Posted on 09/06/2005 2:32:23 PM PDT by Borges
RIP
The Vegas offer came too late.
RIP...prayer for the officers that stayed on the job when their buddies didn't.
Very sad. Prayers for him and his family.
There's been a lot of criticism of the NOPD on this forum, but I would suspect that many of them were quite heroic in their activities under very stressful conditions and without much support from either their mayor or the governor. People should knock back on the criticism and think a bit about what it must have been like in NO those few horrible days.
Am I the first? BUSH'S FAULT
Very sad.
*adjusting tin-foil hat*
...so was Vince Foster. I wonder if there is more behind this tale than meets the eye?
Maybe people here would rather think about the tens of thousands of people who suffered because the NOPD didn't do their job, but I do agree that for some of the NOPD who didn't desert, their job did become harder when the feds came in because they could no longer loot in uniform.
(Maybe when I stop hearing all the criticism of President Bush I'll find it in my heart to feel sorry for the NOPD. NOT!)
Their Mayor was an idiot. He inspired confidence in no one. I can understand despair in that situation. They had to know help wasn't coming anytime soon with that worthless idiot in charge.
I was wondering about this also.....
Now that Congress is doing an investigation, I'm sure we'll all know the truth soon......NOT. Paging Jamie Gorelick, paging Jamie Gorelick.....
No doubt they were facing horrific conditions, but some of them handled it and others didn't. This man had the classic signs of an Obsessive Compulsive Personality. His life was about order. He simply couldn't cope with disorder. Sad, but chances are at some point in his life he was going to face something he couldn't put in order and the result would be the same. Pray for his family.
Tragic...I just hope they're sure it's suicide...chaos often creates the perfect cover for murder.
Hard to feel for the N.O. police when I have burned in my memory the tape of the two N.O. police oficers strolling thru wal-mart looting using a shopping cart.
Matter of factly just taking.
I am sure many of the real police acted heroicly but it seems there were a lot of people that were immitating police officers/hell look at N.Y. police officers and compare.
Prayers...but my prayers go to the men who fought the crime, helped their citizens and stayed on the job.
Wonder if he was one of the cops Shep and the other newsmen kept harrassing. I felt embarrassment for the ignorance of these so-called reporters.
Very good analysis. Everything was out of control and beyond his control so there seemed to be only one option available to him for regaining control.
Worked for him but unleashed a hell for his family and coworkers for months or years to come.
Selfish bastard.
My bet is that they saw that, with the flooding of New Orleans, the revenue streams from kickbacks, payoffs and graft would end and they were already in over their heads. Of course, I may be wrong, it may be that there wholesale/retail drug suppliers were gone and they had nowhere to go!
Prayers are a waste. He was a atheist.
Weren't they in the shoes & socks isle? It really does depend on what they were taking whether or not it was wrong. Do you think they had family (children) at home with needs, after this disaster? DVD players, a TV, VCR, latest hip-hop CD's? Didn't look like that kind of stuff to me.
Don't be merciless. I'm tough, but not merciless. Have mercy, they were in the throes of disaster with people dying around them and neck deep in nastiness for 2 or 3 days, with no clean water, and on foot wading thru nastiness.
James 2:13 "For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment."
That said, I don't want my money taken from me to rebuild that city in a fish bowl.
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