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New Orleans police to be pulled off streets
Seattle Times ^ | September 5, 2005 | Chris Adams, Martin Merzer and Susannah A. Nesmith

Posted on 09/05/2005 2:47:58 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon

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To: 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."

Oh another feel good post why not add "remember the children and the ecological disaster" to list of excuses
the modern PC world is one built on feelings and no assigning of responsibility..you both make me sick
81 posted on 09/05/2005 6:29:49 AM PDT by ConsentofGoverned (A sucker is born every minute..what are the voters?)
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To: uncitizen

Well, it might be that said officers were photographed looting along with the common criminals. Picutes like that tend to hamper further career promotion.


82 posted on 09/05/2005 6:29:51 AM PDT by WorkingClassFilth (Do you know Landru, Brother?)
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To: Caipirabob

"it's a small percentage of people who are the major problem."

I agree.


83 posted on 09/05/2005 6:36:15 AM PDT by chgomac
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To: WestVirginiaRebel

He is already the cause of too, many of his constituents deaths.

P.C. kills and so does incompetent fools like "Ragin-Nagin" "Stanko-Blanco" and "Punch-Drunk-Landrieu."

Now Nagin is going to get tough like "slick klintoon" and looks out for his peeps. "Too late Nagin!!!! you belong in Federal Prison as Heavy D's Bitch."

Lies Are The Opiate Of The Liberals,
NSNR-CSAOTL


84 posted on 09/05/2005 6:36:57 AM PDT by No Surrender No Retreat
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To: ConsentofGoverned

Get some sleep, then maybe you will see that I am comparing our military to the good people of LA who did/are doing everything they can to help their fellow citizens.


85 posted on 09/05/2005 6:39:25 AM PDT by chgomac
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To: uncbob

As a NY'er, I will say that although we have more than our fair share of isiots, the overall population has a cano do attitude and and the firemen are the best of the best. I have a few buddies who are cops and firemen, and they are committed professional, and far far different than the bums we see on the tv.


86 posted on 09/05/2005 6:43:00 AM PDT by chris1 ("Make the other guy die for his country" - George S. Patton, Jr.)
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To: Rebelbase
I just watched the video. There were four cops...fat, armed, and openly stealing.
87 posted on 09/05/2005 6:45:21 AM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: kalee
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.

And it's their homes too because of the NO residency requirement for city employees.

88 posted on 09/05/2005 6:53:00 AM PDT by maryz
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To: chgomac
"I felt shame, digust and anger at the soldiers who played sex games with the AbuGhraib prisoneers"

This was the lead statement you posted..a direct attack on our Army..Where you in AG prison? Did you have any idea why those (terrorist thugs) were being treated that way.
TO gain Information..As one who handled prisoners in another war these actions at AG were very very mild and I laugh at your false disgust..You are a perfect example of
PC ideology. You make me sick.
89 posted on 09/05/2005 6:54:28 AM PDT by ConsentofGoverned (A sucker is born every minute..what are the voters?)
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To: ConsentofGoverned

The military court that found England, et al guilty must be "a perfect example of PC ideology" right?

I stand by the comparison....the honorable and good people in both situations are newsworthy...not the idiots.


90 posted on 09/05/2005 7:05:32 AM PDT by chgomac
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
""I'm not going to sit back and let another one die," Nagin said."

Oh why stop now, you incompetent fool? You have the blood of PLENTY enough on your hands, Nagin. Do I need to count the ways????

91 posted on 09/05/2005 7:07:30 AM PDT by RightOnline
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

...."Last night, Mayor Ray Nagin said his entire police force would be pulled off the streets by tomorrow and all firefighters, paramedics and emergency dispatchers also were being sidelined. They will be sent to Baton Rouge for evaluation and counseling, he said.

"......

F^&*(ing idiot. Now the stupid mayor has sent everyone that knows the city home, so the Feds can do the work.

How about taking these 2000 or so folks, and put them under the jurisdiction of the feds. Let them at least direct traffic, drive their firetrucks, run supply chains to the local hospitals, drive the buses for the evacuation.

Now the Fed troops have to do all the back-up jobs, rather than let them find people trapped in attics, etc.

Idiot!


92 posted on 09/05/2005 7:07:37 AM PDT by aShepard
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon

Well, it might at least reduce looting.


93 posted on 09/05/2005 7:12:22 AM PDT by George W. Bush
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"The security forces won," Nagin said. "We're going to make this city safe. Anybody out there who has any ideas of doing anything but evacuating — there will be serious consequences."

Finally, this idiot says something rational.

94 posted on 09/05/2005 7:13:28 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (never surrender, this is for the kids)
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To: mariabush
If people refuse to leave, they should be handed a written notice that there will be no support for them, including water or food and medical services. Take down their name and closes relative not in NO and make them sign it.

And what are you do if they put their hands on their hips, give you that looks and announce:
"H--- no! I ain't gonna sign nuthin' and I ain't gonna give ya no name of no relatvie either..."

95 posted on 09/05/2005 7:17:47 AM PDT by yankeedame ("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"I'm not going to sit back and let another one die," Nagin said.

The police are a vital cog in hiz honor's bribe and kick back department. Plus they hold the back up crack stash in evidence rooms.

96 posted on 09/05/2005 7:36:57 AM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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To: Dustbunny
"The Mayor of N.O. and Govenor of LA are mental midgets that should NEVER have been elected to public office."

I would offer the thought that "informed and intelligent Democrat" is a contradiction of terms, an oxymoron if you will. If you are informed, you can't be a Democrat if you are intelligent. By the same token, if you are intelligent, you cannot be a Democrat if you have all the facts.

America will never be safe as long as a single Democrat holds elected public office.

97 posted on 09/05/2005 7:38:11 AM PDT by Reaganghost (Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
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To: Uncle Joe Cannon
"I'm not going to sit back and let another one die," Nagin said.

I guess seven days of sitting back was enough, huh Nagin? While you blamed the Feds for not bailing your pathetic butt out earlier?

98 posted on 09/05/2005 7:42:48 AM PDT by kstewskis ("I don't know what I know, but I know that it's big..." Jerry Fletcher)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority

I have known lots of NOPD. This is uncalled for. Many of them are good, hardworking guys who want to be the good guy in a city where crime is very high per capita.

They are paid low. They have to often work a second job to make ends meet. More than one family has met the qualifications for food stamps. And the fact that they are paid low enough to make that qualification is a sad thing in and of itself.

They had a bad job to do anyway, policing a city that required big skills in crowd control and dealing with a rough criminal element.

And then the storm came.

The men in this situation faced their entire lives shattered. Their homes were gone, their families threatened or dead, having to move through chaotic situations surrounded by death, lack of communications, and being fired on.

The guys in NYC were gallant and heroic, but didn't have their entire lives destroyed. They had homes to go back to. Their loved ones weren't lost in that morass of black water. What they were trying to protect, the people of New York, the property of New York, mostly existed.

The guys in New Orleans had it differently. They were expected to police what was no longer a city, but a swamp of dead bodies, looters, and frightened people.

I can understand why some left. I can understand why some suicided. I am amazed that any stayed on the job at all. Those guys are heros in my book. To stay on the job when all you have worked for is washed away in the muck shows a heroism that goes beyond the pale of many of us.

I won't deny there is graft in NO. I won't deny the corruption. But to paint all those guys like they were crooks is wrong, wrong, wrong, and shameful.


99 posted on 09/05/2005 7:43:21 AM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: twigs
"She is corrupt and she's a hard-core socialist. That she is competent makes her all the more dangerous.

I guess it depends on what the meaning of "is" is, as per this post.

100 posted on 09/05/2005 7:44:39 AM PDT by Reaganghost (Democrats are living proof that you can fool some of the people all of the time.)
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