Posted on 09/09/2005 11:06:37 AM PDT by hipaatwo
Think local officials are less to blame for deaths in New Orleans than federal officials? In the most jaw-dropping story of the week, UPI has the police chief of Gretna, Louisiana, admitting that he closed off one of the major arteries out of New Orleans on Monday, before the storm hit:
"We shut down the bridge," Arthur Lawson, chief of the City of Gretna Police Department, confirmed to United Press International, adding that his jurisdiction had been "a closed and secure location" since before the storm hit.
"All our people had evacuated and we locked the city down," he said. The bridge in question -- the Crescent City Connection -- is the major artery heading west out of New Orleans across the Mississippi River.
He added that the small town, which he called "a bedroom community" for the city of New Orleans, would have been overwhelmed by the influx. "There was no food, water or shelter" in Gretna City, Lawson said. "We did not have the wherewithal to deal with these people. If we had opened the bridge, our city would have looked like New Orleans does now: looted, burned and pillaged."
Quite true...I have been disappointed by President Bush at times, but I will never vote for a Dem or go third party. I know President Bush is a very good man...it's just I wish he would cut spending, enforce party discipline and stand up to the Dems a bit more.
The air seems cleaner already.
Have trouble with reading comprehension do you?
That explains so much.
I think you are correct. I was watching the coverage as the storm was coming in and they closed a couple of bridges as they didn't want cars trapped in gridlock on a bridge with high winds. Safety concern.
Wrong! Most of us care about our fellow man
Looks like mhking is gone.
fyi, i'm 1/2 Tsalagiyi, 1/4 Lowland Scots & the rest German & Irish. that makes me a MUTT, too.
you are correct. particuliarly about the LEFT, who wants NOBODY who is poor to do well, such that they can continue to "represent their interests". it's ALL about POWER & $$$$$$$$$$.
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you would fit in REALLY WELL on DU. please, take "m.eSPINola" with you when you go.
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Personally I have better things to do now than engage pointless,circuitious, ENDLESSLY AGGRAVATING debates, challenges,etc. That's just me. I'm not even reading nor bothering to report anything, even if it's vile and disgusting lest anyone think I'm trying to squelch free speech, PC,etc.etc.
I had beat my head into a brick wall long enough.
I can let go of the idea of helping the drug addicted adults if I have to, and I did-BUT- Knowing that there are students who live in the ghetto or inner cities and who want to get out, and who would be valuable members of society and who would be good leaders- and who can't escape, makes me feel sick to my stomach. And so does the fact that there are elderly people and innocent people who were just never able to catch a break and have never hurt a fly stuck there. In the ghetto there are some decent hardworking people who are janitors and street cleaners- who just don't make enough to get out. And those people are my kind of Americans,and they have dark skin.
There are two Americas- one part is free and the other is not as much....and I know who it is that is keeping one part enslaved (and I choose that word purposefully) it is the liberals and the democrats and the people who loot small business and who car jack and gang bang, and they mostly have dark skin ,and they make tons of excuses so they never have to be responsible to their children-and they want to believe some people are "keeping them down" so they rob and murder and rape to act out their aggression over it.
They are the problem as well. Those ganstas who shoot children and turn playgrounds into war zones over turf are evil.
I will be called a bigot again I am sure- but to hell with them. I would "close the bridge down" on them if I could.
We would all be better off without them.
I have learned, the hard way, that there are some people who just can not be helped- as hard as we try- only God knows why.
I am tired of trying to figure it out.
It doesn't seem to bother you in the least that Mike and Rod have left. You can't even ENTERTAIN why reading posts calling black people n*ggers would make someone want to leave. You write as if you're the only freeper that knows these issues exist. Unless you've not followed Mike's posting career, he's talked about the same issues. I don't think you're a bigot but most definately damn insensitive to people fleeing disaster or why the responses some that have NOTHING to do with this issue would make people want to leave. How would YOU feel if some of your family was in that crowd fleeing? Think about it. The same sort of mentality is the same kind that turned away Jews during WW2. You don't know everyone Diva so the fact that you WOULD stop people from fleeing disaster really shocks me because what you're saying is that you'd actually allow the possibility of someone's death just because of YOUR opinion about the state of their behavior. That's BS.
The liberal left has never had anyone's best interest at heart.
Also I've stopped hitting abuse on people long ago. Just because this is a FREE REPUBLIC doesn't mean that people have sit and shut up while people hurl insults.
This is the greatest loss to this forum that has occurred since I came here over four years ago.
It is appalling, and people should be ashamed of themselves for their blindness.
I am disgusted.......and feel helpless to do anything about it.....
I feel the same but I'm moving on. I still think of FR highly and the attitudes of some doesn't diminish it's work imho.
Ahh, to heck with it all. Freedom just isn't worth fighting for anymore. People just want to fight and insult each other all the time. Guess I'll just shut the whole thing down and retire.
Good point. You are right and that's why I'm still here. Most everyone knows I can't keep my mouth shut for long anyway.
I guess the question for every freeper is how much is too much, and when do you decide that it's not worth the toll it's taking on you personally. (Obviously that line was crossed for these two fine men).
Sometimes some time off to regroup so that you can live to fight another day is what's best. I hope that's the decision that mh and rdb make.....
The fight is worth it, IMO, and we need them around. This forum is unique, and what it offers to the world, in spite of the jerks, makes it worth fighting for.
Of course it ought to be said that no black freeper has ever said similar about white people or sunk to the level of discussion that others have on this forum. The answer as to why that is would be fascinating indeed.
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