Posted on 09/01/2005 2:49:12 PM PDT by Fitzcarraldo
The New Orleans police chief says 15-thousand people are trapped in the city's convention center. And he says some are being raped and beaten.
Chief Eddie Compass says displaced tourists are "walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon."
Compass said he sent eight eleven-man teams into the convention center. But as soon as the first team arrived, he said, "they were beaten back within 30 feet of the entrance."
Earlier, the city's mayor issued a "desperate SOS" on behalf of the thousands who are stranded at the convention center.
He also gave the go-ahead for them to march across a bridge to a dry area of the city and look for whatever relief they could find.
Yea, thats pretty obvious. Most terrorist aren't wearing 50 cent and Woo Tang tee shirts .
Well, that's funny, but I'm sure the National Guard troops who *are* there aren't dehydrating. I'm talking about the isolated people, the ones with no ability to like, say, get off their roofs and go and loot some 7/11.
In this case, political correctness has granted those gang bangers the equivalent of five-inch-thick Kevlar vests.
Suppose they had identified themselves on Tuesday as Klan members launching a revolution to take back the South and started hanging Confederate battle flags out of windows and shooting at rescue personnel...think that even one of them would still be alive today?
I just noticed in post 127 if the latest Katrina thread there is a picture of a helicopter dropping off water at the Convention Center. Perhaps this event was just missed by live cameras.
Lt. General in the NG has requested a meeting with the Mayor of NO.
Good.
Knees in the breeze!!!
If you drop a couple of these thugs the rest will get in line all they do is prey on fear.
Some roads are impassible with water... and others with gangs. They were told to stay there.
I'm not confused as to the locations, but some are.
Thats the way to do it NJ...Make a few examples ..the word will spread fast...
can't wait for this answer...
It called thinking outside the box, sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but it is always a good thing to do. Try it sometime.
I really, really think we've become a Domino's pizza, wrap it all up in a 30 minute sitcom nation. We're all expert second guessers and Monday Morning quarterbacks who don't throw interceptions. It's just getting old.
The world is a tough place. Good people work hard to keep the train on the rails, but nature and sh*t happen. People who we are told are in survival mode have deemed it necessary to horde plasma televisions and Randy Moss Jerseys and shoot at National Guardsmen and snipe outside of hospitals.
We have a poor, thug-worshipping underclass who mostly can't swim and for whatver reason there were no air conditioned busses to get them out of NO before the storm came. The Democrat machine that makes sure they all get to the polls in style on election day didn't show up to take them out of the city.
So we have many, many people who believe in terrible Republican corporate conspiracies and feel that they are blameless in all circumstances are stuck in a natural disaster zone. Rather than being helpful in their rescue, many have thwarted the rescuers. You figure it out, I can't.
They chose to exploit the situation and further stress the strained first responders. I suppose this thing hasn't gone particularly well because the Feds and the locals didn't sufficiently factor in the staggering dysfuntion of the people who couldn't flee the storm.
I'm not railing at FEMA; I understand that there would be logistical problems getting massive quantities of water there and do a huge drop at the Convention Center.
But maybe some targeted drops of bottled water to people in isolated places, or maybe even the Guard handing out water purification tablets to the people at the CC; these people have had nothing at all, not even any kind of announcement about what was going on. There'll be a riot there sooner, not later.
Also, I'd like to point out that yes, the food/water/equipment drops in the tsunami occurred two weeks after the event, but that occurred halfway around the world. This is in our own backyard.
I'm trying not to rail against anyone either... It's just very frustrating watching these people deteriorate on live TV.
To steal a memorable quote from another Freeper, this sounds like a giant Puerto Rican Day parade.
Wow. Your post eloquently sums up what I have been feeling over the past couple of days.
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