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To: LindyBill who wrote (136824)	9/3/2005 9:23:00 AM
From: SirWalterRalegh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794046

700 gunshots that nobody heard....... Doug said...(Belmont Club) Masques of Death . New Orleans has one of the highest murder rates in the country. By mid-August of this year, 192 murders had been committed in New Orleans, "nearly 10 times the national average," reported the Associated Press. Gunfire is so common in New Orleans -- and criminals so fierce -- that when university researchers conducted an experiment last year in which they had cops fire 700 blank rounds in a neighborhood on a random afternoon "no one called to report the gunfire," reported AP. New Orleans was ripe for collapse. Its dangerous geography, combined with a dangerous culture, made it susceptible to an unfolding catastrophe. Currents of chaos and lawlessness were running through the city long before this week, and they were bound to come to the surface under the pressure of natural disaster and explode in a scene of looting and mayhem. Like riotous Los Angeles since the 1960s, New Orleans has been a wasteland of politically correct dysfunction for decades -- public schools so obviously decimated vouchers were proposed this year (and torpedoed by the left), barbaric gangster rap culture no one will confront lest they offend liberal pieties, multiculturalist frauds who empower no one but themselves, and cops neutered by the NAACP and ACLU.

To: LindyBill who wrote (136824)	9/3/2005 9:35:28 AM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794046

I've stopped watching TV. It is inflammatory and inaccurate. On a personal note, we are leaving Hou. for Baton Rouge, where we have found a school that will take our son,and my base for the moment to try to crank up my law practice. Haven't made contact with many of my partners and I am beginning to fear for them as, like most lawyers, they are fiercely independent Some may have stayed. We are getting closer to the Wild West. I still plan to try to finagle my way into the city, which seems much calmer now. The article you linked last night blaming the looting and criminal anarchy on the pre-existing breakdown of the Orleans Parish criminal justice system was absolutely spot on. It is noteworthy that Jefferson Parish, which borders Orleans Parish, and which sustained just as much damage as the city proper, seems not to have had the problems we have had. It's reputation for aggressive law enforcement is well deserved. The Sheriff, a colorful Chinese-American, Harry Lee, does not put up with any nonsense. Jefferson Parish is of course hugely GOP. Of course, the media has not seen fit to even report on Jefferson Parish's situation. Not newsworthy.