New Orleans police to be pulled off streets

Seattle Times ^ | September 5, 2005 | Chris Adams, Martin Merzer and Susannah A. Nesmith

[Caipirabob]

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!

I do agree with your points. And I did state that it's a small percentage of people who are the major problem. I've also made donations to the effort to support a worthy cause.

To be honest, I never felt any shame about "Abu Grab". Court martial the soldiers and as far as the terrorists are concerned, put them out of their misery. Hollow tip should suffice. I have about as much regard for them as I would any other non-human entity such as mass murderers,rapists, looters and pedophiles.

[SAJ]

That quote is from Billy Tauzin.

[Rebelbase]

Two cops were in the Walmart looting for shoes.

[Clara Lou]

People have seen such horrific things in war. In Vietnam, During WWII and managed to live with those memories. I'm very suspicious about these suicides.
People may live with the things they've seen, but it's how those memories of what they've seen affect the way they sleep, the way they react in life, and the way they think. Audie Murphy suffered from post-traumatic stress syndrome.

One of those officers supposedly killed himself because he found out that has wife had died in the storm. I don't know about the other one.

You may be suspicious, but you'll never know until you walk a mile in their shoes.

[DocH]

He (Nagin) noted that two police officers committed suicide in recent days, and he said the other uniformed officers were traumatized by recent events.

Probably due to HIS, and the spineless demonRAT governor's, total lack of mature, focused, and tough leadership.

Those suicidal & traumatized cops were probably thinking, "If I can't get orders from the mayor or the governor, both apparently pussies, to SHOOT-ON-SIGHT these looting, raping, car & supplies (food, medicine, water, etc.)-jacking, rampaging, mudering savage hordes - then WHAT IN THE HELL am I doing here on this earth as a police officer?".

[Rebelbase]

"fighting off the dregs of society all week long."

That is what cops are SUPPOSED to do. You know those metal "L" shaped things hanging in a holster on a cop's side? They're called guns and in a natural disaster like N.O. the cops have virtually unlimited authority to use them.

[Recon Dad]

Nagin's a joke. His histrionics are embarrassing. When the heat was on he folded like a cheap suitcase. Easy to be the mayor of New Orleans and throw beads to the parade watchers, not so easy to lead in a crisis.

[DocH]

The Feds need to seal the city off and empty it so they can dispose of the dead without actually counting them.

These bodies NEED to be counted.

That way, come next election, Republicans will know how many new demonRAT "voters" to look for.

[silverleaf]

For a mayor to order an entire urban first responder force out of the city...is just incomprehensible. Presumably Governor Blanco "DuBois" will take up the slack using State employees. But I wouldn't hold my breath.

If I didn't know better, I'd swear some democrat strategist is trying to force Bush's hand on federalization in Louisiana beyond the limits of the Constitution so they can impeach him.

[ConsentofGoverned]

"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!"

You are good for a laugh..comparing the US Military with these corrupt cowards led by deviate leftist demorat scum
who have caused the destruction of a major US city and you are defending them by stating the obvious that we have great people who did stand their ground-to compare the two groups in this manner is only intended to mitigate the abject failure of a mayor a Governor and a public service sector long known for corruption and dereliction of duty.

[Tribune7]

"I'm not going to sit back and let another one die," Nagin said.

I suspect he's doing it by the minute.

[varyouga]

"They will be sent to Baton Rouge for evaluation and counseling, he said."


WTF is this? They are going to send firefighters/cops to some crybaby classes while there is a crisis. I can't imagine any FDNY firefighters leaving for "counseling" while people were trapped in the WTC rubble(even when ordered by the mayor).

[silverleaf]

The Feds need to seal the city off and empty it so they can dispose of the dead without actually counting them.

[freema]

"Mayor holed up in hotel with armed guards because there is so much anger against authorities."
Campbell Brown NBC 9:05 am

I was reminded yesterday, that during Hurricane Floyd, an announcement was made via television that those who would not follow the mandatory evacuation were advised to write their name and next of kin on their arm with a permanent marker so their bodies could be identified.

Problem solved.

[freema]

On the seventh day, God rested.

[seemoAR]

I think of the Honorable Governor of LA and Hitlery every time I see the preview for the new series named "Commander In Chief".

[DocH]

Others were expected as far away as Utah, West Virginia and Iowa.

Great. Can't wait.

I agree with you.

This will be as much a fiasco as Castro dumping great numbers of his criminals on our shores way-back-when.

While there are probably some decent people among the evacuees, there is also the inner-city, thug gangster, criminal element. The very scum that was doing the looting, shooting, raping, and generally creating all the chaos down in N.O.

With their I.D. "lost" in the flood, who knows what scum will stay ("sheet man, I aint goin' back to that place") in our communities to prey on our law-abiding citizens, their families entered onto our welfare roles to further drag down our economies needlessly, and their illegitimate demonseed enrolled in our schools?

LA is a big enough state. Why didn't we just send massive numbers of FEMA and other trailers and tents, and set up virtual communities somewhere outside of NO, but still in LA?

[DocH]

They're called guns and in a natural disaster like N.O. the cops have virtually unlimited authority to use them.

That is, unless your mayor and governor are liberal demonRAT pussies that won't give the necessary LOOTERS-WILL-BE-SHOT-ON-SIGHT orders.

[kalee]

You're right. Another thing to consider is that this is personal, the dead and suffering in NO are likely to be the friends and families of these policemen. It is personal in a way that the nameless enemy in war isn't.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Mayor Nagin should be placed in stocks and subjected to public punishment.