Crossposted from Dameocrat Blog
No rapes have been reported to the police. Neither have any shootings at helicopters.
Fear Exceeded Crime’s Reality in New Orleans – New York Times: “In an interview last week with The New York Times, Superintendent Compass said that some of his most shocking statements turned out to be untrue. Asked about reports of rapes and murders, he said: ‘We have no official reports to document any murder. Not one official report of rape or sexual assault.’
On Sept. 4, however, he was quoted in The Times about conditions at the convention center, saying: ‘The tourists are walking around there, and as soon as these individuals see them, they’re being preyed upon. They are beating, they are raping them in the streets.’
Those comments, Superintendent Compass now says, were based on secondhand reports. The tourists ‘were walking with their suitcases, and they would have their clothes and things taken,’ he said last week. ‘No rapes that we can quantify.’
Rumors Affected Response
A full chronicle of the week’s crimes, actual and reported, may never be possible because so many basic functions of government ceased early in the week, including most public safety record-keeping. The city’s 911 operators left their phones when water began to rise around their building.”
I am betting crony controlled fema spread them to cover their asses. Afterall fema would constantly announce on cnn it was suspending operations based on these reports.
FEMA is actually making a very widespread, concerted effort to blame the rapes and deaths on poor reporting. Their official death total is 800, and they’re claiming that any reported deaths above and beyond that are the result of rumours and misleading reporting.
Never mind that one of the companies they’ve contracted so far specializes in disposing of excess bodies from hurricanes…
the shooting of helicopters was an obvious attempt to create a lack of sympathy for victims.
Yes and on the very day that Compass and Nagin were noodling (and Compass was shown weeping with new best bud Oprah) over racist stories (oh power grid is all…nobody is one with anyone when they want power) with the sensationalist Oprah, The Gaurdian and other UK papers had the VERY OPPOSITE in quotes from Compass, stating he had NO EVIDENCE, NONE and when he did that would be differnt. But here he told of being assualted at the DOme, he and 88 other cops.
LOL the TRUE stories were all the very opposite. The truth was a SWAT team went in and extracted two white women who were wives of cops… and had sought refuge… but the team refused ot help anyone.
Home grown racist propaganda. I suspect to suit a whole array of people. Looting was demagogued from Tuesday onward. Asst Lousiana State AG Guidry called for SHoot to Kill no matter what was being taken on Tuesday, Blanco echoed and I assume a lot of cops who came into the NO area from across the nation were there for the wrong reason. Dicey. Better to steal food in Baghdad on March 30th, 2003 than in NO on August 30th 2005.
The director of Acadian Ambulance, Zuschlag, spread the rumors of snipers at the DOme shooting at the air evac. His story and his many filmed interview spots went global. Black violence, snipers… sounds like a movie!!
Zuschlag was his name and Laura Bush was at Acadian Ambualnce HQ in Lafayette LA on 9/2 for a nice big visit and photo op. With the guys.
Times Picayune and also ABC Nightline have reported (off and on for weeks) that FAA had NO REPORTS of sniper shots at air traffic… at ANY AIR TRAFFIC over NO….
But better to demagogue a race of people and get unrest, rumors, mayhem and whatever else on the wires, meanhilw you ship people out of state and don’t even tell them wehre they are being sent…
FOR SHAME AMERICA
I don’t link to my articles at LSF, but will make an exception for what I wrote the morning following the Oprah slobber fest.
One Story or the Other Fella, Not Both