Mayor Nagin: 10,000 Counts of Manslaughter

Special to FreeRepublic ^ | 10 September 2005 | John Armor (Congressman Billybob)

[don-o]

Do not mess with the Congressman, HSNRP. You will wind up in that dark place. We got your name.

[95 Bravo]

Has Nagin been drinking the water from the flooded areas? If memeory serves me, Rudy Guiliani didn't run away to Albany on 9/11 and scream like a woman for the Feds to save his city. But the "runaway Mayor" was safe and dry in Baton Rouge when he stated ranting for the Feds to take over his responsibilities!
Someone needs to take this clown up for a helicopter tour of the devastation, and then give him a nudge out the door.

[95 Bravo]

Has Nagin been drinking the water from the flooded areas? If memeory serves me, Rudy Guiliani didn't run away to Albany on 9/11 and scream like a woman for the Feds to save his city. But the "runaway Mayor" was safe and dry in Baton Rouge when he stated ranting for the Feds to take over his responsibilities!
Someone needs to take this clown up for a helicopter tour of the devastation, and then give him a nudge out the door.

[don-o]

Ridiculous. Those folks chose to stay on their own.

And you know that to be a fact?

[don-o]

Message received, Comrade.

We got a live one over here!

Ping the Kitties, please.

[don-o]

Stand down. Looks like it is already toasted.

[BushCountry]

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

Is this plan fill with FEMA at the local and federal level?

[spunkets]

Re:Those folks chose to stay on their own.

"And you know that to be a fact?

Yes. They were told to evacuate, or go to the dome. They had to make a choice. They did, they chose to stay home, or go where they did. No one forced their hand.

[Muzzle_em]

Have they released any new figures of the bodies recovered in NO so far?

[ladyjane]

Those who were responsible for children and decided to stay, they should be charged with neglect.

[texgal]

The emergency plan called for NO Metro Buses and school buses to evacuate the people who could not go by priavate automobile. Mayor Nagin is caught between a rock and a hard place so he's using the race baiting and excuses to try to save himself. Now that he's used Gov Blanko as red meat to throw off the hounds, one has to wonder if he, or she for that matter, can ever recover politically.

One has to wonder exactly how many of the buses that in the end were used to evacuate the people of New Orleans actually did have bathrooms. Has Mayor Nagin never heard of a potty stop?

[don-o]

Yes. They were told to evacuate, or go to the dome. They had to make a choice. They did, they chose to stay home, or go where they did. No one forced their hand.

Well, they have been told this many times before. My position on this is let them stay if they choose. But, make it clear that, once again they are totally on their own

[spunkets]

"Those who were responsible for children and decided to stay, they should be charged with neglect."

No. The parents of those children are the rightful and proper decision makers. If any of them chose to stay, it was their choice to make and I will never hold them to be negligent, or support any kind of arbitrary authoritarian rule over them.

This however, is a different topic than the thread which is about govm't action. In that case the duly elected officials made their decisions and I don't see anything unlawful about them. They certainly don't meet any legal definition for criminal action, including negligent.

[Joe 6-pack]

"Have they released any new figures of the bodies recovered in NO so far?"

I haven't heard anything lately. Official Katrina body counts are kind of like car wrecks...I don't go out of my way looking for them, but when I happen upon one, I can't help but look closely.

[IamConservative]

Apparently Nagin thought the horror of having to take a dump in a roadside ditch is worth the risk of dying in a toxic flood.

[shield]

Is there an honest prosecutor left in New Orleans?

NO...wish the FEDS could go after him and the governor for dereliction of duty...both need to go to prison...IMHO, governor is JUST AS GUILITY AS NAGIN.

[Luis Gonzalez]

"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said in an obscenity-laced tirade on WWL radio last Thursday that the federal government should have sent “Greyhound buses” to evacuate his city."

I've stayed away from FR on a self-imposed hiatus for quite some time, but this issue really needs to be discussed.

I am appalled by the utter ignorance exhibited by not only the general population--actually expected--but by our elected public servants, this "Mayor" included.

The Federal government cannot simply barge into States uninvited, this is as basic as basic can get when it comes to our system of government.

Now, as usual, we have people who were elected to uphold our laws, publicly flaunting their ignorance of the laws and statutes that define our Republic; blame others for not acting in order to deflect attention away from your own culpability.

You are right Congressman, Nagy and Blanco are guilty of manslaughter, and those within the DNC trying to deflect attention away from this fact by politicizing this issue, even as the dead bodies are being gathered, are doing it to detract attention away from the guilt of their own political cronies, and should be charged with obstruction of justice, and being accessories after the fact.

[NRA2BFree]

Great article, but I think Governor Blanco needs to be right up at the top. She was a day late and a dollar short all the way through this fiasco. She is the one who held up the buses. She only wrote an EO on 9/1 to take control of the buses. I'm not looking at the calendar but I believe that was two days after they were under water. She also held back the Red Cross and many medical/disaster teams.

As far as him crying about there not being toilets on the buses, so what. He sent everyone to the sports facility where there were inadequate toilets for that number of people. They both need to be brought up on charges!!