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National Guard to re-occupy New Orleans?

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Posted by Steve 2006-06-19 12:22|| || Front Page|| [11132 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 No, really. When was that, Ray?

Posted by tu3031 2006-06-19 13:06|| 2006-06-19 13:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Not in my lifetime. Prolly some time before 1967 if I had to take a wild guess.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2006-06-19 13:31|| 2006-06-19 13:31|| Front Page Top

#3 DU poster reveals the truth. well, sort of:

"the kellogg, root and brown goons, as well as the blackwater mercenaries, are Halliburton paid mercenaries to look after the interest of supremacists and others who are trying to prevent THE PEOPLE from returning to NEW ORLEANS, or from returning to certain neighborhoods in NEW ORLEANS.

as such, if the national guard are still there to protect the people and their rights, then a confrontation between the national guard and the mercenaries could very easily ensue...and call it what you want but that, in short, would be a civil war."

"So what's to keep the Guard out of Detroit, Chicago, Methville LA, etc? I just see this as the thin edge of a very large wedge. They are taking up positions along the Border as we type.

I am by no means minimizing the desperate plight of your city. I just do not like what is happening. And it is happening at a very rapid rate."

Posted by Steve 2006-06-19 14:38|| 2006-06-19 14:38|| Front Page Top

#4 New Orleans - How NOT to rebuild a city.

Posted by DathVader 2006-06-19 14:44|| 2006-06-19 14:44|| Front Page Top

#5 I don't know.... I think we should pull out and reorganize on the borders and be ready to go in.Also need a TIME LINE to exit!!!

Posted by ARMYGUY 2006-06-19 15:00|| 2006-06-19 15:00|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-19 15:27|| 2006-06-19 15:27|| Front Page Top

#7 Reminds me of the old joke about a New Orleans Bar that' so rough that they check EVERYONE for a gun or knife.
If you don't have one, they'll loan you one.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2006-06-19 15:47|| 2006-06-19 15:47|| Front Page Top

#8 No, really. When was that, Ray?

Probably about a month after Hurricane Katrina, after they'd finally finished evacuating everyone.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2006-06-19 16:06|| 2006-06-19 16:06|| Front Page Top

#9 Crime has been creeping in the city: 17 killings in the first three months of 2006, and 36 since the start of April.

I wonder if the FBI would consider some of the kills in Houston to be accredited to New Orleans. You know, sort of like the visiting team's on-the-road record.

Posted by Throlump Thromoth7510 2006-06-19 17:31|| 2006-06-19 17:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Mayor Chocolate should be using those ghost payroll cops to come back to the city in their stolen Caddy SUV's and straighten out this problem!

Posted by Inspector Clueso 2006-06-19 17:41|| 2006-06-19 17:41|| Front Page Top

#11 First, a few true stories here "in da ATL" (Atlanta). There's already been several murders, and other "softer" crimes (not that the ATL was all that innocent to begin with, but N.O. was far worse per capita) here tied to N.O. evacuees. A few rapes too (as well as your standard thefts, corruption & bilking FEMA for thousands of $). So, those should actually count toward N.O. in my book TT7510.

Second, I met a family (who happened to be black) when we were helping them out here in Atlanta (getting settled in here). He was a sherriff in the next parish over and they lived in Kenner. Besides getting 8 feet of water in his home, he went into N.O. for security detail and told me he saw first hand the N.O.P.D. kicking people out of the French Quarter, only to turn around themselves (the cops) and rob the place. He mentioned he was an eyewitness to one of the cops taking out a duffel bag (from a jewelry store downtown) and he said it had been so heavy, it took 2 of them to take off with it. Just passing on eyewitness accounts, who were black themselves.

And,what did this gentleman do with his family. He didn't claim victim status. He got them here to suburban Atlanta, and he did electrical work on the side (of his sherriff's job), so his electrical company had an office in ATL where he started over. His wife got a job at the local JoAnn's store and his teenage daughter even switched schools and had a job too. I welcome them ALL to Atlanta...that's the way you do it. In fact, he was thinking about going back as an electrical contractor for 6 months or so (they were offering $3,000/week down there). What a true American dream story.

Posted by BA 2006-06-19 19:05|| 2006-06-19 19:05|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2006-06-19 15:27|| 2006-06-19 15:27|| Front Page Top

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