New Orleans doc charged with murder?

Question

What do you think about this? 'Chocolate City' Nagin left the city in hell. I didn't see him rescuing anyone. I think the doctor and her nurses showed compassion for the terminally ill who would have suffered needlessly in the sweltering heat.

If the government does consider the three murderers, then I think the Mayor should be charged as well.

In the meantime, Houston is crying for New Orleans to take all their thugs back. They are tired of the crime. The thugs who've returned are killing each other off now anyway.

So let's take intelligent, compassionate and educated women and charge them with murder. Yeah, makes alot of sense, huh?

Answer 1

As a former resident of New Orleans, when I heard of them being charged, I kept thinking of a quote from Apocolypse Now.

"Charging someone for murder around here is like handing out speeding tickets at the Indy 500"

The deaths were unfortunate, but I have been to that hospital when there is power its not an easy gig for those professionals. They were faced with a situation that is really unfathomable. Bedlam, flooding waters, vandals.

You want to charge someone with murder? Charge me and charge everyone who lived in that city. We all knew it was eventually going to happen and we all knew the contractors sent out to maintain the levees were related to those handing out the contracts. We'd joke with one another about it and toast that it would never come and walk the tightrope between seasons.

We are just as bad as the corrupt government (though I do not care for Nagin at all, he is personally not-corrupt)

Answer 2

I'm from NO,LA and I was on leave er vacation when the hurricane hit.

My mom works for a hospital that was there, and she explained to me how the doctors and nurses were not murdering them; they were going to end needless inevitable suffering.

Imagine you friend gets in a car wreck and gets announced and as a vegetable. The doctors end his life right, its the humane thing to do.

Well "recent" studies show that people that are acclaimed vegetables DO have brain functions, and may be able to be saved.

So....will we charge these doctors and nurses also??

Answer 3

I saw one or two news items on this matter and must agree with you that it has many interesting implications to say the least.

A soldier is commanded to leave his wounded buddy in battle. Leave him for the medics. But who do the medics leave for? Is it correct for people, with skills to save hundreds, sacrifice themselves for a handful whose time is surely limited?

Would they have stayed if assured that real help was coming?

There is plenty of blame to go around for both the destruction of that pest hole and the resulting non-response.

Answer 4

i can't agree with you more. new Orleans will haunt the minds of our citizenry for many many years to come. there are no hero's here just victims. can you imagine getting a jury to hear this case??