH on the altar of Truth and Reason!
We are LESS than 6 months away from B.I.T.S., and these Marxiststream TRAITORS will be first to see what the REAL America thinks of them!
Over the past serveral days there have been other reports about the degradation of the New Orleans Police Department. Some include fleeing in a patrol car. Taking off there badges and looting. I have also seen a number New Orleans Police officers trying to do their job in very trying circumstances. I have seen reports of maybe 1/3 of the officers on duty.
I was listening to the police scanner band featured on the Katrina thread. The guy requesting supplies reported he had 22 men abandon their posts.
Take THAT Bush blamers.
And it could be that one of the reasons that lawlessness spread so quickly is because some people, like the state's own Attorney General, actually justified some of the criminal activity under a "need to survive."
While no one is going to begrudge those people who "later" took food and water to survive, this chaos started immediately after the hurricane passed, as we even witnessed some uniformed officers taking items.
If things were as desperate as we are now being told, why did these people even find necessary to take items they knew they could never use or take with them? The answer is because even the locals didn't think things would get as bad as they did. As a result, chaos ensued and things did get worse. Why did people expect such a fast federal response when the locals didn't even care.
Hell, after the hurricane passed and before the levees broke, the city had almost 24 additional hours to start getting things in order, but they all breathed another sigh of relief as some bars even reopened (some never even closed).
What is B.I.T.S?
While I don't doubt your statement, I do not see how it is germain to my post, and the broader issue of the press trying to bait the general into stating that he has usurped civilian control.
Ping: Some good Michelle Malkin stuff. [Isn't it all?] 8)
PS..the Convention Center wasn't even designated as a city shelter. Mike Brown of FEMA noted that they weren't even informed of this until mid-week.
When President Bush mentioned that he would not let the "bureaucracy" stop the movement of the feds moving in, I knew that he was actively going above the heads of the Governor and Mayor and doing what was right, but doing it in such a way that martial law was not declared because the idiot Dims never authorized it. Our President and his staff are heros and they must endure the slanders and libels being arrayed against them.
While no one is going to begrudge those people who "later" took food and water to survive, this chaos started immediately after the hurricane passed, as we even witnessed some uniformed officers taking items.
The Rats screwed up, from even before the hurricane descended...and continued doing so until the grown ups arrived, took over, and had to start cleaning up the childrens' mess.
Generally used as a euphamism for the coming American Revolution.
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