Superdome laid waste by those it sheltered

nola.com ^ | 09/13/05 | Jeff Duncan

[Fenris6]

"Hmmmmm. State owned facility and they used it for a shelter and were unprepared? It was torn apart in 1998 and they still didn't provide adequate security?"

And criminal negligence charges have already been filed against private owners of a nursing home. I hope Nagin, Blanco and Mary Landreui are next.

[LA Woman3]

Aren't they paying people $25.00 an hour to clean up the Superdome?
Wonder if they have any volunteers....

[LA Woman3]

My friends in the NOLA area told me that the same happened years ago w/ a previous hurricane. When those being housed in the Dome didn't get let out when they wanted they trashed the place. I figured that's one of the reasons why NOLA didn't want people to use the Dome as a shelter of "first resort".


Yes, it happened before....
I remember Nagin telling everyone to bring food, water and blankets to the Superdome. And no big screen TV's would be allowed.

[LA Woman3]

Are Phyllis and Mary sharing the same crack pipe?
Would love to see her report on this year's Superdome experience!

[LA Woman3]

Did you see channel 9 news? The evacuees at the BR River Center staged a protest about the conditions. One black male said he felt like an animal because they made them wear bracelets. Said he was treated like a tagged animal. They are getting restless and mad. They don't like the curfew and want to be able to walk around town after dark. I wonder what the River Center will look like when this is over.


Amazing, isn't it?
I heard River Road looks like Bourbon street with all the trash everywhere.

[gulfcoast6]

Two things, they want to move to San Antonio, TX and the wind did not do the damage, it was the folks housed there.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

WELL SAID! They don't want to address the elephant in the room.

Some lib FReeper will hit the abuse button on your post though.

[Ellesu]

Yes, and I hope they do move.

[Petronski]

How very Nazi of you.

[Admin Moderator]

Hint: Tone it down

[dfwgator]

"The stadium was used in 1998 during the less extreme Hurricane Georges as a shelter. The building had no problems related to the weather but the human element resulted in looting and there were difficulties supplying the 14,000 people living temporarily in the dome with necessities."

Clinton's fault.

[wideawake]

How very Nazi of you.

LOL!

In otherw ords, you have nothing of any value to say, so you call me a Nazi.

Fact: there were a crew of people in that Dome who were harassing, beating, robbing and raping people.

If they were put down on the spot by the National Guard - which was a moral imperative - not only would the rest of the evacuees have been immediately better off, but society has a whole would have benefitted over the long term.

What that has to do with the ideology of National Socialism or anti-Semitism, I have no idea. And neither do you.

[Petronski]

Welfare recipients are subhumans?

What are you trying to say?

[Petronski]

You are advocating summary execution, practiced often in Nazi concentration camps.

[Petronski]

You even used a common Nazi euphemism when you said they ought to be "liquidated."

[wideawake]

You are advocating summary execution, practiced often in Nazi concentration camps.

Summary executions have been practiced since time immemorial. They are not specific to Nazi death camps. Summary execution was a routine punishment in the US Army for desertion in the Civil War. Was General Grant a Nazi? Was Philip Sheridan a proto-Hitler for enforcing discipline?

What was specific to Nazi death camps was summary execution of individuals, not because they committed actual crimes like rape, robbery, assault or murder, but because of their ancestry.

What I have advocated is what was practiced in the US during the San Francisco earthquake, on the frontier in the absence of settled law and order, etc. - namely that if someone is taking advantage of an emergency situation to terrorize and exploit the vulnerable and innocent, you drop them.

This rational approach to law enforcement has as much to do with Nazism as gefilte fish.

[wideawake]

You even used a common Nazi euphemism when you said they ought to be "liquidated."

The term was in common use before anyone bothered listening to that insane little corporal.

It dates back tom the French Revolution.

You're really grasping at straws now.

[Petronski]

They are not specific to Nazi death camps.

I never said they were. Nazis notoriously practiced summary execution, and so a comparison of you to them is accurate, despite your protestations of ignorance and innocence.

This rational approach to law enforcement has as much to do with Nazism as gefilte fish.

We're not talking about shooting someone witnessed in the act. You said they should be liquidated rather than evactuated. That's not law enforcement, that's Nazi barbarity.

[cyborg]

What do you THINK? It's painfully obvious.

[Petronski]

Actually, the shrill volume of your protests suggests I've struck a nerve. Wail on, the record is clear.