Mayor Nagin

[preacherman]

Re: Mayor Nagin

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oh and preacherman, neither my family or friends chose to stay behind. They were smart enough to get the heck out of their.

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Please don't take me with the wrong heart.........I am thankful that your family and friends got out of dodge. But it bothers me..........and I guess I am pointing fingers..........but it bothers me when a man stands on national television and blames everyone else instead of the people who stayed behind when they had a chance (according to your post) to get out. And then to have Jesse Jackson come down and stick his nose in it, just further ticks me off. He tries to be the solution to every problem in America and then becomes the problem..........and most of the time by stating that it is a race issue! The reason that the hurricane hit New Orleans was not an issue of race, but rather an issue of the Hand of God. I can't say why the government didn't step in any sooner.............and I am disappointed in our President because of it. But I know that for one, I wouldn't have wanted to go in there and give aid if I had some thugs shooting at me either. And that is how I feel. I may be wrong and I pray that if I am that God would convict my heart..........but I see an issue here of an idiot Mayor who should be thankful of the help he is getting now..........instead of shooting off at the mouth.

[hutchies]

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Your right I am pointing the finger at the Mayor and Governer. That is their city and state and with all respect to them they should have done something about it before it hit. Now all they want to do is sit back and play the blame game. If they needed help they should have been asking the President for it before it even hit instead of waiting til after and complaining that they were not doing enough. His mouth is just complicating the situation and race should not have anything to do with this situation at all but for some reason everybody on TV keeps bringing it up. When are they going to look in the mirror and finally realize the only thing stopping them from anything they want to do is them. They don't believe they can so you know what they can't. If 15 tornadoes hit Oklahoma do you think people in New Orleans would have gave a hoot. Nope.

[Rhino]

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I recieved this eamil today. This pretty much sums things up with regard to mayor Nagan..

Chain of Responsibility for New Orleans

In case you aren't familiar with how our government is SUPPOSED to work: The chain of responsibility for the protection of the citizens in New Orleans is:

1. The Mayor

2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security (a political appointee of the Governor who reports to the Governor)

3. The Governor

4. The Head of Homeland Security

5. The President

What did each do?

1. The mayor, with 5 days advance, waited until 2 days before he announced a mandatory evacuation (at the behest of the President). Then he failed to provide transportation for those without transport even though he had hundreds of buses at his disposal.

2. The New Orleans director of Homeland Security failed to have any plan for a contingency that has been talked about for 50 years. Then he blames the Feds for not doing what he should have done. (So much for political appointees)

3. The Governor, despite a declaration of disaster by the President 2 DAYS BEFORE the storm hit, failed to take advantage of the offer of Federal troops and aid until 2 DAYS AFTER the storm hit.

4. The Director of Homeland Security positioned assets in the area to be ready when the Governor called for them.

5. The President urged a mandatory evacuation, and even declared a disaster State of Emergency, freeing up millions of dollars of federal assistance, should the Governor decide to use it. Oh and by the way, the levees that broke were the responsibility of the local landowners and the local levee board to maintain, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.

The disaster in New Orleans is what you get after decades of corrupt (democrat) government going all the way back to Huey Long.

Funds for disaster protection and relief have been flowing into this city for decades, and where has it gone, but into the pockets of the politicos and their friends.

Decades of socialist government in New Orleans has sapped all self reliance from the community, and made them dependent upon government for every little thing.

Political correctness and a lack of will to fight crime have created the single most corrupt police force in the country, and has permitted gang violence to flourish.

The sad thing is that there are many poor folks who have suffered and died needlessly because those that they voted into office failed them.

For those who missed item 5 (where the President’s level of accountability is discussed), it is made more clear in a New Orleans Times-Picayune article dated August 28:

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.

Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, The city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.

The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already canceled all flights.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.

The ball was placed in Mayor Nagin’s court to carry out the evacuation order. With 5-day heads-up, he had the authority to use any and all services to evacuate all residents from the city, as documented in a city emergency preparedness plan. By waiting until the last minute, and failing to make full use of resources available within city limits, Nagin and his administration messed up.

Mayor Nagin and his emergency sidekick Terry Ebbert have displayed lethal, mind boggling incompetence before, during and after Katrina.

As for Mayor Nagin, he and his profile in pathetic leadership police chief should resign. That city’s government is incompetent from one end to the other. The people of New Orleans deserve better than this crowd of clowns is capable of giving them.

If you're keeping track, these **** let 569 buses that could have carried 33,350 people out of New Orleans–in one trip–get ruined in the floods. Whatever plan these guys had, it was a dud. Or it probably would have been if they'd bothered to follow it.

As for all the race-baiting rhetoric and Bush-bashing coming from prominent blacks on the left, don't expect Ray Nagin to be called out on the carpet for falling short. You want to know why? Here’s why:

It’s more convenient to blame a white president for what went wrong than to hold a black mayor and his administration accountable for gross negligence and failing to fully carry out an established emergency preparedness plan.

To hold Nagin and his administration accountable for dropping the ball amounts to letting loose the shouts and cries of “Racism!”. It’s sad, it’s wrong, but it’s standard operating procedure for the media and left-wing black leadership.

[preacherman]

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Thanks Rhino! Your words and the article hit the nail on the head!

[buckee]

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To hold Nagin and his administration accountable for dropping the ball amounts to letting loose the shouts and cries of “Racism!”. It’s sad, it’s wrong, but it’s standard operating procedure for the media and left-wing black leadership.

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Like I said in the political room thread on this subject, IMO, everytime I see black or white folks playing the race card when there is no justification for it, it's just an example of how racism has done a flip-flop and is now on the other foot. But no-one dares to call a black man a racist for playing the racism card.

Let's face it, this is racism from the black perspective against whites. I'm not saying this to spur on racism, because I hate it with a passion, but let's at least see it for what it is. Rasism is a two-way street.

[TreeStandBowHunter]

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Exactly. It always seems like it only goes one way. Racism is a two-way street not one. But society eats this stuff up and so does the media. Something is always done to make "Them" feel better. We have to stop that crap and call them out on it everytime. We need to deport a few people first

[stevebeilgard]

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right on the nailhead, rhino

[wtnhunt]

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It’s more convenient to blame a white president for what went wrong than to hold a black mayor and his administration accountable for gross negligence and failing to fully carry out an established emergency preparedness plan.

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Pass the buck. Bottom line the New Orleans Mayor, and State of Louisiana Governor dropped the ball and as a result people died. If race were an issue, the governor, not the President should be held as the responsible person.

Last night in interviews with Mississippi mayors they said they had their own preparedness plans and were in action before the federal level officials could get in. They acted just as they should have.

[BowJoe]

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"Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."

Muhammad Ali

Everyone is avoiding the big pink elephant in the room. When you have a majority group (and in New Orleans Black people are an 80% population) that have known nothing but for the Government to pay and care for their every need, you get a situation where Nagin follows what he knows will take the heat off himself. Blame the white man and 80% of the people will agree. One little thing Nagin forgot to mention was that The Red Cross had semis loaded with food, water and hygiene supplies waiting less than 100' from the people who needed it before they arrived at the Superdome. The Red Cross were told that the Lousianna Dept. of Homeland Security didn't want a rush of people coming to the Superdome for fear of overcrowding and if news got out that there were indeed supplies it might cause people to head to a secure area too fast. Too Fast? Basically, if you blame the mayor you're racist and if you blame the Governor you're sexist. But if you blame Bush then you are with all of the other minorities and Jesse Jackson (Adulterer) that have played the blame game all of their lives. It's not their fault they don't work or they shoot at the people trying to help rescue their sorry butts. JMO