New Orleans Didn’t Just Go Nuts -- It’s Been Nuts

Human Events Online ^ | September 6, 2005 | Mac Johnson

[Cicero]

This strikes me as one of the most lucid and convincing reports I have seen on the crime and looting in New Orleans. I think it's a good article to send to friends, to inform them that just maybe Bush wasn't responsible for this disaster.

[Deo volente]

Fantastic!

I am E-mailing this right now to some friends.

My family, however, is hopeless. They think Bush is the bogeyman.

[ncountylee]

Only about 1,100 cops honored their oath!

Small time bribes went with the flood waters. What's a corrupt cop to do except loot and then split in a stolen cop car to Houston.

[wagglebee]

Many people believe that Washington, D.C., is the “murder capital of America.” And indeed it often is, but that is only because such rankings are limited to “major cities” –those with a population of 500,000 or more, and New Orleans has (or had) a population of 485,000. Were it not for this actuarial accident, Washington, D.C.. wouldn’t even have a shot at the murder title. The per capita murder rate in New Orleans is 16% higher than in “Murder Capital” Washington, D.C.; and nearly 10 times the national average. To have a murder rate equal to that of New York City, New Orleans would need to reduce its murders by 86%. No, that’s not a typo.

My brother-in-law was in graduate school at Tulane, he was mugged leaving a bar in the French Quarter a year and a half ago. On the night he was mugged, there were over a dozen other muggings and several burglaries. About six months before that his SUV had been stolen, the police never made any effort to recover it, it was only found because the theives totalled it and abandoned it a couple weeks later.

[Viking2002]

As spot-on (and eye-opening) as this article is, all you needed to know was that a seven-year-old girl was found stacked with other bodies in a walk-in freezer with her throat slit, to know what sort of inhuman subculture was simmering just below the surface in that Godforsaken swamphole. I just wonder how many of these 'refugees' we've been shuttling around the country might have been rampaging, raping, or just settling scores amid all the chaos, because only God Himself may have been witness to a lot of it.

[Cicero]

If they try that kind of stunt in Houston, they may find that the cops and prosecutors are less sympathetic to them.

[eeriegeno]

Excellent article explaining where the problem really is!!!!!!

[cgk]

BFLR

[Viking2002]

I submit that if they tried that stunt anywhere else but a few other coastal cities, the National Guard would be cutting them down from lamp posts. And no one saw nothin'.

[Cicero]

Much of my family is liberal, but this article is too persuasive to be easily dismissed, even by a fanatic liberal.

[kittymyrib]

NO ought to have been sued regularly by tourists who have no clue as to the lawless hellhole they have been lured into by all the malarky about the French Quarter. Seeing a bunch of tattered buildings with wrought iron is not worth one's life. They ought to be forced to include their crime stats on every glossy tourist ad, just as pharmas have to list the side-effects of their drugs on TV ads.

[the Deejay]

My family, however, is hopeless. They think Bush is the bogeyman.

LOL! You still consider them "family"?

[brytlea]

What we saw in New Orleans was what happens in America’s most murderous city when the criminals realize that all the cops have left.
B Exactly what I have been saying for more than a week.

susie

[PajamaTruthMafia]

Outstanding!

[KentuckyWoman]

Ping for later forwarding...

[derdy]

It is a good post. I grew up in new orleans. I do love the city; it does have extremes though.

I was in the french quarter on the martin luther king day a group of african american youths used sticks and bats to randomly hit white people telling them canal street was their street and no white people were allowed.

It does have a heavy presence of some rather nasty characters, whom I agree, felt they could be themselves when they knew the cops werent around.

People from the fischer projects used to snipe at cars crossing over the I10 for kicks, nonblack nurses who went into the fischer projects raped and beaten when going in to give inhome care to elderly in the housing project, and as one of very few whites at most of the schools I went to I was jumped and physically assaulted regularly. I bet the same element had a field day when they knew no cops were around.

N.O. does have its great points though, it is a true yin and yang. For all of its bad, its good is equal.

I also enjoyed this piece incase it hasnt been seen. http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110007219

[B4Ranch]

Was this President Bush's fault?

FNC's Major Garrett: Red Cross Blocked by Order of the Louisiana State Government

[Deo volente]

My sister sends me Emails from the moveon.org/Michael Moore lunatic fringe, and I throw them in the trash. If I blocked them with my spam filter, I'd never hear the end of it, so for peace in the family, I simply ignore her.

If she wants to talk about the weather, fine.
But not politics.

[jordan8]

when the criminals realize that all the cops have left.

Actually it is the fact that most of those who are primarily responsible for defending property, the owners, had left.