Murder and mayhem in New Orleans' miserable shelter

Reuters ^ | September 2, 2005 | Mark Egan

[SteveMcKing]

The man just wanted a cigarette. Do you have a bible quote for that?

[Cricket24]

I don't think it's President Bush's fault but I am very upset and disillusioned that even on Friday night, 4 days after the hurricane hit on Monday, there are people, old and young that are starving to death and NOBODY on this forum seems to be upset or care. (Well, there are some.) Is that because they are mostly poor and black? I don't know but this should never happen in America. The people who are outside the convention center deserve better. The people who have been waiting on I-10 deserve better. There are no looters and shooters there. These people need help and they needed it two or three days ago. The problem is that there is NO ONE in charge.
I was asked if I donated. YES my husband and I donated to the American Red Cross on Monday! Can we go to LA and help? We are self employed and our business is seasonal so yes, after this fall, we could go help and have planned to do just that.

[TalBlack]

This is the most lying, provocative, lurid political propaganda I have EVER seen bar NONE.

Don't tell me this nation isn't hurtling toward civil war. The intractable, irresistable and purely hate-filled Evil impulse that resulted in this article guarantees it. My self, I'm convinced (What with the lawlesness in NO as well) it's gun purchase time. I'm looking at the Springfield M1A.

[SteveMcKing]

"The end is coming...for you at least."

I don't think you should make threats.

[Cricket24]

I heard tonite that the people at the convention center are NOT allowed to leave the city.

[skimbell]

"...the U.S. National Guard..."

Ahh, I don't think so. Last time I checked, the US national guard would probably be the United States Army.

Looks like the MSM is trying to hide a horsechit Democrat Governor's failure by making it look like W was slow on the draw.

These clowns NEVER give up!

[Sally Golightly]

Smoking is bad for you.

Not Biblical, but true.

[Dark Skies]

You don't, huh. And pray tell why not, Steve?

[i_dont_chat]

Don't forget the criminals who were released from the City/County/Parish jails. These jailbirds went to the only places they knew -- the ghettos -- where they first stole guns, then tried to take over the neighborhoods. Stealing cars, breaking into homes and business.

How stupid can city officials be -- to turn these criminals out amongst its citizens? Someone should go to jail for this.

[Shermy]

"Im not sayin its Bush's fault, I dont think it is. But on fox news, they are sayin that they now got check points up between orleans and I 10, and that they arent letting people leave from Orleans to I 10. That doesnt sound like such a great idea."

don't know.

Could be they don't want refugees clogging the road.

There aren't many good access points to NO.

[SteveMcKing]

Threats will taken seriously by law enforcement. You will be in trouble.

[i_dont_chat]

The connecting parishes are claiming they had to protect their own parish's resources -- by not allow Orleans Parish citizens entry into their Parish.

[HAL9000]

This is the most lying, provocative, lurid political propaganda I have EVER seen bar NONE.

A lot of wild rumors have been reported from the Gulf Coast - and on further scrutiny, some of them have been debunked.

[oyez]

Maybe the next lifetime, because they don't convict many criminals in NO. They come right back to prey on the unfortunate people in the ghetto. The Sharptons and Jacksons complain that too many prisons are being built just for blacks The glut of criminals back on the street are just going to prey on the others. And thay say George Bush hates blacks. These race pimps are the worst enemies the Negroes can have..

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Waiting for Reuters to post accounts from survivors of the 1993 Mississippi flood.

[wimpycat]

I guess it wasn't a threat, but a promise.

[atomicpossum]

Making mention of ugly facts has gotten threads pulled all day long. I'll be shocked if this one stays...

Mentioning cannibalism maybe ugly, but there's no substantiation that it's a fact.

[Dark Skies]

Don't be queer, Steve. The end is coming...for you and me. Not my threat. Someone a little bigger than you and me.

[usmom]

What is wrong with some of these people? I have a feeling they were animals before all this happened. What's being done to filter out the criminal elements before they ship them up here to Texas?


Nothing. The rapists, thugs and druggies will drop everything and stand in line like innocent choir boys when the busses come. Then they'll be shipped off to wreak mayhem and murder on another city just trying to do the right thing and help the innocent among them. Some thanks that will be. Be afraid. Be very afraid. they won't even touch them when caught looting in broad daylight. You think anything will happen based on heresay of traumatized people? Nope- can't touch them. Just shift them from place to place handing out benefits all along the way.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

You might want to limit what you write.