Posted on 09/09/2005 8:10:17 PM PDT by BillTotts20thCentury
For the Guardian (UK) and Michelle Malkin and all the other "KATRINA CRIME DENIERS," my first batch of links to eyewitness accounts of murder, rape, shootings and other crimes in New Orleans since KATRINA struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.
It appears that today, September 9, 2005, the New Orleans Police Department and some media outlets want to minimize, diminish and/or deny the amount of violence witnessed by thousands of people trapped in New Orleans from Monday, August 29, 2005 to Friday, September 2, 2005.
Interestingly, both liberal papers, the Guardian (UK)
The Guardian's Katrina cove-up
and at least one conservative commentator, Michelle Malkin,
are lining up against the thousands of Americans, civilian and military, who were eyewitnesses to the post-hurricane crime wave in New Orleans.
~thread mark~
I would never deny that many criminal acts occured in the madness that followed Katrina.
What I have a problem with is people coming on here with their own AGENDA suggesting that collective blame be placed on one particular ethnic group.
Thats hardly being in denial about crime.
And a documented story on the CORRUPTION of the media and the democrats.
http://www.nodnc.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=367
I like cheese. Do you like cheese?
I looked at all your8 links and didn't see an actual eye witness account of rape or murder.
sniff sniff...
I only looked at three of the links. If they are all British tabloids, I am not impressed.
It's not necessarily an eyewitness account, when someone in the Superdome says people were raped there. The witnessses are not saying they saw it with their own eyes, although some do say they were groped and threatened with rape. At least three of the stories feature a young Brit named Trout, so they are not independent corroborations.
I pray no children were raped and murdered - if they were where are the family members screaming inconsolably for justice? Dead too?
It is my hope that the atrocities reported, like the death toll, may have been exaggerated.
MRs VS
I'm inclined to agree.
Ping
Last week, the media was full of crime stories from New Orleans. There was a high crime rate in New Orleans before the flood. Anyone expect crime to take a holiday because there's a flood? For historical perspective, there was looting and crime after the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. The Army was actually called out, and a number of looters were actually shot. Another Freeper added that at least one San Franciscan thief was lynched by a mob.
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