Posted on 09/03/2005 8:32:27 PM PDT by jdhljc169
South Louisiana (Special to HNN) -- Four days have now passed since Hurricane Katrina battered New Orleans and the surrounding areas, yet with the exception of the relative high rise of flood waters coming from breaks in the 17th Street Canal and the Industrial Canal, which has caused water in downtown to rise to 3 to 4 feet, the real threat to the citizenry are the human predators that have turned one of America's most fascinating cities into New Mogadishu.
While famed reporter A.J. Liebling like to compare Louisiana politics to that of 1960's Lebanon, what is transpiring at this very moment in New Orleans is savagery one would need to travel to third-world countries to see.
Charity Hospital, the primary trauma hospital in New Orleans, has been fired upon by snipers. Coast Guard rescue helicopters have also been shot at, as have boats deployed to save the stranded now going on their 5th day without clean water or food. A relief truck was intercepted by armed gunmen on the West Bank. Women have been raped at the New Orleans Convention Center by their fellow evacuees.
These terrible acts of violence are only hampering rescue efforts as more people die by the minute from the elements, disease, and dehydration.
I would wager that present-day Baghdad is a safer city than New Orleans is at the present time.
The delay in putting New Orleans under martial law has taken a toll. Wild looters who have already completely pillaged every place of commerce within sight are now locking their feasting eyes towards abandoned private residences. No doubt the more desperate ranks of the hellish banditti currently plaguing the city will have few reservations in invading occupied homes, leading to further bloodshed.
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Good stuff, once again.
Well, he hit the nail on the Nagin and threw in a Blanco to boot.
Shoot to kill orders must be promulgated and carried out. Fear alone is the only means to communicate to these human vultures that looters will pay a dire price for their activities. Once word gets out that looters have been fired on, through the same media outlets that unwittingly broadcast the ok to let the pillaging begin, the situation will become more tenable and more lives will be saved from the waters and the gun-toting vermin running the streets.
He uses great words, like "pillage" and "banditti".
I am not saying that incidents have not occurred, but in a situation like this stories are told and retold and take a life of their own. Here in NYC the stories passed among the cops of terrorists stealing Verizon trucks and ambulances to attack the workers at ground Zero were rampant. No such events occurred. I think it should be a priority for the authorities to determine what has really happened in NOLA and what has become urban legemd.
Q:What's the difference between Haiti and New Orleans. A:New Orleans had Jazz.
Instead of rebuilding it we should think about keeping it the way it is and turning it into a penal colony for the worst of the worst, starting with the scum looters and pillagers already there. (not the innocents of coarse, just the predators)
"Officially," there have been no deaths in New Orleans since last Sunday. Not even hurricane related.
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