Posted on 08/31/2013 1:26:59 PM PDT by NotYourAverageDhimmi
In 1994, a 9-year-old boy living in New Orleans' Central City neighborhood wrote a letter to President Bill Clinton, saying that he did not feel safe: "I want you to stop the killing in the city. People is dead and I think that somebody might kill me." Two days later, on Mother's Day, that boy, James Darby, was killed in a drive-by shooting.
Darby's words rang out as loudly as ever on Friday evening in the neighborhood where he lived and died, when Mayor Mitch Landrieu told Darby's story to a large crowd in front of the home where another child, 1-year-old Londyn Samuels, was shot and killed Thursday night.
"This ... baby was taken from us. You can't ever replace that," Landrieu told the hushed crowd. "It's a drumbeat of death that is taking the precious from us."
Landrieu echoed statements he has made to President Barack Obama and on national news during the past two weeks, describing a culture of crime in New Orleans that he says constitutes a public health crisis. He listed the names of four children in the past four years who have died at the hands of gun violence in Central City.
"The reason we know it can stop is that it has not always been this way. This is not who we are as people," Landrieu said. "This is where we live, this is not where we are supposed to die."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
(shrug)
Lyndon Johnson’s “ingrate society” and the Democrats’ vote-buying scheme known as the socialist welfare state have certainly taken their toll. Congratulations to them.
Yes, you kind of did:
“short of moving the crowd that terrorizes places like the French Quarter and the area around it you will never make the place safe.”
And your earlier remark about evicting blacks from (the nonexistent) “downtown New Orleans.
Do you think it makes sense to opine about a place you’ve never been, and about which you are uninformed?
Yes, you kind of did:
“short of moving the crowd that terrorizes places like the French Quarter and the area around it you will never make the place safe.”
And your earlier remark about evicting blacks from (the nonexistent) “downtown New Orleans.
Do you think it makes sense to opine about a place you’ve never been, and about which you are uninformed?
“...downtown New Orleans is...where, exactly?”
Everyplace that ain’t Uptown New Orleans!
Even the geographic uptown NOLA isn’t safe. The very day Whole Foods reopened after Katrina there was one purse-snatching inside the store, another in the parking garage. God only knows if it’ll ever get better. Not likely.
I never said it should be done, I simply said fixing New Orleans could only be done by evicting a large portion of the problem people. It won’t be fixed.
As others have stated, New Orleans is hopeless. Another Katrina? Who knows.
Oh no! Thats different!
The fact that Obama, Holder, the ATF and willing leftist accomplices, used armed government agent coercion and taxpayer funds to purchase and deliver operational semi automatic, high power firearms to the most dangerous narco terrorist organization in the Western Hemisphere, speaks to the support of your charge, them being Fast and Furious Negro DemoRats and such.
I find your statement ludicrous, ignorant, and frankly stupid - considering that you have never been there and are so uninformed about it as to refer to its “downtown”, which doesn’t exist.
Why do you feel entitled to comment on a topic about which you know nothing?
I’ve been there, and I hope that New Orleans recovers from the onslaught to which it was subjected. It’s a beautiful city.
No, you are wrong. Your joke is a lame attempt to cover up - there is no dowtown New Orleans because the city wasn’t built that way.
I have spent a lot of time there, and the crime is not worse than that of NY when I was growing up.
Start Snitchin’, it’s for the children.
Remember the slaughter of the David Koresh followers which included many women and children? ATF was involved in this. Have you ever heard if the Democrats actually bring people into various parts of the government to serve their interests? I wish that I had worked in the government so that I would have some inside knowledge. I really don’t know if this is true but I am going to take a giant leap and guess that the Democrats have “their” people in different parts of the government even law enforcement and the military.
Look at the Fort Hood terrorist, the homo-transexual who gave all that information to wikileaks to name two. Would it be reaching to say that favored groups such as the Muslim advocacy groups and homosexual advocacy groups may have made a phone call or even a face to face visit with someone high up in the Democrat party to get these two loose cannons into the military? It is obvious that the military would not have allowed these two to go anywhere near them if it were left up to the true military standards but today there seem to be too many foxes in the henhouse.
If you have followed the Whitey Bulger story you will know that the notorious Boston gangster was working with corrupt friends in the FBI. His brother was also the Mass. Senate President Billy Bulger. How high up did the Whitey Bulger scandal actually go? Did it go beyond the Boston FBI or did the corruption go all the way to Washington? I have read of many corrupt Democrat political machines going all the way back to the eighteen hundreds. It is a pattern that appears over and over again. There is not much shame in the Democrat party. I want to get my hands on more information but so far all I have is a smell in the air that comes from the direction of the Democrat party. I think we have not even scratched the surface of the systematic, nationwide corruption of the Democrat party.
I believe your theory is valid more solidly and more generally than you present it.
I believe terrorist murderer Nidal Hasan was on Obama's 2008 transition team (Hasan) and the placement of DemoRat operatives is too convenient to be coincidence.
I believe Communist liberals have been independently infiltrating all areas of American society and government since the turn of the Twientieth Century, and they don't have to be closely connected to operate in concert.
Surprisingly, I believe that Hillary Clinton let the cat out of the bag with her charge of a "vast right wing conspiracy". Leftists must sabotage working societal systems or persons (Alinsky rules) in order to have their policy considered as the fix, and Leftist believe that the failure of their policy can only be the result of the opposition having a large network of coordinated operatives doing the same.
In short, Hillary projected her own ethics and organization in the charge.
Leftists always default to the enforcement of their perversion without the necessity of consultation with other leftists. People on the right default to unbiased enforcement of the rule of law no matter how much they consult with others on the right.
That's why it is so easy for the left to destroy a civilization, but it helps when people are really stupid.
LOL
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