National Guard ordered to New Orleans

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You sound like the Speaker of the House except he said bulldoze it down

Well I'm not trying to sound like anyone, just fed up with the bitching,whining, handout mentality. Why can't there just be a survival of the fittest mindset? Relying on the government to be taken care of constantly is pathetic. And I will give you and Savage that opening to bash Bush and the right. But enough is enough with these losers.

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Well I'm not trying to sound like anyone, just fed up with the bitching,whining, handout mentality. Why can't there just be a survival of the fittest mindset? Relying on the government to be taken care of constantly is pathetic. And I will give you and Savage that opening to bash Bush and the right. But enough is enough with these losers.

So lets just tear it down like you said....real smart

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And these idiots get sympathy and money/donations? And they re-elect chocolate-city Nagin to lead them through this mess? What a joke of a city.Bitching for handouts and looking for someone else to do the job they can't. Best thing to happen to that city would be for it to float out to sea. No one has to die, but just get rid of it.

You sound like the Speaker of the House except he said bulldoze it down

[winner]

National Guard ordered to New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS - Acting at the mayor's request, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she would send National Guard troops and state police to patrol the streets of New Orleans after a bloody weekend in which six people were killed.

"The situation is urgent," Blanco said. "Things like this should never happen, and I am going to do all I can to stop it."

One hundred National Guardsmen with law enforcement experience and 60 state police officers were to be sent to the city Tuesday. Up to 200 more troops would be deployed after that, said Denise Bottcher, the governor's spokeswoman.

Earlier Monday, Mayor Ray Nagin had asked for as many as 300 National Guardsmen and 60 state police officers.

It was the first time the National Guard has been used for law enforcement in the United States since the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Nagin had sought the troops after five teenagers in an SUV were shot and killed in the city's deadliest attack in at least 11 years. Police said the attack was apparently motivated by drugs or revenge. Also, a man was stabbed to death Sunday night in an argument over beer.

"Today is a day when New Orleanians are stepping up. We've had enough," Nagin said. "This is our line in the sand. We're saying we're not going any further."

Nagin said he would not allow criminals to take over when the city is still trying to recover from the hurricane. The mayor said troops should be posted in heavily flooded neighborhoods to free police to concentrate on hot spots elsewhere.

Community leaders have raised fears that the violence could discourage people from moving back to New Orleans.

The National Guard had as many as 15,000 soldiers in the city in the weeks after Katrina. As many as 2,000 stayed until February, said Louisiana National Guard spokesman Lt. Col. Pete Schneider.

Blanco said plans were being crafted last week to step up anti-crime efforts, but the weekend slayings forced authorities to move faster. She said she was talking with New Orleans Police Chief Warren Riley about his exact needs.

Riley assured residents that the Guard was "not coming in and taking over the city."

"You will have to look for them to find them," Riley said. "They will not be uptown, downtown or in the French Quarter. Our people will be there. This will allow us to have more of our people there."

The police force has been operating with depleted ranks. It has about 1,375 officers, compared with about 1,750 before Katrina. The city's pre-Katrina population of 465,000 has rebounded to about half its size.

The governor urged the mayor to put a juvenile curfew in place. New Orleans has a curfew for juveniles, but Riley said it is not being enforced because there is no place to put young offenders.

Blanco offered two warnings: "First, to parents, keep your teenagers off the streets and out of trouble. Second, to judges, I am urging you to keep hardened criminals where they belong — in jail and off the streets. We must protect our citizens."

Nagin's request for help had been backed by the City Council.

"If we don't have wind knocking us down, we have shooters knocking us down, and that's unacceptable," said City Council President Oliver Thomas.

Reaction to the mayor's request was mixed.

"As we tell people to come home, we have to keep these areas safe," said LaToya Cantrell, president of the Broadmoor Improvement Association, a heavily flooded neighborhood. "It's long overdue. Neighborhoods should not have been left alone to begin with. Pulling out was a mistake."

But Sherman Copelin, president of the New Orleans East Business Association, cautioned that handing over some neighborhoods to troops unfamiliar with those areas could be a mistake, saying officials should not "let someone come in and be a housekeeper."

The killings over the weekend brought this year's murder toll to 53, raising fears that violence was back on the rise in a city that was plagued by violent crime before Katrina drove out much of the population last year.

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

At least three other people, ages 16 to 27, have been fatally shot in the same area where the five teenagers were killed early Saturday.

In addition to Nagin's request for troops and state police, the City Council said it would consider increasing overtime for police to put more officers on the street. It also called for a "crime summit" within two weeks.

"We have to deal with it now," Councilman Arnold Fielkow said. "If we don't make people feel safe in their homes, nothing will happen. Let's make this priority No. 1."

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[TwoTonTony]

sounds like a nice city

[wayne1218]

sounds like a nice city

That's what i was thinking. 36 Killings since the start of April. WTF??? We havn't had that many in this whole state over the last 5 years combined!

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And these idiots get sympathy and money/donations? And they re-elect chocolate-city Nagin to lead them through this mess? What a joke of a city.Bitching for handouts and looking for someone else to do the job they can't. Best thing to happen to that city would be for it to float out to sea. No one has to die, but just get rid of it.

[TwoTonTony]

That's what i was thinking. 36 Killings since the start of April. WTF??? We havn't had that many in this whole state over the last 5 years combined!

new orleans was crime infested before....how can we expect any differently....They have the most corrupt cops in the country.....Remember they many were shoplifting after the hurricane....(if they even stayed)...I forgot how much of those debit cards were used for improprieties like caribbean trips, alcohol, etc.....

I hope they can rectify this city.....Seems like their idea of government is to call the for outside help anytime there is a problem!!

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So lets just tear it down like you said....real smart

Nope, let nature take it's course. Both about the land that's UNDER water and the people destroying themselves. Or we can just throw good money after bad to a bunch of people who obviously can't make it on their own, don't appreciate the help, and will be the first to complain and bitch about not getting more. Hmm, more lap dances, or designer bags or trips all on the FEMA/taxpayer dime. Makes sense.

[molta02]

Nope, let nature take it's course. Both about the land that's UNDER water and the people destroying themselves. Or we can just throw good money after bad to a bunch of people who obviously can't make it on their own, don't appreciate the help, and will be the first to complain and bitch about not getting more. Hmm, more lap dances, or designer bags or trips all on the FEMA/taxpayer dime. Makes sense.

Amen

[Tigger]

That's what i was thinking. 36 Killings since the start of April. WTF??? We havn't had that many in this whole state over the last 5 years combined!

36??? That's it? Wow, the boys are getting along a lot better than before. Wayne, I know it's sickening, but that is NOTHING. Years ago New Orleans had over 365 murders in ONE YEAR, and they took the title of murder-capital of the united states away from Detroit. Jimmy can confirm that one. 36 is less than one every two days, LOL. They're doing good! (That is since they now only count the bodies that are actually "found" IN New Orleans, and that the police haven't conviently located elsewhere to be discovered outside of the city so it doesn't count against the body count.)

[10DimeBry]

why are the posts in this thread out of order?

[winner]

why are the posts in this thread out of order?

Bush

Signed,
Savage and BC

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Nope, let nature take it's course. Both about the land that's UNDER water and the people destroying themselves. Or we can just throw good money after bad to a bunch of people who obviously can't make it on their own, don't appreciate the help, and will be the first to complain and bitch about not getting more. Hmm, more lap dances, or designer bags or trips all on the FEMA/taxpayer dime. Makes sense.

No, that makes no sense at all. New Orleans is a major port for imports and exports. Plus they are used for oil imports as well.

If you want to let nature take its course then continue to do nothing about the enviroment and eventually other parts of the country will end up under water as well.

The Government could have fixed this shit years ago for a hell of a lot less when scientists went to them telling them that the damns needed to be fixed, but they did nothing about it. Now the temporary BS that they fixed isn't going to hold either. It's throwing money after money to a situation that didn't have to happen in the first place. Our Government blows money on BS all the time, but something that needs to be done they don't want to do it until after the fact.