Wonder what the people in there thought of these news crews dashing in and out. Hey why don't you leave your lights in the bathroom for us? Because we sure don't have any there! ...
I did say that I suspected that much of the reports out of New Orleans were probably going to be proven to be exaggerated.
I got two kinds of responses... Polite agreement and rabid disagreement.
No, wait - to be honest, I did get a couple of respectful disagreements from people who heard personally from someone who heard from someone who heard from someone.
So what are they saying? That the media spread a bunch of B.S. that made the United States look bad. Tell me it ain't so.
Maybe the thugs hid their guns knowing that NG's would shoot them to death if they fight. Criminals are though guys, but when they know soldiers (who are trained for warfare) are coming, they are usually terrified.
But considering the difficulties inside the Astrodome; hunger, thirst, emotional trauma and more, people could easily thought about almost every wild thing they know.
I think this nurse is from San Antonio, and she was at the River something Mall in New Orleans where she and seventy five others had banded together for safety. She was on our local news, and said it was mayhem, looting, and women screaming down below. She wasn't at the convention center (unless the mall and convention center are one and the same).
Our Local station ksat in San Antonio had her on tonite.I'm sure they have it on video at www.ksat.com.
No kidding, genius! They caught the first available bus to escape your he]]-hole city...
New Orleans police chief Eddie Compass said last night: "We don't have any substantiated rapes. We will investigate if the individuals come forward."
This certainly doesn't give one the impression that the NOPD is out there actively trying to find out what happened, but rather that they are sitting back and waiting for witnesses to come to them.
As we already know from their abysmal conviction rate, in the past witnesses to crime in NO have been very reluctant to come forward out of fear. I would expect unless the NOPD makes active efforts to find witnesses, few if any will come forward as they are more concerned with their hour-by-hour existence. It also seems rather odd that the police chief limited his statement to rapes and did not address any other crimes.
The Guardian, as far to the left as it leans, was also the first to debunk our government's production that abused Jessica Lynch for the amazonian feminist interests among our "elite." Even a socialist propaganda outlet is correct at times.
As if everyone has lots of faith in the NOPD. Or the Guardian. Talk about something being apocryphal!
If anything, the accounts I have been hearing from personal friends of mine who have been escaping the carnage in NOLA lead me to believe that the MSM have been sugar-coating and omitting much of the horror that's been occuring on in that hellhole.
Who am I going to believe, the Guardian or my lying eyes?
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A lot of it sounds made up to me from pure hysteria.
I hope the Guardian is correct and that the reports of murder and rape in NOLA are false or exaggerated. I hope none of that stuff happened. However, I fear the opposite is true. Many times this past week I've thought, regarding the anarchy, that we probably aren't hearing the half of it. Problem is, because law and order broke down, it won't be possible for many authorities to thoroughly investigate these crimes, gather evidence, ID a suspect, etc, like they would for an ordinary crime. We probably will never know the numbers and just how many rapes and murders happened.
What were they supposed to do to handle the bathroom problem in the dome? The toilets were all backed up, because the sewers filled up, and there was no running water.
I suppose they could have brought in porta-potties, but in 24 hours would they have gotten enough for 30,000 people for 4 days? Probably not.
So long as the people were evacuated to a place which was under water, and forced to stay there for 3 or more days, they were going to have some pretty disgusting and unsanitary conditions.
That is unpleasant, but other than removing the people from the dome what were they supposed to do about it?
Think for a moment. Who, if anyone, would benefit in downplaying the fact that rapes occured within a certain segment of the society in NO, uprooted suddenly and thrown into a dome for days on end.
I would imagine the rapes would be downplayed because it would not play well from a PR perspective by the people who would benefit the most by having it downplayed or ignored. I think there were enough eyewitnesses. I saw some reports from foreigners who were in there, and I can tell you, they did not exaggerate (one foreign, engaged couple for example--the fiancee was threatened with rape multipe times with rapes went on around them).
Urban Legend. TWO things we DO know:
1) The mayor and Governor had NO plan, none.
many residents are scofflaws and or idiots