A Perfect Storm of Lawlessness: New Orleans’ vicious looters aren’t the real face of the city’s poor

City Journal ^ | September 1, 2005 | Nichole Gelinas

[Mister Da]

I agree. But a light needed to be shown on this long-time cesspool. Let all the world see what the liberals have wrought.

[Archidamus]

Very informative. Thanks for the link.

[CFC__VRWC]

Now there is a dangerous urban combat mess left for the US Military to clean up, all the time victims suffer and die, and race baiters and drama queens litter the airways, hoping for the suffering and death to continue as long as possible for the TV cameras.

And of course those TV cameras will be right behind the military, grabbing all the pictures they can of the bullet-riddled bodies of black thugs without showing those thugs firing on the troops, without showing the corpses of white thugs, all so they can keep fanning the flames.

[SunnySide]

"Al Sharpton went on MSNBC Thursday night to say that “looters are people who pay their taxes whose infrastructure caved in on them.”"

Oh let the imbecile keep flapping his gums. He's such a disservice to the DNC and a great service to all the rest.

An infrastructure which is funded and not embezzled does not cave in on itself. Sharpton needs to ask the LA state officials where all that tax money went.

[wardaddy]

That is a very interesting link.

I see Walter Williams supports the stufy which the MSM naturally ignored.

course folks will claim it's because whites are a majority and a more target rich environment

then why is the reverse not true...white on black crime?

[Brilliant]

What about armed robbery, assault, etc.? They obviously aren't tough enough. Or maybe the conviction rate is not high enough. I refuse to believe that these crimes are being committed by otherwise law-abiding citizens. But they are clearly be committed by someone.

[wardaddy]

Sharpton should have gone to jail for the Tawana Brawley hoax

[SunnySide]

Sharpton should have gone to jail for the Tawana Brawley hoax

...
That what when things really started turning for the worse in America. Tawana was one of the first Cindy Sheehan pawns, before good Americans truly realized what was too come years later.

[wardaddy]

I was just talking about that with my aunt.

[jordan8]

You can rest assured that LA has some of the toughest sentencing in the nation on any violent crime. Justice in New Orleans had broken down (pre-flood) for reasons that are covered in other articles that have been posted here, but the bottom line is, if LA doesn't have tough sentences no place in the U.S. does.

[Brilliant]

if LA doesn't have tough sentences no place in the U.S. does.

You pretty much made my point. No place does. The number of crimes committed by recividists is astounding. And you don't have recividists unless you let them out of jail first.

[John Lenin]

Don't forget that they let the criminals out of jail because they didn't plan in advance for what to do with them. It's real obvious the Mayor didn't have a plan ahead of time but he will never be fully blamed because he is black.

[OldEagle]

"...I'd be shocked if more than 20% of them have ever filed a tax return.

Think "Earned Income Tax Credit" and you probably exceed 20%.

[Mogollon]

What's at stake here is the survival of the Democratic party as we currently know it. If the black vote crumbles, the party cannot function nationally.

The good news is that the labor unions support of the rat party is also crumbling.

[small_l_libertarian]

while pharaoh diddled in his suburban Rome in Crawford, Texas

This is so mixed up that it's giving me the giggles. It was Nero, not Pharaoh, who fiddled, not diddled, and I can't even figure out what either Pharaoh or Crawford have to do with Rome.

Gotta love ol' Al. He's at the very least good for a laugh.

[riri]

YES!!! Just what I have been thinking!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The federal government was unacceptably slow at assessing a rapidly deteriorating situation.

This was already refuted on another thread.