Rape threat to our women (more Terror Dome accounts)

Herald Sun (Australia) ^ | 04sep05 | CHRIS TINKLER and DARYL PASSMORE

[toldyou]

I think all of you should take a brake.
"Okay, we wheel."

ROTFLMBO!

[Petronski]

Good grief, you're right. And to think, before I put melotonin, I had typed serotonin. LOL



I think I mean melanin. lol

[toldyou]

Oh dear...how awful.

[Peach]

But according to that poster, these kids are lying or exaggerating. Despite the fact that we've heard this kind of reports from all kinds of people leaving the Dome and other shelters.

I think someone has an agenda here (not you), and it diminishes the pain of those survivors of this ordeal.

[Ken H]

Don't you all tire of this?

[claudiustg]

Here's another little gem for you. Mayor Nagin learned nothing from hurricane Ivan last year and repeated same mistakes all over.

Their "plan" has always been the same: let the people fend for themselves, and stick their hands out for money when it's over.

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091904ccktWWLIvanFlaws.132602486.html

---Those who had the money to flee Hurricane Ivan ran into hours-long traffic jams. Those too poor to leave the city had to find their own shelter - a policy that was eventually reversed, but only a few hours before the deadly storm struck land.
New Orleans dodged the knockout punch many feared from the hurricane, but the storm exposed what some say are significant flaws in the Big Easy's civil disaster plans.
Much of New Orleans is below sea level, kept dry by a system of pumps and levees. As Ivan charged through the Gulf of Mexico, more than a million people were urged to flee. Forecasters warned that a direct hit on the city could send torrents of Mississippi River backwash over the city's levees, creating a 20-foot-deep cesspool of human and industrial waste.
Residents with cars took to the highways. Others wondered what to do.
"They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Latonya Hill, 57, said at the time. "If I can't walk it or get there on the bus, I don't go. I don't got a car. My daughter don't either."
Advocates for the poor were indignant.
"If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature," said Joe Cook of the New Orleans ACLU.
It's always been a problem, but the situation is worse now that the Red Cross has stopped providing shelters in New Orleans for hurricanes rated above Category 2. Stronger hurricanes are too dangerous, and Ivan was a much more powerful Category 4.
In this case, city officials first said they would provide no shelter, then agreed that the state-owned Louisiana Superdome would open to those with special medical needs. Only Wednesday afternoon, with Ivan just hours away, did the city open the 20-story-high domed stadium to the public.
Mayor Ray Nagin's spokeswoman, Tanzie Jones, insisted that there was no reluctance at City Hall to open the Superdome, but said the evacuation was the top priority.
"Our main focus is to get the people out of the city," she said.
Callers to talk radio complained about the late decision to open up the dome, but the mayor said he would do nothing different.
"We did the compassionate thing by opening the shelter," Nagin said. "We wanted to make sure we didn't have a repeat performance of what happened before. We didn't want to see people cooped up in the Superdome for days."
When another dangerous hurricane, Georges, appeared headed for the city in 1998, the Superdome was opened as a shelter and an estimated 14,000 people poured in. But there were problems, including theft and vandalism.
This time far fewer took refuge from the storm - an estimated 1,100 - at the Superdome and there was far greater security: 300 National Guardsmen.
The main safety measure - getting people out of town - raised its own problems.
More than 1 million people tried to leave the city and surrounding suburbs on Tuesday, creating a traffic jam as bad as or worse than the evacuation that followed Georges. In the afternoon, state police took action, reversing inbound lanes on southeastern Louisiana interstates to provide more escape routes. Bottlenecks persisted, however.
Col. Henry Whitehorn, head of state police, said he believes his agency acted appropriately, but also acknowledged he never expected a seven-hour-long crawl for the 60 miles between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
It was so bad that some broadcasters were telling people to stay home, that they had missed their window of opportunity to leave. They claimed the interstates had turned into parking lots where trapped people could die in a storm surge.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco and Nagin both acknowledged the need to improve traffic flow and said state police should consider reversing highway lanes earlier. They also promised meetings with governments in neighboring localities and state transportation officials to improve evacuation plans.
But Blanco and other state officials stressed that, while irritating, the clogged escape routes got people out of the most vulnerable areas.
"We were able to get people out," state Commissioner of Administration Jerry Luke LeBlanc said. "It was successful. There was frustration, yes. But we got people out of harm's way."---

[onyx]

ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[toldyou]

"But according to that poster, these kids are lying or exaggerating. Despite the fact that we've heard this kind of reports from all kinds of people leaving the Dome and other shelters."

I read horrific stories, also, like the one you posted, but I don't know where to find them now. I think one came from a 57 year old British man who was also "rescued" from the Superdome.

[toldyou]

"Don't you all tire of this?"

At first I was insulted, but now I'm LOL!

[Windsong]

Little hotheaded eh?

[wagglebee]

New Orleans has been a cesspool forever, everyone who visits invariably reports feeling unsafe. But the more I read, the more I lose any sense of compassion for the suffering there. The population that remained in the city has behaved in an almost identical fashion to the Iraqi insurgents; if they had the ability to make bombs, I'm sure they would.

At this point it is starting to make less and less sense to even bother rebuilding this sh*thole. The two main industries in N.O. have been oil and tourism. The oil operations can be managed from elsewhere and I don't think their tourist trade will EVER recover.

[ChocChipCookie]

It has spiky things and can only be removed from a man by "medical professionals." I think it was posted on FR a few days ago.

[Maximilian]

I think we'll be okay after the race-baiting DemocRATS and their toadies in the "media" brand these Aussies as "racists."

We don't have to go that far. We have plenty of Al Sharpton wanna-bes right here on FR.

I'm sure the crew in the above ping list will be more than happy to label everyone in Australia "racist," along with the posters on this thread, everyone else in the entire world who owns a TV set, and the writer of the headline "Rape threat to our women." "They're 'racial bigots," they're all racists, they're all conspiring against me." Especially the Freeper who posted #16:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477460/posts?page=16#16

"If white women were being targeted for rape by black thugs I would say the onus of racism is not on the Aussies but on the black would-be rapists - or is that racist to admit?"

Apparently the Aussie tourists don't agree with our own FR Jesse Jacksons' theory of "one bad apple":

"That was the worst place in the universe. Ninety-eight per cent of the people around the world are good. In that place, 98 per cent of the people were bad."

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is it possible that the mud the press is throwing on The President, FEMA, Homeland Security is all aimed at three things:

1) make the President look bad (that is a given)

2)deflect attention from the inept, corrupt Government in what we call Louisiana, USA and 3)pretend that liberalism didn't breed these gangs of thugs.

I posted earlier in the week about Lt. Governor Landrieu getting legislation passed to basically give the criminals a slap on the wrist instead of serious prison time for their crimes;

We've seen the CrimeTv article on the police department and how corrupt it is...

The only way to keep the nasty truth from coming out is to place blame on the President which the MSM all love to do in the best of circumstances.

[JCEccles]

"In that place, 98 per cent of the people were bad."

In that place, 98 percent of the people were liberal Democrats. That's all you need to know.

[claudiustg]

Where were the black cops? I just realized that I'vew seen very few black members of the NOPD. This in a city that's 65% black. What do you think is up with that?

[pterional]

I agree. I spent three months there and you really couldn't walk around outside the french quarter north of rampart street without getting mugged or worse. The area along the garden district was safe but majority of NO was like inside eight mile perimeter of Detroit.

I think this event had two disaster the storm then the wrath of the criminal element. Clearly the first is easier to accept.

This is also the first time the US taxpayers have seen the enormity of a population that is extremely dependent on government handouts. A population that has no skills, no education, and is growing rapidly. What are we going to do????

[cyborg]

It's all getting out of hand imho, this discussion on FR. I am removing myself completely from any further discussion on this on FR. Actually ALL Hurricane Katrina threads unless it pertains to an affected FReepers. Thanks.

[wagglebee]

My brother-in-law was mugged there a couple of years ago coming out of a bar in the French quarter (he was a graduate student at Tulane at the time). The night he was mugged, there were over 20 muggings and four murders.

These criminals are just acting the way they always have, but this week the whole world got to see it.

[King Prout]

nah - I'd call the Aussie tourists scared and scarred.

you, on the other hand, do seem to have a racial axe to grind.