Posted on 09/05/2005 5:14:07 PM PDT by saquin
"...and the looters would include significant numbers of the police department,..."
Anyone have a link to this story or better yet, some photos?
Good post! Welfare culture does NOT encourage the development of commonsense (and socially beneficial) survival skills!
Even Bill O'Reilly is defending the creator of Lake Nagin.
Instead of being ordered to confront the looters, the police were intially ordered on a search and rescue mission. Once they started taking fire from the looters, the mayor ordered the Police to crack down. By then it was too late, the looters were out of control! I think at that point a lot of Police said, "screw it!".
Imagine the difference if the school and city buses had been used to remove people before the storm hit or as soon as the flooding started and the Police had been unleashed against looters from the beginning.
Yep. I think so.
A general plan cannot address that, because there's no way to tell where the safe havens would be. But in this case, both Baton Rouge (where the gov. and mayor took refuge), and Houston were able to provide shelter, food and medical care.
FEMA had staging areas for help - they could have even bussed the people to the staging areas and let FEMA figure out what to do.
Shouldn't getting people out of danger be the first priority? Bush declared the area a disaster area well before the hurricane, so money spent would be reimbursed.
"When the truth comes out, I go on record predicting that there was a half baked, pencil whipped plan and a bunch of folks that were well paid to do it."
Write the plan, put it up on the shelf, and that is the last that anyone sees of it.
Here is the video of the looting police, who are getting flat-cold-busted in the act.
Here is the video of the looting police, who are getting flat-cold-busted in the act.
http://205.138.199.81/videos/7/101346_62c6c.wmv
He should become mayor of New New Orleans.
What?! Are you kidding!?
Ping
Bump!
I saw that exchange as well. It's time for Mr. Newt to quit writing his Civil War fiction (entertaining as it is) and get his fat ass out of the think tank and back into government if he doesn't like how it's run. Maybe that's what he is trying to do
Put up or shut up. Oh, and try not to bang your assistant while you are still married this time.
No question. But it's now apparent that neither Nagin nor Blanco is capable of planning and executing anything beyond a child's birthday party.
And the bus Jabbar Gibson used is still operable, unlike the 500 forgotten by the mayor.
Steyn is smart enough to know where to go for scoops.
He's the opposite of the Dan Rather dinosaur talking heads.
I wonder if Mark Steyn has a group of his columns published in a book?
It would be a wonderful read of recent history, in my opinion.
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