So this is what survivors of Hurricane Katrina are doing in appreciation of a community helping them out?

Question

Killing people?? Pretty pathetic!

http://www.9news.com/acm_news.aspx?OSGNAME=KUSA&IKOBJECTID=942d6bd0-0abe-421a-0196-1f7ca4ccee03&TEMPLATEID=0c76dce6-ac1f-02d8-0047-c589c01ca7bf

Who else thinks this is an outrage?

Answer 1

As a Baton Rouge native until recently this is all true. Started in Baton Rouge just a few days after the hurricane. I was working downtown in one of the worst parts of town and we knew everybody and everything that happened on the streets. New Orleans is credited with more murders but that isn't the whole picture. Baton Rouge leads the nation often in the number "per capita" which means that you are more likely to be murdered in Baton Rouge than anywhere else in the country. This was "before" the hurricane. Went up like crazy after the hurricane. These folks ripped out newly remodeled civic center totally apart, tore parking meters up downtown and smashed them for the money. Broke into cars, robbed folks on the streets, and as they became more mobile started doing drive by shootings in the "hood" as well. Now the more affluent folks from the other areas of New Orleans simply moved to Baton Rouge and other areas, bought or rented houses and settled down. The "evacuees" from the 9th ward though have essentially ruined Baton Rouge. We left when the crime got so bad. I had lived in Baton Rouge for most of 50 years and had enough of those crackheads from New Orleans. We sold out house and lived in it for another month or so afterwards before moving out and the week we moved some more "evacuees" (sp) started doing "daytime home invasion" robberies on our street 3-5 doors down. Down at the shop downtown there were hookers and others actually living in an old rundown black cemetary. The kind with the graves above ground. Were turning tricks on the graves using old mattresses from the garbage and one got killed back there. All the folks from other areas of the country that think this is not real get on the car and go down there yourself.
Now to add to this, the reaction (or more non-reaction) of the federal govt.during and just after the hurricane is a shameful thing that shows how far this country has dropped. Bush should have been run out of town on a rail, especially after his "Heck of a job Brownie" speech. Regardless of the type of folks we are talking about they are all Americans and human beings and entitled to normal human compassion and decency. Especially during the hurricane aftermath. Somebody want to tell me why it is that during Vietnam way back in the early 60's, a soldier with a hand held walkie talkie could order a giant rubber bladder of water (hundreds of gallons) and pallets of food airlifted to him and his troops into places in the remote jungle that didn't even exist on maps and our dumb s--t president could not get water and food to tens of thousand of folks in the superdome. Is he going to tell us that our military doesn't have anybody that can "find" the superdome from the air. Hell kindergarten kids can do that. In Vietnam they often parachuted the stuff down when it was "too hot" of a zone with gunfire and that could even have been done in New Orleans when the thugs were shooting at them. Apparently the reason why is that all our "supplies" for such as this are overseas in other countries. Right after the Iraq war started trainloads and trainloads of military vehicles were running through Baton Rouge on the way to New Orleans to board ships to head to the middle east. National Guard in Baton Rouge alone was stripped clean. Think we are safer now huh?? Just imagine if we could not handle less than 500,000 people with food and water, etc. all along the gulf coast. (many more people but not still in harms way) then what are we going to do when the "big one" hits Los Angeles with 7 million or so folks or San Francisco, or God Fordid we get the expected return of the New Madrid earthquake in the midwest that would damage several states!!! Everybody has their own opinions on this of course, but every single one of us should be checking this stuff out as much as we can and asking ourselves these questions as Katrina was just a cakewalk to what can happen in disasters or war.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Hey COBlonde if you are referring to the 7-11 Murder you are right it is pretty pathetic!!! EVen worse they have their 1yr old son with them.

Answer 4

Yes, let's blame the whole problem on the refugees now. It wasn't the Bush administration, Fema or their own god damn city and state that let them down. Its the refugees. Clearly they deserved to lose their homes and families. God was just cleaning house. Two people went and did a bad thing. Let's please condemn all the homeless refugees and innocent victims now. Jump on the bash Katrina victims bandwagon. Why should we feel any compassion for these poor people? Screw 'em. Lets spend a few more billion on foreign aid. Why spend it on anyone from our own country?

Shame on you.

Answer 5

its pretty pathetic that you have such a small mind to generalize about all victims of hurricane katrina.

Answer 6

you can't blame all the Katrina survivors! they would have killed anywhere, they just happened to be there!

Answer 7

Don't believe the hype....New Orleans has been the murder capitol of the world!...