Posted on 09/05/2005 2:47:58 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
It is different to walk into some place you don't know and see devastation vs your street, your home, your neighborhood.
" there is a small percentage of people in NOLA who have damaged thier name and image"
The MSM is in the business of bringing the most negative images to the forefront, but I have been seeing somes positive stories of black NOLA residents helping out, rescuing people and protecting their fellow man. There is bad and good in every race of man.
If he is only NOW reliquishing control....then the fault of lack of law enforcement and rescue belongs to....?
I have a very harsh attitude towards those who stayed behind who could have evacuated. It was done more than likely with criminal intent. These are the ones who see themselves as modern day warlords and are the ones firing on the rescuers.
Resuce and salvage those who we can. After that, I almost think it would be wiser to cordon off the city and wait for three months. Then bulldoze and rebuild.
They will never blame the residents of New Orleans...they might be labeled "racist".
I read the report of two N.O. cops who changed into civilian clothes and drove a N.O. police car to Baton Rouge. They were stopped by B.R. cops thinking some N.O. civilians had stolen the police car.
I also read that something around 200 of 1,500 N.O. police officers simply went AWOL.
Further, I don't recall reports of any uniformed NYC police officers caught on video looting after the towers fell in NYC. Shameful video is available of N.O. officers looting.
That's pretty different, alright.
The notorious corruption of many New Orleans police officers has been well documented.
Whose earlier quote was it? "Half of Louisiana is under water and the other half is under indictment."
"I feel nothing but shame from NOLA."
And that's the danger! I felt shame, digust and anger at the soldiers who played sex games with the AbuGhraib prisoneers....but never did my shame extend to the entire military. A few rotten apples are found in nearly every situation, in every profession... so to the fellow citizens who stayed and helped, the police, fire,doctors & nurses, we owe you thanks and we will not throw your heroic efforts into the same pile with those criminals!
The Feds need to seal the city off and empty it so they can dispose of the dead without actually counting them.
I stand by my post
I am surprised as many stayed as they did
Let your family be evacutlated to who knows where and have YOUR house and city destroyed and then come back and tell me how you will stay around an do your duty trying to contain the scum of society
I think it may be a competence and corruption issue. But also the mayor and governor wanting to ensure that no blame fall son them for anything -- they can say they were abandoned by the feds at the beginning and then the feds took over, so therefore they have no responsiblity. F'em!
I have to wonder how many of them are are going to retire on their newly acquired jewelry holdings.
I have been listening to Mark Simone on WABC(NYC)this morning.He claims that these two incompetent BOZOS(Blanco and Nagin)didn't even attempt to execute their own(in place)evacuation plan!I guess we've all seen all those buses just sitting there half flooded!!Not only that,but there was ZERO communication between them because the cells were down and they had no satellite phones!!!!
Great. Can't wait.
Like the wonderful idea by church groups to sponsor and bring the Somalis to Maine or the Hmong to Minnesota. People of NO will NOT assimilate into the cultures of those states. It is bound to fail.
Don't these do-gooders have an ounce of brain cells in their heads?
You make a good point!
why wouldn't they count the dead?
I saw a NO policeman earlier in the week give a blistering interview on his thoughts about the few police officers who were giving his force a bad name....he spoke from his heart about the oath they took to protect people.
The interview was only shown once,unfortunately. There is no excuse for a corrupt policeman who looted....others may have thought they needed to get their own family to safety and they will get back on the job OK.
Moron Mayor, you no longer have a city, it's a large sewage holding pond
The entire police force should be pulled off the streets permanently. According to an article I just read on Drudge, the New Orleans cops pretty much acted like just another armed gang, staking out their territory and threatening citizens seeking help. Evaluation and counseling is not going to fix the rottenness that has consumed that whole force. And I am also astounded that absolutely no one in the MSM is challenging official explanations that it was too dangerous for the police to be out on the streets trying to rstore order or even joining in the looting. For goodness sakes, when someone accepts a badge from a supposedly professional police force, he or she accepts the risks that go with. Not these cops apparently...
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